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December 27, 2017Dec 27, 201712/27/17In the second post in his series on Auto-scaling a Service Fabric cluster, Premier Developer consultant Larry Wall highlights a new feature that allows you to tie auto-scaling to an Application Insights metric.
In Part I of this article, I demonstrated how to set up auto-scaling on the Service Fabric clusters scale set based on a metric that is part of a VM scale set (Percentage CPU).
December 22, 2017Dec 22, 201712/22/17This post on the Debug Snapshot feature of Application Insights comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Adel Ghabboun.
A couple of days ago, I encountered an ambiguous issue while trying to open the debug snapshot feature in Application Insights following Debug snapshots on exceptions in .NET apps.
December 20, 2017Dec 20, 201712/20/17In a recent post from his blog, Premier Developer Consultant Jim Blizzard discussed the human side of code reviews…
Years ago, before I joined Microsoft, a team at one of the companies I worked for decided to start doing code reviews.
December 18, 2017Dec 18, 201712/18/17In today’s post, Premier Developer consultant Brian Gregor is back with another installment in his PowerAppsPuzzle series!
Hey folks! We are back with another PowerAppsPuzzle this week. This time we are trying to track down the source of a very cryptic error message.
December 14, 2017Dec 14, 201712/14/17This post on Application Insights and protecting your instrumentation key comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Adel Ghabboun.
Application Insights instrumentation key can be used in both Server and client side. Using the instrumentation key in the server side is secured and no one can see it.
December 13, 2017Dec 13, 201712/13/17There’s been a ton of buzz about Blockchain lately (Bitcoin anyone?) so what better time to highlight this video from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais on understanding Blockchain technology.
Since last year, I have been spending time with customers understanding how blockchain can help them improve/replace existing processes.
December 9, 2017Dec 9, 201712/9/17This post is provided by Premier Field Engineer, Nathan Vanderby, who walks us through how to write an Alexa skill using .NET core and AAD. Lasted updated, June 2018.
Amazon’s Echo devices and Alexa assistant need no introduction. In this post I lay out how you can write an Alexa skill and use a .NET core 2.0 API backend service to handle the requests.
December 8, 2017Dec 8, 201712/8/17This is the first of a series of posts is provided by Senior Application Development Manager (ADM), Chuck Goodspeed, focusing on the challenges encountered in migrating/evolving TFS 2005/2008/2010 installations a full decade forward into TFS 2017 and/or VSTS. Experiences and situations encountered at multiple customer installations provide real-life NOT “out-of-the-box experiences”,
December 7, 2017Dec 7, 201712/7/17In this post, Premier Developer consultant Adel Ghabboun outlines some best practices when using Application Insights.
Here are some Azure Application Insights best practices you should consider when monitoring your application:
It is always recommended to create multiple Application Insights resources to split telemetry for different environments,
December 6, 2017Dec 6, 201712/6/17This post on creating Linux virtual machines with Docker in Azure comes to us from Premier Developer consultant Razi Rais.
For an upcoming developer event on Docker I had to create handful of Linux Ubuntu virtual machines on Azure with Docker and few additional software installed on it.
