Posts tagged "azure"

• The AI on the Edge Reference Architecture

  2026-09-07· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Final synthesis for AI on the Edge: gateway, router, policy, RAG, IoT operations assistant, Azure governance, Azure Local lane, private cloud lab, Tenstorrent lane, and conference-ready flow.

• Building the AI on the Edge Demo System

  2026-08-31· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Engineering wrap-up for AI on the Edge: repo layout, make demo-laptop through make teardown targets, seed, reset, and smoke tests, shared health endpoints, and a repeatable 45-minute conference flow.

• Specialized Hardware Without an App Rewrite

  2026-08-24· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 6 min read

  AI on the Edge Demo 6: registering a Tenstorrent or mock accelerator as an OpenAI-compatible gateway backend with capability discovery, health checks, fallback, and accelerator-preferred routing - no application rewrite.

• When the Edge Has to Stand Alone

  2026-08-17· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 7 min read

  Demo 5 of AI on the Edge: disconnected operation, backend failures, malformed responses, cloud-blocked mode, local-only denial, smoke tests, and reset controls.

• Edge AI You Can Actually Operate

  2026-08-10· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Demo 4 of AI on the Edge: operating local AI with Azure Arc, GitOps, Azure Monitor, Managed Prometheus, Grafana, Key Vault, policy events, KQL, and dashboard evidence.

• From Camera Events to Operator Guidance

  2026-08-03· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Demo 3 of AI on the Edge: turning the existing cameras/# MQTT contract into an operations assistant using simulated, MQTT, and Event Hubs input modes.

• Private RAG That Cannot Leave the Edge

  2026-07-27· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 7 min read

  Demo 2 for AI on the Edge: document ingestion, local embeddings, vector search, citations, data classification, LocalOnly routing, and fail-closed cloud fallback.

• One App, Many Places to Run AI

  2026-07-20· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Demo 1 for AI on the Edge: my .NET gateway, OpenAI-compatible facade, backend registry, route explanations, target backends, and LocalOnly denial behavior.

• AI on the Edge: Local AI Without Local Chaos

  2026-07-13· ai-on-the-edge·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Why I built AI on the Edge: local execution, Azure governance, model routing, an IoT camera workload, my private cloud lab, and conference-ready demo modes.

• Cameras on Azure IoT Operations, Part 3: Data Flows, Connectors, and the Cloud

  2026-06-19· azure-iot-operations·Estimated reading time: 8 min read

  Forward camera telemetry to the cloud with Azure IoT Operations data flows to Event Hubs, then onboard ONVIF cameras as AIO assets through a connector and a bridge - all with no change to the control plane.

• Cameras on Azure IoT Operations, Part 2: Swapping in the AIO MQTT Broker

  2026-06-19· azure-iot-operations·Estimated reading time: 10 min read

  Swap Eclipse Mosquitto for the Azure IoT Operations MQTT broker on Arc-enabled Kubernetes: a broker seam in .NET, TLS, per-camera X.509 identity, and attribute-based topic authorization.

• Cameras on Azure IoT Operations, Part 1: The Control Plane and Network Model

  2026-06-19· azure-iot-operations·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  How a .NET camera control plane is built for Azure IoT Operations - the two camera classes, the MQTT control bus, and the per-property network model AIO plugs into.

• Home Lab - Tenstorrent Buildout for Multi-Cloud Edge Demos

  2026-02-15· home-lab·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Building out a basement studio and mixed Tenstorrent/NVIDIA lab for reusable Azure and AWS edge demo scenarios.

• Home Lab - Utilizing the Cloud - Dynamic VPN

  2021-11-29· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 28 min read

  Home lab guide for dynamic Azure Site-to-Site VPN resources, covering VPN Gateway costs, supported routers, hybrid networking, and teardown.

• Home Lab - Keeping Costs Down

  2021-10-11· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 16 min read

  Home lab cost guide focused on matching hardware to use cases, avoiding wasteful enterprise gear, and planning servers for media, storage, dev, and AI.

• TrueNAS Azure Sync for Proxmox

  2021-06-21· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Walkthrough for backing up Proxmox storage from TrueNAS NFS to Azure Blob Storage using Azure storage accounts, cloud credentials, and sync tasks.

• Using Cognitive Services: Custom Vision Service with Azure IoT Edge

  2020-02-25· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 11 min read

  Guide to running Cognitive Services Custom Vision with Azure IoT Edge module-to-module messaging, from model creation to Python module deployment.

• New Pluralsight Courses Released!

  2020-02-20· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Pluralsight course release note covering Azure data cleaning for machine learning and Xamarin.Forms architecture for reusable application code.

• Azure IoT Hub - OpenSSL - Generate proof of possession

  2020-01-28· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Steps to generate Azure IoT Hub proof of possession with OpenSSL, using self signed root certificates, verification keys, CSRs, and PEM upload.

• New Pluralsight Course Released!

