Reading Notes #538

Good Monday, 

Already time to share new reading notes. Here is a list of all the articles, and blog posts that catch my interest during the week. 

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• Azure Developer CLI (azd) - January 2023 Release (Savannah Ostrowski) - Easier to install and more secure. A nice update.

• Develop Your Cloud App Locally with the LocalStack Extension (Ajeet Singh Raina, Harsh Mishra) - Interesting tools that can emulate your AWS environment locally, perfect to develop and not stress about the cloud cost busting your budget.

Programming

• 6 Command Line (PowerShell & CLI) Tips & Tricks for Microsoft Azure you should know about! (Thomas Maurer) - Great tips that really enable us to be more productive and efficient.

• Get Started with GitHub Actions (Mandy Hubbard) - This is a great post to get started with CICD. GitHub is free and accessible, give it a try and then automate some tests or a deployment.

• Introduction to DevSecOps on Azure (Daniel Krzyczkowski) - New Pluralsight course announcement.

• The Problem With Dependency Injection Frameworks (James Shore) - A very interesting post that continues to explain why DI frameworks are bad even though they help us.

• Public Preview: Azure Automation Visual Studio Code Extension - Nice I like Azure automation. An extension to manage those cloud cron jobs, I say yes.

• Release notes for Microsoft Q&A - Love that new look!

• Why tuples in C# are not always a code smell (Dennis Frühauff) - I didn't use Turple yet but it's not hard to see the potential and how it could become ugly. This post shows and explains a few simple rules to stay clear.

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Cosmos DB to Azure Data Explorer Synapse Link (public preview) (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Two worlds touched. This new connection looks super cool.

• Lazy and once-only C# async initialization (Ian Griffiths) - An amazing post that explains so much and that has all the code snippets to be clear about it. I will have to copy-paste those into some test applications to really try them, but it is clear what I should expect.

~frank

Reading Notes #508

It's... Tuesday! 

Yes I know one day later, but it's still time to share my reading notes. Those are a curated list of all the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed. 

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• 50 shades of .NET on AWS (François Bouteruche) - A nice, like-real, story that helps understand how decisions are taken when planning in cloud architecture (here AWS).

• Deploy ASP.NET Core websites to Azure App Service with Azure Pipelines (Mark Heath) - Very interesting tutorial about azure DevOps pipeline.

• Introducing the Azure Static Web Apps CLI (Anthony Chu) - Amazing tools this swa CLI is very interesting and useful.

Programming

• Light and dark mode in just 14 lines of CSS (Salma Alam-Naylor) - Lovely there is no real reason to not do it.

• A New Architecture for APIs (Anant Jhingran) - A very interesting paper that highlights the strengths of GraphQL.

• Add an Admin Tab to Windows Terminal with gsudo (Sam Cogan) - That's a pretty a neet tool!

• Development Container CLI (Brigit Murtaugh) - Oh! This is fantastique, I need to try that, I'm assuming we will be able to give a name to the instance and that it will make reopening a container easier.

• Docker Host network alternatives for Windows containers (Vinicius Apolinario) - Networks are hard, at least for me, and this post shows nice alternatives and explains many things.

Podcast

• Studio 2022 Extensions with Mads Kristensen (.NET Rocks!) - Whenever I listen Mads Kristensen talking about Visual Studio, my brain goes 🤯 Awesome, awesome episode.

Miscellaneous

• The Azure Cosmos DB Journey to .NET 6 - .NET Blog (Vinod Sridharan) - Learn how Azure Cosmo DB API gateway is low latency and use .Net in many different scenarios to achieve great performance, in this post.

~frank

Reading Notes #472

Cloud

• Announcing NubesGen, an Open Source tool to automate Azure deployments (Julien Dubois) - A very interesting project use can use it participate and learn.
• Azure Bicep Refreshed (Justin Yoo) - Infrastructure As Code with Bicep. It looks great.
• Effective ways to delete resources in a resource group on Azure in 2021 ( Stephane Lapointe) - Nice post that shows us how to be smarter even when we delete resources.
• Getting Started with Azure Web PubSub Service (Abhijit Jana) - This is a great new service and the cherry on the top... It's fully managed!
• What’s the most configurable Kubernetes service in the cloud? Does it matter? (Richard Seroter) - Interesting post that compares the configuration options of the different service providers. From my point of view (code focus), it's not who has the more options that are the more appealing. It's Who let me go with the fewer click with a good setup.

