Reading Notes #340

Cloud

• Run Azure Functions in a Docker Container (Mark Heath) - This is a great and simple tutorial, perfect to do a quick test.
• Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service | Blog | Microsoft Azure (Andrew Westgarth) - Free for all August, it's time to try stuff...
• Improving the Security of Azure App Service Websites > Mitchel Sellers (Mitchel Sellers) - Nice post that lists low hanging fruits to make our App Services more secure.
• Improving the development experience worldwide with Event Grid (Bahram Banisadr) - List of all the novelties on event grid.
• Learn how to orchestrate serverless functions by scraping APIs in 8 minutes (Maxime Rouiller) - A nice article that shows with a real use case how Azure Durable Function could be used.
• Why does my Azure Function sometimes stop being triggered (Benjamin Perkins) - Great tip, I wish I knew that before.

Programming

• How To Do Microservices Integration Testing in the Cloud (Alex Handy) - Interesting article that describes the current situation of test environment or what it should look like.
• Top Docker Monitoring Tools (Emna Trabelsi) - So many different tools, this is fantastic!
• dotnet new templates for serverless functions (Shayne Boyer) - This post explains how to add new templates for our .Net Core and shows how to build Azure function.

Integration

• Our Integration Product Roadmap (Jon Fancey) - VNext, the next version of BizTalk, is making its way.

Miscellaneous

• 11 essential characteristics for being a good technical advocate or interviewer (Scott Hanselman) - Read, think, improve, repeat. An excellent list to read and get better.

Reading Notes #308

Suggestion of the week

• Serverless^2 - Azure Logic Apps and Azure Container Instances (Michal Smereczynski) - Great news! So much simpler than installing Azure PowerShell into the Function App... I'm starting to use it right away!

Cloud

• Continuous Deployment of Azure Functions with Slots (Thomas Ardal) - Nice tutorial that explains how to deploy Azure functions and why doing it that way.
• Azure Application Architecture Guide (Mike Wasson) - A free book (pdf only) with all the best of the AzureCAT team? You really don't want to miss that opportunity.
• Azure Cloud Shell (Scott Hanselman) - Ooooooh, I love it!
• Running the Azure Functions runtime in containers on Kubernetes and more (Shayne Boyer) - Very cool update that opens many possibilities.
• Serverless^2 - Azure Logic Apps and Azure Container Instances (Michal Smereczynski) - Great news! So much simpler than installing Azure PowerShell into the Function App... I'm starting to use it right away!
• Understanding Azure Event Grid ( Jason Roberts) - Nice little post that introduces event grid, differentiate it from the service bus, and quickly go over the pricing.
• Cloud en 5 minutes (Frank Boucher) - If French is your primary language, I just start a Youtube channel where every Wednesday I will publish a new video. // Si le français est votre langue première, je viens de lancer une chaine Youtube où à chaque mercredi je publirai un nouveau vidéo.

Programming

• Introducing metaparticle.io - making Kubernetes and Docker idiomatic for developers (Shayne Boyer) - Wow.pretty cool idea, I like it. It looks so simple.

Miscellaneous

• How to download embedded videos with F12 Tools in your browser (Scott Hanselman) - Very useful hack to build your airplain mode video Playlist.

Reading Notes #302

Cloud

• Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT? (Chris Pietschmann) - This great post explains both services and then their differences. Both can do most of the time, but when it becomes serious, which one is the best for your scenario?
• Azure Virtual Machines Anatomy (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - This post is an excellent biopsy of a virtual machine, it explains every part one by one.
• Experiment with Azure for FREE! (Anthony D. Green) - It's time to get started; it's free, and it's the real deal.
• List all App Service web apps outbound IP addresses used in a subscription (Stéphane Lapointe) - Nice little gem.
• User accounts made easy with Azure (Andrew B Hall) - Excellent post showings how easy it is to integrate user management in our app. I wish I had that when I started my last portal...

