Reading Notes #336

Cloud

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 139 - Prevent AzCopy Uploads from maxing out Internet Connection Speed (Michael Crump) - Nice little cool trick.

• Quickly create VSTS Work Items for Application Insights Telemetry from Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana) - Can it be more DevOps than that? I don't think so.

Programming

• 7 best practices for building containers (Google) - This post helps us to improve our skill with containers. It also shares a lot of excellent more detailed references.
• How Postman Can Improve Your API Documentation (Abhinav Asthana) - With openAPI and Postman, our Apis will definitely be easier to consume.
• Using Elasticsearch with ASP.NET Core and Docker (Miroslav Popovic ARCHIVE TAGS) - Interesting post. I like how docker was used in this case.

Miscellaneous

• How to Lead When You’re Feeling Afraid (Peter Bregman) - A really interesting post that will help us, for sure, because we all leave this kind of situation one day or the other.
• Defeating Electron (Felix Rieseberg) - Pretty good is the chance that you are (just like me) using an application builds on top of electron. This post explains a little about what's it happening under the hood.
• Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPS (Troy Hunt) - Definitely a post to read.
• How to Write a Catchy Hook and Title for Your Blog - This post can definitely help us getting inspired.

Reading Notes #334

Suggestion of the week

• HTTPS Is Easy! (Troy Hunt) - A wonderful series of 4 videos that explains how to get secure with https. A must!

Cloud

• Function Proxies now Available in Functions Version 2.x! (Alex Karcher) - Yeah! I love it. Function proxies are awesome, if you don't know about them check out my post or videos.
• Static website hosting for Azure Storage now in public preview (Michael Hauss) - Great! Have been waiting for this feature for so long!

Programming

• Ghost in A shell - Part I : localhost (Manu) - A pretty cool little tutorial explains how to use different tools together.
• Detecting that a .NET Core app is running in a Docker Container and SkippableFacts in XUnit (Scott Hanselman) - Really cool way to continue doing unit tests within Docker containers.
• Injecting services to ASP.NET Core controller actions (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice tutorial, step by step, very clear.
• Top Visual Studio Code Extensions from Individual Contributors -- Visual Studio Magazine ( David Ramel) - Congrats to these badass developers.
• Working with T4 templates in Visual Studio - The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard (David Giard) - T4 are a really powerful tool. I used them a while back to avoid magic strings... Nice post to get started.

Miscellaneous

• Why Sunday Is the Most Important Day of the Week for Your Wellbeing (Ryan Coisson) - The secret has always been right in the middle... Well, a middle ;)
• Write That First Blog: Blogging for Programmers (Sander Rossel) - Excellent post that answers a question that is so frequently asked.

Reading Notes #333

Cloud

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 133 - Use the Azure Portal for Durable Functions Development (Michael Crump) - Nice tips durable functions are indeed very useful.
• How to safely replace Find-AzureRmResource -ResourceType calls in Azure PowerShell 6.x+ (Stephane Lapointe) - Good to know! I'm happy about that change but didn't notice the depreciated method.
• Immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs now in public preview (Mitra Sinha) - A pretty neat feature!
• New Features in Durable Functions - Nice little update from Mark, teacher of Durable Functions Fundamentals on Plurasight, directly.
• Penny Pinching in the Cloud: Deploying Containers cheaply to Azure (Scott Hanselman) - Great quick review of the container offer with the cost in mind.
• Disaster Recovery solution for Azure IaaS applications (Sujay Talasila) - Good new another GA to make people safe.

Programming

• HelloWorld (Luke Oliff) - Nice post with multiple labs (exercises) very well explained and detailed to get started with auth0.
• How to read, unable to read appsettings.json values ASP.NET Core  - Great post that explains a gotcha while using .net Core with deployment slots.
• Using ASP.NET Core 2.1's HttpClientFactory with Refit's REST library (Scott Hanselman) - Pretty cool, I didn't know this kind of tool existed.