Programming

• Build and ship software better with GitHub and Microsoft Teams (Teams team) - I installed the app with pure curiosity, but I kept it because it is useful. I'm happy to see those new features.
• 10 Reasons to Attend DockerCon LIVE 2021 - Docker Blog (David Oro) - It's coming soon...
• Blazor - Component Mockup Library (Cody Merritt Anhorn) - Anice tutorial that explains how to get started with this lib.
• Securing an ASP.NET Core app and web API using windows authentication (Damien Bowden) - Nice tutorial with tons of code snippets.
• tabs ↹ over ␣ ␣ ␣ spaces (Jiri Cincura) - Experimenting is still one of the best ways to learn things. Just like in this post.

Podcasts

• Designing the Future with Brian Collins (A Bit of Optimism) - Great episode, very inspiring. How as more experienced humans can we help the younger ones to build a better future... And learn in the process.
• Use Storytelling to Get Ahead at Work (Modern Mentor) - Storytelling is important and this episode help to get started. Because the best stories are not improvised.
• Épisode 93 - Quand la santé tourne à l’obsession (Grand écart) - In French, with so many people that run... We need to stay focus and do it for the good reason. It an eye-opening episode.
• Hello World: April 22, 2021 - Special Hello Earth! (Hello World) - Shameless plug... Hello World is now available in Podcast!
• 252: Linux GUI Apps on Windows - WSLg (Merge Conflict) - I was happy when I saw the news about the WSL GUI Apps announcement, but didn't have the time to try anything. In this episode, Frank and James ask all the good questions and provide so many answers. Awesome.
• SPI 482: The 3-Second Rule That You Need to Know (The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast) - Getting out of our comfort zone is hard. And introducing ourselves could be so challenging. I love the idea of that tips.
• Leadership, Radical Delegation, And Integrated Problem Solving with Admiral John Richardson (The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution) - Interesting episode. The first thought was if the military can review their approach, everyone can. Great lesson.

Miscellaneous

• 10 Best Visual Studio Code Extensions for Increased Productivity (Dirk Strauss) - This post is so much more than a list of 10extensions...It explains some differences between Visual Studio and VS Code, and shares those extensions, and explains why there are so amazing.

~frank

Reading Notes #467

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

This week's image brings us to 2017, back when I was a Microsoft MVP, yes my name is on that wall with so many of my friends! Have I great summit this week!

Cloud

• Azure Functions Support for node.JS 14 and .Net 5 Is Now Generally Available (Steef-Jan Wiggers Follow) - A quick post that detailed what is new and why it's nice.

• Azure Workbooks - Set it to Auto-Refresh (Shikha Jain) - Your mouse will thanks you, because of less clicks.

• Cloud-Native learning resources for .NET developers (Nish Anil) - A nice post that explains the cloud-native idea and lists sooooo many resources to get started.

Programming

• 5 things to include in your project ASAP (Lior Bragilevsky) - This is a very JavaScript focus post, but easily portable to other languages.

• Debugging configuration values in ASP.NET Core (Andrew Lock) - A great tutorial that teaches some great ways to debug and inspect the appSettings.

• Introducing AWS SSO support in the AWS Toolkit for VS Code | Amazon Web Services (Garret Sweetwood) - Another great VS Code extension, this time to help you with your authentification with AWS.

• Scaling Microservices on Kubernetes (Ashley Davis) - Interesting post about scaling. Scaling horizontally, vertically the advantages and complexities of each options.

• Tetris in Blazor WebAssembly (Matthew Jones ) - I keep repeating it, coding is fun and creative! Learn more about this cool open source project in this post.

• The common misconception about TypeScript (Narasimha Prasanna HN) - This is a great post that shares simple best practices in TypeScript.

Miscellaneous

• Get better at programming by learning how things work (Julia Evans) - Inspirational post to stay curious and keep learning.

~Frank

Reading Notes #460

Cloud

• Let’s compare the cloud shells offered by AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (Richard Seroter) - It's always interesting to read those comparison posts...

• ARM Template deployment, the what-if option for your Azure Deployments (Olivier Miossec) - The what-if feature is awesome, this post explains why and shows how to use it.

• State of the Azure SDK 2021 (Azure SDK Team) - So much good news! A ton of updates already done (do you know all of them?) And a very promising roadmap.

• Use Postman with the Microsoft Graph API - Microsoft Graph - Very complete docs about how to do your rest query using a dev tool.

Programming

• How to Add a Serverless Database to your React Projects (Michael Bagley) - This is a nice tutorial with all the code snippets to get started and try this type of project.

