Reading Notes #340

Cloud

• Run Azure Functions in a Docker Container (Mark Heath) - This is a great and simple tutorial, perfect to do a quick test.
• Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service | Blog | Microsoft Azure (Andrew Westgarth) - Free for all August, it's time to try stuff...
• Improving the Security of Azure App Service Websites > Mitchel Sellers (Mitchel Sellers) - Nice post that lists low hanging fruits to make our App Services more secure.
• Improving the development experience worldwide with Event Grid (Bahram Banisadr) - List of all the novelties on event grid.
• Learn how to orchestrate serverless functions by scraping APIs in 8 minutes (Maxime Rouiller) - A nice article that shows with a real use case how Azure Durable Function could be used.
• Why does my Azure Function sometimes stop being triggered (Benjamin Perkins) - Great tip, I wish I knew that before.

Programming

• How To Do Microservices Integration Testing in the Cloud (Alex Handy) - Interesting article that describes the current situation of test environment or what it should look like.
• Top Docker Monitoring Tools (Emna Trabelsi) - So many different tools, this is fantastic!
• dotnet new templates for serverless functions (Shayne Boyer) - This post explains how to add new templates for our .Net Core and shows how to build Azure function.

Integration

• Our Integration Product Roadmap (Jon Fancey) - VNext, the next version of BizTalk, is making its way.

Miscellaneous

• 11 essential characteristics for being a good technical advocate or interviewer (Scott Hanselman) - Read, think, improve, repeat. An excellent list to read and get better.

Reading Notes #339

Cloud

• Azure DevOps: Show Me the JSON! - Simple Talk (Brian Flynn) - A very nice introduction to Azure resources manager, its structure and also JSON file.
• Azure management groups now in general availability (Rich Thorn) - Already GA that a fantastic news! Now let's talk governance!
• New recommendations in Azure Advisor (Kaitlyn Corazao) - This post provides a few more reasons to start looking at the advisor (but I'm sure you all already doing it.)

Programming

• Automatically remove unused css from Bootstrap or other frameworks  (Luke Lowrey ) - Whaaat? This node package is awesome how could we did it before?!
• Avoid Lazy Loading in ASP.NET (Shawn Wildermuth) - Nice little dipping into the Entity framework for Asp.Net Core.
• Developing locally with ASP.NET Core under HTTPS, SSL, and Self-Signed Certs (Scott Hanselman) - This post shows how simple it is to work in a dev environment that reflects a prod one, even at the security level.
• How to setup ASP.NET Core 2.1 on Linux in under 10 minutes (Daniel Crabtree) - Nice tutorial that goes further tthan simply the creation of the hello word application by showing some debugging configuration, and executing alternatives.
• One click deploy for MakeCode and the amazing AdaFruit Circuit Playground Express (Scott Hanselman) - The circuit Express of Adafruits was already so easy to get started... Now with this little tweak... Wow!

Data

• Data Virtualization Is Absolutely Critical. Here’s Why… - This is an interesting post that introduces the data virtualization concept.
• Importing Data from AWS DynamoDB into SQL Server 2017 (Derek Colley) - A very nice tutorial that explains the migration step by step.

Miscellaneous

• Connecting Azure AD and Azure AD B2C to IdentityServer4 (Dominique St-Amand) - Nice post that shares some gotchas and workarounds.
• Why No HTTPS? Questions Answered, New Data, Path Forward (Troy Hunt) - Incredible source of information.

~Enjoy!

Reading Notes #337

Cloud

• Using Azure QnA Maker (MS Bot Framework V4 Preview Edition) - This post is an excellent tutorial to get started, it explains everything step by step and you can download the final code.
• The moment I came to play with .NET Standard 2.0 – Azure Functions (Dominique St-Amand) - Nice advice/walkthrough to update our Azure Fonctions.

Programming

• Step by step: Detecting files added between two commits in git (Maxime Rouiller) - Awesome! It makes total sense to be able to filter and manipulate the query outputs, but I never thought of doing it... I still use a lot GUI App...
• .NET Core Code Coverage as a Global Tool with coverlet (Scott Hanselman) - I think it's a really cool time to be a developer as so many great tools are available (and free).
• ASP.NET Core Hidden Gem – QueryHelpers (Muhammad Rehan Saeed) - Cool little tricks.
• LINQ Challenge #3 (Mark Heath) - Okay, I know I'm not a LINQ expert but ... I'm curious to see the answers and will definitely give it a try.
• Unit Testing in ASP.NET Core Web API (Milos Davidovic) - Great tutorial that explains every bit of the inversion of control and how to create your unit tests.

