Franky's Notes

Cloud

Accelerate your insights with Application Insights Performance Counters (Mackenzie Frackleton) - We always get more and more with Application Insights...
Announcing Azure App Service MySQL in-app (preview) (Sunitha Muthukrishna) - Wow! Many PHP developers must be waiting for this since so long. It's a very good news, and I'm sure many Wordpress users will be extremely happy too.
Extending Azure Logic Apps Using Azure Functions (MVP Award Program) - Nice post that shows are easy it is to put together Azure logic App and Azure functions.
Portal support for Azure Search blob and table indexers now in preview (Evan Boyle) - Easier than ever, this portal is so powerful. Good job.
New BizTalk Server connector preview rollout complete! (Jon Fancey) - The integrated integration platform....

Architecture in code (Sebastien Lambla) - Interesting short post about coding best practice.
Cloud-first, mobile-first: Microsoft moves to a fully wireless network (Mikkel Riis) - Nice interview with a Microsoft IT professional.
PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux (Jeffrey Snover) - Now that bash is available on Windows machine and PowerShell on Linux... everything is possible!
Visual Studio's most useful (and underused) tips (Scott Hanselman) - His post is a must for all VisualStudio users.

JSON support is generally available in Azure SQL Database (Jovan Popovic) - Cool. Now you can have both types of data in the same place. Not for every situation but pretty convenient.

How Do I Write Good Code? (Erik Dietrich) - Simple tips that will make our code rocks.

Application Insights: Track an Analytics query in a dashboard (Dan Hadari) - Nice quick intro to Azure analytics.
Logging and Error Handling in Logic Apps - Interesting post that shares a solution for real-life problem, by using document DB.
Visualizing your Azure enterprise costs with Power BI - PowerBI is fantastic to visualize data consumption, this post explains how EA subscription owner can now use it easily.

5 Reasons Your Daily Scrum is Boring - So simple and so hard to achieve. This post explains how to avoid common mistakes.
How Do I Write Good Code? (Erik Dietrich) - Simple tips that will make our code rocks.

Azure DevTest Labs: Set expiration date for a virtual machine - How could we have lived without that all that time... awesome
Creating “Codeless” Swagger Connectors for Logic Apps (Jeff Hollan [MSFT]) - This post is a great tutorial about how to create an API App ready to be used by Azure Logic App (or anything else of course).
Deploying an Angular 2 App to Azure with Github - Nice tutorial that leverage many frequently used tools, a popular framework and my favorite cloud platform.
Logic Apps Reaches General Availability - This post is a great summary of the changes introduced by the last release aka GA.
Microservices Cookbook: Design Principles and Solution Recipes for Microservices (Neil McEvoy) - Because something is done using a specific new tech that doen't automatically makes that thing better... Learn more about best practice and useful pattern.

A .NET IDE for the iPad? - Exploring Continuous with Frank Krueger - Wow! That look just fantastic. I cannot try it since I'm not a "jThing" owner, but I really like the idea of such a powerful and useful tool on a tablet. Looking forward to see how that will go.

GitKraken Pro git client teaming up with NightScout to support Open Source Diabetes software - Have you tried this awesome tool? I've been using it since the first private preview, and I love it. I really think it' s a must as git user interface
Windows Insider Program.next() (Dona Sarkar) - The Windows 10 anniversary edition is out since August 2nd. This post is about the community who made that possible, and explains how you could join.