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Automated R Deployments in Azure
My Apprenticeship Retrospective
In this post, Mike Larah reflects on his experiences going through the endjin three-year apprenticeship scheme
Using Azure Automation to run VMs during office hours only – using graphical runbooks
We've improved our approach for saving money by turning off our virtual machines outside of office hours. This post explored how to do it using graphical runbooks.
Machine Learning - the process is the science
What do machine learning and data science actually mean? This post digs into the detail behind the endjin approach to structured experimentation, arguing that the "science" is really all about following the process, allowing you to iterate to insights quickly when there are no guarantees of success.
Embracing Disruption - Financial Services and the Microsoft Cloud
We have produced an insightful booklet called "Embracing Disruption - Financial Services and the Microsoft Cloud" which examines the challenges and opportunities for the Financial Service Industry in the UK, through the lens of Microsoft Azure, Security, Privacy & Data Sovereignty, Data Ingestion, Transformation & Enrichment, Big Compute, Big Data, Insights & Visualisation, Infrastructure, Ops & Support, and the API Economy.
What makes a successful FinTech start-up?
In this post we discuss the characteristics of a great FinTech startup, and the importance of the API Economy to innovation in Financial Services.
The 100 Year Start-up: Embracing Disruption in Financial Services
Hymans Robertson was set up in Glasgow in 1921 and is one of the longest established independent firms of consultants and actuaries in the UK. Hymans Robertson soon realised that the computational requirements of their models exceeded the capacity of their on-premise datacentres and that the most cost effective solution would be to use the cloud to perform their Big Compute. But before they could harness the cloud to help them solve their Big Data problems, the business needed to understand the ramifications of moving to the cloud; everything from regulatory, risk and compliance concerns, to how their internal Ops team would need to evolve and adapt, and how to deal with moving data from on-prem into the cloud.
Why is blockchain revolutionising Financial Services?
There is a lot of hype about the blockchain - usually wrapped up with talk about Bitcoin and crypto-currencies. In this article, we look at its impact on trust, and auditability in financial services, and why it may (or may not) be appropriate for your solutions.
Regulatory Compliance and Cloud Adoption
In this post we review the FCA's guidelines for the adoption of cloud services by FinTech businesses, and help you to understand their impact across the value chain.
FinTech Week and the Microsoft Cloud
To celebrate FinTech Week, we've released an eBook based our our talk about Disruption in Financial Services at Future Decoded.
Machine Learning - mad science or a pragmatic process?
This post looks at what machine learning really is (and isn't), dispelling some of the myths and hype that have emerged as the interest in data science, predictive analytics and machine learning has grown. Without any hard guarantees of success, it argues that machine learning as a discipline is simply trial and error at scale – proving or disproving statistical scenarios through structured experimentation.
Improve your Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell experience with ConEmu
Mike Larah shares his tips for how to best customize ConEmu to improve your terminal experience for Windows Command Prompy and PowerShell
An experiment to automatically detect API breaking changes in .NET assemblies and suggest a Semantic Version number
Exploring the creation of a tool to detect accidental .NET API changes for accurate SemVer in NuGet packages.
SpecFlow 2.0, NUnit3, Visual Studio and TeamCity
We recently upgraded our TeamCity based CI/CD environment, but we had to make some adjustments to fix failing tests.
Developing U-SQL: Local Data Folder
ILMerge Meta-Runner for TeamCity
Meta-Runners allow you to easily create reusable build components for TeamCity, in this post I demonstrate how to create a Meta-Runner to wrap ILMerge functionality.
Azure Resource Manager authentication from a PowerShell script
Learn how to authenticate against Azure Resource Manager using PowerShell, for fully automated deployments.
Endjin.Licensing now supports SHA256
Microsoft have added SHA256 support to Signed XML, and Endjin.Licensing has been updating to take advantage of this breaking change.
We are in the era of the modern browser - market share analysis January 2016
We get 1000s of page view per day, which means we get an interesting insights into current Web Browser usage statistics. Here are the numbers for January 2016.
Azure Weekly turns 1 & we're celebrating by giving away 5 Windows IoT Raspberry Pi 2 starter kits
We've reached our first milestone - a whole year of publishing Azure Weekly. To celebrate we're giving away stuff!
CucumberJS Visual Studio Test Runner
We've built and open-sourced a Visual Studio Extension that provides basic support for discovering and running CucumberJS tests with Node.JS, in the Visual Studio Test Environment.
Using Lazy and ConcurrentDictionary to ensure a thread-safe, run-once, lazy-loaded collection
In this post, Mike Larah discusses how to ensure your C# collections are thread-safe, only run-once, and are lazy-loaded.
My first month at endjin
Azure Batch - Time is Money in Big Compute
Consumption based pricing is a one of the USPs of Cloud PaaS services, but the default settings aren't necessarily optimised for cost. Significant savings can be made from understanding your workload.
Chaos with a rhythm - controlling innovation
Running a start-up or bootstrapping a new product within an established business can feel pretty chaotic. We talk about strategies for managing the time of a team, and ensuring that you become predictable.