Reading Notes #309

Cloud

• Comment créer un nouvel usager dans votre Azure Active Directory (André Girard) - This post is a really nice little tutorial.
• New Azure management and cost savings capabilities (Jeremy Winter) - This post shares a few news feature to keep tracks of our consumption to keep it low.

Programming

• Can I Have My CPU Back Visual Studio? (Rion Williams) - This is an interesting and easy solution to an annoying problem. Hopefully, a fix is coming soon.
• New Git Features in Visual Studio 2017 Update 5 (Kayla Ngan) - I switched a while ago to external tools to manage my git repository... I will definitely try it out.

Databases

• How to change the #PowerBI desktop file connection from data model to a Power BI Service dataset or #AzureAS (Erik Svensen) - A very clever hack that open crazy opportunities.

Miscellaneous

• Todo lists: The right way (Dan Clarke) - Nice post that shares ideas to structure our ToDos.

My new Youtube Channel

I've been blogging for about ten years with you now on this blog, and it's been a pleasure. More recently I started, quietly, a French blog named: Cloud en Français, feel free to have a look.
Today, I'm super excited to share with you my new project: A YouTube channel with original content published every week... in French! Every Wednesday I will be publishing a five-minute video to answer a problem or a question.

Come see me online, subscribe, ask questions...

Cloud en 5 minutes




Je blogue depuis une dizaine d'années avec vous sur ce blogue, et c'est toujours un plaisir. Plus récemment j'ai commencé, plus silencieusement, un blogue français nommé: Cloud en Français, n'hésitez pas à jeter un coup d'œil.

Aujourd'hui, je suis super excité de partager avec vous mon nouveau projet: une chaîne YouTube avec du contenu original publié chaque semaine... en français! Chaque mercredi, je vais publier une vidéo d'environ cinq minutes pour répondre à un problème ou une question.

Venez me voir en ligne, abonnez-vous, posez des questions ...

Cloud en 5 minutes

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.