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Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through a global network of Microsoft-managed data centers.

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Two

In this scenario, we’ll keep it simple. This is the full on-premises scenario. You must worry about maintenance and power bills, and I’m not even counting on infrastructure costs...

Add scheduled adaptive live tiles to your UWP app

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Today I'll help you add some bling to your UWP apps (and maybe something useful) with scheduled live tiles using the built-in features on the W10 SDK and some Azure...

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Three

This scenario is based by direct HTTP connection via exposed web service, accessible without VPN. This can be a very common situation nowadays too, as it’s just like a...

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Part Five

Point-to-site. PTS for now on. PTS is a way of connecting single clients (machines) to a gateway in Azure, without connecting the entire infrastructure to it. In this case,...

Latency test between Azure and On-Premises – Specifications

Internet Connection Create IT as an Internet connection of 100mbps Down/20mbps Up. Azure was capping at a 150mbps symmetrical connection. TeamViewer VPN, Azure Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site connections were capped at 10mpbs. Azure...

«The Azure App Service Architecture» @ Microsoft Developer TechRefresh 2015–Lisboa

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Yesterday we had another Developer TechRefresh at Microsoft Lisboa, where I and my colleague André Vala both presented sessions. My session was a repeat of the Build 2015 session...

Azure FTP For SharePoint @ GitHub

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After a couple of failed starts, I finally decided to start this project. The idea came to me when the first version of the Relay was launched in the...
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100 hours of fun: Tuga IT 2017!

Tuga IT is surely one of the best and biggest tech events happening at Portugal. Look at this: A three-day event with a full day of workshops and two full days...

Cloud Pro PT: Game is on!

I'm extremely thrilled to announce the beginning of a new technical community Cloud Pro PT, which I am co-founding with André Vala, Ricardo Costa, Niko Neugebauer and Tiago Costa. We want it to be a dynamic and...

IoT: Raspberry Pi2 and Azure Event Hubs and Mono and SQL Database–experiences

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A couple of months ago I bought a Pi2 , to complement the Pi1 I use mostly as a media center. I also bought modmypi’s Raspberry Pi YouTube Workshop...