With this article I am trying to provide you a birds eye view comparison of IoT Hub and Azure Event Hub, so that some of you may stop feeling that there is nothing new in IoT Hub. For the interest of this article, I put together a table with side-by-side comparison of some important features/desired… Continue reading
Category: Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Introduction to IoT Hub
IoT Hub is a fully managed service from Microsoft Azure as part of Azure IoT Suite that enables reliable and secure bi-directional communications between millions of IoT devices and your solution back end. Azure IoT Hub are designed to provide following capabilities: Multiple device-to-cloud and cloud-to-device communication options, including one-way messaging, file transfer, and request-reply… Continue reading
Azure IoT Hub Device Management–Released to Public
Today Microsoft has announced general availability of Azure IoT Hub Device Management. With this release Azure IoT Hub subscribers/customers will be able to get access to following features and functionalities: Device twin. Use a digital representation of your physical devices to synchronize device conditions and operator configuration between the cloud and device. Direct methods. Apply… Continue reading
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756) – Cumulative Servicing Release – 14.0. 25431.01
As per Microsoft ” This cumulative servicing release provides fixes to Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. These fixes address high-impact bugs that were either found by the product team or reported by the community.” Download the latest from: here , and you can fine the detailed list of fixes on the same site.
Azure: What are Event Hubs?
Event Hubs is a feature within the Azure and is intended to help with the challenge of handling an event based messaging at huge scale. To be specific it is a Highly scalable data streaming platform. The idea is that if you have apps or devices publishing telemetry events then Event Hubs can be the… Continue reading
Scalability – Scale Out/In vs Scale Up/Down (Horizontal Scaling vs Vertical Scaling)
When you work with Cloud Computing or normal Scalable highly available applications you would normally hear two terminologies called Scale Out and Scale Up or often called as Horizontal Scaling and Vertical Scaling. I thought about covering basics and provide more clarity for developers and IT specialists. What is Scalability? Scalability is the capability of… Continue reading
Azure Tips: Service Bus vs Azure Queue
Azure Service bus is a queuing technology that supports advanced features and allows access by processes created using various technologies and running in different domains. It allows ability to publish a message to multiple subscribers. read more Azure Queue is another queuing technology. However, it does not support the ability to publish a message to… Continue reading
.NET Core 1.0.1 Update (September 2016) Available
Microsoft .NET Core team has released an update to .NET Core 1.0, versioned as “.NET Core 1.0.1”. Read more detailed updates from Microsoft Developer Announcement Blog: Announcing September 2016 Updates for .NET Core 1.0 You can read the release notes for .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework 1.0.1 to learn about the specific changes that… Continue reading
Redis Cache–Azure Plans
Azure Redis Cache, a secure data cache based on Open source Redis Cache, which will provide you a fully managed/serviced instance from Microsoft. Means you don’t have to bear the burden of managing the server/software patches etc.. What is Redis Cache? Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a… Continue reading
Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 – hotfix build – 14.0.25422.1 (KB3165756)
Microsoft has released a hot-fix for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3, to fix certain critical issues identified after the release of Update 3. Supported Version Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 File name VS14-KB3165756.exe Date published 07/12/2016 File size 2.4 MB This update applied to: Visual Studio Professional 2015 Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 Visual Studio Community… Continue reading