• If You Code on Windows, You Deserve a Better Windows Terminal (Matthew MacDonald) - Lovely. A nice post about why the new Windows Terminal is awesome.

• The New .NET Multi-platform App UI (David Ortinau) - I'm more and more excited by Maoi. The simple experience that it promises is very appealing.

Podcast

• #188 – Fame, Focus, and Billions of Pageviews with Evan Britton of Famous Birthdays (Indie Hackers) - A nice story where people focus on the users, worked super hard (and continue to do it), and had amazing success.

• How to Stop Being Complacent (Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose) - A nice episode to "kick our butt" and get back on track. Yes, 2020 indeed brought tons of new challenges at all and every level. However. we must try to make this year better.

• Who Owns Open-Source Software? (Coding Blocks) - Great discussion. Most of us, at some point, have to ask ourselves those questions (at least I know I did). It was very interesting listening to this episode and follow their thoughts.

• 631 - How to Explain a Gap in Your Résumé (Modern Mentor) - I have gaps in my resumé and I always been very comfortable about it. When I saw the title of this episode I thought maybe I should be concerned... Happy to know I was right!

Miscellaneous

• Coaching sessions: here’s what I talk about with junior developers (Dominique St-Amand) - An interesting post for all more junior will found answers and more experienced will have ideas about how to help others.

Books

Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada's Arctic

Author: Adam Shoalts

Nice adventure. I wish I could see all those images, animals, and horizon. I had a good time reading this odyssey. And for the record, as a canoeist/ kayaker I was impressed by the upriver challenge.

~Frank

Reading Notes #441

Cloud

• Auto-installing Applications on Azure VM with Chocolatey for Live Streaming (Justin Yoo) - A nice quick tutorial that lists all the pieces to build you're ready to use VM like a streaming machine.

• Creating an .NET AWS serverless application using API Gateway with API Key (Dror Helper) - A nice tutorial that explains how to get started.

• Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure (Code Maze) - A good article to get started. Starting from nothing and explaining the basic concepts.

Programming

• How to Add TypeScript to a JavaScript Project (Dor Sever) - Great post that shares a lot of information to get started with TypeScript, even how to sell it to your team.

• ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 5 Preview 8 (Daniel Roth) - Nice update packed with tons of features.

• Blazor WebAssembly Gets Lazy Loading -- Visual Studio Magazine (David Ramel) - Nice post that focuses on one of the features (lazy loading of the dependencies) of the last update.

Miscellaneous

• I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base (Troy Hunt) - Interesting news about this project. Going open source is a big move, and Troy explains why he did it.

Podcast

• How to Create a Social Media Plan Template with Andrea Jones (Influencer Entrepreneurs with Jenny Melrose) - They say planning is everything, so I was happy to listen to this episode and learn more it and see if it was different depending on the platform.

• Cycling Through Changes with Laura King (Wild Ideas Worth Living) - I'm a man and my "baby" is an adult now. Yet, I found that episode very interesting. Even though a lot of friends shared with me a few "challenges" that pregnancy brings... And didn't think about the training ones...

Book

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less 

Author: Greg McKeown 

- I really like this book. In a world where we all try to get more things done to be more productive, this book talks about doing less... to be more productive. Very interesting I thought. Talking about priorities, and how to help you to find our focus.

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Reading Notes #431

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are a curated list of all the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting.

It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

You think you may have interesting content, share it!

Cloud

• 5 Things to Know about Serverless in 2020 (Andrew Tunall) - Interesting post about Lambda services.

• Hosting Blazor Web Assembly App on Azure Static Web App (Justin Yoo) - Very interesting post with a lot of information and great code examples.

• Hosting Blazor WebAssembly in Azure Static Web Apps (Preview) (Tim Heuer) - Another great post that explores the possibilities of using Blazor web assembly with some C# Azure functions inside the new Azure Static Web App.

Programming

• Getting Value from appsettings.json in .NET Core (Jeetendra Gund ) - Nice little quick tutorial the read values in an MVC structured app.

• Building a notifications client with Xamarin and Azure (Laurent Bugnion) - A very nice post that describe how Laurent started to build his cross platforms tools. Sharing the gotchas and a few tips along this first post of the series.

Databases

• Which Database should I use in my Azure Serverless App? (Mark Heath) - Nice overview of the type of data storage in Azure.

Miscellaneous

• 7 principles for modern tech leaders (William Peachey) - Nice post about the evolution of roles in our field of expertise and what could/ should be a a leader roles.

