Franky's Notes

Microsoft Build 2016

Keynote Presentation - Day 1 - The grand opening! All about us: developers.
Keynote Presentation - Day 2 - The second day opening, with all the details about Azure and Xamarin!
Build 2016 - So many great presentations, make your own schedule or download them all using the Alex's Script.
Download All Sessions in SD Quality (Alexandre Brisebois) - With most of the big event comes the Alex's script... very useful!

Using PowerShell to manage API Connections (Kevin Lam _ Microsoft) - Quick tip to do some clean-up in our connections.
Effective ways to delete resources in a resource group on Azure - I love it! Very clever trick to delete all resources in a group but not deleting the group. And so simple.
Brand new Docker Machine for Azure (Ahmet Alp Balkan) - Important notice in this update since it is no backward compatible.
Gartner names Microsoft Azure a leader in aPaaS (Nicole Herskowitz) - Good news, Azure PaaS identified as a leader by Gartner for the third year.

Getting to Know #Azure Mobile App Part 2 - Nice post that explains how to setup VSTS and HockeyApp to deploy an Universal application.

Reduce Cloud Data Costs and Improve System Performance in Azure (Marc Dugas) - Useful post that shares good tips to save more.
Developer's introduction to Azure IoT (Olivier Bloch) - Great post that explains what is IoT and the strengths o the Azure flavor.
Using PowerShell to manage API Connections (Kevin Lam) - Quick tip to do some clean-up in our connections.

Conditional Workflows in Postman (ankit) - First post of a promising series, it sets the table listing the tools required to have a dynamic workflow.
Using Web Deploy in Visual Studio Team Services Release Management (Jakob Ehn) - Nice post that demystifies MSBuild deployment on VSTS.
Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong (Ed Anuff) - Interesting point of view, if you do API, it's a must.

Public preview: JSON in Azure SQL Database - Interesting, we will be able to do json query directly in the Sql Database.
Simple and reliable data movement with Azure Data Factory Copy Wizard (Anand Subbaraj) - Since all cloud projects included data migration, any reliable tool is a good news. I'm looking forward to try this one.

An application revolution powered by the cloud (Mark Russinovich) - This post is a great introduction to the air of micro-services. It explains the evolution from the monolithic architecture and introduces some container system.
Azure Active Directory Application (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - This post is a good intro to Azure Active Directory and how it could help us in our cloud applications.
Why Microsoft Azure? - Interesting post that explains major reasons why Microsoft is a lead in cloud computing.
Load Balancing VMs in Azure Resource Manager (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Another great tutorial from Vincent.
Creating a Node.js Azure Mobile App from OS X or Linux - Excellent tutorial that shows step by step how to build a unique backend easily using Azure mobile services.

Save money with Application Insights’ web SDK 2.0 (Beckylin Orooji) - Nice new version that gives us more flexibility, but be aware it also included important breaking changes.
Visual Studio Code Jumpstart for Node.js Developers (Dave Johnson) - This post is a nice tutorial that explains about to get started in Node.js by setting up our dev environment from scratch.
Introducing LINQPad.QueryPlanVisualizer (Giorgi) - Great tool.

Save money with Application Insights’ web SDK 2.0 (Beckylin Orooji) - Nice new version that gives us more flexibility, but be aware it also included important breaking changes.