Data

• Power BI and Sudoku – Yes Please (Mike Carlo) - Awesome! I really like when people think outside of the box. This post gives you link to the game and to a more detailed post.
• The June release of SQL Operations Studio is now available (Alan Yu) - Pretty cool and remember it's a cross-platform tool!
• Install SQL Operations Studio on Ubuntu Linux (Daniel Farina) - Nice tools. I think I should install it since its light weight and multi-platforms.

Reading Notes #331

Cloud

• Advanced Architecture for ASP.NET Core Web API (Chris Woodruff) - Nice and detailed post that describes the architecture pattern.
• Analyzing images using Azure Cognitive Services (Gunnar Pei[man) - Cool post that introduces the API and shows some examples.
• Cloning Azure Logic App to create a new one (Abhijit Jana) - This is soooooo sick! (In a good way)
• Getting Started with Azure Container Instances (Mark Heath) - Nice new course available on Pluralsight.
• Quickly rollback Azure Logic Apps to the Previous Version (Abhijit Jana) - Really cool!

Programming

• Carriage Returns and Line Feeds will ultimately bite you - Some Git Tips (Scott Hanselman) - I didn't know that what I'm doing (coding CLI) was weird... But yeah I can feel the pain.
• How I Increased My Productivity With Visual Studio Code (Michael Hoffmann) - Nice little post, learn how to get better with VsCode.
• Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers (Satya Nadella) - This was a big news this week. I profoundly think its for the best.

Books

• Wait, What?: And Life's Other Essential Questions (James E. Ryan) - Simple, short, but very interesting book.

Miscellaneous

• When Do People Read Blogs? The Best Times to Post (null) - Looks like timing may not be everything... But it's a big part of the equation.

Reading Notes #330

Cloud

• Integrating ACI with other Azure services (Mark Heath) - Great post and source of tons of also good references.
• Securing an Azure App Service Website under SSL in minutes with Let's Encrypt (Scott Hanselman) - Really cool tutorial AND info about Free certification that you can automatically install... on Azure. Well it possible elsewhere, it's just not explained in this post.;)

Programming

• .NET Core 2.1 and AWS | Amazon Web Services (Norm Johanson) - AWS, containers, .Net Core all together to make your code sits where ever you like. Pretty useful.
• Effective bundling with ASP.NET MVC (Gunnar Peipman) - Nice post about the bundling process in our asp.net MVC application.
• New Updates for Azure Development in Visual Studio (Visual Studio Team) - Great update to the tooling that makes our life easier... Or at least that reduce (a lot) the pain when starting and deploying a project.
• Some tricks I learned recording & publishing an educational video every day for 30 days - A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller) - I really liked that series and I learned tons of stuff while watching it about React of course but also about how to present technical tutorial and make them interesting to watch. Great work buddy!

Data

• Apply a Filter to a Slicer (Mike Carlo) - Sooooo useful. If you don't know how to do it (yet), just watch the video, you'll thanks me later.

Miscellaneous

• How to Become a Successful Technical Speaker (Daniela Petruzalek) - Interesting and motivating post about how to get prepared and how to learn.
• Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Worst Passwords (Troy Hunt) - Incredibly Useful tool that helps us all to stay secure and also check if we are compromised.

Reading Notes #323

Suggestion of the week

• Introduction to Azure Cosmos DB database and the SQL API (John Miner) - Great post to get started with CosmoDB.

Cloud

• Prepare data disks for stability & consistency in Azure throughout virtual machines and scale sets lifecycle (Stephane Lapointe) - Simple, efficient, and free! What else could we ask for a script that will fix our VM problem?

