Franky's Notes

Suggestion of the week

Writing tests in Postman (joyce) - With all the connected things and all the API in our system, this post shows a brilliant and simple way to test all those external calls.

Benefits of using the Azure IoT SDKs, and pitfalls to avoid if you don’t (Yi Zhong) - All open sources and packed of good stuff thus post shares all these goodies and some best practices if you decide to go without it.
Container Orchestration Simplified with Managed Kubernetes in Azure Container Service (AKS) (Scott Hanselman, Rob Caron) - Great video that shows us how simplified our work could be.
How we set up daily Azure spending alerts and saved $10k (Mike Larah) - Cloudyn is definitely a must in many cases. I need to see how it manages CSP subscriptions and limited access for clients. This post also shared how to integrate it in Slack, pretty cool.
One-click replication for Azure Virtual Machines with Azure Site Recovery (Sujay Talasila) - Fantastic! It couldn't be more simple.

Miniblog.Core is a new blog engine built using ASP.NET Core 2.0 (Mads Kristensen) - This post is not only about a sweat new blog engine, but also a call for coders. Everything is available on GitHub.
Server-side charts with ASP.NET Core, Node services and D3.js | Gunnar Peipman - Programming Blog (Gunnar Peipman) - D3 is an amazing and very popular library, this post shows a very nice project built with it.
Create a .NET Core 2 application on Linux with Visual Studio Code (Benjamin Perkins) - Nice quick tutorial to quickly get started.
How to install NuGet Package in Visual Studio Code Linux Ubuntu (Benjamin Perkins) - Quick and easy.

What is Power BI Embedded? (Guy in a Cube ) - A quick video that explains perfectly the purpose of The embedded offer.

What’s Your Project Problem? (Johanna) - Interesting post of view and many good references about time and resourceful people management.

Azure Event Grid vs Azure IoT Hub: Which is better for IoT? (Chris Pietschmann) - This great post explains both services and then their differences. Both can do most of the time, but when it becomes serious, which one is the best for your scenario?
Azure Virtual Machines Anatomy (Vincent-Philippe Lauzon) - This post is an excellent biopsy of a virtual machine, it explains every part one by one.
Experiment with Azure for FREE! (Anthony D. Green) - It's time to get started; it's free, and it's the real deal.
List all App Service web apps outbound IP addresses used in a subscription (Stéphane Lapointe) - Nice little gem.
User accounts made easy with Azure (Andrew B Hall) - Excellent post showings how easy it is to integrate user management in our app. I wish I had that when I started my last portal...

You Have No Excuse for Dead Code (Erik Dietrich) - This post explains why more is not always better.

Azure Data Lake Tools for Visual Studio Code (VSCode) October Updates (Jenny Jiang) - What I like about VSCode is that it is so customizable, it can still be very light and do a fantastic job for people with highly different goals.

Use a second laptop as an extended monitor with Windows 10 wireless displays (Scott Hanselman) - Wow! How cool is that!
Why You Shouldn't Worry About Imposter Syndrome (Jordan Scheltgen) - This post is a great piece of wisdom.

Botwin offers an interesting alternative option for routing with ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - Interesting “addon” for web dotnet project, it’s something that worth some more time.
Writing Precompiled Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 – Visual Studio Magazine (Jason Roberts) - Good little post that introduces the new Azure Function project part of Visual Studio. Sweet!

ASP.NET Core Identity and PostgreSQL (Mark Rendle) - Nice quick fix.
Avoiding circular dependency errors in DAX (Alberto Ferrari) - Very interesting post that explains how to avoid (or understand why we have) circular references.
Put your databases on autopilot with a lift and shift to Azure SQL Database (Lindsey Allen) - This post shares the different type of SQL Database available for us in Azure and briefly explains when each of them is at his best.
Why data modeling is important in #powerbi (Marco Russo) - Interesting thoughts about data modeling.

My First Year as an MVP, part 1 (Jen Kuntz) - Interesting post. It feels soooooo familiar, and yet so far now. I look forward to meeting you in March fellow Canadian MVP.