• Do I need to code in my free time to be a good developer? (Maxim Chechenev) - Interesting point of view about a trend. I personally think the answer is not yes or no... But its depends or it required more details.

Reading Notes #419

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting.
It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed. Enjoy!

Suggestion of the week

• Approval Workflows With GitHub Actions (Aaron Powell) - Wow! That's a very clever and impressive way to have step flow in GitHub. All the details are in the post if you would like to create your own.

Cloud

• How to use Azure App Service managed certificates (Michael Crump) - It's that simple. A few clicks and you will; have https.

Programming

• Using GitHub Actions to deploy a .Net Web App (Gregor Suttie) - A nice tutorial to learn how to deploy a Hugo website.
• Blazor WebAssembly 3.2.0 Preview 3 release now available (Daniel Ruth) - OMG! Super excited about all those new features as they will all help me in a current project I'm working on...
• Creating an event-driven architecture out of existing, non-event-driven systems (Richard Seroter) - An interesting post that explains the different options to go event-driven.
• GitHub with Azure DevOps | Premier Developer (GitHub with Azure DevOps) - Very interesting post that explains al the benefits of using this mixt, and why an enterprise would be interested to do that.

Podcasts

• The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - A delicious episode and BTW I watch Lego master because of that.
• #31: Julie Lerman - Software Coach, Writer & Speaker (The Solo Coder Podcast) - I was really looking forward to listen to this interview. Julie is an extraordinary person and an amazing communicator.
• 193: UI Is Messy (Merge Conflict) - I, once more, had a nice moment listening to that discussion/ argumentation about different patterns pros and cons.

Miscellaneous

• Bond At A Distance With The Remote Team Cooking Challenge (Alexia) - We are so creative when we want. Super.

Reading Notes #418

Every Monday, I share my "reading notes". Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting.
It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed. Enjoy!

Cloud

• How to live-stream meetups on Twitch without any special equipment (Alex Casalboni) - Really cool experimentation and ideas using AWS cloud.

• Run Azure PowerShell in a Docker Container (Thomas Maurer) - Really useful tips to use different versions of PowerShell without having to install them.

Programming

• How to migrate an ASP.NET MVC app from .NET Core 2.2 to .NET Core 3.1 (Claudio Bernasconi) - This is a good step by step tutorial for a migration.

• EF Core 5.0: Using ToQueryString() method to translate LINQ query to SQL (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice little and cool feature coming up in the next version.

• How to create better code using Domain-Driven Design - Software House Altkom Software & Consulting (null) - A really interesting and complete article that explains it all.

• Introducing the New Pull Request Experience for Azure Repos | Azure DevOps Blog (Apeksha Awasthi) - Wonderful PR used to be a GitHub only feature... Really happy to see that it is now also present on Azure DevOps Repos.

• WSL2 will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004 | Windows Command Line (Craig Loewen) - WSL2 is the next best thing I install on my PC since Win10 and used with the new Docker for Windows... It's fantastic

Shameless plug

• How to know how much your application is consuming on Azure (Frank Boucher) - Great post and video in both French and English that explains how to plan, visualize and monitor the cost of your applications in the cloud. And there is also a great MS Learn Azure Cost Management module.

Podcasts

• Des fonctions courtes, qui font une chose (Les Semi-Colons) - First time for me listening to this podcast, third time for them. A very interesting podcast in "Canadian French". They are passing through the book Clean Code of Robert C. Martin. This episode was about chapter 3.

• vygl - Le balado Ep.17 (vygl) - Great podcast in French. It was my first try and I really liked it. We can ear the experience of the speaker in their voice but also by the quality of this audio.

• Episode 14: What developers should know about security with Troy Hunt (Software Engineering Unlocked) - Okay, I know I've been a big fan of Troy for years, but this podcast is an incredibly interesting interview.

Miscellaneous

• An Update on the MSDN and TechNet Migration to docs.microsoft.com (Jeff Sandquist) - It was looking mostly like an impossible mission, but with a lot of work, it is really incredible the things that can be achieved. This post shares the status of the migration of each section.

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Reading Notes #412

Every Monday, I share my reading notes. Those are the articles, blog posts, podcast episodes, and books that catch my interest during the week and that I found interesting. It's a mix of the actuality and what I consumed.

Cloud

• Creating Azure Functions with Function Monkey–First Look (Jason Roberts) - A nice quick tutorial that explains how to create a function with Monkey.

