Key Details What: Edmonton Microsoft Data Professionals user group.Where: Edmonton, Alberta by way of the internet.When: Thursday, January 20th.Admission is free. Register on the Edmonton Microsoft Data Professionals meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-01-20 — 18:30 – 20:30 PM EST — Data Virtualization with PolyBase. This talk is still focused on SQL Server 2019, though with 2022 coming out…
Low-Code ML: Batch Scoring
This is part six in a series on low-code machine learning with Azure ML. Last Time on 36 Chambers In the prior episode of this series, we built a real-time endpoint, showed how to call it, and saw how to make some minor changes to a real-time inference pipeline. Today, we're going to show off…
Low-Code ML: Deployment and Endpoints
This is part five in a series on low-code machine learning with Azure ML. Where We Are In the prior post, we trained a model using the Azure ML designer. Penguins scored In this post, we're going to make it available for the whole world to use, as what the world needs is a way…
Musings on Technical Debt
On a recent episode of Shop Talk, we discussed the concept of technical debt. In this post, I want to delve into the topic a bit more and give the topic the thought it deserves. What Is Technical Debt? As developers, we throw around the term "technical debt" a lot, but I think it makes…
Upcoming Events: Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform Meetup
Key Details What: Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform Meetup.Where: Sunnyvale CA, by way of the internet.When: Tuesday, January 18th.Admission is free. Register on the Silicon Valley Microsoft Data Platform meetup. What I’m Presenting 2022-01-18 — 10:00 – 11:00 PM EST — Saving Your Wallet from the Cloud. I just revamped this talk to make it fit in a…
Low-Code ML: Training in the Designer
This is part four in a series on low-code machine learning with Azure ML. The Machine Learning Process Machine learning is a lot like an action film from the 1980s: we see early on that there's a problem, we train in a cool montage with upbeat rock music, and then we come back to the…
New Course: Securing a Data Warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics
I have a new EC-Council course available via their CodeRed platform. The name of the course is Securing a Data Warehouse in Azure Synapse Analytics and it provides a rather detailed overview of security functionality in the product. The impetus behind this course is that Azure Synapse Analytics is a huge platform, and when it…
Low-Code ML: Using AutoML
This is part three in a series on low-code machine learning with Azure ML. The Place of AutoML Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) provides two distinct benefits. The first benefit is the one that AutoML providers tend to tout: you don't need (much) machine learning experience to use them. According to the marketing, AutoML does all…
Low-Code ML: Data and Compute
This is part two in a series on low-code machine learning with Azure ML. Welcome to Machine Learning Studio Azure Machine Learning Services is the full-on product for machine learning in Azure. In addition to this, there is Azure ML Studio, a graphical interface for using Azure ML. You'll definitely spend a lot of time…
gRPC and .NET on Linux
Not too long ago, I attended Mark Rendle's session on gRPC in .NET. Being a bit, well, me, I decided to bring my Linux-based laptop. After all, .NET Core (and now .NET 5 and 6) supports Linux, so why not? Well, about 90 minutes into the session, I ran into a trouble that nobody else…
36 Chambers - The Legendary Journeys: Execution to the max! 