What is the Internet of Things?
A system of interrelated computing devices that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human to human or human to computer interaction.
What IoT services does Azure offer?
1) Azure Hub
2) IoT Central
What is Azure Hub?
It is a solution that is designed to ingest data from millions of IoT devices.
- provides management and Security
- Platform as a service. (PaaS)
- Supports scaling and Device Authentication
What is IoT Central?
IoT central is 1 of 2 services that Azure provides.
- This is a SaaS Offering.
- Designed to get your IoT offering up to speed ASAP.
- No coding required.
- Pre-made connections to allow data to transfer to other systems.
What is Azure Sphere?
An all in one solution for IoT in Azure.
- Requires specifically supported hardware.
- Specialised Security Service that manages the maintenance, updates, and general control.
- IoT must run a custom Azure Sphere OS.
What is Big Data?
The definition continues to change and be refined; essentially, it is a lot of data.
What is Azure Data Lake Analytics?
An Analytics service that targets big data.
- It supports parallel processing - 2 or more processes or computers processing the data at the same time.
- It is ready to start on day 1.
What is HD Insights ?
An Analytics service that targets big data that is open source.
* includes Hadoop, Spark and Kafka. (Apache)
What is Azure Databricks ?
It is a cloud service on Azure.
- based on Apache Spark.
- A cluster computing framework.
- Processes datasets on multiple compute resources simultaneously.
- Integrates with other Azure Storage Services. (inclusive of HD Insights)
What is Azure Synapse Analytics?
Azure's Data warehouse offering. (Used to be Azure SQL Data warehouse. ) * Used for reporting and Analysis. * limited by your scope and budget. * Uses Synpase SQL language to manipulate data.
Big Data Outcomes?
1) you can find trends in large data.
2) help discover new products and services to meet customer needs.
3) Helps in prediction modelling.
What is Machine Learning?
This is a subcategory of AI in Azure.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
This is AI.
AI is the capability for a computer to imitate human behaviour.
* It enabled machines to analyse images, comprehend speech, and interact in natural ways.
Characteristics of ML / AI?
It requires a model - a data set to learn from.
Knowledge Mining - This allows you to find trends in existing insights.
What is Azure Bot Service?
It is an Azure PaaS Service.
* It allows you to answer questions, provides virtual assistants.
Azure Bot Service Characteristics :
- Bots are created via a visual editor or coding.
- Bots use natural language and speech recognition n.
- Bots integrate with Facebook messenger, teams and twilio.
- Bots can use a customised branding.
What is Azure Cognitive Services
A group of services around AI and ML.
1. Vision - The vision service recognised and captions videos and images (automagically)
- Decision - Apps can make decisions based on content, (which can include things such as offensive language) as well as anomalies.
- Speech = Automatic text to speech transcription.
What is the Azure machine learning Studio?
It is the default AI / ML studio on Azure.
- Supports all azure machine learning tools.
- Pre-made modules for your projects.
- Use for real-world scenarios, such as Twitter sentiment analysis.
What is the Azure machine learning service?
It is the service that drives Ai / ML.
1) It is an end-to-end service.
2) It is a collection of tools.
3) Azure automatically recognizes trends in your applications and creates models for you.
What is Azure Serverless?
Yes there are servers. Your functions are running on Azure Servers that you don’t manage - It is PaaS (extreme).
What are Azure Functions?
This is the original Serverless offering/service.
- It only performs a single task.
- Basic Compute Unit - It is a compute action that can be run millions of times per second if need be.
What are Logic Apps?
A serverless automation function.
- It is part of Azure’s serverless offering.
- It connects to systems inside and outside Azure.
- It also connects data flows and services.
- It enables automation and Orchestration (If, then)
- No coding is required.
What is the Event Grid?
A serverless function in Azure.
- This is a connection/routing service that can alert other services when an event occurs.
- It is fast and accurate.
- Ease of use.
What is DevOps?
It is a mixture of development and operations.
- ultimately, it is a philosophy.
- Azure provides tools to enable this.
