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April 30, 2018Apr 30, 201804/30/18In this post, Sr. App Dev Manager Mark Pazicni lays out the capabilities of Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) and Azure Disk Encryption (ADE) to help clarify their applications.
With Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE), your data is just encrypted.
New and existing Azure Storage Account are now 256-bit AES encrypted to storage data encrypted while it is at rest.
April 30, 2018Apr 30, 201804/30/18In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Monu Bambroo shows how to deploy a Container to Azure Web Apps directly from Azure Container Registry.
Container services are encapsulated, individually deployable components that run as isolated instances on the same kernel to take advantage of virtualization that an operating system provides.
April 28, 2018Apr 28, 201804/28/18In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Adel Ghabboun gives insight on connectivity issues in Azure and how they may effect Application Insights. He gives details about a special disconnection mode that App Insights can run on when such issues arise.
Wondering what happens to Application Insights when applications lose connectivity with Azure?
April 27, 2018Apr 27, 201804/27/18In this post, Sr. Consultants Farah Deendar and Chike Okor introduce blockchain concepts and enterprise adoption constraints.
So, what is Blockchain exactly?
Blockchain, also called distributed ledger technology (DLT), is a cryptographically safe, secure, decentralized and immutable database. Blockchain is used to create a digital transaction ledger that is shared among a distributed network of computers.
April 27, 2018Apr 27, 201804/27/18In this post, App Dev Managers Matt Hyon and August Banks spotlights the developer benefits of WSL.
You’ve just finished installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on your Windows 10 computer and feel pleased to see your favorite Linux distro icon pinned to your taskbar.
April 26, 2018Apr 26, 201804/26/18ASP Core uses the convenient Provider Pattern to load configuration key/value pairs from various sources and expose those to you as a single Configuration object. This allows you to grab a configuration key like ConnectionString with one line of code regardless of where it was sourced from. However, the configuration API is not available by default in .NET Core Console applications.
April 25, 2018Apr 25, 201804/25/18In this post, Sr. App Dev Manager Fidelis Ekezue explain Azure Load Balancing options and highlight considerations for choosing a solution.
Azure Load Balancing Solutions: When to choose which one?
Microsoft Azure provides customers with many ways to load balance traffic requests to their environments.
April 24, 2018Apr 24, 201804/24/18In this post, Sr. App Dev Managers Bernard Apolinario and Ajay Tanikella gives a thorough explanation of Blockchain concepts.
What is Blockchain?
Blockchain is a Secured, Shared, Distributed ledger. It’s a concept with the following key aspects:
Ledger: It’s a not a typical accounting ledger.
April 23, 2018Apr 23, 201804/23/18In this post, Principal Consultant/ADM Larry Duff discuss some ethical challenges in Artificial Intelligence.
Artificial intelligence has been a dream of computer scientists for many years. I remember my early days of programming I had a Commodore Pet. I was excited that I had a book of programs,
April 21, 2018Apr 21, 201804/21/18In this post, Senior Application Development Managers Art Garcia demonstrates how to navigate the VSTS REST APIs.
Visual Studio Team Services or VSTS has matured into one of the leading Application Lifecycle management tools available. It allows you to not only manage your work and team velocity,
