Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

Simple APIs With Microsoft Flow And Azure Functions | LINQ to Fail (Aaron Powell ) - Geniusly simple! I didn't think to use those like that, but now that will be my go-to scenario for so many things.... With Flow, Logic App and so may others.

Announcing the general availability of Azure App Service diagnostics (Jennifer Lee) - A fantastic tool that I hope all web App users will use.
Lift and Shift, Migrating Nerd Dinner to the cloud using Docker (Shayne Boyer) - Interesting post that shows step by step how to do a real lift and shift to Azure.
Logic Apps Management solution updated – search runs by tracked properties, bulk re-submit and more… (Sumit Kumar) - Nice little add-ons that will help us manage our LogicApps.
Microsoft Cognitive Services updates for Microsoft Connect(); (Microsoft Azure) - Nice tutorial on how to build and train your custom image classifier.
Transforming your VMware environment with Microsoft Azure (Corey Sanders) - Pretty cool tools that remove a lot of pain when we start thinking about migrating one or more VMs.

Introducing Microsoft Coco Framework for Blockchain (Chris Pietschmann) - Coco framework will helps to manage a few important points in a business solution using BlockChain, more to come in 2018.
Lightweight bundling, minifying, and compression, for CSS and JavaScript with ASP.NET Core and Smidge (Scott Hanselman) - Another (or rediscovery of a) great minifier for .Net core.
Trying out new .NET Core Alpine Docker Images (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting post, it'nice to see how one great tech complement another that well.

Azure SQL Databases Disaster Recovery 101 (Xiaochen Wu) - One of the best posts a read on the topic. I'm not sure if I can sale the alien part to a client, but other than that very clear. lol

A technical overview of Azure Databricks - This new product/ feature looks very interesting... More to come.
Improvements to Azure Functions in Visual Studio ( Justin Clareburt ) - Wow. Azure Functions may evolve quickly but the tools are following, and this is impressive. Check out all the features that would be included in the next version (currently accessible in preview).

Azure DevOps Project – public preview (Gopinath Chigakkagari) - This new type of project looks awesome, looking forward to trying it.

Why speed is the skill I’m most dedicated to improving (Alex Mathers) - An interesting post that talks about the balance between skills.
4 Realities of Blogging All Bloggers Need to Talk About (ep 214) (Darren Rowse) - Very good and encouraging talk about some daily facts in blogger's life.
How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should) (ep: 216) (Darren Rowse) - Hmm. I thought I was consistent, and then I went backward in my archives.... Well things change in ten years.
How to Leverage People Analytics (ep: 323) (Dave Stachowiak) - Interesting talk about what is and what's not analytics.
Are we partners or competitors? Yes, we are - Microsoft Partner Network (Gavriella Schuster) - An interesting and inspiring post that talks of course about partnership how its build and what it means.

Application Insights: VSTS dashboard chart widget now available (Mike Gresley) - Woohoo! Finally, it's there. I'm going to add it to all my projects right now.
Monitor Azure services and applications using Grafana (Ashwin Kamath) - I didn't know that tool, but now it's definitely under my radar.
Azure Durable Functions: Making Serverless Last (Mary Branscombe) - A great post that introduces the durable function and explains where it fits in the integration offer.

Creating a Minimal ASP.NET Core Windows Container (Jeffrey T. Fritz) - This is an amazing post that shows how to optimize our containers. It may be about Asp.Net Core but it applies to any containers. It also shows one of the big improvements with .Net Core...
WebOptimizer - a Bundler and Minifier for ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - This post shares a nice little tool available for Asp.Net Core.
Why Is It So Difficult To Get Started Writing Automated Tests? (Matthew Jones) - So many very good questions are asked in this post, but what are the answers?

Automatic tuning will be a new default (Veljko Vasic) - An important post t read and share to avoid any panic in January.

EntreLeadership #231: Renée Mauborgne—Move Beyond Competing (EntreLeadership Team) - A great episode with a few tools that look very interesting... And of course, a book reference that you should add to you to read list.
Dotnet Rocks - 1491 Building VSTS using VSTS with Dan Hellem and Rogan Ferguson (Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell) - Great show about VSTS... If you using or think of using the tool... That's for you.

I Don’t Have Time is a Myth (Donn Felker) - I love it. We have so many opportunities; we just need to take them.
The Main Challenges of Building Machine Learning Tech (Donn Felker) - Very interesting article about AI.
Why I won't be switching to VSCode any time soon - A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller) - I was surprised when I saw the title of this post, how could you not like VsCode? However, after reading it, I understand. Through preferences are personal, VSCode does a lot and needs a bit more than few minutes to be tame. I got also overwhelmed when I started using it. The secret is the documentation... and sometimes. Then it becomes whatever you want.