Reading Notes #261

Suggestion of the week

• Pragmatic Web Error Handling in ASP.NET MVC - Simple Talk (Dino Esposito) - Another great article from Dino Esposito that explains his thoughts about exception and error in a pragmatic way.

Cloud

• Advanced Azure Resource Manager template patterns – t-shirt sizing and optional resources | endjin blog (Richard Kerslake) - With ARM gaining in popularity, it's importNt to get some best practices and patterns in mind. T-Shirt size is a must.
  
• Azure Subscription Spending Limit Reached! Now What? (Chris Pietschmann) - A classic mistake. Read this post before being part of the statistic.
  
• Docker for Azure Public Beta - Docker Blog (Michael Friis) - Docker contain now supported on two big cloud provider. They may only support Linux-based container but surely windows bases are coming too.
  
• New Azure Logic Apps innovation – general availability of cloud-based Enterprise Integration Pack (Frank Weigel) - Until the last days of the year, the Logic Apps team have provided multitudes of new features, see the detail of the latest release in this post and important milestone reached.

Programming

• Convert ASP.NET Web Servers to Docker with Image2Docker - Docker Blog (Elton Stoneman) - With the growing desire of containers, this tool looks perfect to do the rough job and get us started.
  
• Exploring Wyam - a .NET Static Site Content Generator (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting project. something to follow on github and keep in mind.
  
• Tips for Troubleshooting Apps in Production with Docker Datacenter - Docker Blog (Andy Clemenko) - Great source of wisdom, because who want to screw something in Prod?!

Miscellaneous

• Slack on the Commodore 64 thanks to Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi (Lucy Hattersley) - Aaah the C= 64.... Cool project.

Reading Notes #238

Cloud

• Application Map: Filter and pin to a dashboard (Soubhagya Dash) - Aaah... Great, it's time to update our Azure Portal Dashboard, really cool.
  
• Azure Marketplace Free Trials and Subscription Spending Limits (Steve Ross) - We all started or used at one point that great opportunity that is "the trial". This post is a gold mine in little details that will calm you down and let you enjoy the ride. A must.
• Remote Debugging Azure Web Apps from Visual Studio (Chris Pietschmann) - This post is a tutorial that explains step by step. How successfully configure a remote debugging on Azure.

Programming

• 3 ways to spot if your controller is doing too much - Nice post that shares few tricks on how spot if our controllers are doing too much.
  
• DockerCon 2016 - What is new in Docker 1.12 - - Nice summary about all the new features announced at DockerCon.
  
• Forgotten (but Awesome) Windows Command Prompt Features - BBS art..... souvenir souvenir. Refresh your memory or learn some really cool tricks of the command prompt with this post.
  
• Microsoft brings container innovation to the enterprise at DockerCon 2016 (Mark Russinovich) - Microsoft is definitely embracing the container pattern; this post summarizes announcement done during the DockerCon.

Miscellaneous

• Back to my core - In this post, Darrel shares the beginning of a new adventure... Congradulation to you and looking forward to reading again from you. Microsoft gained a really good developer.

Reading Notes #237

Cloud

• Azure Redis Cache May 2016 update (Pranav Rastogi) - Quick overview o this update.
  
• Release of Service Fabric SDK 2.1.150 and Runtime 5.1.150 - Have you played with Azure Fabric yet? Here is your chance with new SDK that provides more features and fixes some bugs.
  
• Application Insights is a Business Tool (Alexandre Brisebois) - Indeed, Application Insights is a business tool and a good one. Even more since it's available Azure services.
  
• Azure Media Services is now available in the new Azure portal (Mingfei Yan) - Fantastic another big piece that joined all the other services in the new portal.
  
• Power BI - Microsoft Azure Media Services and Power BI - Great tutorial that explains how to setup a cool dashboard and help you to get more about your media consumers.

Programming

• How to Debug and Run .NET CORE RC2 direct from within Visual Studio Code (Luís Henrique Demetrio) - Wow. I try on Windows, and it takes least than 5 minutes to get setup. Really cool.

Miscellaneous

• Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn - This is a really big move ... even more at the and of the fiscal year.

Reading Notes #235

Suggestion of the week

• Is technology killing curiosity? (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting reflections. A post to read.

Cloud

• Diagnose and resolve issues with Azure Troubleshooting (Ritesh Garodia) - Nice post that helps us to know the troubleshooting tools available in Azure portal.
  
• Deploy a Geo-HA Service Fabric Cluster on Azure (Alexandre Brisebois) - Fantastic post. It may require a second read to catch all the information contained, but it is worth it.
  
• How to Load Balance Virtual Machines in Azure (Marc Gagne) - Nice tutorial t explains step by step how to create, and configure an environment with a load balancer.
  
• Azure Export Template – Your new best friend (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - True, this relatively new feature is a real benediction.
  
• Turning on Windows features using Powershell DSC extension and Azure CLI (Kirpa Singh) - This post explains a clever method to active Windows features on multiple VMs.

Reading Notes #233

Cloud

• Map storage scenarios to services in Microsoft’s cloud (Joe Davies) - Cool gigantic pdf that contain all the information about cloud storage.
  
• How to turn cloud economics to your advantage (James Staten) - Nice post that asked important questions. Did you ask to yourself these?
  
• Announcing collaboration with the Jenkins project (Corey Sanders) - Great news about Jenkins. Now with the Microsoft's teams involved, we can expect only the best.
  
• Detecting threats with Azure Security Center (Tomer Teller) - Interesting post that explains fundamental difference between servers and individual attack and introduces briefly Azure security center.
  
• Troubleshooting Azure Stream Analytics jobs with SELECT INTO (Ken Wang - MSFT) - Fantastic debug session that explains how, with streamanalitics we can debug a query.
  
• HowTo: Purge an Azure CDN endpoint using Azure PowerShell v1.x (Stéphane Lapointe) - Useful piece of script that will save us time.

Programming

• Upgrading from ASPNET Core RC1 to RC2 Guide (Steve Smith) - Nice tutorial that covers all pieces of the puzzle.

Miscellaneous

• Going dark: online privacy and anonymity for normal people - Wow... And we thought using a strong password was safe enough. Great text.

Reading Notes #209

Cloud

• Microsoft and Red Hat partner to deliver more flexibility and choice (Scott Guthrie) - Great news.
  
• Using Redis as a Service in Azure to speed up ASP.NET applications - Nice post that shares some good reasons why we should use Redis cache (Azure SaaS).
  
• Azure Runbook – A complete (simple) example (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - This post is a great introduction to Azure automation (aka runbook).
  
• Azure Logic Apps Automation - Nice quick post to tease us about what we can do with Azure Logic App.
  
• Application Insights Content Pack for Power BI (Dale Koetke) - Really cool content pack that was announced.

Databases

• DocumentDB: The move towards NOSQL – Part 1 (Adarsha Datta) - Nice little post of a series to get us started about documentDB.

Programming

• Visual Studio Update 1 RC - It's already the time of an new release...
  
• Trace your Application Insights events inside Visual Studio Diagnostic tools (Abhijit Jana) - Wow! Application Insights alone is awesome, with the new VS2015 it's just turn it to eleven.