Reading Notes #345

Suggestion of the week

• How to securely connect to Azure from C# and run REST APIs (Benjamin Perkins) - Great post! This last piece put all the puzzle pieces together. And I love when author shared their mistakes... we learn even more.

Cloud

• How to audit an Azure subscription Role Based Access Control (RBAC) assignments (Stephane Lapointe) - Great new PowerShell script to help us keeping the control over our subscriptions.
• Introducing Azure DevOps (null) - VSTS just got a major update... It's now on called azure DevOps and is packed with tons of great features. Awesome!

Programming

• A complete containerized .NET Core Application microservice that is as small as possible (Scott Hanselman) - A great new part in the optimization journey of Scott and his Apps.
• Introducing Microsoft Learn (Microsoft Developer) - Nice short video that explains why the new Learn portal will be so great.
• NLog vs log4net vs Serilog: Compare .NET Logging Frameworks (Simon Timms) - Useful post that reviews three popular logging framework.
• Scripts to remove old .NET Core SDKs (Scott Hanselman) - Neet script! Thanks, Scott.

Miscellaneous

• Attitude Matters (When It Comes To Winning Users Over)! (Gaurav) - Interesting post that once again shows that communication is A great in both ways.
• When and Why Chatbots - The Wit and Ramblings of David Giard (David Giard) - Yes chatbot, are great... But not to all situation, learn more in the post why.
• Windows Virtual Desktop (null) - This week Microsoft announced what looks like a very simple way to get powerful environments without all the trouble to maintain them. More to come.

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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 #194

Suggestion of the week

• How to use Azure Search with D3.js to Build Interactive Data Visualizations (Liam Cavanagh) - An awesome idea to display the result of Azure Search, and it look really cool.

Cloud

• My First Azure DocumentDB Account (Eitan Blumin) - Nice tutorial that explains how to create a documentDB from scratch.
  
• Azure Preview Portal Improvements (June Update) (Leon Welicki) - Wow! See how little things can have a great impact on the user experience.
  
• Hey Azure, how's my Web App doing? - Great post about web apps metrics.
  
• New DocumentDB ORDER BY Features in the Azure Preview Portal (Stephen Baron) - Nice new feature.
  
• Cloud Cruiser and Microsoft Azure Billing API Integration - Interesting post that shows how we can use the new Azure billing API as data to there services.
  
• Gain insights into your Microsoft Azure resource consumption (BryanLa) - Interesting post to know more about our consumption.
  
• Azure Redis Cache Updates for June 2015 (Pranav Rastogi) - Nice quick post about the new Redis Cache features.
  
• Move VMware, AWS, Hyper-V and Physical Servers to Azure (Abhishek A. Hemrajani) - An amazing tool, and a great opportunity to try it for free!

Customers can replicate on-premises workloads to Azure with Azure Site Recovery for 31 days at no charge

• Integrate your on-premises infrastructure with Azure (Jim Dial) - A great tool to visualize the infrastructure to help in a hybrid situation.
  
• Announcing Cortana Analytics Suite and New Partner Investments at WPC 2015 (Takeshi Numoto) - I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Programming

• Microservices Guide - This is the perfect post to get started with micro services. a nice overview what it is, and when to use it.
  
• Are You Making These 10 DDD Mistakes? (Daniel) - Nice infographic about the most frequent mistakes.
  
• Transitioning from ASP.NET Web API 2 to ASP.NET MVC 6 - Great post that will walk you through all the things to watch before doing a transition to Asp.net 5 and Mvc6.
  
• A Step-by-Step Guide to Working with the ASP.NET Web API and AngularJS (Dhananjay Kumar) - Nice tutorial that presents a complete but simple scenario easy to follow.
  
• Node.js: Understanding NPM - This is the perfect post to get started on the Node NPM. A tool that every developer should know.

Documentation

• Role-based access control in the Microsoft Azure portal (Justin Hall) - Very complete doc.

Miscellaneous

• Cortana for Android Leaks Early, Available for Download (Kellex) - Nice, we can try Coryana today!
  
• Microsoft’s Global Partner Conference in Toronto July 2016 - Not far from home, this is really good.

~ Frank