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Two weeks ago, parts of the Internet came to a halt due to a DDoS attack. DDoS attacks have become pretty common these last few years, but usually target a specific website. For instance, attackers might target microsoft.com and start firing enormous amounts of requests to it. Due to the load, the website will eventually
In my aquarium monitor series I showed how to build an application to monitor a fish tank. The use of the Azure IoT components allow us to easily build these kinds of solutions based on generic components. It also allows us to scale, which makes it very suitable for scenarios with lots of devices or data. Should
It’s been a few months now since I’ve posted the source code of Submerged on GitHub and started making some noise about it on hobbyist forums like ukaps. My main goal doing so was to gather feedback about which features people would want to see to convince them to use a solution like submerged. The number
Thrilled to announce that my session has been selected for Experts Live 2016. As the website says: “Experts live is THE event covering Microsoft Azure, Office365, Enterprise mobility suite, Operations management suite, Hyper-V and Windows”. I will be bringing a little IoT to the mix with my session on how I used Azure IoT components to
If you’ve read my previous blog on Azure Stream Analytics, you know how Stream Analytics can be used to process all sorts of incoming data and send the end result to one or multiple outputs. This is particularly useful for ensuring the right data is saved, manipulating the data before saving or only filtering out
Let’s start with some awesome news first! All of the sources for this project are now live on GitHub! Which doesn’t mean I’m close to being finished by the way, but it does allow you to take a look and maybe even contribute should you want to. This includes all of the code from the
If you have Windows IoT running on your Raspberry Pi and like me you’re a Windows Insider running a recent insider build (in my case 10.0.14295.1000), you might have noticed the “Remote” option in the UI. This allows you to enable a simple version of “Remote Desktop”-like functionality. In my case, clicking the checkbox in the
Hey there! Welcome back again to post #7 in my Internet of Things aquarium monitor series. In this series I’m explaining how to use Windows 10 IoT and Azure to read out sensor data, process it and act on it. And that “act on it” part is what we’ll take a look at in this
Finally! Post #6 in my blog series on building an aquarium monitor solution using Azure! In my last post we created a Web API project which provides an API for any application to use. In this post, we’ll take a look at creating an Apache Cordova application for use on mobile phones. This app will consume the API
This is post #5 in my blog series about the subject. In the previous post I explained how Azure stream analytics processes all of the incoming messages and places them in the sinks you configure. In my case, messages are now being written to Azure storage blobs, where they reside as CSV files. In this post,