Rahul Rai is a Microsoft Azure MVP and Group Product Manager at LogicMonitor, sharing hands-on cloud and container insights from Sydney.
106 articles from this blog
Part 1 of a series on using the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) process model to build an enterprise-scale IoT Mixed Reality application.
A tutorial on creating a serverless API proxy for Cosmos DB using Azure Functions without writing any code.
A technical guide on building IoT applications using Azure IoT Edge, covering edge analytics, deployment, and a practical demo scenario.
A guide to building reactive microservices on Azure using Event Grid and Azure Functions, with a practical order processing example.
A guide to using the Ibex Dashboard, an open-source tool for visualizing performance analytics of Microsoft Bot Framework bots.
Final guide in a series on publishing and registering a bot built with Microsoft Bot Framework, including deployment to Azure and testing on Skype.
Part 4 of a series on the Microsoft Bot Framework, focusing on adding natural language processing using LUIS (intents, entities, utterances).
Part 3 of a series on Microsoft Bot Framework, focusing on simplifying bot development using Form Flow to capture user input.
Part 2 of a series on building stateful bots with the Microsoft Bot Framework, covering Dialogs, state management, and persistence.
First part of a tutorial series on building chatbots using the Microsoft Bot Framework, covering core concepts and architecture.
A web developer's overview of key new features in Visual Studio 2017, focusing on setup, editor improvements, and performance.
A technical guide on deploying stateless applications as Guest Executables to Azure Service Fabric, covering packaging and configuration.
A guide to using the Tedious driver for Node.js to connect to Microsoft SQL Server, including a sample phone book application.
Learn to integrate ElasticSearch and Kibana with Service Fabric for advanced log monitoring and visualization of application diagnostics.
Explains the Producer-Consumer pattern for asynchronous services, including a C# implementation using TPL Dataflow.
A utility for dynamically reading nested property values from objects using string-based configuration, useful in asynchronous services.
Explains the Compiled Expressions pattern for building flexible, configurable services by dynamically invoking functions based on database-stored configurations.
Explains the Buffer Fill Pattern for optimizing batch data processing in asynchronous distributed systems, using TPL DataFlow.
A hands-on guide to building a microservices application using Azure Service Fabric's Reliable Services API, integrating Twitter and sentiment analysis.
Explains how to implement custom communication protocols (like WCF or RPC) in Azure Service Fabric Reliable Services, covering both client and inter-replica channels.
