Reading Notes #447

Cloud

• Azure CLI Oct 2020 release (Lomis Chen) - Nice new features in our favorite CLI

• Using Azure Identity with Azure SQL, Graph, and Entity Framework | Azure SDK Blog (Mickaël Derriey) - A great tutorial that explains a lot. All those little details in the development phase of production that will make our lives more simple or safe

Programming

• Don't ever break a URL if you can help it (Scott Hanselman) - Wonderful post that explains and shows how to provide a great experience to our readers even if we modernize our website.

Miscellaneous

• Windows Terminal Tips and Tricks | Windows Command Line (Kayla Cinnamon) - Great post that does a quick tour of the key features for Windows Terminal.

• 7 Ways to Boost Your Self-Confidence and Become a More Empathetic Leader (Maria Ross) - Nice little tips, even just to be more comfortable in your own skin.

• Upgrading the Storage Pool, Drives, and File System in a Synology to Btrfs (Scott Hanselman) - I've been joggling with this idea to have a local NAS since I also have a lot of video files... Thanks for sharing.

• What’s new in the Windows 10 October 2020 Update (Aaron Woodman) - Nice list of improvements and new features.

Books

Talk Triggers: The Complete Guide to Creating Customers with Word of Mouth 

Author: Jay Baer

A good book filled with good stories. I personally like it when they deconstruct like this winner journey or factor that makes those ideas, plans, actions different. The idea of a talk trigger is good and it was nice that the creation, lifetime, and death of a talk trigger was also cover in the book.

~Frank

Reading Notes #263

Cloud

• Announcing: New Auto-Scaling Standard Streaming Endpoint and Enhanced Azure CDN Integration (Cenk Dingiloglu) - Great, now integrated.
  
• Azure Storage Queues New Feature: Pop-Receipt on Add Message (Sercan Guler) - This post shows how to use the new queue feature in a great demo.
  
• SoftNAS Cloud® on Azure - Cloud NAS Storage made easy (Lutful Khandker) - Interesting product that clearly fill-up a need in the online storage. Let's talk about it after the 30-day trial.

Programming

• Two-Factor authentication in ASP.NET Identity 3 using TOTP authenticator (Dominique St-Armand) - Excellent post, perfect to get started on 2 factor authentication.
  
• What .NET Developers ought to know to start in 2017 (Scott Hanselman) - Nice work from John and Scott... Sweet checklist for beginners and all the other too.

Databases

• Azure SQL Database is increasing read and write performance (Jan Engelsberg) - Perfect timing! Better performance for the same price.