Franky's Notes

Cloud

Azure Automation of A-to-Z, Part I (dbakevlar)
- This is a great post very instructive, that explains how and why we should structure our scripts.
Azure Policies (Gregor Suttie) - One of the best tools to he
lp us with the governance in Azure is the policies. This post is a nice introduction to how it could help.
Setting Up Azure Key Vault w
ith an Azure Website (Web API) (Luis Valencia) - This is the second post of a very instructive series, and this time it focuses on Keyvault.

Debug your live apps running in Azure Virtual Machines and Azure Kubernetes (Visual Studio Blog) - Nice addition to the rem
ote debugger experience
How to set up Gatsby and Auth0 for easy authentication on your next project -
A geek with a hat (Swizec Teller ) - Cool post that shows how to implement an auth authentification within a static website.
Top 5 Open Source Features i
n Azure Pipelines (Edward Thomson) - Learn why the Azure DevOps Pipelines are so great in this post about the evolution of an opensource
project.

A Few Coding Patterns with the MongoDB C# API (Julie Lerman
) - An instructive post about how to use MongoDB.
If You Think “Digital Transformation” is About Kubernet
es, You’re Wrong (Richard Seroter,) - Interesting thoughts, looking forward to read what's next.
Why Containers are a Game Changer for Software Development (Mike Hadlow) - Very interesting
post about containers and the raise of gitOps.

Automating Releases in GitHub through Azure Pipelines (Raiyan Alam) - So cool, I need to find a project to do that. Ok bye.

Creating a Windows Container Build Agent for Azure Pipelines (Jakob Ehn) - This excellent post explains how to build a container with all the components required to have a full .Net build agent.
How to use Windows 10's built-in OpenSSH to automatically SSH into a remote Linux machine (Scott Hanselman) - Nice post that explains how to configure what we already have, instead of installing yet another tool.
Remote debugging with VS Code on Windows to a Raspberry Pi using .NET Core on ARM (Scott Hanselman) - A great example of the mojo: if you do a thing twice... automate it.
Security bugs are fundamentally different than quality bugs (Tanya Janca) - This is a nice post that examines, dissects the difference between QA and security tests.

MongoDB on Windows in Minutes with Docker (Jeremy Likness) - A great quick tutorial to install a mongodb in a container in 2 minutes.

Simplicity is Key - Exploring Minimal Web Design (Cameron Chapman) - A very inspiring post that shows us many good designs.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective IT Leaders (JD Meier) - Interesting post. It covers pretty well all the aspect of efficient IT people. Easy to identify hard to master.
What's the Best Video Stabilization Software? Premiere, After Effects, Resolve Reviewed (Lewis McGregor) - Very detailed analysis of the stabilization feature.

ARM Templates vs Azure CLI (Mark Heath) - What a great post that answer (well..explains) the pros and cons of each method. Great post Mark!

Creating a Massively Scalable Blog with Ghost, MySQL and Azure (Rob Conery) - Nice script, neat explication and tweak.
Deploying a personal blog with GitHub Actions (Den Delimarsky) - Very cool tutorial... Nice to see a static generator in Go.
Moving your ASP.NET applications to the Microsoft Cloud (Premier Developer) - If you are thinking to migrate to the cloud, it's important to plan your migration. This post is the perfect point to get started, it contains references to deeper books and documents.

Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server in NodeJS Applications (Michael Szul) - Nice tutorial that shows how to write some test in Typescript.
What are all the Chocolatey repositories for? (Gary Ewan Park) - Woooh.I didn't know Chocolatey had so many repos! Awesome and very instructive post.
Kubernetes Ingress Controllers and Certificates: The Walkthrough (Jessica Deen) - Awesome video!
The Life of a GitHub Action (Jessie Frazelle) - A nice quick post that clarifies things around those actions.
The Rise of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (Lyn Levenick) - Cool statistics about editor usage. Not sure of the real correlation with the editor used and the skill level, but it's still an interesting coincidence.

How to Forget About Work When You’re Not Working (Art Markman) - Interesting post that treats an important topic.
Stream Deck Tricks for Streamers… and Muggles too! (Jeff) - Fantastic post that explains so much why that little thing can save you so much pain. As THE day when I'm starting to stream get closer and closer... This is gold.