Data

• Building a Real Time Data Pipeline in Azure – Part 2 (Jason Farrell) - Interesting start (part 2) of a series build and editing a solution.

Miscellaneous

• Lynx is dead - Long live Browsh for text-based internet browsing (Scott Hanselman) - Wow that's really interesting... It's True though that it feels like ... The old time.

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 #335

Suggestion of the week

• Comments for Jekyll Blogs (Phil Haack) - A pretty clever solution that leverage Azure Functions to generate static content on Jekyll.

Cloud

• ASP.NET Compilation Azure App Service, Web Project, Web Site (Benjamin Perkins) - Nice post that explores deeply the server side.
• An Introduction to Azure Functions (Matt Soucoup ) - If you are looking to get started on Azure function or looking for the Microsoft serverless offer, this post is definitely a good place to start.
• Getting started with App Maker: a detailed walkthrough (Christian Schalk) - At the first glimpse, it looks like PowerApp from MS but with a focus on GSuite... I'll put that on top of my todo list.
• Use serverless functions and CDN to speed up API data calls (Shayne Boyer) - Cool post to speed-up our services.
• We’re moving from Azure to Google Cloud Platform (Andrew Newdigate) - Interesting post about how to get prepared, how to test before a migration.

Programming

• Adding Localization to the ASP.NET Core Identity Pages (damienbod) - Simple tutorial to get a clean localization of our app.
• Developing bots for Hangouts Chat (Wesley Chun) - If you are using GSuite and still not leveraging bots... This post is a nice starting point to get inspired.
• dotnet outdated helps you keep your projects up to date (Scott Hanselman) - This post presents a great tool that must of us need but didn't know. Awesome!

Data

• Creating table functions in DAX using DETAILROWS (Marco Russo) - I'm always learning something when I read about DAX... So powerful.

Miscellaneous

• Customizing Node.js Deployments for Azure App Services (K. Scott Allen) - Noce tutorial to customizes our deployment.

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 #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 #329

Suggestion of the week

• Azure Logic Apps, tips from the real world (gord) - Nice post that explains a real-life situation fixed using Logic Apps.

Cloud

• Create Your First ‘No Code’ Logic App in Microsoft Azure (Timothy Warner ) - Another great example of how easy and useful logic apps are.
• How I choose which services to use in Azure (Barry Luijbregts, Scott Hanselman) - Oh wow! Very interesting video, presenting a nice and structured way to pick our cloud services.
• Import Azure Portal Dashboard (Abhijit Jana) - Nah! I didn't know you could import/ export... That's cool.
• Quick Navigation using Azure Portal Keyboard Shortcuts (Abhijit Jana) - Nice reminder... I'll definitely have a new look at them and use them more.
• Serverless with AWS Lambda and Scala (Rob Hinds) - Interesting Tutorial to get started with the AWS Lamba Amazon Serveurless offer}
• Exploring Azure App Service – Web Apps and SQL Azure (Andrew B Hall) - Quick and simple tutorial about Azure webapp with EF and a database.

Programming

• Installing PowerShell Core on a Raspberry Pi (powered by .NET Core) (Scott Hanselman) - It looks like the Raspberry Pi is now "more accepted" into the familly. It's time to try docker and PowerShell again.
• Building, Running, and Testing .NET Core and ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Docker on a Raspberry Pi (ARM32) (Scott Hanselman) - Fantastic! Now that .Net Core is So easily portable on Pi, I can start building my summer project with a familiar language.
• Introducing Play with Kubernetes (Mano Marks) - Bookmark this post, next rainy day ( or before) let's learn some new stuff.
• Do you need to speak English to Code? Noor - An Arabic Programming Language (Ahmed Abdalla, Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting question, and even more interesting the solution Ahmed built! Great episode.

Books

Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World (Gary Vaynerchuk) - Great book, for all of us you are trying to tell something, pass a message on the social media... This is a must.

