Azure has a feature called Reserved Instances (or RI). RI allow you to commit to a usage pattern over a certain time period, a year or 3 years for example. In this article we will cover Virtual Machine RIs, but RIs can be purchased for many different Azure services.
In Part 1 we explored how a PAYG mindset applied to your capacity planning approach can bring real financial benefits. In Part 2 we will continue our discussions into areas more traditionally governed by operations.
Lobe is a free client app that helps any user to bring machine learning ideas into reality. Just show it examples of what you want it to learn, and it automatically trains a custom machine learning model that can be shipped to your app.
It’s been a busy month as far as new Azure features and functionality go! Just in case you’ve missed something, we’ve collected all of the announcements from October 2020 in one place.
One of the great benefits of adopting cloud is often quoted as “scalability”. People tend to automatically think in terms of having the ability to grow, but it also enables you to shrink.
The .NET developer platform has an amazing community of developers utilising the languages and framework to develop business applications at the core of their organisations. With the framework being Open Source and Microsoft’s developer tooling, it’s no wonder there are millions of developers out there utilising it.
Getting started with open source can be daunting. Well, I don’t count myself as a veteran open source expert but I want to share with you some success I’ve had starting my first open source project.
One core objective of any development project is the ability to safely and securely accelerate the delivery process. And the foundation of any such project is the database it’s built on. That’s why it’s important that the database development project is integrated into the pipeline in Azure DevOps as well.
Dr Mufajjul Ali and Dr Basim Majeed write about various level of abstractions of data using Azure Data Lake Store, and how they are mapped to different levels of the AI stack for building end-to-end machine learning models
Certifications are a lot like Marmite – you either love them, or you hate them. But they can be really helpful in our professional journeys. EY Kalman shares his experience with them, along with some thoughts gathered on his certification journey.