Let’s talk Hybrid Cloud with Clemens Vasters at a Special Montreal Event.

The summer is mostly here, and that usually mean a break for the community group, but the Azure Group of MSDevMtl still have one more surprise for you. Clements Vaster, the Microsoft's "Principal Messenger", driving global technical strategy for Microsoft's Azure Messaging platform services: Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Relay, is coming to Montreal!

Join us on the Friday June 9th 2017, for a great talk about “Hybrid cloud”. These days most solution need to run by a combination of on-premises and public cloud assets. In this morning session, we will learn how those systems can be integrated. This perspective is, however, largely constrained to data-center like assets, and typically to the scope of one organization.

For this special event, we decided to remove the usual fee, so it's a FREE event!

Register quickly on the meetup site because the places are limited. Register here: https://www.meetup.com/msdevmtl/events/239731426/


See you there!

Reading Notes #274

Suggestion of the week

• Web Scraping In Power BI And Excel Power Query (Gil Raviv) - Just recently I've learned about Power BI web scrapping capability, then this! I didn't think it could be that great! Great post.

Cloud

• Azure Backup’s cloud-first approach and why it matters (Shreesh Dubey) - Nice post that explains the complete backup service in Azure.
• Azure functions - Just the CLI, hold the GUI, add some git (Shayne Boyer) - Nice tutorial that explains how to deploy an ARM template using Azure CLI simple commands.
• Interesting facts about Azure BizTalk Hybrid Connections! (Alexander Laysha) - Nice post that explains how works the hybrid connections.
• Trying ASP.NET Core on the Google Cloud Platform "App Engine Flexible Environment" (hanselman.com) - Interesting share that inspires to try .Net Core... outside of the happy path. Awesome.

Programming

• Model Binding in ASP.NET Core - Simple Talk (Dino Esposito) - Great tutorial that introduces the auto bindings and shows how to implement it.
• What’s New in Visual Basic 2017 (The Visual Basic Team) - It's been a while since I coded in VB but reading this post brought back all those souvenirs... Great work.
• 6 Reasons Why JavaScript’s Async/Await Blows Promises Away (Mostafa Gaafar) - Nice update. For a .Net developer, this is perfect!

Reading Notes #264

Cloud

• Azure Logic App Updates January 2017 (Chris Pietschmann) - You through the number of new features would be less because of holidays Guess again, once again this team delivers tons of new stuff.
  
• Collaboration and federation: Azure Service Bus Messaging on-premises futures (Clemens Vasters) - Important announcement about Service Bus and his sibling's future.
  
• DevOps with Azure Functions - a holistic approach (Christos Matskas ) - Excellent post that explains why so many people love and use Azure Functions (or any serverless options).
  
• Easily Manage Azure Web App Connection Strings using PowerShell | Opsgility (Chris Pietschmann) - Great tutorial in PowerShell that provides guidance on editing AppSetting in Azure.
  
• How to enable the public preview of IaaS backups with Recovery Services in Canada using PowerShell (Stéphane Lapointe) - You want backup capabilities today, and you live in Canada? This is the post for you.

Programming

• Introducing Docker 1.13 (Docker Core Engineering) - This post summarizes all the great features added in the new release and shows again why Docker is such a fantastic tool in the containers' world.

Databases

• Automated Partition Management with Azure Analysis Services (Christian Wade) - Interesting ideas ready to be reviewed... more to come.

Miscellaneous

• Atom on Windows (Damien Guard) - Nice update.

Reading Notes #148

Suggestion of the week

• Scaling a standard Azure website to 380k queries per minute of 163M records with loader.io (Troy Hunt) - Amazing post that shows and explains scaling tests over huge spike. It's a long post but the read worth the time.

Cloud

• Microsoft Azure cloud plugin for TeamCity (dabbling in Java code) (Maarten Balliauw) - Very promising teamcity plug in with Azure. Early tester requested...
  
• Azure Hybrid Connections (Tyler Doerksen) - Nice quick post about the new hybrid connection and what opens to.
  
• NodeJs, Azure and IIS (Ugo Lattanzi) - This post shares a very simple solution to a problem.

Programming

• ASP.NET Session State using SQL Server In-Memory (Ken Kilty) - Interesting introduction to a new feature that come with SQL Server 2014.
  
• Day 14: Bootstrap Alerts and MVC Framework TempData (James Chambers) - Really interesting wait to manage alerts in a Asp.Net MVC project. I like it. Day 18: Customizing and Rendering Bootstrap Badges - This post introduces quickly the bundle to manage our css files. Day 19: Long-Running Notifications Using Badges and Entity Framework Code First - This post introduces the mvvm pattern and the EF migration capability. Day 20: An ActionFilter to Inject Notifications This post explains how to create actionFilter: a powerful tool.
  
• Various strategies to initialize Database in Entity Framework (Sourav Kayal) - Nice post that explains the four options to initialize our database with EF.
  
• Visualizing Nuget packages dependencies without Visual Studio Ultimate (Pascal Laurin) - Great work! If you don't have the Visual Studio Ultimate edition, this post is for you. Discover a useful tool to see dependencies and how this tool was built.
  
• How to Deal with Slow Unit Tests with Visual Studio Test Runner - Interesting tips to be sure that a maximum of tests are executed as often as possible.
  
• The Repository Pattern in ASP.NET – Part 1 - Nice videos that explains a useful pattern in the .Net framework.

Miscellaneous

• Try.Fail.Learn.Improve (Steve Rowe) - Interesting thoughts about how we should approached life or any challenge.
  
• On Programmers Productivity (Patrick Smacchia) - Interesting sharing of positive productivity practices.