{"id":43105,"date":"2018-05-04T15:13:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/?p=43105"},"modified":"2019-02-14T15:50:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T23:50:03","slug":"top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2018-05-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/top-stories-from-the-vsts-community-2018-05-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Top stories from the VSTS community \u2013 2018.05.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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:<\/p>\n<p><strong>TOP STORIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalmrangers\/2018\/04\/24\/recent-work-on-the-countdown-widget-for-vsts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recent work on the Countdown Widget for VSTS<\/a><br><strong>Henry Been<\/strong> shares the latest updates and future work he&#8217;s planning for the VSTS Countdown widget. \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skrift.io\/articles\/archive\/take-two-another-approach-for-team-development-workflow-with-umbraco-cloud\" target=\"_blank\">Take Two: Another Approach for Team Development Workflow with Umbraco Cloud<\/a><br><strong>Paul Sterling<\/strong> shows us an alternate Continuous Deployment (CD) configuration with Umbraco Cloud using Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sqldbawithabeard.com\/2018\/05\/01\/version-update-code-signing-and-publishing-to-the-powershell-gallery-with-vsts\/\" target=\"_blank\">Version Update, Code Signing and publishing to the PowerShell Gallery with VSTS<\/a><br><strong>Rob Sewell<\/strong>, the @sqldbawithbeard, presents continuous delivery for modules to the PowerShell gallery.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0012.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" title=\"clip_image001\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image001_thumb2.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scottlogic.com\/2018\/04\/30\/devops-as-a-key-to-success-with-microservices-approach.html\" target=\"_blank\">DevOps as a key to success with the microservices approach<\/a><br><strong>Bartosz Jedrzejewski<\/strong> looks at one thing that often connects the winners &#8211; the use of DevOps practices and culture.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intellitect.com\/devops-presentation-reality-or-fiction\/\" target=\"_blank\">DevOps Presentation: Reality or Fiction<\/a><br><strong>Mark Michaelis<\/strong> shares his views and deck for a great discussion on DevOps with immature teams, biggest obstacles, tooling, and more. \n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/colinsalmcorner.com\/post\/vsts-one-team-project-and-inverse-conway-maneuver\" target=\"_blank\">VSTS, One Team Project and Inverse Conway Maneuver<\/a><br><strong>Colin Dembovsky<\/strong> spends his time on the plane watching a fascinating talk by Allan Kelley about Continuous Delivery and Conway&#8217;s Law (&#8220;Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization&#8217;s communication structure.&#8221;)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nkdagility.com\/dod-has-made-it-illegal-to-do-waterfall\/\" target=\"_blank\">DOD has made it illegal to do waterfall<\/a><br><strong>Martin Hinshelwood<\/strong> walks us through another interesting Agile story and suggests that the last vestiges of the old ways are gone.\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/the.agilesql.club\/2018\/05\/database-testing-and-etl-processes\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+agilesql%2FBlog+%28BlogRss%29\" target=\"_blank\">Database testing and ETL processes<\/a><br><strong>Ed Elliott<\/strong> mentions that Unit testing using tSQLt is really great. But, what happens when you have more complicated processes like an ETL process?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.majcica.com\/2018\/04\/25\/deploy-ssis-packages-from-tfs-vsts-build-release\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deploy SSIS packages from TFS\/VSTS Build\/Release<\/a><br><strong>Mario Maj\u010dica<\/strong> shows how he automates the build and deployment of his Integration Services Projects (.dtproj type).\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/devops\/2018\/05\/01\/announcing-the-devops-resource-center\/\" target=\"_blank\">Announcing the DevOps Resource Center<\/a><br><strong>Sam Guckenheimer<\/strong> shares one of the favorite parts of his job &#8211; curating a web site with the stories of how we work. <br><a href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/devops\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/image40.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image41.png\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><strong>VIDEOS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Blogs\/DevOps-Interviews\/Interview-with-TQ-Microservices-Versioning\" target=\"_blank\">Interview with TQ (Microservices Versioning)<\/a><br><strong>Donovan Brown<\/strong> interviews the VSTS Architect TQ, who shows us how VSTS designs and versions its Microservices.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/clip_image0014.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" title=\"clip_image001[4]\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"clip_image001[4]\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/clip_image0014_thumb.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R7UjTj-HjE0\" target=\"_blank\">Deploying Azure Functions with VSTS<\/a><br><strong>Damian<\/strong> is joined by fellow Aussie <strong>Simon Waight<\/strong> at the MVP Summit to talk about deploying Azure Functions with VSTS.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/image49.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/image_thumb27.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\/\/BUILD\/<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are you attending the Microsoft Build event from May 7-9 in person or tuning in <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/events\/build\" target=\"_blank\">live<\/a>? Are you planning to share your experiences and\/or exciting announcements on your blog?<br><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.microsoft.com\/en-us\/events\/build\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"114\" title=\"image\" style=\"border: 0px currentcolor\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2018\/05\/image48.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br>If yes, please tweet me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/wpschaub\" target=\"_blank\">@wpschaub<\/a>, so that we can consider your post(s) for the next top stories summary.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>TIP<\/strong>: If you want to get your VSTS news in audio form then be sure to subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotfs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">RadioTFS<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>Here are some ways to connect with us:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add a comment below<\/li>\n<li>Use the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/vsts\" target=\"_blank\">#VSTS<\/a> hashtag if you have articles you would like to see included<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 VSTSHenry Been shares the latest updates and future work he&#8217;s planning for the VSTS Countdown widget. 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