Reading Notes #358

Cloud

• Managing Durable Functions Orchestration History (Mark Heath) - Perfect quick post to learn the new features in Azure durable function.
• Microsoft Announces New Features and Integrations for Azure Pipelines (Steef-Jan Wiggers) - Really cool new feature to work with the Azure DevOps Pipeline...like a VSCode extension!

Programming

• Using Cake GitHub Action (Gary Ewan Park) - This post explains how to bonify our CI/CD very interesting.
• API Controllers in ASP .NET Core (Shahed Chowdhuri) - Interesting post to learn more about the Controllers and its nuances.
• Introducing check runs and annotations (Meaghan Lewis) - A nice new update to the GitHub extension.

Miscellaneous

• Get to code: How we designed the new Visual Studio start window - Super interesting post that shows how Microsoft take our feedback, listen and react to our comments in order to continuously improve their/our tools.
• How to remove words from the Windows Autocorrect Spell Check Dictionary (Scott Hanselman) - Great tips thanks Scott.
• Why you should write [code] every day - A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller) - Great post to be motivated. Keep doing it and to do it more!

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Reading Notes #354

Cloud

• Azure Functions—Key Vault integration   - Nice tight integration that will simplify our lives.
• Azure Functions Continuous Deployment with Azure Pipelines- Part 7 (Jason Roberts) - Excellent series to learn and get started with continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• My first Azure build & deploy pipelines for an Azure Function V2 (Joost van Schaik) - A nice tutorial that shows how easy it is to deploy an Azure function with Azure DevOps Pipeline.
• Running Cognitive Service containers (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen) - This post is the perfect one to get started with those new cognitive containers.
• This resource group will self destruct in 30 minutes (Mark Heath) - Pretty clever way to "not forget" any unused resources... And there so save money!

Programming

• Creating a .NET Global Tool from an existing Console Application (Rick Strahl) - Very interesting post that explains some strategy for global donet core application and how to work share them with nuget.
• Upgrading the DakBoard Family Calendar with Raspberry Pi Zero W and Read Only filesystem (Scott Hanselman) - Not even a week has past and it's already version 2! Excellent!!

Books

Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win (Jocko Willink, Leif Babin) - Very interesting book. Yes, it contains a lot of battle details, and first I was not sure, but then things "fall" all in place when you understand what the story was "demonstrating." It also contains more business focus examples. Everything is very clear, well explained in plain English.









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Reading Notes #352

Suggestion of the week

• Node.js Everywhere with Environment Variables! (John Papa) - Wow! This awesome post brings you from zero to hero with steps of a extreme clarity. If you are interested in Node.js it a must.

Cloud

• Azure Functions Contact Form HTTP Trigger (Tom Faltesek) - A really interesting and useful utilization of an Azure Function to boost an existing solution (in this case a blog)

• Azure Functions Dependency Injection with Autofac (Jason Roberts) - An interesting tutorial that explains how to improve our functions.

Programming

• Best practices for building Kubernetes Operators and stateful apps | Google Cloud Blog (Palak Bhatia, Jun Xiang Tee) - Great post that lists the best practices to for our kubernetes projects

• Building a Web App With Yeoman (Oscar Salas) - A very complete and detailed post about yeoman. What it is, what it can do, how to install it. The only thing missing could be one final example to get started.

• Testing a WebAPI in .NET Core with Integration tests (Dominique St-Amand) - This post explains a good and simple way to build tests.

Data

• Azure Data Architecture Guide (Ed Price) - Nice new book, based on the best practices of the AzureCAT... Yeah. We all need this book!

Miscellaneous

• Updating my ASP.NET Website from .NET 2.2 Core Preview 2 to .NET 2.2 Core Preview 3 (Scott Hanselman) - Really cool "live" post where we follow Scott updating his website.

Books

• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business (Josh Kaufman) - An interesting book that helps to get in the mood, get prepared, and maybe for some whom weren't sure yet about the idea of a personal MBA (compare to the regular one)... Help to start planning and get moving. This book isn't an one book miracle MBA certification, but most likely a really good way to understand the journey the reader is about to start. The complete list of books to achieve this adventure is constantly updated and is available online. 

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