We published a tutorial that explains how to deliver location-based push notifications by using Azure Notification Hubs and Bing Spatial Data, leveraged from within a Universal Windows Platform application. Source: Microsoft Azure News
Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch on AWS. You can now add up to 20 data nodes and 5 dedicated master nodes to your Amazon Elasticsearch domains. The previous limit was a total instance count of 10 including both data nodes and dedicated master Read more about Amazon Elasticsearch Service Increases Domain Limits[…]
Azure Automation introduces a new graphical runbook type based on native PowerShell. It provides quick runbook starts and easier authoring. Source: Microsoft Azure News
Automation supports weekly and monthly schedules. With these recurrence options, you can select days of the week or days of the month for your schedule to run on. Source: Microsoft Azure News
The Azure Automation Runbook Gallery supports script content from the PowerShell Gallery. Source: Microsoft Azure News
Amazon Kinesis Firehose, the easiest way to load streaming data into AWS, now supports configurable retry duration for ingesting data into Amazon Redshift. You can now configure your Firehose delivery streams to retry the Redshift COPY for any time period up to a maximum of 7200 seconds. If the Redshift COPY command fails for any Read more about Amazon Kinesis Firehose Supports Configurable Retry Window for Loading Data into Amazon Redshift[…]
Introduction Django is a powerful web framework that can help you get your Python application or website off the ground. Django includes a simplified development server for testing your code locally, but for anything even slightly production related, a more secure and powerful web server is required. In this guide, we will demonstrate how to Read more about How To Set Up Django with Postgres, Nginx, and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 16.04[…]
Azure Site Recovery, a component of Microsoft Operations Management Suite, is generally available in the new Azure experience, with support for Resource Manager and CSP. Source: Microsoft Azure News
Azure DocumentDB supports provisioning DocumentDB accounts in the North Central US region. Source: Microsoft Azure News
Introduction Django is a flexible framework for quickly creating Python applications. By default, Django applications are configured to store data into a lightweight SQLite database file. While this works well under some loads, a more traditional DBMS can improve performance in production. In this guide, we’ll demonstrate how to install and configure PostgreSQL to use Read more about How To Use PostgreSQL with your Django Application on Ubuntu 16.04[…]