Recreating VMs in Azure

In this article I’m going to explain how to destroy VMs, keep their disks on the backburner and re-create them later.

Why would you do that?

After all, you can shut down VMs and not be charged for it.  You can later restart them and...

Azure Export Template - Your new best friend

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) basically is Azure Infrastructure version 2.0.  It has been released for about a year now, although not all Azure Services have caught up yet.

With ARM comes ARM templates.  An ARM template is a description of a group of resources (and...

Training a model to predict failures

Today a quick entry to talk about a twist on Machine Learning for the predictive maintenance problem.

The Microsoft Cortana Intelligence team wrote an interesting blog the other day:  Evaluating Failure Prediction Models for Predictive Maintenance.

When you listen to all the buzz around Machine Learning, it sometimes feels as if we’ve solved all the ML problems and...

How does criticism hit your brain?

Everybody loves a critic, right?  How do you give feedback to somebody and be effective, i.e. without your message getting deflected on their “shield”?

An area I found especially hard to deliver constructive feedback is presentation / public speaking skills.  Criticizing the way somebody speaks or...

A first look at Azure Functions

Back in summer 2010 I called for a notification mechanism within Azure, something that would call customer-defined code to take action when something happen within your subscription, e.g. a file added to blob storage, a message added to a queue, etc.  .

Back then I called...