Publishing to Azure Event Hubs using a .NET Micro Framework Device

21st of October, 2014 / / 6 Comments

In previous posts, Kloudies Matt Davies and Olaf Loogman have shown how we connect Arduino based devices to the Azure platform. Preferring the .NET Micro Framework (NETMF) platform myself, I thought it time to show how we can publish senor data to Azure Event Hubs using a NETMF connected device.

.NET Micro Framework

Like Arduino, the .NET Micro Framework is an open source platform that runs on small, microcontroller based devices or “things”as we call them now in the world of the Internet-of-Things (IoT).… [Keep reading] “Publishing to Azure Event Hubs using a .NET Micro Framework Device”

Bad Request: Internal Load Balancer usage not allowed for this deployment

20th of May, 2014 / / 2 Comments

Microsoft released a number of new networking features for the Azure platform this week:

  • Multiple Site-to-Site VPNs
  • VNET-to-VNET Secure Connectivity
  • Reserved IPs
  • Instance level Public IPs
  • Internal Load Balancing

Announcement details can be found on Scott Gu’s blog post

Internal load balancing (ILB) was a much needed networking feature that will enable the design of highly available environments in hybrid infrastructure scenarios. Until now, 3rd party solutions were required to load balance workloads in IaaS virtual machines when accessed by on-premise (internal) clients across the site-to-site VPN.… [Keep reading] “Bad Request: Internal Load Balancer usage not allowed for this deployment”

Best Practices for Managing Azure Subscriptions in Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets

23rd of February, 2014 / / 2 Comments

Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets makes it nice and easy to get started managing your Windows Azure services. Using the Get-AzurePublishSettingsFile cmdlet you can login into your WAZ subscription and fetch the details you need to manage your cloud services. PowerShell even saves these details locally so you can reuse them again in the future. This is great for personal accounts and small teams getting to know the Windows Azure PowerShell cmdlets. However in larger organisations this can quickly lead to management issues and security risks.… [Keep reading] “Best Practices for Managing Azure Subscriptions in Windows Azure PowerShell Cmdlets”