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 #231

Suggestion of the week

• Introducing docs.microsoft.com - Great post that explains all the nice features of the first glimpse of the new Microsoft documentation. They did a fantastic work, a post to read; a site to remember.

Cloud

• Why Service Fabric? - You heard about the buzz word your tech guys are exited, but you would like to know why service fabric could be good for your business? This post is for you.
  
• Azure Active Directory – Why You Should Care - Nice post. It's all in the title...

Programming

• Simplifying API documentation for a great first user experience (abhinav) - Nice post that touches a very important point... docs.

Data

• The 95th Percentile - Like they say the devil is in the details.
  
• Using The R Visual in Power BI - Interesting usage of two powerful tool.
  
• 10 things to know about DocumentDB Partitioned Collections (Aravind Ramachandran) - Perfect post to stay up to date with the latest DocumentDB features.

Miscellaneous

• How does criticism hit your brain? (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Interesting thoughts, loaded of wisdom.
  
• Here's how I verify data breaches - Interesting post, because even hacks must be validated.