Azure Continuous Integration Monitoring Part 3

Azure powered multi-stage CI monitoring tools

This is the second in a series of 3 posts covering something fun we’ve been messing around with here at Satalyst. Part 1 includes a little about what we’re trying to do, part 2 describes the infrastructure we built on Azure to do all the heavy lifting, and part 3 shows the finished shiny and wraps things up.

• Innovation

Dynamic IP and Reserved IP in Azure Virtual Networking

Convert Existing Dynamic VIP to Reserved IP Addresses in Azure

Some of the best changes to Azure announced at Microsoft's Build Developers' Conference this year that didn’t get a lot of attention were the change to Azure Virtual Networking.

By default, when you create Azure cloud services they are allocated a Virtual IP (VIP). This IP address is dynamic in nature and will change when the cloud services are de-allocated or the underlying Azure infrastructure moved your service due to underlying hardware issues.

• Technology Updates

Power BI vs Datazen

As you may have heard, Microsoft acquired Datazen in April 2015 to boost their BI dashboarding and mobility offering. This announcement has left a lot of people confused - where does Datazen fit in the Microsoft BI roadmap? Does Datazen compete with Power BI? Complement Power BI?

• Technology Updates