Programming

• Announcing Entity Framework Core 2.1 Preview 2 (Diego B Vega) - The nice features that are brought in this next release, EF continue to be a trending ORM.
• Create New Git Repository While Creating New Project in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana) - If you are not creating a repo...it's because you plan to delete this code in the next 15 minutes ...right?
• Optimizing an ASP.NET Core site with Chrome's Lighthouse Auditor (Scott Hanselman) - Another day in the fantastic optimization journey. I'm definitely trying that tool today!
• Serverless vs. containers: How the two stand up next to each other (Christina Cardoza) - Very interesting post that compares and also not necessarily demystifies, but more clarifies those two great technologies.
• Updating jQuery-based Lazy Image Loading to IntersectionObserver (Scott Hanselman) - This post is part of an excellent series where Scott refresh his website done a few years ago with today tech.

Miscellaneous

• Announcing the Docs Markdown Extension for Visual Studio Code (Adam Kinney) - Nice new plugin that will help us to participate to the docs.

Databases

• Best practices for securing your Google Cloud databases (Ian Maddox) - Excellent post with a ton of best-practice advice.

Books

How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie) - 

This book doesn't age! 

This book may be old, but it's still incredibly true. I loved the way the reader was speaking and the rich vocabulary. It's definitely a must.

ASIN: B003WEAI4E

Reading Notes #322

Cloud

• Azure WebApp : Checking the deployed WebApp file system (Sacha Barber) - Because everything doesn't need to be in a VM or containers... Read more about webapp in this nice post.
• Overview of Docker Containers in Azure | Vincent-Philippe Lauzon's on WordPress.com (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Great overview of all the Microsoft services that support Docker containers.
• The Power of Logic Apps in Azure | Loosely coupled but highly cohesive on WordPress.com (Gregor Suttie) - Happy to see that I'm not the only fanboy around... Logic Apps are a must in your toolbox.

Databases

• A flexible new way to purchase Azure SQL Database  (Alexander (Sasha) Nosov) - A new kind of hybrid way to get your databases in Azure. It's not a full service, neither full pure VM... It definitely looks like less trouble for better performance.

Miscellaneous

• How to look for a technical evangelist job (Frederic Harper) - Interesting thought and things to consider when you are looking.
• 9 Common Coffee Mistakes and How to Fix Them (Alison Millington) - Interesting facts about coffee.

Books

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Life (Gary John Bishop)

I really enjoyed this book. Strong ideas. No repetition. It goes straight to the point. The narration is awesome.

ASIN: B0731QJ482

Reading Notes #312

Suggestion of the week

• Serverless Twitter Analytics with CosmosDB and Logic Apps (Jeremy Likness) - This great post explains the how Azure Logic App is so powerful by giving some examples.

Cloud

• Uploading Nest camera video to Azure Storage (Den Delimarsky) - Cool update that set more cloud-ready an open source project.

Programming

• Azure Table Storage in ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Tahir Naushad) - Cool "code-dump" post that shows how to get everything we need to manage simply our Azure storage.
• How to Scale Your API Design Process with OpenAPI (Ryan Pinkham) - This post introduces SwaggerHubs. I didn't know about this tool, it looks really good. As a heavy Azure user cannot miss some similitude with Api Managment. I will definitely give it a try.
• Simultaneous debugging of JavaScript and .NET code with Rider (Maarten Balliauw) - Rider is packed with great features and is becoming a really incredible tool.

Miscellaneous

• Did you know – Now you can duplicate Line of Code without losing your clipboard content within Visual Studio? (Abhijit Jana) - Nice tips that for me was an "Ah-ah" moment for me.

Reading Notes #311

Suggestion of the week

• 4 Common Datetime Mistakes in C# — And How to Avoid Them (Carlos Schults) - This post is a must to all C# (and you know what?! All developers), because we all need to use dates at one point in our code and script...

Cloud

• Create Precompiled Azure Functions With Azure Event Grid Triggers (Jason Roberts) - A nice quick tutorial that shows how to plug the Azure Functions with the new Event Grid.
• Microsoft releases new time series data developer tools for Azure (Anirban Ghoshal) - It looks pretty neat and it is certainly easy to deploy. Looking forward to trying it.
• Setting up a managed container cluster with AKS and Kubernetes in the Azure Cloud running .NET Core in minutes (Scott Hanselman) - Not that long ago I would never guess that Building and deploying a cluster could be that easy... If you got 30mins it's a demo to try.
• The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0… (Dominique St-Amand) - In this interesting post, the author shares with us all the gotchas and lessons learned developing his project.

