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In this post, App Dev Manager Mark Eisenberg takes a look back at the origin of monolithic applications and sets up a discussion about what needs to change.A few weeks ago I recorded a podcast which was a free-flowing discussion about monolithic applications, the problems therewith and why they are still with us some 50+ years after their arrival o...

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager, Davide Zordan explores visual content using HoloLens, Computer Vision APIs, Unity and the Windows Mixed Reality Toolkit.In these days, I’m exploring the combination of HoloLens/Windows Mixed Reality and the capabilities offered by Cognitive Services to analyse and extract information from images captured via th...

App Dev Manager Nicholas McCollum walks through creating an Azure Mobile App that uses client directed authentication via Azure AD. Azure Mobile Apps are built on Azure App Services. Through the Azure portal you can configure your Azure Mobile App to provide sign in, push notifications, and data synchronization. When you configure sign in th...

In this blog post, App Dev Managers Anand Shukla and Sash Kavalaparambil share some tips on configuring a load balancer for web applications.Sometimes the way a web application needs to manage state can have a profound impact on scalability and the load balancing configuration.  There are many different options (both software and hardware) to ...

Application Development Manage Isaac Levin recently posted this article on building extensions for Application Insights.  In this post, he demonstrates how to capture additional HTTP metadata using custom telemetry Initializers for Application Insights.I will start off by saying I love Application Insights. I have been using it for a long time...

If you are looking to maximize your productivity and impact as a modern developer, consider these seven habits shared by App Dev Manager Ketuan Baldwin. Reaching your full potential as a developer requires you to be highly effective. In this blog, I will discuss some principles that are important for modern developers to be successful. The ideas...

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Najib Zarrari demonstrates how to deploy a containerized ASP.NET Core Web API app into an OpenShift Kubernetes cluster.The first part of this blog will go over how to create a sample ASP.NET Core web application with Docker support. We will use this as our demo app to deploy to the Kubernetes cluster. Then...

In this post, Premier Developer Consultant Joe Healy identifies a possible error you may get when working with an Android project on Xamarin Forms. Read about his discovery and eventual solution to fix the SSL/TLS implementation issue.Recently, I was helping a client with an Azure Active Directory integrated project (ADAL not MSAL for some various ...

In this post, App Dev Manager John Abele explores micro-frontend design with ASP.NET Core and MVC. Many development teams have spent the last few years organizing and empowering cross-functional teams, building independently managed microservices, and implementing DevOps pipelines to go faster than ever! These industry shifts, critical fo...

In this post, App Dev Manager Jason Venema walks us through a practical example using Logic Apps and Azure Monitor to track down who created a Virtual Machine. Have you ever needed to quickly find out who created a specific virtual machine in one of your Azure subscriptions? If it hasn’t happened yet, it probably will someday. Maybe your Clo...