I was recently blessed to take part in the AWS Summit in Stockholm in May 2023. I wanted to take a moment to write about the highlights and at the same time practice some generative AI shenanigans, this is that text. I will detail my process in a later post.

Time and again it happens that we start to build something small, then later we expand it and realize that it grew too fast and uncontrolled. And now is a mess, an uncontrollable big ball of Mud, so to speak. Sadly, this has happened more times we can count despite our best efforts and intentions. Migrating workloads or building cloud-native software of enterprise-scaled proportions often falls victim to this outcome. And something like this is likely to happen when you build your infrastructure without a proper Cloud Governance model.

Azure Databricks is a great tool to set up a streaming application where a user can get insight to some data either in real-time or near real-time. In this blog series we build a streaming application to get real-time road traffic information from Finnish Transport Agency (FTA) open data API. The data is ingested by a custom container application made with .NET Core, processed by Azure Databricks via Event Hub, and then visualized with Microsoft Power BI.

As technology agnostics, we work with almost all cloud service providers. At the same time, cloud systems are evolving so rapidly that it's impossible for an expert to stay on top of everything. Can an expert focus on just one solution?

My journey with Sitecore on Azure began in April this year when I got the opportunity to participate a one-day training for Sitecore partners in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the topic.