Programming

• Styling Social Media Icon Lists in CSS (Mark Heath) - Yeah right, we can read CSS and probably hack some stuff... But it's excellent to learn how to do simple things the good way. And this post shows exactly that.

Data

• Microsoft Deep Drive Track at the Data and BI Summit April 22-26 (Charles Sterling) - Wow, it looks packed with so much great content!
• Power BI Desktop January Feature Summary (Amanda Cofsky) - It looks like some team did not take a lot of time-off during the Holidays... So many great new functionalities; it's a fantastic way to start the year.

Miscellaneous

• Long Distance Relationships, or How to Manage a Remote Team (Natallia Brych ) - Remote working is not for every situation nor everybody. This post will help you to get started on the topic.
• Why Consider a Website Redesign – Tips and Recommendations (Daniel Schwarz) - Good post, food for thought.

Reading Notes #308

Suggestion of the week

• Serverless^2 - Azure Logic Apps and Azure Container Instances (Michal Smereczynski) - Great news! So much simpler than installing Azure PowerShell into the Function App... I'm starting to use it right away!

Cloud

• Continuous Deployment of Azure Functions with Slots (Thomas Ardal) - Nice tutorial that explains how to deploy Azure functions and why doing it that way.
• Azure Application Architecture Guide (Mike Wasson) - A free book (pdf only) with all the best of the AzureCAT team? You really don't want to miss that opportunity.
• Azure Cloud Shell (Scott Hanselman) - Ooooooh, I love it!
• Running the Azure Functions runtime in containers on Kubernetes and more (Shayne Boyer) - Very cool update that opens many possibilities.
• Serverless^2 - Azure Logic Apps and Azure Container Instances (Michal Smereczynski) - Great news! So much simpler than installing Azure PowerShell into the Function App... I'm starting to use it right away!
• Understanding Azure Event Grid ( Jason Roberts) - Nice little post that introduces event grid, differentiate it from the service bus, and quickly go over the pricing.
• Cloud en 5 minutes (Frank Boucher) - If French is your primary language, I just start a Youtube channel where every Wednesday I will publish a new video. // Si le français est votre langue première, je viens de lancer une chaine Youtube où à chaque mercredi je publirai un nouveau vidéo.

Programming

• Introducing metaparticle.io - making Kubernetes and Docker idiomatic for developers (Shayne Boyer) - Wow.pretty cool idea, I like it. It looks so simple.

Miscellaneous

• How to download embedded videos with F12 Tools in your browser (Scott Hanselman) - Very useful hack to build your airplain mode video Playlist.

Reading Notes #306

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.

Cloud

• 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.

Programming

• 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.

Databases

• 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

Reading Notes #304

Cloud

• 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.

Programming

• 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?

Databases

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

Podcast

• 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.

Miscellaneous

• 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.

Reading Notes #303

Suggestion of the week

• Writing tests in Postman (joyce) - With all the connected things and all the API in our system, this post shows a brilliant and simple way to test all those external calls.

Cloud

• Benefits of using the Azure IoT SDKs, and pitfalls to avoid if you don’t (Yi Zhong) - All open sources and packed of good stuff thus post shares all these goodies and some best practices if you decide to go without it.
• Container Orchestration Simplified with Managed Kubernetes in Azure Container Service (AKS) (Scott Hanselman, Rob Caron) - Great video that shows us how simplified our work could be.
• How we set up daily Azure spending alerts and saved $10k (Mike Larah) - Cloudyn is definitely a must in many cases. I need to see how it manages CSP subscriptions and limited access for clients. This post also shared how to integrate it in Slack, pretty cool.
• One-click replication for Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Site Recovery (Sujay Talasila) - Fantastic! It couldn't be more simple.

