Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.05.04

Willy-P. Schaub

Here are top stories we found in our streams this week related to DevOps, VSTS, TFS and other interesting topics, listed in no specific order:

TOP STORIES

• Recent work on the Countdown Widget for VSTS
  Henry Been shares the latest updates and future work he’s planning for the VSTS Countdown widget.
• Take Two: Another Approach for Team Development Workflow with Umbraco Cloud
  Paul Sterling shows us an alternate Continuous Deployment (CD) configuration with Umbraco Cloud using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
• Version Update, Code Signing and publishing to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS
  Rob Sewell, the @sqldbawithbeard, presents continuous delivery for modules to the PowerShell gallery.
  
• DevOps as a key to success with the microservices approach
  Bartosz Jedrzejewski looks at one thing that often connects the winners – the use of DevOps practices and culture.
• DevOps Presentation: Reality or Fiction
  Mark Michaelis shares his views and deck for a great discussion on DevOps with immature teams, biggest obstacles, tooling, and more.
• VSTS, One Team Project and Inverse Conway Maneuver
  Colin Dembovsky spends his time on the plane watching a fascinating talk by Allan Kelley about Continuous Delivery and Conway’s Law (“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.”)
• DOD has made it illegal to do waterfall
  Martin Hinshelwood walks us through another interesting Agile story and suggests that the last vestiges of the old ways are gone.
• Database testing and ETL processes
  Ed Elliott mentions that Unit testing using tSQLt is really great. But, what happens when you have more complicated processes like an ETL process?
• Deploy SSIS packages from TFS/VSTS Build/Release
  Mario Majčica shows how he automates the build and deployment of his Integration Services Projects (.dtproj type).
• Announcing the DevOps Resource Center
  Sam Guckenheimer shares one of the favorite parts of his job – curating a web site with the stories of how we work.
  

VIDEOS

• Interview with TQ (Microservices Versioning)
  Donovan Brown interviews the VSTS Architect TQ, who shows us how VSTS designs and versions its Microservices.
  
• Deploying Azure Functions with VSTS
  Damian is joined by fellow Aussie Simon Waight at the MVP Summit to talk about deploying Azure Functions with VSTS.
  

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