Microsoft Inspire 2018 – a week in the desert
Writing this post on my way back from Microsoft Inspire 2018 – this year held in Las Vegas, Nevada. In July. It’s hard to describe the heat unless you’ve been to a desert before, but it’s 40+ degrees in the summer, all day. Weather aside, it’s been a great week and I thought it worth […]
Containerize This! How to use PHP, Apache, MySQL within Docker containers
Continuing with the Containerize This! series, we’re looking at common web application technologies and how they can be used within Docker containers effectively. PHP, Apache, and MySQL have a very large market share on content management systems and web applications on the internet, and with so many developers using these technologies, there is a lot […]
MCSA Data Engineering with Azure: Exam 70-775 study guide
One of Cloudreach’s core beliefs is that as a company, and as individual Cloudreachers, we should strive to be “one step ahead”. For me, this means building a strong competency in one of Azure’s most exciting offerings with data engineering, analytics and if I’m feeling especially ambitious, machine learning (further down the road). My plan […]
A Face in the Cloud – Shreni Thakkar, Client Commercial Lead
Here at Cloudreach, we believe that the growth of a great business is fuelled by great people. It is our talented individuals that make Cloudreach the success it is. Shreni Thakkar, our Client Commercial Lead based in New York, tells us about her experiences with emerging tech as well as her inspirations and some pearls […]
Learning about Microsoft Cognitive Services
At Cloudreach we have core values such as “Be One Step Ahead” and “Promote Personal Growth”. They help us to ensure that we are always up to date with the latest trends of the rapidly evolving public cloud, as well as exploring new technologies. With the help of our Growth & Development team we are […]
A Face in the Cloud – Andreas Bauer, Service Delivery Lead
Here at Cloudreach, we believe that the growth of a great business is fuelled by great people. It is our talented individuals that make Cloudreach the success it is. Andreas Bauer, our Service Delivery Lead based in Munich, tells us about his experience working and keeping it cloudy at Cloudreach. Tell us a bit about […]
The potential of blockchain and the cloud
This article is not here to teach you about blockchain, but to offer a glimpse into the potential of blockchain in/and/on the cloud. A blockchain is a distributed, write-once-read-only (“WORO”) database that leverages tokens. Blockchain is sometimes designated as a potential future protocol, as TCP/IP once was. More often than not can we read comparisons […]
Avoid Repeat Mistakes with Cloud Native Adoption
As enterprises start to embrace cloud native solutions linked to real-time analytics, AI/ML, serverless and blockchain use cases, they need to avoid repeating the same mistakes that were made when migrating applications from on-premise to cloud. It is probably fair to say that many enterprises have started or are well into their journey of cloud […]
Motivating more Londoners to be active at the Active Travel Hackathon 2018
In this post, I share with great pleasure my experience of winning the Active Travel Hackathon 2018 on 12-13th June. The 2-day event was sponsored by Cloudreach, in partnership with Transport for London, AWS and Met Office. The hackathon challenge The aim of this hackathon was to come up with solutions that encourage Londoners […]
