Reading Notes 193

Suggestion of the week

• Inside Azure Search: Chaos Engineering (Heather Nakama) - Great article about this really amazing way to test: chaos monkeys

Cloud

• Container Apps now available in the Azure Marketplace (Vybava Ramadoss) - Good news, marketplace just got a new "alley"...
  
• General availability: Azure Virtual Machine services in Azure Resource Manager - Great, ARM continue to grow.
  
• AzureSearchTool - the easiest option to query Azure Search! (Max Melcher) - This post introduces a very promissing tool, that is now available but in an early phase.
  
• Announcing the 1.0.0 release of Application Insights Windows SDKs (Joshua Weber) - Great new about this SDK, reaching an important milestone.
  
• My First Azure DocumentDB Account (Eitan Blumin) - Nice tutorial that explains how to create a new documentDB from scratch.

Programming

• Announcing Atom 1.0 - Woohoo. Version 1 finally makes it. Really happy.

Miscellaneous

• Windows 10 is coming...here's what to tell non-technical parent (Scott Hanselman) - Once again, really good video for non-technical people. This one explains how to get ready, and get your free upgrade.

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Reading Notes #191

Suggestion of the week

• Free recorded webinar on Pluralsight: Why SQL Injection Remains the #1 Web Security Risk Today - Security is so important. This video helps us to remember and shows us some simple attacks.

Cloud

• Azure DSC Extension v2.0 released (PowerShell Team) - Details about the new version and how to upgrade.
  
• Calling Logic Apps from an HTTP Action (Jeff Hollan) - Very interesting post that shows a powerful and flexible scenario with the Azure Logic Apps.
  
• New Azure Billing APIs Available - Wow very useful API, looking forward to try it.

Programming

• How to use Process Monitor and Process Explorer - Great video that explains a lot. We often learn more than what we expect in a debugging session.
  
• Why TDD for PowerShell? Or why pester? Or why unit test a "scripting" language? - Very interesting thoughts... I wonder what is the opinion of my heavy script coder friends...
  
• Docker and Microsoft announce more innovation to cross platforms and win hearts (Corey Sanders) - This post resumes some key things that happen at DockerCon. Really interesting.
  
• Visual Studio Code and Docker (Chris Dias [MSFT], Mark Rendle, DvdBrink Sean McBreen [MSFT]) - Nice post, I am happy to see that great plugin are coming.

Miscellaneous

• Stop Worrying About How Much You Matter - Interesting thoughts in a world of instant gratification...

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