Miscellaneous

• Why invest in backend developers when your customers don’t care? (Forrest Brazeal) - Interesting post about serverless and architecture patterns.
• Entreleadership #263: Thriving in the Age of Overload (Juliet Funt, Ken Colman) - I love that idea of Whitespace. Great episode very inspiring.

Reading Notes #328

Cloud

• 10 Reasons to Use Durable Functions (Mark Heath) - To celebrate his new course about durable function, Mark shares with us his top10 of the best reason with should use durable functions.

Programming

• Advanced Raspberry Pi traffic lights simulator (Gunnar Peipman) - This Windows IoT project looks really awesome! Let's have a threat...
• Creating NuGet packages in Docker using the .NET Core CLI (Andrew Lock) - A useful tutorial that explains how to use .Net CLI with Docker commands.
• Why should we care about containers for development (Shayne Boyer) - Another nice Docker post this time focus on the continuous integration and deployment.
• Creating PDF on ASP.NET Core (Gunnar Peipman) - Am bookmarking this one. Creating PDF is a common task and that code look "simple".

Data

• Power BI Desktop May Feature Summary (Amanda Cofsky) - The monthly updates is always a great new. This month shows more about that new Q&A feature... You may not know about it, but you really want to use it...
• Data Encodings and Layout (Clemens Vasters) - Very useful and deep article that provides the best practices for data encoding for different type of situation.

Books

Exactly What to Say, The Magic Words for Influence and Impact
(Phil M. Jones)
I listen to this audio book and really enjoy it. Simple powerful key works selection tat helps us to get where we want to go. It was only about two hours long and I listen to it in one shoot. And I’m mostly certain I will listen to it again.
ISBN 9780692881958

Miscellaneous

• The Next Time You Want to Complain at Work, Do This Instead (Peter Bregman) - We all did it at least once… Should we do with again... This post explains why we shouldn't.

Reading Notes #327

Cloud

• Create Azure Functions using Visual Studio and deploy it to Azure (Abhijit Jana) - Nice little visual studio tutorial to create an Azure Function.
• Why you should use Durable Functions sub-orchestrations (Mark Heath) - Nice post.A lot of very useful pieces of information.
• Yes you can! develop on AWS using .NET (Dror Helper) - This post is a great invitation for .Net developers to try AWS.

Programming

• Announcing .NET Core 2.1 RC 1 Go Live AND .NET Core 3.0 Futures (Scott Hanselman) - The future with .Net Core looks very promising, learn why in this post.
• Using LazyCache for clean and simple .NET Core in-memory caching (Scott Hanselman) - New post in the series where Scott shares with us things he try while refactoring his website.I loved it.
• Web Performance Optimization is Simple 5535756836 - Can Your Developers Execute? 5535657166 (Chris Love) - Interesting post, learn from true stories. Simple thing can make a big difference.

Databases

• Azure SQL Database Table Partitioning Example (John Miner) - Wow, this post is a very completed tutorial that provides all steps and explanations.

Miscellaneous

• Ask Tim - Should I say "I Don't Know" to an Interviewer? (Tim Corey) - Great post. I apply this no bullshit rules to all my conversation.
• Five Things That Every Leader Could Use to be a Better Leader (Joan Pepin) - Interesting post about leadership and how we grow with our challenges.

Books

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (Mark Manson) -Damn it's good!
  The title of the book let's me thought it will be very negative. Not giving a fu#*... But it's really not. Quite the opposite in fact. I really like the book and I'm planning to read/listen it another time in... One year. To see what changed.
  

Reading Notes #326

Cloud

• AzCopy on Linux now generally available (Sercan Guler) - AZCopy is a must. These new features are just awesome.
• Azure Functions Recipes (Anthony Chu) - Have a look, there a recipe for every situation... And if its not there, well ask for it, they may add it!
• Create new Azure App Service using Cloud Explorer in Visual Studio (Abhijit Jana) - They're so many ways to do one thinks, there's one that fit your needs for sure. This post shows one I didn't know about... Did you?

