Azure - Fanie Reynders

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A collection of 10 posts

Decoding the world of AI models

This post is part of a series that demystifies the world of AI from a software developer's perspective. In the previous blog post we covered the basics of AI and all the lingo you would hear in the hallways. In this edition we will focus on models and

A handy .NET global tool to deploy resources to Azure

If you haven't used the Azure CLI yet, download it now, it is great for deploying Azure resources from the command line. For example, to create a resource group named awesomesauce in the West Europe data-center location, simply just execute: az group create --location westeurope --rg-name awesomesauce It

Move ASP.NET Core to Azure Functions in 4 steps

Don't get me wrong, ASP.NET Core is awesome. I even wrote a book on it, and one should be using it for building any kind of cloud-first web applications. Azure Functions, on the other hand; is a fairly new offering from Microsoft Azure, and is focussing more

A quick demo of Azure Service Fabric with ASP.NET Core

In this episode we take a quick look at Azure Service Fabric, a new platform for building micro-services on Azure and also see how one could use ASP.NET Core 1.0 to easily create micro-services for this powerful platform. The demo consists of a simple back-end API serving up

Performance test Azure Web Apps

Microsoft Azure has many great offerings in the PaaS space, one of which is Azure Web Apps that allows one to easily host or create any web app built with any technology for any platform. The recent update to the new Azure Portal (in preview) brings not only a more

Push notifications in Chrome Extensions using Azure Notification Hubs

In the past couple of months, I've been co-organizing a monthly user group called Fixxup, to create a community platform for techies out there to share their knowledge, listen to their peers or even just enjoy the social living by having a beer or two. Fixxup also has

Clouds in my CoffeeScript

The "mystery language" CoffeeScript has been around for about 5 years now and I only recently started to play around in it. Like TypeScript, I must add that it's a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it's

Introducing GeekFest: Screencasts for developers

For quite some time I’ve been meaning to start a video blog (or vlog) on interesting subjects and people so I’ve decided to waste no more time and get to work on a new series called GeekFest, a screencast for developers by developers. 1 – Schedulers in WAMS The

Leverage the power of Twilio from Azure Mobile Services

Ever wanted to send a simple text message from your web app? Well, now you can by using Twilio - an awesome cloud-powered API for voice calls & text messaging. Okay, I know that statement sounds like something out of an infomercial, but I recently had a simple need to

Using the Twitter REST API v1.1 from Azure Mobile Services

Since the retirement of the Twitter REST API v1, I have been having trouble doing a simple query using the new search API introduced in version 1.1 from Azure Mobile Services because it now requires a signed authentication header in the request using the OAuth 1.0 protocol. I