Cloud and the Hockey Stick
So here’s a question: What do 10th Magnitude, Microsoft and the Chicago Blackhawks have in common? Well, if you think in hockey terms (which I do often—just ask my hockey-tortured [...]
Add Predictive Power to IoT with Azure Machine Learning
In my last blog post, I talked about Azure Event Hubs and Stream Analytics and how they enable real-time workflow triggering and alerts for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. This [...]
Microsoft Application Insights: Top Six Features to Get a 360⁰ View of Your App
For development teams, it’s critical to gain insight into how well an application is working and to be able to troubleshoot problems when they occur. Many organizations currently rely on [...]
The Killer IoT Combo – Azure Event Hubs & Stream Analytics
If you want to get started with real-time analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) today, there are two key capabilities you need: the ability to ingest data from your [...]
Azure Data Lake – Get Ready to Dive In
Of all the new Azure analytics goodies that Microsoft unveiled at its Build 2015 developer conference, the Azure Data Lake service is among those that I’m especially excited about. In [...]
With Azure, the Internet of Things Takes Flight
Working with Microsoft Azure is like walking on a moving sidewalk in an airport: you are walking at the same speed as other travellers, but you reach your gate twice [...]
A Decree: ChefConf and Community from the Chef Prince of Azure
Let me say it now: There is no event quite like ChefConf. And I would know—I’ve been to a few tech conferences and am a regular at comic conventions. ChefConf [...]
10th Magnitude Presents: The Chef Prince of Azure
As promised in my last blog post on the Chef and Azure partnership, below is a preview of "The Chef Prince of Azure" music video that will be kicking off [...]
Chef and Azure: A Match Made in 10th Magnitude Cloud Heaven!
I was super excited to see the announcement yesterday that Chef and Microsoft Azure have announced an official partnership. It’s like watching your two best friends get together; you just [...]
SQL Azure Database SSL 3.0 Connectivity Issue in PCI Compliant Application
My team’s past 48 hours were spent in our little personal branch of hell, the one you get sent to when your application crashes for an unknown reason without any [...]
Cloud Grows Up
Last month, I went to Microsoft’s annual partner conference, and things are vastly different from last year. The transition from Ballmer at Microsoft’s helm to Satya Nadella has generated an [...]
“Could not find assembly” Error in Command-line MSTest Execution
One of my tasks today is to get continuous integration running on a Jenkins server. It didn’t take too long to wrestle MSBuild to the ground and get the build [...]
Fun Times Updating a Very Old Azure Web Application
Back in the pre-history days of .NET (1999), Microsoft promised the new platform would end DLL hell. The .NET platform did make versioning monumentally easier. And yet I spent half [...]
Retailers Win with Cloud Innovation
Here at 10th Magnitude, the holidays are officially over: we’ve replaced all the holiday cookies with our usual healthy snacks (well, almost—we’re still suckers for donuts), and you can duck [...]
Cloud, Mobility and Healthcare: Docs and Patients Both Win
I recently spoke at the Up 2013 cloud computing conference in Santa Clara. The focus this year was on healthcare, and I gave a presentation about the virtuous cycle of [...]