Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

15 Lessons Learned while Converting from ASP.NET to .NET Core (Matt Watson) - What a great post! You must put it in your to-read list before starting your next .Net Core session.

Azure Tips and Tricks Part 1 - Use Keyboard Shortcuts in the Azure Portal (Michael Crump) - This post is the first of a series that will show tons of little gems hidden in the Azure portal.
What is Azure Event Grid? (Chris Pietschmann) - Great post that introduces the new kid on the block (in the cloud).
Microsoft builds Raspberry Pi Simulator - All cool is that!

Visual Studio Code on Raspbian - Pretty cool that VSCode is now available on RaspberryPi!

A New Real-Time AI Platform from Microsoft, and a Speech Recognition Milestone (Cortana Intelligence and ML Blog Team) - This post is a good summary of the recent news from Microsoft in AI.
Dressing Better Than... Your Boss? (John Sonmez) - Interesting thoughts about the dress code in enterprises.
The Best Books All Software Developers Should Read (John Sonmez) - Definitely worth it. Y next book to read is probably in this best-of list
Write It Down! (Victor Savkin) - Interesting suggestion to get better.

Announcing the Coco Framework for enterprise blockchain networks (Mark Russinovich) - You probably eared the buzz word blockchain before, but still not sure what it is exactly… Here is a good post to get started and in the meantime, you will know also an open-source framework to work with.
Announcing the new and improved Azure Log Analytics (Ketan Ghelani) - Only one click and all those news features are yours.
Introducing Azure Event Grid – an event service for modern applications (Corey Sanders) - Pretty awesome new feature. I’m looking forward to trying it.
Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell (Corey Sanders) - My first thought about Cloud Shell was: cute. And then I was in a situation where … well, it really helped me. So yeah, definitely something to look at, and this post is the perfect starting point.
On-premises data gateway support for Azure Analysis Services (Bret Grinslade) - A new connector in this very useful connection tool.
Plan Backup and Disaster Recovery for Azure IaaS Disks (Sirius Kuttiyan) - This nice post briefly explains the different options with different pros & cons but untimely for the same results our safety.
Rapidly Deploy Serverless Azure Functions Using PowerShell (Doug Finke) - Azure functions are so accessible it’s unbelievable. This post explains why and shows how to get our code/script deployed in the cloud in a snap.

5 Common Myths Around Moving to Docker (Megan Rees Ahigian ) - Nice post that answers some very frequent assumptions related to container and more particularly, Docker containers.

I Almost Left Tech Today, Here’s Why (Clémentine Pirlot) - What a shame we are in 2017 and those behaviors not only still exist, but are tolerated.

Migrating a Web App from ClearDB to Azure Database for MySQL (Jason Anderson) - Great tutorial that explains step by step how to migrate your database. For all the people that use the Wordpress in Azure ns have complained about this very limited ( but free) ClearDB setup, this post is for you.
The gap is filled: How Azure Container Instances completes the PaaS hosting spectrum at last – Opsgility (John Adams) - Learn a bit of PaaS history in this nice post.

A proper terminal for Visual Studio (Scott Hanselman) - Hmmm. I like that idea...
VS Code Quick Tip: Install Curl to Speed Up REST API Testing -- Visual Studio Magazine (David Ramel) - Great way to speed up API testing indeed, and very simple too.

Introducing the #Azure #CosmosDB Change Feed Processor Library (Judy Hanwen Shen) - Cool post that lists a few scenarios where CosmoDB could really help you.

Build apps faster with Azure Serverless (Raman Sharma) - Full automatic and all on demand, today's cloud offer a lot.