• Creating subdomains to Azure DNS from ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman) - A pretty cool tutorial that shows how to do the DNS config by code.

• How serverless beats servers - A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller) - Very nice post that demonstrates how a serverless pair with static websites are great.

• How to Restrict Network Access to Azure Key Vault Using Firewalls & vNets (Mike Racine) - Excellent post and video.Very clear and it helps to understand how Keyvault is good for us.

Programming

• Hosting your own NuGet Server and Feed for build artifacts with BaGet (Scott Hanselman) - Woooo. I didn't know so many options were available. Once more great post that opens to so many scenarios.

• Visual Studio Code January 2020 (VSCode Team) - How this team manages to pack so many goodies in every new version is a mystery. Wonderful.

Podcasts

• Influencer Marketing EXPLAINED (by an influencer) (That Creative Life) - What a great episode! She can't barely contain herself... that's how Sara is passionate and honest! I love the show, great episode!

• Colin O'Brady - First to Ever Cross Antarctica COMPLETELY Unassisted (That Creative Life) - I have been waiting for someone to write a book like that forever! Thank you to let me discover Colin O'Brady. I already order the book... looking forward to reading it. Life IS the ultimate adventure, a mandatory listening for all of us!

• #25: Shayne Boyer - Social Coder (The Solo Coder Podcast) - Once again a very nice episode. It was wonderful to discover my colleague to this interview. Well done.

• Making Gatsby easy to understand with Laurie Barth (Software Engineering Unlocked) - That how you do an interview! Great conversation, Lauria is fantastic. I didn't know her but now I'm following, and waiting for the next "question".

Miscellaneous

• The Benefits of a Developer Community: Motivation (schwammy) - It has never been much easier to be part of a community. However, the first step still requires us to say hi! Don't Stay alone.

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Reading Notes #397

Suggestion of the week

• Visual Studio for Nintendo Switch? - FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is an amazing coding app (Scott Hanselman) - Whaaat?! If someone in your entourage or a citizen of your life ( like Scott says) owns a Nintendo switch...you MUST read this post.

Cloud

• SSL certificates management using Lets Encrypt, Azure Automation and Web Apps (Dominique St-Amand ) - Security, of course. Automatically ... I'm in! This post explains how to automate your renewing process.
• Serverless Deployment Best Practices (Fernando Medina Corey) - A nice post that shows some of the best practices for serverless and how AWS implements them.

Programming

• How partners like GitKraken use GitHub Actions (Marc Campbell) - So cool to see what people are doing with the GitHub Actions.
• How to make ASP.NET Core compile modified views (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice update of Asp.net core... Following the best practices
• How to make a pretty prompt in Windows Terminal with Powerline, Nerd Fonts, Cascadia Code, WSL, and oh-my-posh (Scott Hanselman) - It's great to have a step by step on how to install it. Even if the documentation is well done on Github, it could be confusing to set everything up altogether.
• Why jQuery is Obsolete and Time to Stop Using It (Chris Love) - Great post. I was a big user of jQuery, and these days I do less front end stuff, so it is nice to see how things have evolved and to understand the impact jQuery had.
• Getting Started with Git (Sarah Lean) - Great post that explains the basic functionalities of Git.

Miscellaneous

• Video Interview: Between Two Nerds ( Steve Carroll & Scott Hanselman) - Really cool and interesting video interview.

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Reading Notes #388

Suggestion of the week

• Experiment with New Languages and Frameworks with VS Code Remote Development in Containers (Anthony Chu) - Wooooh.This looks way easier than I though. I do not install any preview anymore!

Cloud

• What happens to sleeping instances when you update long-running AWS Lambdas, Azure Functions, and Azure Logic Apps? (Richard Seroter) - Fantastic post, where Richard find-out how are react our serverless components to changes while running (hot-swap)

Programming

• Configuring a Server-side Blazor app with Azure App Configuration (Brady Gaster) - This is a nice tutorial that explains how to use the preview version of .Net Core and blazor to add authentication.
• 21 VSCode Shortcuts to Make Coding Faster and More Fun (Christopher Tran) - I love shortcuts... This post provides a nice list of then with a quit use case.
• ASP.NET Core and Blazor updates in .NET Core 3.0 Preview 6 (Daniel Roth) - Nice thatt explains the chnges in this new version and also how to migrate.
• Authentication in server-side Blazor applications (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice overview of the authentication feature now available in .Net Core version 3
• How to create your own custom URL shortener in 10 minutes for free & deploy to GitHub 5535756960 (Liyas Thomas) - This is a cool project. I like the idea that it can even live in GitHub.
• Take your Linux development experience in Windows to the next level with WSL and Visual Studio Code Remote | Windows Command Line Tools For Developers (Craig Loewen) - Nice tricks to get the best of two systems altogether.
• What is Blazor and why is it important for .Net developers and the web (Maourice Gonzalez) - If you think blazor is a jacket, here where to start to learn more about this awesome about one of the latest Microsoft project.