  2019-12-13· career-updates·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for Sourcing Data in Microsoft Azure, covering data types, Azure Data Catalog, Data Factory, and HDInsight.

• New Pluralsight Course Released!

  2019-12-05· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Announcement for a Pluralsight course on deploying and managing models in Microsoft Azure with Azure Machine Learning, Azure DevOps, and model lifecycle tools.

• Authoring for Pluralsight - Azure Machine Learning

  2019-11-18· career-updates·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Overview of Pluralsight Azure Machine Learning courses on sourcing data, cleaning and preparing data, model deployment, DevOps, and Azure workflows.

• New Pluralsight Courses

  2019-11-14· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Pluralsight course roundup covering Azure Intelligent Edge solutions and a first data science project in Microsoft Azure for developers.

• Authoring for Pluralsight - Developing Microsoft Azure Intelligent Edge Solutions

  2019-07-19· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Pluralsight course plan for Microsoft Azure Intelligent Edge Solutions, covering IoT Hub, stream processing, Cosmos DB, Blob Storage, and TSI.

• iotedge: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory - Raspberry Pi

  2019-07-15· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Raspberry Pi fix for Azure IoT Edge libssl.so.1.0.2 loading errors, showing the libssl1.0.2 install and service restart checks for iotedge.

• MVP Renewal

  2019-07-01· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Microsoft Azure MVP renewal note covering Azure Edge, Azure ML, Scry Unlimited, AI on the Edge speaking plans, and Atlanta community events.

• Multiple TensorFlow Graphs from Cognitive Services - Custom Vision Service

  2019-07-01· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Run several exported Custom Vision Service models in one Python application by calling tf.reset_default_graph after each loaded session is saved.

• Azure IoT Edge - YOLO, Stream Analytics Service, and Blob Storage

  2019-06-03· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Architecture for Azure IoT Edge image processing with YOLO, Stream Analytics, Blob Storage, and camera modules to detect motion and save image clips.

• Securing SSH in Azure

  2019-05-20· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 4 min read

  Azure SSH hardening guide for Linux VMs, covering removal of Arcfour, CBC ciphers, weak MAC algorithms, and safer sshd_config options.

• Upcoming Pluralsight Course - Designing an Intelligent Edge in Microsoft Azure

  2019-05-08· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Preview of a Pluralsight course on designing an intelligent edge in Microsoft Azure with Azure Stack, Data Box Edge, IoT Edge, AI, and Databricks.

• Multi-Region Point-to-Site in Microsoft Azure (Windows Fix)

  2019-05-06· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Fix for Windows clients using Azure multi-region point-to-site VPNs, covering route table updates, spoke VNET routes, IKEv2, SSTP, and CMAK profiles.

• New Pluralsight Course Released!

  2019-05-03· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for Azure Cognitive Services Speech to Text SDK, covering C#, customization, Azure Functions, and batch processing.

• Creating a Single Gateway, Multi-Region, VPN Architecture in Microsoft Azure

  2019-04-23· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Walkthrough for building a single gateway multi-region VPN architecture in Microsoft Azure, covering hub-spoke VNets, gateways, and address planning.

• Upcoming interview with The 6 Figure Developer

  2019-04-16· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Announcement of an upcoming The 6 Figure Developer interview covering Microsoft Azure, Cognitive Services, IoT, and Azure IoT Edge topics.

• Speaking at DotNetSouth.Tech

  2019-04-12· community-speaking·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  DotNetSouth.Tech AI on the Edge session preview about moving cloud logic and machine learning into edge applications with Azure services.

• Authoring for Pluralsight - Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Speech to Text SDK

  2019-03-15· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Course outline for Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Speech to Text SDK, aimed at developers building AI solutions with REST APIs, JSON, and device SDKs.

• Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API - Published!

  2019-03-13· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for Azure Cognitive Services Text to Speech API, covering voices, machine learning voices, and custom voices.

• Speaking at Orlando Code Camp

  2019-03-04· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Orlando Code Camp session announcement for AI on the Edge, showing how Azure IoT Edge moves cloud logic and machine learning to edge apps.

• Authoring for Pluralsight - Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services: Text to Speech API

  2019-01-29· ai-ml·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Course preview for Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Text to Speech API, covering REST, SDKs, custom voice fonts, and JavaScript, C#, Java, C++, Python.

• Hacking Izon Cameras and using Azure IoT Edge

  2019-01-22· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 7 min read

  Project walkthrough for repurposing Izon cameras with Azure IoT Edge, C modules, device twins, image feeds, audio feeds, and Edge Hub.

• Using Open CV C++ with Azure IoT Edge

  2019-01-07· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 9 min read

  Guide to building an Azure IoT Edge module in C++ with OpenCV, using VS Code, Docker, Azure IoT Edge extensions, and container deployment.

• Using Protocol Buffers with Azure IoT Edge

  2019-01-03· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 13 min read

  Guide to using Google Protocol Buffers with Azure IoT Edge by sending C++ module messages to Python modules before forwarding data to IoT Hub.

• Pluralsight Course is out!

