Today i got a MHCOZY TH1CH-B1RF and installed tasmota: MHCOZY TH1CH-B1RF is a Wifi temperature and humidity controller: Product details say: Users can add the device to the APP eWeLink in order to remotely control connected home appliances or devices. In self-locking mode, customers can remotely turn on/off connected devices immediately. When in inching mode, customers can have two wiring ways to select: * Turn on 1s and then auto-off,* Turn off 1s and then auto-on. Of course you can stay with the original software, but then you have to integrate EWELINK to you enviroment (which uses port ..read more

 Beginning of 2024 i read the book "AWS for Solutions Architects: The definitive guide to AWS Solutions Architecture for migrating to, building, scaling, and succeeding in the cloud": The book has 627 pages and consists of 16 chapters. Due to the number of topics, the author wants to cover (and has to!) the book cannot really go into detail about all the services - but in my opinion that is not necessary. I really liked the network sketches in Chapter 4 and the 6 Pillars in chapter 9. But the rest also fits - there are various keywords or links for each area that provide a good introduc ..read more

After 17 years (!) this blog reached 1.000.000 visitors.   Some more numbers: 591 articles written, 2.200 comments which where spam, 360 published comments, nearly 200 posts about Linux, 180 posts about Oracle, nearly 50 reviews on books... Let's see if the 2mio will be reached in 2040 (omg).     ..read more

 Today i came across the following in posting in linkedin.com: The link points to a site, where you can register for the a PDF, which contains 20 pages and 7 chapters. Chapter one is a very short one (only half of a page): A typical introduction about data, information, analytics and why this is important :) In chapter 2 the lakehouse architecture is explained. I liked the phrase "It combines [...] traditional data warehouse with the massive scale and flexibility of a data lake". This phrase combined with a very good table of the differences between a data warehouse and a data lake is fr ..read more

 This weekend i read the book "Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture" https://www.packtpub.com/product/microsoft-power-platform-enterprise-architecture/9781800204577 Packt.com says about the book: For forward-looking architects and decision makers who want to craft complex solutions to serve growing business needs, Microsoft Power Platform Enterprise Architecture offers an array of architectural best practices and techniques. With this book, you’ll learn how to design robust software using the tools available in the Power Platform suite and be able to integrate them seamlessly ..read more

Postman is the swiss army knife tool for dealing with HTTP(S) requests. You want to test anything with an GET, PUT, POST, OPTION call? Postman is the way to go. https://postman.com But some months ago postman announced the following: Scratchpad was the option to work locally on your PC with postman and nothing was synced to the cloud. That was really cool, because most of the HTTPS requests have to be authenticated in some way (basic auth, secrets for oauth, api-keys, etc...) From my perspective cloud is a very cool thing, but moving all the sensitive parameters into the postman cloud is ..read more

 This week Veeam published this booklet on linkedin.com for download: The booklet contains 6 chapter - the last one is a summary "Six takeaways" like always in such "for dummies" books. From my point of view chapter 1 & 2 can be skipped - this you should really know, if running M365 (motivation for M365 backup).  Chapter 3 is about how the loss of files can be prevented with M365 mechanisms. This is about compliance center, retention policies and labels. But only the keywords are mentioned and no deeper insights are provided. In chapter 4 many scenarios are described, how you c ..read more

On linkedin from "The Cyber Security Hub" shared a nice booklet about data governance: An like always: It is only a booklet with about 25 pages - so this is not really a deep dive into this topic, but it gives you a good overview and of course a good motivation: These include the need to governdata to maintain its quality as well as the need to protect it. This entails the prerequisite need to discover data in your organization with cataloguing, scanning, and classifying your data to support this protection. and if this is to abstract, you should consider the following use case (and i think ..read more

Today i got a notification from a Microsoft colleague about the following linkedin posting: Some weeks ago i started with PowerApps - and there this "dataverse" was mentionend as well.  If you walk through the presentation in this linkedin post, you get an idea what this dataverse can do. I found the following picture @Microsoft learn: And there are more details, why and how dataverse can be used: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/maker/data-platform/data-platform-intro#why-use-dataverse Sounds like a kind of datawarehouse centrally in the cloud. The most interesting point ..read more

Last week Microsoft published the following linkedin post: On linkedin often tiny booklets are offered with around 10 up to 30 pages. But this offer from Microsoft is a book with 11 section and 289 pages. If you are interested you can get it via this link (today this is still working, 12.2.2023): https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-native-infrastructure-with-microsoft-azure/ If you are not convinced: Here the table of contents: Introduction: Why Cloud Native? Infrastructure as Code: Setting Up the Gateway Containerizing Your Application: More Than Boxes Kubernetes: The Grand Or ..read more