Programming

• Miniblog.Core is a new blog engine built using ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Mads Kristensen) - This post is not only about a sweat new blog engine, but also a call for coders. Everything is available on GitHub.
• Server-side charts with ASP.NET Core, Node services and D3.js | Gunnar Peipman - Programming Blog (Gunnar Peipman) - D3 is an amazing and very popular library, this post shows a very nice project built with it.
• Create a .NET Core 2 application on Linux with Visual Studio Code (Benjamin Perkins) - Nice quick tutorial to quickly get started.
• How to install NuGet Package in Visual Studio Code Linux Ubuntu (Benjamin Perkins) - Quick and easy.

Data

• What is Power BI Embedded? (Guy in a Cube ) - A quick video that explains perfectly the purpose of The embedded offer.

Miscellaneous

• What’s Your Project Problem? (Johanna) - Interesting post of view and many good references about time and resourceful people management.

Reading Notes #299

Cloud

• Azure Log Analytics – meet our new query language (Noa Kuperberg) - This post shares great examples of simple, but useful query to get started.
• Azure Site Recovery powers new Managed DR offerings by Microsoft Partners (Mayank Nayar) - Nice DR option with well-known partners to keep our VM safe as our business.
• Five more reasons why you should download the Azure mobile app (Shankar Sivadasan) - This app is getting better and better every time I hear about it. Guess what I will install in a few...
• How to configure log4net on Azure App Service (Benjamin Perkins) - You prefer log4net because your App is also deployed on-premise, or because you are just doing a lift&shift, or any other reason, this post is for you, every little things are explained in details.
• Integrating Azure Advisor Into Your Workday (Timothy Warner) - The azure advisor is one of my favorite tools in Azure, always something nice to do with it... Well until you fix it.
• Query across resources (Noa Kuperberg) - Wow! This is a really good news.

Programming

• Server-side rendering a D3 chart with React 16 - A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller) - It's an interesting tutorial that shows how to optimize the refresh of your chart using React.
• Tabs vs Spaces - A peaceful resolution with EditorConfig in Visual Studio. Plus .NET Extensions! (Scott Hanselman) - I personally don't really care to use spaces or tab ( I will use what's already there) but that config editor... That's something that will save a few teams... This is a post to share!
• What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: September 2017 Digest (Buck Hodges) - VSTS is so packed of features it's a must to every developer and team. This post does a tour of the new feature it will give you an idea of this gigantic tool.

Databases

• Yes to databases in containers - Microsoft SQL Server available on Docker Store - Docker Blog (Elton Stoneman) - Pretty convenient I think, looking forward to trying it.

Miscellaneous

• Why I won’t write code demos, articles or new talks in your interview process (Frédéric Harper) - Interesting thoughts about some hirering practices. Finding a good math it's hard on both side.

Reading Notes #298

Cloud

• Yo Team, meet Azure Container Instances (Donovan Brown) - Yep now Yo Team support ACL. This post also shares how quickly get your container IP address.
• #LogicApps – Introduction and main differences with Microsoft Flow #MSFlow | El Bruno on WordPress.com (El Bruno) - Great post that gives a very clear view of the differences... Now I have a post to refer to when people are asking me that.
• .NET Rocks! Azure Event Grid with Dan Rosanova (Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell) - I really liked that episode with Dan. It was nice listening to him talking an making reference to Biztalk and Logic App.
• Azure Functions and Lazy Initialization with Couchbase Server (Matthew Groves) - Nice hack, that could potentially save a lot of initialization if the function is called often.
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 20 - Working with Files in Azure App Service (Michael Crump) - I'm always impressed by how many people don't know Kudu. Well, if it's your case, this post is for you... at least to get started.
• How to import a Postman collection into your Azure API Management – SANDRO PEREIRA BIZTALK BLOG (Sandro Pereira) - Pretty useful tips that import process.

