Franky's Notes

Cloud

Create flexible ARM templates using conditions and logical functions (Kristian Nese) - I had so much oooh and aaah reading this post. Now ARM template won't necessarily be spaghetti.
6 Challenges Partners and Customers Face When Moving to the Cloud - Microsoft Partner Network (Tonny Siemons) - Excellent post that talks about real problems (situations) of real enterprises.
An Introduction to Blockchain with Mark Russinovich (Mark Russinovich, Seth Juarez) - Great video from Mark Russinovich himself.
Azure Functions – Prepare for continuous delivery (Mikael Krief) - The first post of a processing series, the focus of this one is all about creating our project from scratch in Visual Studio.
Azure Tips and Tricks Part 10 - Quickly Connect to a Linux VM with SSH (Michael Crump) - Another nice tips and tricks post, and this one contain one I personally discovered very recently concerning ssh on windows.
Overview on Web App for Containers and Azure App Service on Linux (Apurva Joshi) - Now that GA nothing should stop us. This post is a great overview of this Azure service.
Why Healthcare Is Moving To The Cloud (But Isn't There Yet) (Martin Gontovnikas) - Very interesting article that explains few things from real life.

Cloud Database? NoSQL? Nah, just use CSVs and CsvHelper (Scott Hanselman) - You are right Scott, keep it super simple sound waaaaaay better; love it.

Ways to get involved in the local tech community (5 of 5) (Jason Haley) - This post close a nice series about the community. Looking forward to seeing you at a meetup...

Announcing Default Encryption for Azure Blobs, Files, Table and Queue Storage (Lavanya Kasarabada) - Awesome, now more secured without any efforts for our part, I like it that way.
Azure Functions Visual Studio 2017 Tooling (Mark Heath) - One cool video lesson about the tooling.
Creating distributed workflows with Azure Durable Functions (Tamir Dresherl) - A perfect post to get started and learn more about the new Durable Azure Functions.

4 Benefits of Migrating to ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Jonathan Danylko) - This post clarifies some ambiguities about the migration to Asp.Net Core.
How to cook Azure Mobile Apps (node.js): Xamarin and .NET Standard (Sergiy Baydachnyy) - This great tutorial shows a few gotchas that could happen when developing a Xamarin App.

Using PostgreSQL Document Databases with Azure Functions and Marten (Jason Roberts) - Quick in simple, I like it.

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.