Blog of Kees Schollaart


Sr. Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft
Device Offline detection with Durable Entities - Revisited

How to detect the absence of device messages in a scalable, distributed and cost effective way? Durable Functions to the rescue! Un update of the previous post on this idea, as part of the final release of Durable Functions 2.0.

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Device Offline detection with Durable Entities

How to detect the absense of device messages in a scalable, distributed and cost effictive way? Durable Functions to the rescue!

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MQTT and Azure Functions

I’ve build an Azure Functions extension which enables you to subscribe an publish to MQTT topics.

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Serverless AI in my backyard

Recently I added some cool stuff to my home automation platform using computer vision, serverless code and MQTT.

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.NET Core 2.0 (ARM) on your Raspberry Pi with Azure IoT Hub

In this post I’ll describe how you connect you’re Raspberry Pi 3 to Azure IoT Hub using .NET Core.

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Deploy your Azure Functions using Visual Studio Team Services

Azure Functions have been around for a couple of months now and I start using them more and more. Recently I wanted to deploy my Azure Function as part of a CI/CD flow in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Release Management. I’d like to share how I did this.

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Office 365 Migration Api using C#

This blogpost describes how to use the Office 365 Migration Api using your own C# code.

The Office365 Migration Api enables you to upload lots of documents into SharePoint Online without being throttled.

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