Programming

• Creating RazorPage apps using the CLI (Shayne Boyer) - Cool slick optimization.
• Docker Compose and Kubernetes with Docker for Desktop - Docker Blog (Mike Coleman) - This post explains an awesome integration. It's time to upgrade our version to get that!
• Why Developers Should Install WSL Today (Matt Hyon, August Banks) - I love WSL (aka Bash on Windows). It has evolved, and become something much more. After ready this post you will either install it right away or smile because it's already installed.
• Why Responsive Web Design? (Chris Love) - A nice post that explains clearly why you really need to think responsive design, even more in 2018.

Miscellaneous

• 346: The Way to Build Relationships at Conferences (Dave StaChowiak, Robbie Samuels) - Great episode. I got so many "me too" and "ah ah". Looking Foward to read the book.
• The RULES of Blogging (Darren Rowse) - If you are already bloging, or thinking about starting, take two minutes and watch this short video... The rules are.... Simple.

Books

Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Author: Simon Sinek
- Fantastic book. To read a read-again to really capture and validate our path, our why.

Reading Notes #324

Cloud

• Using Chocolatey with Azure VMs (Dan Patrick) - If you are on Windows you must know Chocolatey.
• Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader in enterprise integration (Microsoft Azure) - It's always interesting to see the Gartner Magic Cadran result every year.
• How to quickly refer all available Azure services? (Abhijit Jana) - Nice post that gives a few key places to view the list of services available in Azure.

Programming

• ASP.NET Core 2.1 Preview on VSTS (Adam Storr) - This post explains a nice quickfix for your VSTS build flow.
• Searching docs using a .NET Core global tool (Shayne Boyer) - I didn' t know that dotnet-doc project! It's not only pretty cool but it just got better now available globally!
• Using HTTPS with Azure Functions in local development (Christos Matskas ) - Pretty cool quick post that explains the local https feature of the Azure Function v2.
• Windows Template Studio 2.0 is now available! (Clint Rutkas) - This is the perfect post to know what happened under the hood of this new version.

Miscellaneous

• Do you have to know English to be a Programmer? (Scott Hanselman) - Interesting post... At the end, English may not be a blocker...but you need some base. Otherwise, how could you even read this post!
• Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team (Edward Thomson) - Really interesting post about the Git practice at Microsoft and why they are doing it that way.
• The Canadian Real Estate Association delivers a better house-buying experience in the cloud (null) - Nice post about a reel business going in Azure.

Books

Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Author: Brian Tracy

A short book that pushes to action. I really enjoyed it. A book to read and read again.

ASIN: B01MYEM8SZ

Reading Notes #321

Suggestion of the week

• Creating an ASP.NET Core Markdown TagHelper and Parser (Rick Strahl) - Amazing post that shares a cool taghelper for our projects, and explains all steps to build it.

Cloud

• Beyond The Obvious With API Vision On Cognitive Services (Víctor Moreno ) - This post is a nice and details overview of the cognitive services.
• Deployment Pipelines For Versioned Azure Resource Manager Template Deployments ( Peter Groenewegen) - Great post that explains all the best practices to manage healthy ARM template.
• Differences between Azure Functions v1 and v2 in C# (Damien Guard) - Nice overview showing the differences in the code.
• Secure your backups, not just your data! (Aruna Somendra) - I do most of that already...but yeah not all of it. What's YOUR backup plan?

Programming

• Azure vs GCP part 15: Microservices (Kenichiro Nakamura) - Interesting post that compares two microservice platforms... A must.
• Converting a Ghost blog to a Progressive Web App (Dean Hume) - Very interesting post that explains every step in its conversion journey.
• How to deploy Angular application to GitHub (Dhananjay Kumar) - Nice post to get started with Angular and Angular CLI.
• Demystifying Serverless with Cecil Phillip (Scott Hanselman) - Very interesting discussion about serverless or less server programming...

Databases

• The world of Automatic Tuning – SQL Server 2017 | All About SQL on WordPress.com (blobeater) - I was also surprised, but yes it's true the auto tunning really works.

Miscellaneous

• From Windows to the Cloud (Tim Sneath) - Wow! Well... Speechless, just read it.

Books

When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Daniel H. Pink)

A really amazing book packed of very interesting advice. Things that you kind of already knew, or at least had a feeling you maybe knew are clearly explained to you.

After reading (or listening) this book, you will know why, and you can decide to fight it or change the when... improve your performance and use your time and energy on something else.

