Azure IoT Edge Public Preview was just announced at Microsoft Connect. Here’s how to get it running on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Stretch or Stretch Lite. Raspbian Jessie should work as well, but I h
Azure IoT allows you to define “Endpoints” and send messages to them via “Routes”. Learn more about Endpoints and Routes here. I setup a Service Bus Queue Endpoint, but it was showing as “Unreachable”
I was recently working with a customer that uses Apache Avro compression and discovered that there isn’t a great example out there that shows you how to send Avro compressed messages through the IoT p
I’ve been doing a lot with Postman lately and have been blogging everything I’ve uncovered along the way. Postman is more than just an ad-hoc REST tester - I believe that the future of REST API docume
6/29/17 Update: There’s a new Azure Solution Template for Jenkins here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-solution-template-for-jenkins-on-azure/ Here’s how to get Jenkins on Azu
I was recently working with a partner that was having some difficulty integrating with the Azure IoT REST APIs. You can read about that experience here: How to Use the Azure IoT Hub Device Twins REST
I’m working on a project that should make it much easier for developers to consume REST APIs that use SAS Tokens with Swagger and Postman. If you don’t already know, Postman is an app that allows you
This content is outdated Please see the most up-to-date Azure REST APIs with Postman video and blog here: Latest Azure REST APIs with Postman Video: https://aka.ms/azurerestvideoLatest Azure REST APIs
If you see the following while trying to edit an Azure Function via browser… “Read only - because you have started editing with source control, this view is read only. You can edit these settings in
We often need to share database connection strings, system account passwords and whatnot with our team members. People typically put the secret in a DRM’d email, but that’s not secure enough and you c
This post describes how to use Postman and Newman to demonstrate your APIs to your users. Of course, you are going to want to use Apiary to officially describe your APIs, but if you really want to dem
As you can imagine, we have many Power BI internal test environments and all Microsofties get redirected to an internal pre-release version of Power BI so we can test the latest features and provide f
I’m hacking with a customer today who is using Python and needs to upload images to Azure IoT Hub using the File Upload API. It took us a while to figure it out and ran into a bunch of issues. Here’s
I recently gave a few presentations at Ignite New Zealand and used a couple of applications to help me find the lowest latency Azure Region from Auckland. You’ll want to know the top two regions, bec
While digging into the new Azure CLI 2.0 to create a Power BI Workspace Collection, I discovered that while you can create the Power BI Workspace Collection you cannot currently get to the Access Keys
This post will show you how to create a Power BI Embedded Workspace Collection via the new Azure CLI 2.0. People typically create Workspace Collections via the Azure Portal, but that requires clicks a
I pinged a friend over on the Azure API Management team for good “getting started with APIM” material and he sent over this list. I’ll post more as I dig in. Microsoft Azure API Management Essentia
Over the past couple of months, the Particle team and the Azure IoT team have been developing a integration between the two cloud services. Particle is an IoT company that launced on Kickstarter in 2
The Azure IoT team just announced Custom Endpoints and Routes feature - which allows you to route IoT Hub messages to your own Event Hub, Service Bus Queues or Service Bus Topics. You define your alte
Here’s a quick and easy way to get your GitHub Page repo deployed to an Azure Web App. Let me know if you run into any issues. Create GitHub Pages Repo Skip to next step if you already have a GitHub p