Reading Notes #136
Suggestion of the week
Cloud
- Creating an Azure Mobile Services .NET backend from scratch (Carlos Figueira) - Great tutorial here without magic. Every steps are well explained.
- Microsoft Azure Load Balancing Services (Marios Zikos) - Great article that explains how the load balancer work and how to configure it based on our needs.
- Information on Microsoft Azure and Heartbleed (Andrew Cushman) - This post explained when, even if running on Microsoft Azure, the Heartbleed vulnerability could affect your app.
- Size Matters… A LOT! - This post gives nice options to minimize the impact of a mobile application using the cloud as backend.
- Reading from a queue in an Azure WebJob - This post got us started with Azure webjobs.
- VM Image (Christine Avanessians) - Wonderful, so many new functionalities! I'm really looking forward to know more and try it.
- VM Agent and Extensions – Part 1 (Kundana Palagiri) - This post introduced the currently available extensions with a quick example. VMExtension looks a very promising feature with a lot of potential.
- Azure Updates: Web Sites, VMs, Mobile Services, Notification Hubs, Storage, VNets, Scheduler, AutoScale and More (Scott Gu) - I don't know where to start. This last release contained so many new features it's incredible. You must read this post.
- Les architectures émergentes, l'innovation en architecture et les nouvelles tendances - Annonce d'un événement à Montréal sur l'architecture notamment pour le "cloud".
- How to assign a private Static IP to a Windows Azure VM - Useful powershell script to manage your Azure's VMs.
- IT Pros ROCK! - This post explains very clearly all the options with their pros and cons when shutting down AzureVM.
- Automating Environment Creation using Microsoft Azure PowerShell - Nice scrit!
- Deep dive: Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 RC and Azure SDK 2.3 (Mohit Srivastava) - Great post that goes into details in all the major new features from the last Azure SDK and visual studio release.
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