Reading Notes #584

It is time to share new reading notes. It is a habit I started a long time ago where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week.

If you think you may have interesting content, share it! 

Cloud

• Avoiding Accidental Function Name Collisions (Sam Cogan) - Making sure names or unique is a tricky things.Great post that will make us save time.

• Getting Started with Infra for Developers in Azure (Andreas Helland) - The ease of creating and managing virtual desktop is very useful in many scenario as this post shows. And Aspire looks just as amazing... What's your top favorite from the recent past events?

• How To: APIM Asynch to Synch Pattern (Jeffrey Chilberto) - Interesting challenge, and definitely interesting solution.

• Azure Durable Entities Revisited (Ken Ross) - Durable functions are a great tools in integration and long process activities.This post is a very nice introduction on the topic.

Programming

• Redacting sensitive data in logs with Microsoft.Extensions.Compliance.Redaction (Andrew Lock) - Another excellent post! Its great to be able to remove (aka redact) some information from the logs, and not lost all our hair in the process.

• Named Entity Recognition Using Azure AI (Carl Layton) - A cool little post from an advent series.

Podcasts

• Building a better internet with Cloudflare's Rita Kozlov (Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman) - Just like Scott said: I'm a user of Cloudflare for years, but didn't gave you any money yet, is it okay? Learn if it is and why in this nice episode.

• 388: Developer to Manager, Hybrid Success, & Capacity for Innovation (Merge Conflict) - Interesting discussion between James and Heather (in replacement of Frank) to talk about management in a tech company.

• KubeCon Live with Friends 2023 (DevOps and Docker Talk: Cloud Native Interviews and Tooling) - A review of KubeCon, what's hot what's new and more.

• Maarten Balliauw: Developer Tools - Episode 273 (Azure DevOps Podcast) - I really enjoy this episode with Maarten where he talks about Riders, and their vision of this IDE, and other different tools.

• A Curious Mind with movie producer Brian Grazer (A Bit of Optimism) - Stay curious what ever says people around you, that could be an advice learn from this episode.

• 70. The future of global Azure: Sharing knowledge and growing the community - with Rik Hepworth (Betatalks the podcast) - Aaaah... I didn't know why the named change! Global Azure (aka Global Azure Boot Camp) will be in April. Are you planning to do something?

• Blogging with guest Andrew Lock (Weekly Dev TipsWeekly Dev Tips) - Why should you blog, I mean now in 2023/2024? Listen to Andrew answering to this question. He knows what he is talking about, he blog every weeks and he is an author (love the book too btw).

Miscellaneous

• It's The Holiday Season, Which Means I'm Goofing With My Site (Rob Conery) - Lovely! What ar your plan / side project you are planing to work on (if you have some time off)?

~ Frank

Reading Notes #583

It is time to share new reading notes. It is a habit I started a long time ago where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week. 

If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

Suggestion of the week

• Getting Started with Blazor’s New Render Modes in .NET 8 (Jon Hilton) - Amazing post that covers the four rendering mode for Blazor in .NET 8.There just enough code to understand the concept and see the trade-offs and advantages of each options.

  

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Cloud

• A Decade of Have I Been Pwned (Troy Hunt) - Congrats for this anniversary and what a journey it was.I remember reading with passion your tech blog describing the tech decision taken for the site.

• Making Azure the Best Place to Observe Your Apps with OpenTelemetry (Matthew McCleary) - Looking back, tracking, monitoring, tracing are such important action when we think about application life cycle.I'm very happy to see Azure offers a great sets of tools to do it.

• Azure Arc Setup on Windows Server (Thomas Maurer) - Nice super easy wizard experience on our Windows servers.

• How to delete an Azure storage account with an unlocked Immutability policy (Stephane Lapointe) - It's great to have those security feature and to understand how they work.This post explains very clearly one of them the option we have to remove that security, and even have script snippets.

Programming

• Podman vs Docker: What are the differences? (Alex Gamela, Rute Figueiredo) - Nice post that help understanding the differences between these two tool.

• How to Switch Between .NET SDK Versions (Lennart Pries) - Quick tips for new .NET developers .

• 🤖 Does Functional Programming Matter To You? (Rob Conery) - Interesting and intriguing post about functional programming. Wanna share your thoughts? Rob is waiting for your comments...

Miscellaneous

• Terminal Chat in Windows Terminal Canary (Christopher Nguyen) - Wait, What?

• How to Become a T-Shaped Developer and Boost Your Career (sadukie) - The lesson here is embrace who you are. Very nice post about the type of people we are.

~ Frank

Reading Notes #582

It is time to share new reading notes. It is a habit I started a long time ago where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week. 

 If you think you may have interesting content, share it!

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Cloud

• How to Write NoSQL Queries with Copilot for Azure Cosmos DB (Lee Stott) - Copilot is such a time saver.For everyone who jump from projects to projects using different languages and data sources.

• Creating Zip Files in Azure Blob Storage (Mark Heath) - Great quick post with code snippets AND a solution for some gotcha.

Data

• Getting Started with GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio (Japhlet Nwamu) - Data studio is the perfect tools to work your queries from any platform. With the Copilot extension it's just became even easier and faster.

Programming

• 5 Awesome C# Refactoring Tips (Milan Jovanović) - Refactoring is an important skill to have. Most code grow by patches and at some point it needs some help.

• Hot Reload for C# Dev Kit (Mark Downie) - Wow! Things are evolving so fast, we pass from syntax highlighting from hot reload so fast!

• How to Toggle Between Light and Dark Modes in Blazor (Jefferson S. Motta ) - Nice tutorial that explains how to have that great dark mode.

• Adding environment vars to .NET Aspire services (Tim Heuer) - Nice post to continue to learn about Aspire.Net.

• Validating JSON Against a Schema (Paul Michaels) - For some reason, I was expecting something more complicated.Its simple! Love it.

~Frank