Reading Notes #314

Suggestion of the week

• The Modern Dev Team (Rob Conery) - What a great post. Maybe it's only me getting old ;) but I think we all have these thoughts one day or the other.

Cloud

• A great developer experience for Ansible (Corey Sanders) - This post announces the integration of Austin in the cloud shell and visual studio. It somewhere we can learn more about it. I didn't know about it, but I really want t use in my next DevOps tasks.
• Announcing IoT extension for Azure CLI 2.0 (Chrissie Chi) - This post gives you everything you need to know: what it does, how to install it, and even some sample!
• Announcing integration of Azure Backup into VM create experience (Trinadh Kotturu) - Fantastic news, better be prepared then sorry.
• Azure Cosmos DB + Functions Cookbook— static client (Matías Quaranta) - Nice first post of a promising series that shares recipes, gotchas, and examples about two very powerful tools.
• Azure Functions Proxies (Eric Williams) - Azure Functions are a very useful thing to have in your toolbox. With the addition of Proxies, it becomes a must read a few ways to use them in this post.
• Jenkins on Azure: from zero to hero (Pui Chee Chan) - Jenkins is an extremely popular build server. This post list all the features pre-package for you when you deploy it in Azure in a few click.Pretty awesome.
• Migrate your classic storage account to Azure Resource Manager using PowerShell Azure v5.0.x (Stephane Lapointe) - Nice tutorial that shows how to move all (except vhd) your storage in the new format.

Programming

• How I use VSCode, VSTS and GitHub to develop Azure ARM Templates (Eric Leonard) - From A to Z, this post explains all steps in an application life circle; using only three simple tools.
• Dockerizing .NET Apps with Microsoft's Build Images on Docker Hub (Elton Stoneman) - This post explains how to package your .Net app, so the only dependency is... well Docker.
• Scalable and Performant ASP.NET Core Web APIs: Load Testing (Carl Rippon) - A great post that introduces multiple tools to load-test our API with ease BEFORE going to production. A must to all developers.

Databases

• My Favorite SQL Prompt Features (MarlonRibunal) - If you never try SqlPrompt and you write SQL in your day to day, stop read this, and go downloading it, or at least read this post that gives you a glimpse of it's feature.

Miscellaneous

• 5 Essential Trello Boards Every Remote Team Needs (Leah Ryder ) - This is a nice little post packed with good advice for remote workers.
• My Blog Now Has a Content Security Policy - Here's How I've Done It (Troy Hunt) - Interesting post again from Troy, who once more makes us think.

Reading Notes #81

 
Suggestion of the week

• Make your own gem - Very useful post that explain very clearly, with code sample, what need to be done in order to create a Gem (...in Ruby).

Cloud

• Cloud Latency Issues? Dedicated Network Connections Will Help (Jelle Frank van der Zwet and David Strom) - Good post to understand why some latency is to be expected in the cloud and what to do to keep it at the minimum.
• SQL Reporting Services Pricing Update (Steven Martin) - Woohoo 82% less, that’s something!
• Powershell script to detect the Windows Azure SDK in Azure Cloud Service VM and fix the Powershell execution issue (Avkash Chauhan) - A script to keep for sure.
• A Helping Hand Through the Building An App Maze (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Learn more about this great opportunity for developpers to get help and finally start the new pet project there thinking about...
• Windows Azure and VM Depot – Better Together (Craig Kitterman) - Aaah that great. Nice new little add-on to the windows Azure portal.
• IAAS Preview – Unable to delete VHD, “There is currently a lease on the blob…” - Simple steps, but SOOO useful...
• [Sample Of Feb 6th] Azure WebRole for frontend + backend work (Philip Fu) - Very good idea. It's always nice to have those code sample to see how other did things. Or just to speed-up some POC we are doing. A site to subscribe, or bookmark.
• Three New AWS Reference Architectures for E-Commerce - Quick access to 3 good architectures using different AWS components.
• What's Coming in the Command Line Tools for Windows Azure with Glenn Block – Great great show… Looking forward to have more cmdlets!

Integration

• Service Bus Notification Hubs-Part 4 The Solution (Kent Weare) - Last post of a great series that conclude how you could enhances BizTalk BAM Alert with a toast notification using Azure service bus notification hubs. If you missed this series here the other posts:
• Service Bus Notification Hubs – Part 1
• Service Bus Notification Hubs–Part 2 Improving Customer Engagement
• Service Bus Notification Hubs–Part 3 My Solution Overview

Database

• Why you should be Using SQL Prompt! - I agree with the author of this post give it a try, you will wonder how you got along without it.

Programming

• Testing Browser Compatibility Made Easy (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Great post that introduces a nice wizard and some even nicer offer. Something definitely to try.
• Turn Your Future into a Hobby (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Great post. Read it and jump on some ideas of yours... start coding!
• Simultaneous Editing for Visual Studio with the free MultiEdit extension (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post that introduces a useful add-on to Visual Studio.
• Publishing your gem - Perfect post to get started about publishing in Ruby. This post gives different options that are easily available.
• Productivity Add-Ins: Bruce Lee vs Batman (Erik Dietrich) - Interesting thought about productivity tools and black-belt coder.
• Automating ClickOnce Deployment (Joe Wrobel) - Great tutorial (and rare) that gives all the details you need to build outside VS.

Miscellaneous

• 10 Apps for Creativity - Nice tools... more to come.
• A Helping Hand Through the Building An App Maze (Jonathan Rozenblit) - Learn more about this great opportunity for developers to get help and finally start the new pet project there thinking about...
• Are you having fun? (futureperfectenglish.blogspot.ca) - Motivating post that gives some ideas to set motivated when learning a new language.
• 4 Ways to Train Your Brain for Positivity (Jessica Stillman) - Nice post that suggests simple exercises to improve our brain and gives more references for a dipper knowledge.

~Frank