Blogs

IoT explained: what the Internet of Things is, why you’d use it, and which industries are actually putting it to work.

Wrapping up the LUIS DevOps series by deploying the language model to QA and Production: provisioning LUIS resources, importing and training the model, and publishing it automatically from the pipeline.

A detailed look at the Pull Request and Build stages of a LUIS DevOps pipeline: importing, training, testing, and comparing a language model’s performance against its previous version.

The Azure resources, solution files, and test types (unit, performance, regression) behind a LUIS DevOps pipeline, plus a primer on Azure DevOps YAML pipeline structure.

Kicking off a DevOps for LUIS series by looking at the author workflow: how a language model is built in the LUIS portal and exported for developers to bring into source control.

Part 2: reacting to sensor-triggered Azure Digital Twins events with Event Grid, Azure Functions and SignalR Service to restyle a room on the floor plan in near real-time.

Part 1: creating a floor plan as an SVG in Inkscape, linking a room to its Azure Digital Twins space Id, and displaying it inline on an ASP.NET Core page with a custom Tag Helper.

Sending IoT device data to the browser in near real-time using an IoT Hub trigger in Azure Functions, an output binding to Azure SignalR Service, and a static website hosted on Azure Storage.

Part 2: building an ARM template for a Bot Framework v4 bot’s Azure resources and creating an Azure DevOps release pipeline that provisions, deploys, and configures the bot automatically.

Part 1 of setting up Continuous Deployment for a Bot Framework v4 bot: configuring LUIS and Application Insights on a sample bot project and creating a CI build pipeline in Azure DevOps.

How to add Application Insights to a Bot Framework v4 bot by configuring the service in the .bot file and wiring up a TelemetryClient to log exceptions during conversations.

Using Azure Logic Apps to collect World Cup tweets, Cognitive Services to translate them and extract key phrases, and Power BI to reconstruct the timeline of goals scored during a match.

Provisioning a SonarQube server on Windows and SQL in Azure with a ready-made ARM template, then upgrading it through the required version path to the latest release.

Adding web push notifications to a PWA built with ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Aurelia, using the VAPID protocol so a user can subscribe once and receive push messages from the server.

Turning an ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Aurelia single-page app into a Progressive Web App: enforcing HTTPS, generating a manifest and service worker with PWA Builder, and verifying the result with Lighthouse.

When an Azure VM refuses to start from the portal, three commands in the Azure Cloud Shell are enough to get it running again.

How to configure Aurelia’s HttpClient with a base URL and a request interceptor so a Bearer token is automatically added to every API call, without repeating boilerplate in each component.

How to set up an Aurelia project with TypeScript and Webpack 3, install Kendo UI, and wire up the aurelia-kendoui-bridge without running into common jQuery and loader issues.