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Getting Started with DevOps and Continuous Delivery of Value

Premier DeveloperMay 20, 2018May 20, 201805/20/18

In this post, Application Development Manager Wesam Darwish highlights some important information to help customers learn and adopt DevOps. DevOps: a buzz word, or an exciting transformation journey? As organizations strive to deliver value to their end users faster, improve quality and availability, optimize costs, and deliver ...

Assigning Work Items to a Group in Visual Studio Team Services

Premier DeveloperMay 19, 2018May 19, 201805/19/18

In this post, Sr. Application Development Managers Mark Meadows and Everett Yang demonstrate how to extend VSTS Project Templates to allow Group assignments to Work Items.ISSUERecently a customer asked about whether they can assign work items to a group of users, instead of a single user. By default, Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) allows a...

Debugging Beyond Visual Studio – WinDbg

Premier DeveloperMay 18, 2018May 18, 201805/18/18

In this post, Sr. App Dev Managers Al Mata, Candice Lai, and Syed Mehdi gives a walkthrough of WinDbg. You’re likely a developer and have used a code editor to debug and analyze your application failures. Few developers know or understand the “old school” way of troubleshooting to uncover additional details; enter the WinDbg ...

DevOps and Appification

Premier DeveloperMay 18, 2018May 18, 201805/18/18

In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Ron Vincent explains how adopting DevOps principles can help organizations be more productive and aid in maintaining many apps.These days the typical enterprise organization has dozens and even hundreds of apps that it creates and maintains. In this article we’ll discuss how we can apply ...

How Azure IoT helped me buy a new house – Part 1

Premier DeveloperMay 17, 2018May 17, 201805/17/18

Premier Developer Consultant, Steve St Jean, shares a personal story on how he used Azure IoT to figure out a solution to a problem that many of us face – high electric bills. In the series, Steve shares the process and code that he used to implement this solution.Telemetry data is an important component of any good DevOps process. Being ...

The “P” in “PM”

Premier DeveloperMay 16, 2018May 16, 201805/16/18

In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Ilias Jennane sheds more light on the PM role and how it fits into the bigger picture of DevOps. In recent discussions with customers and colleagues about why large I.T. shops often struggle in adhering to Agile principles or becoming DevOps organizations, I couldn’t help but notice ...

Improved Privacy using Homomorphic Encryption

Premier DeveloperMay 15, 2018May 15, 201805/15/18

In the following post, Premier Developer Consultant Razi Rais gives more insight into how to use homomorphic encryption in the field of healthcare to improve privacy and secure data. Modern encryption schemes like homomorphic encryption (HE) provide higher privacy guarantees compared to the existing schemes. Basically, you don't need to reveal...

Utilizing VSTS for Wholistic Organization Management – Should It Be Done?

Premier DeveloperMay 14, 2018May 14, 201805/14/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Kristofer Olin explores limits and intentions of a tool like VSTS to go beyond traditional ALM scenarios. You've probably heard stories of people who utilize Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) for non-Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) related purposes. For instance, I know someone that uses it to ...

Running Django on Azure Web Apps for Containers with Docker

Premier DeveloperMay 11, 2018May 11, 201805/11/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Drew Lewis walks us through how to host a simple Python/Django application in Azure App Services. In this post I will walk you through a very simple approach to developing and hosting a simple Python/Django application in Azure App Service. For this demo we will target Azure Web Apps for Containers which ...

Exam Prep for 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions

Premier DeveloperMay 10, 2018May 10, 201805/10/18

In this post, App Dev Manager Omer Amin spotlights the skills measured by 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Infrastructure Solutions, and where to go to build your skills.I recently took the 70-533, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam. Each Microsoft exam page has a Skills Measured section. This section clearly outlines the...

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