From 2017 to 2021, I had the privilege of serving as a Microsoft Azure MVP. My work evolved alongside the industry itself: Along the way, I also developed extensive experience with BERT models for semantic search, similarity scoring, and embedding-based retrieval. That work became foundational to my thinking about, knowledge Read more
Introduction Often when working with a new client we ask for their cloud enterprise and solution architecture documents, we consider this the explicit architecture*. The enterprise architecture documents would include things such as the Cloud Service Catalog, Reference Architectures, and such. The solution architecture document would be the detail design Read more
Microsoft 365 #M365 was introduced in late 2017 as a new product bundle which combines the traditional Office 365 #O365 features with Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and Windows 10. One of the best way to understand is comparing Microsoft 365 plans.
Often times clients do not understand how role base access control (RBAC) works in Azure. In this post we’ll go over RBAC First list out all the azure role definitions in your subscription $ az role definition list -o table Best if you limit the role definitions to a specific Read more
As is often is the case I am asked to review an clients Azure environment that has organically grown over many months with limited to no governance living like like the 1865 wild west. In a previous posts, we shared why Linux is the best development environment, how to create an Read more
Today I received an email that read in part as follows: It is with great pride we announce that Steven Fowler has been awarded as a Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 7/1/2019 – 7/1/2020. The Microsoft MVP Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional technology community leaders worldwide Read more
In a previous post, we showed the steps of how to create an Linux development environment on a Windows 10 and why Linux is the best development environment. We shared specifically How to create a Linux Azure CLI 2.0 Workstation. In this post we’ll show you the must have Linux Read more
This post contains short tables of commonly used items in this shell. In most cases, the information applies to both the Bourne shell (sh) and the newer bash shell. The best resource for understanding existing shell scripts is explainshell You can learn shell scripting interactively online. Good practices: #!/bin/bash #Explicitly tell Read more
In my previous post, I explained How to create Python work environments Where to go from here Essential Python Packages
In a previous post, I explained How to create Python work environments. Lets review some essential python packages. Essential Python Packages beautifulsoup – quickly extract valid data from web pages, its API pandas – high-performance tools for working wiht data tweepy – access twitter APIs