Category: Blog

  • Azure Data Factory Moving Data into CosmosDB

    Azure Data Factory is Microsoft’s Service for transferring data but also building (Extract, Load, Transform) of Data or what is also known as Extract, Transform, Load. However, this is one way of getting data into your CosmosDB DB and respective containers for this post, I’ll deploy two items Azure Cosmos DB Account (SQL Core API)…

  • Azure CosmosDB DP-420 Prep

    What is Azure CosmosDB? It’s a NoSQL Database offering that offers scale massively across practically unlimited partitions. How does this intersect in the data domain? Likely after you’ve complete DP-900 you’d want to scratch the surface of understanding more how data interacts in the cloud and perhaps use cases that your organization is evaluating. CosmosDB…

  • GCP A first-look

    Google Cloud has come a far Google operates on a model that is a little different from Microsoft Azure instead of what we know of as “tenant” or “subscription” is called “Projects” in GCP. These Projects think of as your tenant traditionally in Azure (Isolated) to the resources that fall under the project. As you…

  • Withings Application

    Scope It’s been a while since I’ve wrote my last post and figured I’d document my experience building an application to communicate with the Withings API. My idea is a simple concept, authorize into the Withings API and take the data populated from various metrics in JSON format and sent a POST request into FitnessPal…

  • Q4 Goals, Reflections on Q3 and Strategies

    I’ve had drafts ready to post with some in-depth content but have been troubleshooting some open source to provide a detailed instruction. Apologies moving forward my goal for Q4 which for clarity Q4 starts for me in August in terms of planning and ends mid December. My sister told me she has only heard me…

  • Exploring Microsoft Purview Compliance Portal

    On the pursuit of MS-500 I’ve been exploring resources a little further in depth such as Compliance Manager a part of M365 E3/E5 Services. Links used for this compliance.microsoft.com (you’ll login to the “Global Admin”) think of this as your GRC aide in assessments. Microsoft recently announced changes to the formerly known Microsoft Compliance Center…

  • 10 Books of 2021 and 2022 Reads

    While this definitely late, *sigh* I’m planning on being more active in this regard on posting to get a little more out there and help others. The way this is organized is for each book I’ve read I’ll provide a brief statement on the story and have the link with the books information. *DISCLAIMER* The…

  • Q1 2022 Recap – Future

    This year kicked off with high velocity first in terms of work, I’ve entered into a new role that expanded my footprint in consulting and really fit my background more on that later. For this post I’m going to focus on the goals that are laid out for the year, obviously its apparent that adoption…

  • 2022 Journey and Resources

    Start off looking at the year on my screen in shock, I’m still processing 2020 in my head. The year is off to a rapid start, for the first time I find my afternoons with some extra time. I’m still adjusting to not being in school full time (thankfully). I’m on a roll so far…

  • PowerBI – Exploring New Years Resolution

    While DA-100 has certainly proved to be a challenge for me, I’ve still enjoying the useful of visuals and diagrams of presenting data. For the data I’m presenting today, is a peak of a report I quickly put together based on New Years Resolutions. Dataset: https://www.kaggle.com/andrewmvd/new-years-resolutions Start by understanding this data but its usability was…