Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview

By Dustin Ward

Microsoft customers rely on Azure to host mission-critical workloads and services. A substantial percentage use the traditional infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) approach to deploying virtual machines, often orchestrated with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets or third-party tools. Customers rely on Azure to provide compute capacity on demand. However, in some situations, customers need more specific assurances: Business-critical…

Reducing AWS Lambda cost: tried and tested strategies

By Dustin Ward

In 2021 it’s common practice for businesses to use a pay-as-you-go/use pricing model. It’s no different with Amazon. It’s also the primary reason why this article is such an important read for all those looking to reduce their AWS Lambda costs. In this article, we will go over some actionable strategies to optimize the cost relating to our…

4 ways AI, computer vision, and related technologies expand IoT solutions

By Dustin Ward

Inspecting five million vehicle welds every day requires the ability to check a weld’s quality every 17 milliseconds—an impossible challenge for a human. This type of quality control task is just one of many where the combined technologies of computer vision and AI excel. Cameras, microphones, and a wide array of sophisticated sensors used in…