With an understanding of the Alexa ecosystem and some of the terminology I’ll be using, let’s look under the hood a bit today. All Alexa devices depend on the cloud to do the heavy lifting. In the most simplified case, this is what’s under the hood of a simple Alexa skill. You speak to your…
Category: Infrastructure
Azure Data Lake Storage ACL Automation
In my last blog entry, we covered how to layout folders in your Data Lake Storage account based on a logical design. That’s only half the battle. You also need to set up Access Control Lists (ACLs). Setting up controls via the Azure portal is easy, but not something you can automate. Today, we’ll jump…
Azure Data Lake Storage Zone Layout Automation
After laying out the structure for our zones, my client quickly asked, is there a way we can automatically stand up this structure each time we bring a new Tenant into our solution. With a smile, I replied it was possible! In the short term, we would use PowerShell to stand up these folders every…