Reading Notes #230

Suggestion of the week

• Data Locality - Great troubleshooting session explained, definitely a post to read.

Cloud

• A first look at Azure Functions (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - Nice little post that demystifies Azure functions.
  
• Azure Gives Storage the Cold Shoulder! (Dan Patrick) - Now Azure has is own long storage for a very little price. Learn more in this post.
  
• Data Locality - Great troubleshooting session explained, definitely a post to read.
  
• What is Azure Resource Manager? - Very nice post that clarifies what's ARM where it comes from and witch gap it comes to fills.
  
• Introducing Azure Cool Blob Storage (Sriprasad Bhat) - Everything about the new Azure storage option.

Programming

• Getting Angular Intellisense in Visual Studio Code (Laurent Duveau) - Nice reminder how great is vscode and how easy it could become even better, just for you.
  
• Visual Studio Code Snippets - Another quick tip to customize your vscode.
  
• Simplifying API documentation for a great first user experience (abhinav) - Nice post that touches a very important point... docs.

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Reading Notes #229

Cloud

• Live Metrics Stream in Application Insights (Beckylin Orooji) - Wonderful, I'm looking forward to testing it.
  
• Create a Service Bus namespace using an ARM template - Awesome news! The service bus was expected in Azure Resource Manager for a very long time.
  
• Logic Apps: Tips and Tricks about the “new” Logic Apps Designer (Sandro Pereira) - This post introduces the great features brought by the redesign of the Azure Logic App designer.
  
• Logic Apps: How to add several actions inside a Loop (Sandro Pereira) - Another great post about Logic App. This time it explains how to do looping and other actions that were done differently in Biztalk.

Data

• Azure Stream Analytics and Power BI general availability (Ryan CrawCour) - Good news, having meta-data it's really nice but being able to see what it contains that's fantastic!

Programming

• Become a Visual Studio 2015 Power User (Allison Buchholtz-Au, Andrew Hall) - All Visual Studio developers must watch this video, big chance you had a d in your hand and didn't know about it.

Miscellaneous

• It's a new blog! (Troy Hunt) - A delicious post, thanks Troy to share that with us.

A practical overview of Service Fabric

(Ce billet en aussi disponible en français: Un aperçu pratique de Microsoft Azure Service Fabric)


During the last Global Azure Bootcamp (April 16), the Montreal edition focused on Azure Service Fabric. The schedule for that day was packed with dynamic presentation and hand-on labs. Either because you were unable to be present or just because you want to learn more, it is not too late. The MsDevMtl team is happy to share with you all our documents we used.

Before you start

• To be able to do the Hand on Labs you will need:
• A PC with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10
• VisualStudio 2015 Update 1 or 2
• Service Fabric SDK v2.0.135 (or more recent)
• A Microsoft Azure subscription. If you don't already have one, here a free trial to get you started aka.ms/azuretrialmtl

The One-day Schedule

As you see the complete edition of the Azure Fabric Learning Path contains much more details and labs. Since we had only one day we decided to cherry picked what we thought was the best to get started, but feel free do more.

• Intro to services and Service Fabric Overview
• Labs 1 & 2
• Application Packaging & deployment
• Diner
• Labs 3 & 4
• MS at scale & High Availability
• Lab 5
• Diagnostics & Health policies
• Lab 6
• Who is using SF, AoA, Testing
• Lab 7 & 8
• Upgrades
• Lab 9
• Conclusion

Where to find everything you need

• Main presentation deck
• Microsoft Azure Fabric Learning Path
• Meetup Details, Q&A

Questions?

All the presentations were done by Alexandre Brisebois (@Brisebois), Stepahne Laporte (@s_lapointe), myself (@fboucheros), and under the supervision of our fantastic bandmaster Guy Barette (@GuyBarrette). Feel free to ask us questions if you get blocked during your journey.




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