ISBN: 0525589333

Reading Notes #320

Cloud

• The next generation of Azure Alerts has arrived (Kiran Madnani) - This is good news, alerts are an important piece of any serious system.
• Know your Azure Subscription Quota and Usage (Wriju Ghosh) - Because waiting until it breaks is probably not the option you are looking for... It's a good idea to know your quotas first.

Programming

• A Beginner’s Guide to Testing Blockchain Applications (Kayleigh Oliver) - You have a project that could use blockchain and you are asking yourself what's next? This post is for you.
• Building Container Images Securely on Kubernetes (Jessie Frazelle) - Excellent post that digs into some security process with containers.
• Entity Framework Core and NHibernate: Understand the Similarities and Differences (Ricardo Peres) - Interesting comparison between two well knows framework at this new age of .Net Core.
• MVC vs Razor Pages - A quick comparison (Jon Hilton) - Interesting post that compares two architecture. However, all the unit-test and mocking/ dependency injection were not included...Nevertheless it worth reading f you hare new in .Net Core development.
• Making an Azure static website EVEN MORE secure (Julian M Bucknall) - This post is like a pleasant journey in the security word. You will probably learn a lot, just like the author did (and myself obviously)

Data

• Azure Cosmos DB training webinars - Cosmo DB is gaining in popularity. It's time to boost your skill check this webinar/ on-demand training.
• Capturing Power BI queries using DAX Studio (Marco Russo) - Great post that gets us started on ways to find optimization for our Power Bi. Not enough people know about DaxStudio, have a look it's free!
• Coming soon to Power BI: Common Data Service for Analytics (Arun Ulag) - Looking forward to trying that as it definitely looks promising.

Book

Making Time (Bob Clagett) - I really enjoyed reading that book. I've been watching Bob's YouTube Channel for a while. ANd was happy to ear about his new book. In Making Time, a little bit like in his videos, Bob explains how he build stuff... but this time instead of a furniture or a room, it's a new career/ business. A short book (88 pages) but a lot of fun.  

Reading Notes #319

Cloud

• Azure Log Analytics ML: Using the evaluate operator with the app() or workspace() scope function (Iris Classon) - A nice blog post that shares some beat stuff to make our queries to work.
• Custom Vision service deployment on Azure with ARM template (Vivien Chevallier) - The perfect post to get started following the best practices.

Programming

• Setting up Application Insights took 10 minutes. It created two days of work for me. (Scott Hanselman) - Application Insights is really an incredible tool. A must-have in any online project... Not only the cloud one, just need to have internet access.
• Using Swagger to automatically generate the client code (Evgeny Zborovsky) - A nice tutorial that explains how to do cool stuff with swagger.

Databases

• Making Azure the best place for all your applications and data (Rohan Kumar) - A few great products that turn GA are announced in this post.

Miscellaneous

• Finding What's Changed in Your Code (Peter Vogel) - This post is like a big slice of wisdom cake...
• Follow Your Passion Is WRONG? (What About MONEY?) (John Sonmez) - Follow your passion or what I personally refer to "fun".It's very important.

Reading Notes #318 - MVP Summit 2018

Last week, it was the 25 edition of the MVP Summit. An event, where Microsoft invites all his MVP to get to Seattle and spend some time with the products teams and learn on the latest news and best practices.

This year was particularly inspiriting by the Microsoft roadmap, of course,  but even more by all the amazing people a got the chance to meet and discuss with. I'm all pump-up, and I have tons of ideas and projects… more to come.

I already miss you…

Cloud

• Deploy Docker containers fast to Microsoft Azure (Michelangelo van Dam) - This is an excellent tutorial to get started with Docker and also to see what's possible with Azure Container Instance service (ACI).
• Testing Precompiled Azure Functions Locally with Storage Emulator -- Visual Studio Magazine (Jason Roberts) - Nice post that explains how to use the emulator.

Programming

• ASP.NET Identity for your custom user and roles models (Dominique St-Amand) - A nice detailed tutorial that explains clearly how to setup the identity with .Net Core.
• Upgrading a 10 year old site to ASP.NET Core's Razor Pages using the URL Rewriting Middleware (Scott Hanselman) - True upgrade story, I loved it.
• Upgrading my podcast site to ASP.NET Core 2.1 in Azure plus some Best Practices (Scott Hanselman) - Nice second post about a migration passing through today's best practices.

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