Programming

• You Have No Excuse for Dead Code (Erik Dietrich) - This post explains why more is not always better.

Data

• Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) October Updates (Jenny Jiang) - What I like about VSCode is that it is so customizable, it can still be very light and do a fantastic job for people with highly different goals.

Miscellaneous

• Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays (Scott Hanselman) - Wow! How cool is that!
• Why You Shouldn't Worry About Imposter Syndrome (Jordan Scheltgen) - This post is a great piece of wisdom.

Reading Notes #298

Cloud

• Yo Team, meet Azure Container Instances (Donovan Brown) - Yep now Yo Team support ACL. This post also shares how quickly get your container IP address.
• #LogicApps – Introduction and main differences with Microsoft Flow #MSFlow | El Bruno on WordPress.com (El Bruno) - Great post that gives a very clear view of the differences... Now I have a post to refer to when people are asking me that.
• .NET Rocks! Azure Event Grid with Dan Rosanova (Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell) - I really liked that episode with Dan. It was nice listening to him talking an making reference to Biztalk and Logic App.
• Azure Functions and Lazy Initialization with Couchbase Server (Matthew Groves) - Nice hack, that could potentially save a lot of initialization if the function is called often.
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 20 - Working with Files in Azure App Service (Michael Crump) - I'm always impressed by how many people don't know Kudu. Well, if it's your case, this post is for you... at least to get started.
• How to import a Postman collection into your Azure API Management – SANDRO PEREIRA BIZTALK BLOG (Sandro Pereira) - Pretty useful tips that import process.

Programming

• OpenAPI is not what I thought (Darrel Miller ) - I hear you my friend, loud and clear. Let's use OpenAPI the way it should be. Very interesting post for an inside man sharing his thoughts about the purpose of the tool.
• Serverless and Auth0 Webtasks, hop on the bullet train (Glenn Block) - Cool tool in the Node.js world.
• What is a Default Parameter in a JavaScript function? | Dhananjay Kumar on WordPress.com (Dhananjay Kumar) - Aaaah Javascript so powerful but at the same time so demanding.
• What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring Avalonia (Scott Hanselman) - I didn't know where WPF came from, and it's interesting to see the open-source project inspired other projects and to see that they continue to evolve.

Miscellaneous

• #222: Patrick Lencioni—Getting Hiring Right (EntreLeadership Team) - It was my first episode of this podcast, but definitely not the last one. Very interesting speakers... nice books referenced... loved it.
• Why Your Boss Makes You Punch a Time Clock (Suzanne Lucas Suzanne Lucas is a freelance writer who spent 10 years in corporate human resources, where she hired, fired, managed the numbers, and double-checked with t) - Most of us have to do timesheets... I'm sure that at one point, you asked yourself the reason about it. It's time read an answer, in this post.

Reading Notes #294

Suggestion of the week

• 15 Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core (Matt Watson) - What a great post! You must put it in your to-read list before starting your next .Net Core session.

Cloud

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 1 - Use Keyboard Shortcuts in the Azure Portal (Michael Crump) - This post is the first of a series that will show tons of little gems hidden in the Azure portal.
• What is Azure Event Grid? (Chris Pietschmann) - Great post that introduces the new kid on the block (in the cloud).
• Microsoft builds Raspberry Pi Simulator - All cool is that!

Programming

• Visual Studio Code on Raspbian - Pretty cool that VSCode is now available on RaspberryPi!

Miscellaneous

• A New Real-Time AI Platform from Microsoft, and a Speech Recognition Milestone (Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team) - This post is a good summary of the recent news from Microsoft in AI.
• Dressing Better Than... Your Boss? (John Sonmez) - Interesting thoughts about the dress code in enterprises.
• The Best Books All Software Developers Should Read (John Sonmez) - Definitely worth it. Y next book to read is probably in this best-of list
• Write It Down! (Victor Savkin) - Interesting suggestion to get better.