Design Limbo
Trying to find a way out of tech limbo

Author: Shawn Jackson

I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.

Resgrid is a Featured Microsoft Startup

Shawn Jackson Azure, Business, Startup January 14, 2015

Today Resgrid is being featured by Microsoft as their featured BizSpark startup. Resgrid is a SaaS product deployed on Microsoft Azure, providing logistics, management and communication tools to first responder organizations like volunteer fire, career fire, EMS, search and rescue, public safety, disaster relief organizations, etc. It was founded in late 2012 by myself and
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Azure SQL Database Upgrade S1 to S2 Error

Shawn Jackson Azure, Random January 13, 2015

Recently I tried to upgrade Resgrid’s Azure SQL database form S1 to S2. Being able to upgrade the performance/characteristics of your cloud PaaS/IaaS services is one of the major tenants of utilizing a service like Azure. No longer do you by more hardware then you ever will use, you scale it. At Resgrid this is
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