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...

How to do Data Science

These days, it’s all about Data Science.

What is Data Science?

Last month Brandon Rohrer, from the Cortana Intelligence and Machine Learning Blog, came up with an excellent post.

How to do Data Science?

The post basically goes over the workflow I reproduced at the right here.

I found...

What is Statistics and why should you care?

Unless you graduated in art, chances are you did a course in Statistics.

Chances are you hated it.

Most people I know postponed that course until the end of their degree, didn’t understand much about it and hated it dearly.

I didn’t like it either and understood very little.

A few...

Power BI Embedded in Azure

One of the many announces of Build 2016 (last week) is Power BI Embedded.

On the surface you might wonder what’s the difference between that and Power BI Service itself?

Power BI Service is a powerful tool.  It allows you to author reports & dashboard in Power BI desktop and export them in Power BI...

Securing REST API using Azure Active Directory

Scenario:  you have a web & mobile front-end, both using a REST API as a back-end.  You want to secure that back-end with authentication / authorization.  How do you do that in Azure?

There are obviously a bunch of ways to do that.  In this post, I’ll discuss the recommended...