Programming

• OpenAPI is not what I thought (Darrel Miller ) - I hear you my friend, loud and clear. Let's use OpenAPI the way it should be. Very interesting post for an inside man sharing his thoughts about the purpose of the tool.
• Serverless and Auth0 Webtasks, hop on the bullet train (Glenn Block) - Cool tool in the Node.js world.
• What is a Default Parameter in a JavaScript function? | Dhananjay Kumar on WordPress.com (Dhananjay Kumar) - Aaaah Javascript so powerful but at the same time so demanding.
• What would a cross-platform .NET UI Framework look like? Exploring Avalonia (Scott Hanselman) - I didn't know where WPF came from, and it's interesting to see the open-source project inspired other projects and to see that they continue to evolve.

Miscellaneous

• #222: Patrick Lencioni—Getting Hiring Right (EntreLeadership Team) - It was my first episode of this podcast, but definitely not the last one. Very interesting speakers... nice books referenced... loved it.
• Why Your Boss Makes You Punch a Time Clock (Suzanne Lucas Suzanne Lucas is a freelance writer who spent 10 years in corporate human resources, where she hired, fired, managed the numbers, and double-checked with t) - Most of us have to do timesheets... I'm sure that at one point, you asked yourself the reason about it. It's time read an answer, in this post.

Reading Notes #297

Suggestion of the week

• How to uninstall Scrum (Erwin Verweij) - When you will read that post (because you must read it... Seriously), you will smile, giggle and maybe even laugh.

Cloud

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 - Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell (Azure Tips and Tricks Part 14 - Generate SSH public key to log into Linux VM with Cloud Shell was published on September 11, 2017.) - Doing a remote desktop on a Windows VM is trivial, but doing the same thing on a Linux machine required just a little more. After reading this post will be a walk in the park.

• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 - Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure (Azure Tips and Tricks Part 16 - Deploy Jekyll Site Hosted on GitHub Pages to Azure was published on September 13, 2017.) - I use Jekyll on Azure, and I love it. If you would like to try it, this post is all you need.

• Getting Started with Windows Containers (Alina Popa) - A cool tutorial that uses a few popular tech these days.

• Keep credentials out of code: Introducing Azure AD Managed Service Identity (Stuart Kwan) - Great post that explains what the new service is, and how it works.It also suggests a tutorial to learn how to implement it. Awesome!

• Why is Serverless Extensibility better than Webhooks? (Bobby Johnson) - A useful post that jumps right in the middle of the debate about the Webhook and serverless. Both are good but planning (as usual) is worth it.

Programming

• API Versioning with Azure API Management (Darrel Miller) - Great post that helps to find the peace, or at least make your ideas, about what kind of rules, you should follow.

• Microservices: The Good, the Bad and the Hype (Jennifer Riggins) - Nice post that explains some challenges when doing serversless. Because yes, it's a great architecture plan, but it's not magic.

• Microsoft Tech Summit is back – register for a free event near you! (Microsoft Azure team) - A big tour around the globe, check when they visit one of the fourteen cities near you.

Miscellaneous

• 3 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Selling to Small Businesses - Microsoft Partner Network (Carol Roth) - Interesting points to improve our skills.

Reading Notes #296

Cloud

• Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions (Kristian Nese) - I had so much oooh and aaah reading this post. Now ARM template won't necessarily be spaghetti.
• 6 Challenges Partners and Customers Face When Moving to the Cloud - Microsoft Partner Network (Tonny Siemons) - Excellent post that talks about real problems (situations) of real enterprises.
• An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich (Mark Russinovich, Seth Juarez) - Great video from Mark Russinovich himself.
• Azure Functions – Prepare for continuous delivery (Mikael Krief) - The first post of a processing series, the focus of this one is all about creating our project from scratch in Visual Studio.
• Azure Tips and Tricks Part 10 - Quickly Connect to a Linux VM with SSH (Michael Crump) - Another nice tips and tricks post, and this one contain one I personally discovered very recently concerning ssh on windows.
• Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux (Apurva Joshi) - Now that GA nothing should stop us. This post is a great overview of this Azure service.
• Why Healthcare Is Moving To The Cloud (But Isn't There Yet) (Martin Gontovnikas) - Very interesting article that explains few things from real life.

