Reading Notes #235

Suggestion of the week

• Is technology killing curiosity? (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting reflections. A post to read.

Cloud

• Diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting (Ritesh Garodia) - Nice post that helps us to know the troubleshooting tools available in Azure portal.
  
• Deploy a Geo-HA Service Fabric Cluster on Azure (Alexandre Brisebois) - Fantastic post. It may require a second read to catch all the information contained, but it is worth it.
  
• How to Load Balance Virtual Machines in Azure (Marc Gagne) - Nice tutorial t explains step by step how to create, and configure an environment with a load balancer.
  
• Azure Export Template – Your new best friend (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - True, this relatively new feature is a real benediction.
  
• Turning on Windows features using Powershell DSC extension and Azure CLI (Kirpa Singh) - This post explains a clever method to active Windows features on multiple VMs.

A practical overview of Service Fabric

(Ce billet en aussi disponible en français: Un aperçu pratique de Microsoft Azure Service Fabric)


During the last Global Azure Bootcamp (April 16), the Montreal edition focused on Azure Service Fabric. The schedule for that day was packed with dynamic presentation and hand-on labs. Either because you were unable to be present or just because you want to learn more, it is not too late. The MsDevMtl team is happy to share with you all our documents we used.

Before you start

• To be able to do the Hand on Labs you will need:
• A PC with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10
• VisualStudio 2015 Update 1 or 2
• Service Fabric SDK v2.0.135 (or more recent)
• A Microsoft Azure subscription. If you don't already have one, here a free trial to get you started aka.ms/azuretrialmtl

The One-day Schedule

As you see the complete edition of the Azure Fabric Learning Path contains much more details and labs. Since we had only one day we decided to cherry picked what we thought was the best to get started, but feel free do more.

• Intro to services and Service Fabric Overview
• Labs 1 & 2
• Application Packaging & deployment
• Diner
• Labs 3 & 4
• MS at scale & High Availability
• Lab 5
• Diagnostics & Health policies
• Lab 6
• Who is using SF, AoA, Testing
• Lab 7 & 8
• Upgrades
• Lab 9
• Conclusion

Where to find everything you need

• Main presentation deck
• Microsoft Azure Fabric Learning Path
• Meetup Details, Q&A

Questions?

All the presentations were done by Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois), Stepahne Laporte (@s_lapointe), myself (@fboucheros), and under the supervision of our fantastic bandmaster Guy Barette (@GuyBarrette). Feel free to ask us questions if you get blocked during your journey.




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Reading Notes #203

 

 

Suggestion of the week

• Adding Insights and Telemetry to Logic Apps through Power BI (Jeff Hollan) - Fantastic post that explains how to integrate Logic Apps and Power BI. And for the lazy one that doesn't want to read, check the first haft of this video.

Cloud

• September update: Azure Preview Portal improvements (Leon Welicki) - The portal is changing again, and you can see how Microsoft is really listening to his users.
  
• Azure Service Fabric 101 - This video explains in only ten minutes, what is service fabric and why we should care.
  
• Azure Service Fabric 102 (Scott Hanselman) - You know our bases or you watch the 101; this post goes the code and explains how it can work.

Programming

• Battle of the Free Code Editors (Brian Rinaldi) - Nice post that compares three free, popular, and powerful code editor.

Databastes

• Easily Transform JSON Data When Importing to Azure DocumentDB (Stephen Baron) - Great post that explains powerful ways to import our data in DocumentDB.

Miscellaneous

• Going Back to One (Alexandre Brisebois) - Organize our work to become a performer, could be easily done in Windows. 10.

~Frank