Dave McCollough

Tag: Azure

  • Getting started with Azure IoT Hub

    Azure IoT Hub provides a cloud-hosted back-end that allows you to connect virtually any device. Azure IoT hub lets you configure per-device authentication, built-in device management, and scaled provisioning. In this blog post we are going to configure and connect an Azure IoT device simulator to Azure IoT hub. Prerequisites Create your Azure IoT Hub…

  • Azure AI-900 Exam Study Guide

    Last week I passed Microsoft’s Azure AI-900 Certification exam and thought it would be helpful to share my experience. This exam is designed to test foundational knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning workloads and how to implement them in Azure. There are no prerequisites for this exam, but some Azure and general programming experience…

  • Kusto Query Language 101

    Recently I’ve started spending more time using Azure Sentinel and I wanted to get up to speed on the Kusto Query Language. This is a collection of my ‘Kusto Query Language 101’ learnings. What is Kusto Query Language(KQL)? KQL is a read-only language similar to SQL that’s used to query large datasets in Azure.  Unlike…

  • Detecting Faces in an Image using Azure Cognitive Services

    Azure Cognitive Services are a group of cloud-based APIs and SDKs created to help developers build intelligent applications without having specific machine learning or data science skills. Azure Cognitive Services’ features are broken down into five main API categories: Vision API Speech API Language API Decision API Search API In this blog post we are…

  • Getting started with Azure Functions using Python

    Azure Functions is an event driven serverless compute solution that lets you to execute your code without provisioning or managing the infrastructure to support it. “Functions” are blocks of code that can be executed when you need to respond to specific events. As the number of requests increase, Azure Functions automatically allocates as many resources…

  • Provision a Virtual Machine in Azure using Python

    A couple weeks ago I demonstrated how you could deploy a Python application to Azure App Services but other than application development, what else can you do with Python in Azure? Over the next couple weeks I’ll look at some of the different ways Python can be used in Azure from Serverless to Machine Learning.…

  • Deploy your first Go Application to Azure App Service

    In my last blog post I demonstrated how you can deploy a Python Flask application from GitHub to Azure App Service, but what if your application isn’t written in a language or framework with first class support in Azure App Service? In this post I’ll demonstrate how you can deploy a simple Go application from…

  • Deploy your first Python Flask application to Azure App Service

    Azure App Service is one of my favorite Azure Services!  It enables you to host web applications, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs using the programming language of your choice without managing the infrastructure behind it. It provides auto-scaling and high availability, supports Windows and Linux, and enables automated deployments from any Git repo or…

  • Threat Hunting with Azure Sentinel

    Traditionally, threat hunting has been a manual process in which security team members proactively search and analyze various data sources to detect and isolate potential threats. Azure Sentinel provides powerful search and query tools to proactively hunt for security threats across an organization’s data sources, helping you look for new anomalies that weren’t detected by…

  • Getting Started with Azure Sentinel: Part 2

    In my previous blog post, I covered getting started with Azure Sentinel, including how to configure and connect it to a data source.  This week I want to talk about the Kusto Query Language (KQL), Azure Workbooks and Playbooks.  Let’s get started with KQL. Kusto Query Language The Kusto Query Language (KQL) is a read-only…