Databases

• Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper (Scott Hanselman) - You are right Scott, keep it super simple sound waaaaaay better; love it.

Miscellaneous

• Ways to get involved in the local tech community (5 of 5) (Jason Haley) - This post close a nice series about the community. Looking forward to seeing you at a meetup...

Reading Notes #293

Cloud

• Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks (Mark Russinovich) - You probably eared the buzz word blockchain before, but still not sure what it is exactly… Here is a good post to get started and in the meantime, you will know also an open-source framework to work with.
• Announcing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics (Ketan Ghelani) - Only one click and all those news features are yours.
• Introducing Azure Event Grid – an event service for modern applications (Corey Sanders) - Pretty awesome new feature. I’m looking forward to trying it.
• Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell (Corey Sanders) - My first thought about Cloud Shell was: cute. And then I was in a situation where … well, it really helped me. So yeah, definitely something to look at, and this post is the perfect starting point.
• On-premises data gateway support for Azure Analysis Services (Bret Grinslade) - A new connector in this very useful connection tool.
• Plan Backup and Disaster Recovery for Azure IaaS Disks (Sirius Kuttiyan) - This nice post briefly explains the different options with different pros & cons but untimely for the same results our safety.
• Rapidly Deploy Serverless Azure Functions Using PowerShell (Doug Finke) - Azure functions are so accessible it’s unbelievable. This post explains why and shows how to get our code/script deployed in the cloud in a snap.

Programming

• 5 Common Myths Around Moving to Docker (Megan Rees Ahigian ) - Nice post that answers some very frequent assumptions related to container and more particularly, Docker containers.

Reading Notes #291

Cloud

• App Service Environment v2 release announcement (Christina Compy) - That a really good news let's go full PaaS.
• Fast and Easy Containers: Azure Container Instances (Corey Sanders) - A very promising new service in Azure.
• Import Power BI Desktop files into Azure Analysis Services (Josh Caplan) - A quick post that shows how convenient is the new AAS.

Programming

• .NET Application Architecture Guidance (Cesar de la Torre) - This post is like an amazing trailer about all the great things that will be created in this blog... Stay tuned for more.
• Docker Basics, Part Zero: Why Should I Care about Containers (and Microservices) Anyway? (Michelle Gienow) - Great post with the best description of what are containers I have ever read.

Miscellaneous

• Announcing Ghost 1.0 (John O'Nolan) - Wow! So happy and proud to be part of the early adopter of this platform. It never stopped to get better, and it stayed free. Now I just need to upgrade.
• Follow-up: The Windows Insider Program has lost its way (studio384) - Interesting thoughts about different Microsoft programs.
• Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era (Troy Hunt) - Amazing post again from Troy, things are evolving we must also change.

Reading Notes #288

Cloud

• Building an Azure Analysis Services Model on Top of Azure Blob Storage (Kay Unkroth) - A very detailed and interesting series that explains at every step the reasons behind it choices and how to do them.

• Step-By-Step: Configuring a site-to-site VPN Gateway between Azure and On-Premise (Dishan Francis) - Most cloud solutions are hybrid or use resources on-premise. For those, a VPN is often the best solution to stay secure, and this post explains how to do it and clearly identify what you need before getting started.

• Why Docker Can’t Solve All Your Problems in the Cloud (Chris Gervais) - Definitely a good post to read when thinking about going all in with containers.

Programming

• 10 Myths About Docker That Stop Developers Cold (Derick Bailey) - This post is a must. With Docker being more and more popular, it's a good idea to have a little education before those conversations reach you.

• Keep your ASP.NET Core secrets safe in production using Azure Application Settings. (Jon Hilton) - To every secret his solution.