Podcast

• Coding after work - Episode 43 - Blazor with Ed Charbeneau (Jimmy and Jessica) - Nice episode, where Ed talks about what's cool in Blazor and how Telerik started working on components for it
• Hanselminutes - Creating video games with C# and Mono with Tom Spilman (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting conversation around games and C#. I thought most big games were done in C++... Nice discovery.
• Coacing for Leaders - Find Your Leadership Voice, with Johanna Nalau (Dave Stachowiak) - Nice episode explaining how a group can help you to grow and become a better "you", and that blogging is still a great way to structure/ but together our thoughts.

Miscellaneous

• How To Develop Apps Like PUBG (Apoorv Gehlot) - An interesting article that gives us an idea of how a game like pugs got that success, and who they manage that rapid growth.

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Reading Notes #381

Suggestion of the week

• Running a Minecraft Server in Azure Container Instances (Mark Heath) - A cool real-life story where Azure Container Instance ACI is very useful.

Cloud

• Automating Azure Container Instances with PowerShell Azure Functions (Mark Heath) - Cool schedule Azure functions demo with PowerShell.
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  Deploy a scalable API and Backend with Serverless, Express, and Node.js (Bryan Killian) - A nice tutorial that explains how to build efficient APIs using lambda.

Programming

• Docker - from the beginning, Part IV (Chris Noring) - Part 4 of 5 this series is still a great read. This one shows the transition to docker compose.
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  Postman 7.1: Manage your APIs within Postman (Nikita) - So many great features are present in the new version. This post is the perfect quick overview.

Miscellaneous

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  Presentation Tips for Technical Talks (Tanya Janca) - This post is filled with great and simple tips that will for sure improve the experience of your attendees and ours.
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  Using The Microsoft Face API to Create Mario Kart “Astrology” (Chloe Condon) - Funny project that leverages the Azure cognitive services and python. How cool is that!

Books

Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong 

Author: Eric Barker

Nice book. There is always a good story to make a correlation with his current point. Then it could go in a different direction with another story. All the stories are complementary and are adding layer by layer to the more complex message that is delivered to us. Easy to read, enjoyable from the beginning until the last word.

Reading Notes #377

Cloud

• Where do you keep credentials for your Lambda functions? (Davide de Paolis) - Nice post that shows the proper way to store our credentials when deploying lamdas.

Programming

• A crash course to the most important Docker concepts and their commands (Chris Noring) - Oooh. That's the first post of what looks like a very promising series on docker. More to come.
  
• Can’t Attend DockerCon 2019? Here are your Top 5 “To Dos” (Suzanne Panoplos) - Or if you are like me... Watch It after... It's waaay better than nothing!
  
• Did I leave the garage door open? A no-code project with Azure IoT Central and the MXChip DevKit (Scott Hanselman) - Wonderful post that proves that we can do simple IoT projects at home that are useful.
  
• It’s a Wrap - Highlights from the DockerCon 2019 Keynote Sessions - Docker Blog (Jenny Fong) - Great way to grab the essentiall and Dig for more from there.
  
• Undo changes in Git - Cheat sheet for git checkout, stash, reset, clean, revert, rebase -i, amend (Michael) - Awesome post that explains how to fix some mistake while using Git. Because like the author says: Git is one of those things you learn progressively.
  
• When npm tells you you're hosed (John Papa) - Nice little tricks here to save us some keystrokes.
  

Miscellaneous

• Create your own course on GitHub Learning Lab (Hector Alfaro) - Wow! That's something that looks interesting... And I have a few ideas.

Books

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones (James Clear) - An excellent book that is very pleasant to read. I really appreciated the way things are broken in tiny pieces. I don't think this book re-invented the molecular physic, but by cutting, dissecting our habits that way it's hard to think that you can fail. It's easier to get started right now; even starting new habits before finishing the book!






