Ken Muse
Intro to Data Lake Storage

Intro to Data Lake Storage

You know you want a blob storage solution. You know the basics of Azure Blob Storage. In today’s post, learn how Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 enhances the experience and creates a foundation for big data.

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Modern Data Warehouse Ingestion
The first step in building your modern data warehouse is to ingest the data. Let’s learn how.

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My Experience Migrating to Hugo
So, once again, it was time to switch by blog platform engines. Learn about my experience migrating to Hugo for static site development.

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Introduction to the Modern Data Warehouse
Trying to learn how to manage cloud scale data? Read the first of a series of articles walking through the principles of the MDW architecture.

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Understanding the Azure Certification Path
Interested in getting certified for Azure? Wanting to understand the Azure Certification path to becoming an MCSE or MCT? This is the process…

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Enabling Release Annotations in VSTS
Learn how to use VSTS to automatically create release annotations in Application Insights as part of your release pipeline.

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Correctly Sizing Azure Virtual Machines

Correctly Sizing Azure Virtual Machines

Today will be a practical example to help you better understand how to size an Azure VM.

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Creating First-Run ARM Templates
Sometimes you need ARM resources to be applied only when a template is deployed for the first time. Learn how ARM conditions can achieve this goal.

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DevOps: Connecting VSTS to Azure
DevOps is about increasing efficiency and eliminating barriers. Learn how to manually connect Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Microsoft Azure.

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Azure Real World: Optimizing PHP Applications for the Cloud
Originally published in 2012, this was my first published article, a guest post for MSDN covering some of the tricks we found for optimizing and improving the performance of PHP with classic Web and Worker Roles on Azure. With the original post having since been removed from MSDN, the contents are now posted here for anyone interested in understanding this older Azure technology.

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