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Tracking Santa with Azure

January 4, 2020 Jan 4, 2020 01/4/20

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Learn how Azure PaaS powers NORAD’s Santa Tracker allowing for 51 million Page Views with an average response time of 100MS across the globe.

Advanced Error Handling with Power Automate

November 22, 2019 Nov 22, 2019 11/22/19

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Sr Consultant Adam Toth demonstrates how to handle errors properly in Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow), including expected errors from APIs and connectors, and how to deal with throttling conditions (HTTP 429 Responses). Power Automate’s default response to errors from connectors is pretty simple – exit the workflow right ...

Configure Azure App Service for 64-bit platform and Node.js

August 8, 2019 Aug 8, 2019 08/8/19

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As a follow-up to my original post explaining how to Deploy Ghost CMS on Azure Web App, learn how to configure Azure Web App Platform and Node.js to run as 64-bit, a prerequisite for the latest Ghost build.

Accessibility at all stages: A Good-for-All SDLC approach

August 2, 2019 Aug 2, 2019 08/2/19

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Accessibility improves usability; considering accessibility reviews early-on and at all stages gives us an opportunity to not only save cycles of design, dev, and QA, but more importantly, it creates a more usable product for everyone.

Getting started with Docker for Windows

June 19, 2019 Jun 19, 2019 06/19/19

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In this walkthrough, our App Dev Managers show how to install, configure and containerize a simple webapp to help you get up and running with Docker.

React Native for Windows Goes Mainstream

June 4, 2019 Jun 4, 2019 06/4/19

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React Native for Windows adds support for Windows 10 SDK to React Native, which allows you to build apps for all Win-10 devices such as PCs, Tablets and Xbox using React.

Using Groups in Azure AD B2C

May 24, 2019 May 24, 2019 05/24/19

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Accessing Groups claims in Azure AD B2C requires adding some custom code through custom (IEF) policies. This post shows how to configure AD B2C IEF policies to access Groups in JWT Tokens.

404 response code caused by App Services – AlwaysOn feature

May 24, 2019 May 24, 2019 05/24/19

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In this post, Sr. Consultant Adel Ghabboun shows how to optimize Azure App Service Always against cold starts.

How Microsoft Tracks Santa

May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019 05/21/19

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In this post, App Dev Manager Casey Kriutzfield shed some light on the NORAD Tracks Santa Azure architecture allowing for some impressive page view metrics. (image) I’m Casey Kriutzfield. One of the leads for NORAD Tracks Santa. For the past several years, we’ve been a key partner in the NORAD Tracks Santa website. Along with ...

Moving legacy ASP.NET apps with Windows authentication to Azure App Service (Part 1)

May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019 05/10/19

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App Dev Manager Mike Lapierre explores authentication options when moving legacy ASP.NET apps to Azure App Services. When attempting to move legacy ASP.NET apps to Azure App Service, you might encounter a few challenges which are documented here. I want to cover specially the use Windows authentication which is not supported in Azure ...

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