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Reading Notes #375

Cloud

• 5 Developer Tools you need to check out! (Tomek Poniatowicz) - Really cool (and useful, obviously) tools to work with AWS.
• The Most Minimal Serverless Function (Ryan Levick) - A nice introduction post to Azure function.
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Programming

• Dependencies and Git branches (Felix Rieseberg) - Git never stops to amaze me. This short post explains a nice trick.
• How developers can release custom newsletters for $0.00 (Geoff Stevens) - This post explains a great solution that requires only node.js and a free account ... Pretty slick.
• Particle Workbench: supercharge your IoT development with professional tools (David Scheltema) - Nice! I didn't know some extensions were available for IoT in VSCode.
• Top 15 Visual Studio Code Extensions in 2019 (Gift Egwuenu) - Nice list of extension that targets primarily JavaScript developers but there's definitely a few gems for all of us.

Podcast

• Anthos Migrate, with Issy Ben-Shaul (Kubernetes Podcast from Google) - Nice update. I like the talk about Anthos it look like a great migration tool. I need to find that GitHub repo...

Reading Notes #374

Cloud

• Publishing Static Content to Azure Blob Storage (Jason N. Gaylord) - Yet another great tutorial to copy files from inside an Azure Pipeline.
• The Wide World of Microsoft Windows on AWS | Amazon Web Services (Jeff Barr) - Great list of Windows services running on AWS with some context, very instructive.

Programming

• Accessibility Insights for the Web and Windows makes accessibility even easier (Scott Hanselman) - Nice tools. Definitely, something I will look into.
• New features for extension authors in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 | The Visual Studio Blog (Mads Kristensen) - That's a lot of 'little' thing that would make a big difference. Well done.
• Progressive Web Apps & Electron (Felix Rieseberg) - Excellent post that does a thorough comparison between pwa and electron app.
• Tests code coverage in Visual Studio Code with C# and .Net Core (Alberto Bar-Noy) - Awesome post that introduces a code coverage tool for .Net Core.

Podcast

• Hevesh5 - Making a YouTube Career from Viral Domino Art (#46) (That Creative Life) - Great show. An amazing story.
• Azure Functions using Node with Simona Cotin (.NET Rocks!) - Great show. I just switch my website following that Jam stack pattern. I was planning to use Azure Functions to add a few little twists.... I'm happy to see that I not alone thinking like that!
• 0230 - Alain Vezina - Le métier du DevOps (Visual Studio Talk Show) - Super épisode, très intéressant d'entendre parler du rôle de DevOps de quelqu'un qui le vie au quotidien. Merci de la suggestion, je crois, bien que je suis du pour relire The Pheonix Project.
• Goal Setting Tips & Tracking KPIs (Video Pursuit Podcast) - Really interesting episode. Everybody is talking about matrix and KPI... But it's not frequent to hear about the "how". I really like how the goals are explained, achievable, but not easy... And how we should react when we don't reach them.
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Miscellaneous

• Show the Time to Read Your Markdown in VS Code (John Papa) - Cool new little extension for writers.
• Surface Pro – Don’t forget to update the Dock (buildbod) - Great advice, that will save you a lot of time.

~ Good week!

Reading Notes #373

Cloud

• Reduced Pricing for Azure Container Instances (Mark Heath) - Nice post that compares VMs pricing with the new reduced prices of container instance.
• Announcing Amazon Transcribe streaming transcription support in the AWS SDK for Ruby | Amazon Web Services (Jingyi Chen) - Nice new SDK for Ruby... Its been a while since I code with this language but somehow I think I would like to try it.
• Avoiding Azure Functions Cold Starts (Mark Heath) - Does cold starts are affecting your solutions? Maybe not, but if they are this post lists three scenarios to reduce them as must as possible.
• Web and Azure Tool Updates in Visual Studio 2019 (Angelos Petropoulos) - Great new functionalities from Visual Studio IDE

Programming

• A Beginner's Guide to Test Automation (Angela Riggs) - Very nice and interesting post about unit tests.
• Debugging an ASP.NET Core Docker Container in Windows AND Linux (Jason Robert) - Learn why the Visual Studio family IS an great tool on any platforms to work with containers.
• Debugging your .NET Core in Docker applications with VS Code | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell) - Great tutorial, who don't need to debug...
• Exploring the .NET Core MCR Docker files (updated): runtime vs aspnet vs sdk (Andrew Lock) - This post is packed with update and advice for our Docker projects in Azure.