  2018-12-12· career-updates·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Pluralsight course announcement for identifying Microsoft Azure products, services, tools, documentation, and existing workflow integration.

• .NET Rocks Podcast is out!

  2018-12-12· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Announcement of a .NET Rocks interview about Azure IoT Edge, edge computing, IoT development, and practical cloud intelligence at the device layer.

• .NET Rocks Interview

  2018-11-19· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Preview of a .NET Rocks interview after Update Conference Prague about Azure IoT Edge, edge hardware choices, and IoT platform discussions.

• South Florida Code Camp - Azure IoT Overview

  2018-10-22· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  South Florida Code Camp Azure IoT Overview session abstract, covering Azure IoT services, architecture, and enterprise solution planning.

• Azure IoT Edge - docker.sock connect: permission denied

  2018-08-21· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Fix for Azure IoT Edge builds failing with docker.sock permission denied in VS Code and Docker by adding the Linux user to the docker group.

• Quicken Loans TechCon 2018

  2018-07-27· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Speaking announcement for Quicken Loans TechCon 2018 in Detroit on Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning, covering voice, speech, and vision.

• Update - Techbash

  2018-07-23· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  TechBash 2018 update: a second talk, Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning, joins the Enable IoT with Edge Computing session.

• Atlanta Code Camp - Call for Speakers

  2018-07-18· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  The Atlanta Code Camp call for speakers is open, seeking talks on cloud computing, data engineering, data science, mobile computing, web development, DevOps, and more.

• Hosting a permanent redirect in Azure

  2018-07-16· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Map extra domains to a cheap Azure App Service and redirect them to the primary blog domain with a web.config permanent redirect rule.

• Update Conference Prague

  2018-07-09· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Preview of Update Conference Prague talks on Azure IoT Edge, machine learning, Azure IoT Hub, Service Bus, SignalR, Unity, and virtual reality.

• WordPress iFrame using Azure

  2018-07-02· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 4 min read

  Work around the WordPress limit on javascript by hosting the script on an Azure App Service site and embedding that page in the post as an iframe.

• MVP Renewal

  2018-07-01· community-speaking·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Announcement of a second Microsoft MVP year in Azure, with plans for Azure IoT Edge, Azure ML, Scry Unlimited, and AI on the Edge talks.

• TechBash 2018

  2018-06-18· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  TechBash 2018 session preview for Azure IoT Edge and machine learning, explaining edge computing, local workloads, latency, and cost.

• Music City Code - IoT with Mobile

  2018-05-07· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Speaking announcement for Music City Code 2018, presenting Configure, Control, and Manage IoT with Mobile using Xamarin, Bluetooth LE, and Azure.

• IRIS Conference

  2018-04-02· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Speaking announcement for the IRIS symposium at UGA, with three talks on virtual reality and IoT, edge computing, and alternative device interfaces.

• Azure Global Bootcamp Atlanta

  2018-03-28· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  The fourth annual Azure Global Bootcamp in Atlanta, including the Global Azure Bootcamp announcement snippet and the IoT track line up.

• CodeStock

  2018-03-26· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  I'm proud to be presenting Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning at CodeStock, covering voice commands, speech recognition, and computer vision.

• Storing Event Data in Elastic Search

  2018-03-19· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 10 min read

  Take the Elasticsearch load off client devices by sending telemetry to Event Hubs, batching it in Stream Analytics, and indexing it from an Azure Function.

• Getting started with Elastic Search in Azure

  2018-03-05· developer-tools·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  Deploy an Elasticsearch cluster from the Azure Marketplace template with Kibana and an external load balancer, then connect to it with the NEST client.

• DevNet Create

  2018-02-22· mobile-apps·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  I'm proud to be presenting Alternative Device Interfaces and Machine Learning at DevNet Create, covering voice commands, speech recognition, and computer vision.

• Azure IoT Edge - exec user process caused "exec format error"

  2018-02-05· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Fix the exec format error in Azure IoT Edge container logs on a Raspberry Pi by switching the Dockerfile base image to an arm32v7 .NET runtime.

• Azure IoT Edge stuck restarting

  2018-01-22· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Recover an Azure IoT Edge runtime stuck reporting RESTARTING by stopping the edgeAgent container and running the iotedgectl setup script again.

• DevNexus 2018

  2018-01-08· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 2 min read

  I'm proud to be presenting Enable IoT with Edge Computing and Machine Learning at DevNexus 2018, covering edge computing, Azure, and machine learning.

• Create Azure Function to process IoT Hub file upload

  2017-11-27· iot-edge·Estimated reading time: 3 min read

  Sync a large file off a device through Azure IoT Hub into blob storage, then merge it into an existing data set with a blob triggered Azure Function.

• Your app is currently in read-only mode because you have published a generated function.json

  2017-11-13· cloud-architecture·Estimated reading time: 1 min read

  Clear the read-only mode warning on an Azure Function published from Visual Studio by deleting the generatedBy line from function.json.