Azure basics: Availability sets

What are availability sets in Azure?

In a nutshell, they are a way to define declaratively policies about how your services (VMs, Apps, etc.) are deployed in order to ensure high availability.

To get more specific, you need to understand two more concepts:  Fault Domain & Update Domain.

Two physical machines in a Fault Domain share a common power source and...

Where is the statistics in Machine Learning?

I often try to explain what Machine Learning is to people outside the field.  I’m not always good at it but I am getting better.

One of the confusion I often get when I start to elaborate the details is the presence of statistics in Machine Learning.  For people outside the field, statistics are the stuff of survey or their...

Azure Key Vault & SQL Server Connector Update

Azure Key Vault is alive and well!

The Azure service allowing you to store keys and secrets in a secured container has been released at the end of summer and it continues to improve.

The SQL Server Connector is a component that can be installed on SQL Server...

HDInsight Hadoop Hive - CSV files analysis

Ok, on a past blog we’ve been setuping Azure HDInsight for some Hive fun.

So let’s!

Today I’ll go and analyse the data contained in multiple CSV files.  Those files will be created (in Excel) but in a real-world scenario, they could be either data dump on a file server...

Azure Data Lake - Early look

UPDATE (19-01-2016):  Have a look at Azure Data Lake series for more posts on Azure Data Lake.

Ok, this is a super early look at the technology.  Azure Data Lake was announced yesterday (September 29th, 2015) at AzureCon (and later blogged about by Scott Gu), it will public preview at the end of...