Books

Building a StoryBrand, Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen 

Donald Miller

A really interesting book that helps to focus and keep in mind the most important. I didn't read it with a purpose of business really, but it did make me remember past experiences and it was easy to make the relationship between success and when the story was clear. Take the time to read it, do the exercises/ reflections required... it's worth it.

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Reading Notes #357

Suggestion of the week

• Use Azure Cognitive Services to recognize karting images with Custom Vision service (Vivien Chevallier) - Really cool post that explains how to build an API and trained it.

Cloud

• ARM - Etendre vos templates grâce à Azure Function (Wilfried Woivré) - A very clever way to leverage some services resources it ARM.

Programming

• How to set up ASP.NET Core 2.2 Health Checks with BeatPulse's AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks (Scott Hanselman) - This is a nice quick tutorial perfect to get started.
• Finding your next .NET Open Source project using the command line (Shayne Boyer) - Really cool tool/ project to get started.
• Ghost : A Father-Daughter Project, Part 1 (David Pallmann) - This is both a nice tutorial to build a simple game and a great project to do with new developers.
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview .NET Productivity (Kendra Havens) - This is a nice overview of what Was announced at Connect.

Miscellaneous

• A crash course on Serverless with AWS — Running Node.js 11 on Lambda (Adnan Rahić) - Great tutorial that will take you from zero to definitely knowing enough to be dangerous.

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Reading Notes #343

Cloud

• AWS CDK Developer Preview | Amazon Web Services (Chris Fife) - This looks very interesting. Definitely, something I would try.
• Azure Log Analytics: How to pin charts that result from queries with no results (Iris Classon) - This is an awesome video that shows us in only a few minutes how to add (and fix) a graph to our Azure dashboard.

Programming

• VSTS and Git Integration for Deploying to Azure – Part 1 (Gregor Suttie) - This post is the perfect one to get started with VSTS, note that it is also the first post on a series.
• Git Commands to Keep a Fork Up to Date (Phil Nash) - Git can be overwhelming at the beginning, this is why this post is a great one to confirm what you may already know and learn a bit more.
• Improvements on ASP.NET Core deployments on Zeit's now.sh and making small container images (Scott Hanselman) - Zeit is definitely something thing I should try.
• Improving the Windows Console (Graham High) - Ooh, I'm really looking forward to this new console...do you?
• Windows Dockerfile 26: Managing and Upgrading Apps with Docker Compose | Elton Stoneman (Elton Stoneman) - This is a very complete and interesting post. It covers a lot about Docker compose.
• Zeit Serverless Docker, node.js backend and variables NOT ALLOWED (Mattias Petter Johansson) - I really enjoy that series where he tries to code something with a bunch of constraints. It's fun and useful.

Reading Notes #339

Cloud

• Azure DevOps: Show Me the JSON! - Simple Talk (Brian Flynn) - A very nice introduction to Azure resources manager, its structure and also JSON file.
• Azure management groups now in general availability (Rich Thorn) - Already GA that a fantastic news! Now let's talk governance!
• New recommendations in Azure Advisor (Kaitlyn Corazao) - This post provides a few more reasons to start looking at the advisor (but I'm sure you all already doing it.)

Programming

• Automatically remove unused css from Bootstrap or other frameworks  (Luke Lowrey ) - Whaaat? This node package is awesome how could we did it before?!
• Avoid Lazy Loading in ASP.NET (Shawn Wildermuth) - Nice little dipping into the Entity framework for Asp.Net Core.
• Developing locally with ASP.NET Core under HTTPS, SSL, and Self-Signed Certs (Scott Hanselman) - This post shows how simple it is to work in a dev environment that reflects a prod one, even at the security level.
• How to setup ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux in under 10 minutes (Daniel Crabtree) - Nice tutorial that goes further tthan simply the creation of the hello word application by showing some debugging configuration, and executing alternatives.
• One click deploy for MakeCode and the amazing AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express (Scott Hanselman) - The circuit Express of Adafruits was already so easy to get started... Now with this little tweak... Wow!

Data

• Data Virtualization Is Absolutely Critical. Here’s Why… - This is an interesting post that introduces the data virtualization concept.
• Importing Data from AWS DynamoDB into SQL Server 2017 (Derek Colley) - A very nice tutorial that explains the migration step by step.

Miscellaneous

• Connecting Azure AD and Azure AD B2C to IdentityServer4 (Dominique St-Amand) - Nice post that shares some gotchas and workarounds.
• Why No HTTPS? Questions Answered, New Data, Path Forward (Troy Hunt) - Incredible source of information.

~Enjoy!