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Cloud Simplified: A practical webcast to demystify Azure features
This post is provided by Ryan Berry, a Cloud Solution Architect (CSA) at Microsoft. In many of our strategic accounts, CSAs play a key role in the success of customers making a transition to the cloud and work closely with your Microsoft account team and App Dev Manager.The cloud is becoming increasingly important to business-critical workloads our customers run as evidenced by Azure’s explosive growth. Add to this analysts predicting continued growth over $200 billion through 2020 and it’s clear the market is speaking on the importance of cloud computing. Computing in the cloud is different when you’re not...
Running .NET Core 2.0 applications in a Linux Service Fabric Cluster on Azure
In this post, Senior App. Dev. Managers Guru Satish Piduru and Mahendar Madhavaram explain how to deploy .NET Core 2.0 applications to a Linux Service Fabric Cluster.The support for running .NET Core 2.0 applications in Service Fabric Cluster (SFC) environment on Linux is in preview mode today and general availability in the coming months. Today, stateless Service Fabric applications are supported in .NET Core 2.0 without any issues. If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 to develop Service Fabric applications, you can publish the applications directly to Azure SFC running on Windows but if you want to pub...
Spotlight on Industry Experiences
This post is provided by Marty Donovan, Senior Program Manager for Industry Experiences. The Industry Experiences team (as part of Scott Guthrie’s organization) delivers industry technical documentation and experiences to customers including use cases, solutions guides and hands-on architectural design reviews. Our goal is to help customers accelerate their journey to the cloud with clear and actionable guidance. Today we have seasoned experts and architects across retail, banking, insurance, health, and manufacturing and we expect to grow with further industries in the coming year. Read the following artic...
Using AI and Bots as an underpinning for modern UI
In this post, Consultant/App. Dev. Manager Timothy Baillis explains how AI and Bots can improve modern UI designs.It has been said that every great developer is inherently lazy- or at least inspired by boring or repetitive tasks. The idea that you can code a program to automate a task or overcome an obstacle is a powerful incentive to create. In the past, developers could rely on device and services to remain more constant or at least be easily updatable to continue to function. Now with the proliferation of services, devices, and applications it has become increasingly difficult to code once. There has been a gr...
Did you plan for accidental deletion of your critical data in Azure?
In his post, Principal App. Dev. Manager Rick Caudle lays out a strategy for dealing with business-critical data in Azure.So, you moved to the Cloud and you fully understand Azure Storage and all the greatness that comes with the various replication options i.e. Locally redundant storage (LRS), Zone-redundant storage (ZRS), Geo-redundant storage (GRS). All these replication features are designed for transient hardware failures, network or power outages, massive natural disasters, and so on. But, none of these are intended to help with mass or accidental delete operations. Continue reading more on Rick’s blog post...
Visualize Code with Visual Studio
In this post, App Dev Manager Ed Tovsen spotlight the features and benefits of Code Maps in Visual Studio.Systems architects have long used modeling to design the structure, behavior, and interaction of systems within an organization. Modeling helps to ensure that requirements are clearly defined between users and IT. Models are created with varying levels of detail throughout the application lifecycle and used as part of the development process. Typically, modeling tools assist architects in the initial stages of application conceptualize and construction. However, there are also visualization tools to comprehen...
My Volunteer Experience with TEALS
In this post, App Dev Manager Ruth Ferland shares her experience volunteering through TEALS to promote Computer Science and the education of kids in her community.For School Year 2017-18, I decided to volunteer for TEALS (https://www.tealsk12.org/). TEALS stands for Technology Education and Literacy in Schools. It’s a non-profit organization in the United States that recruit, train and deploy technical volunteers to co-teach Computer Science in high schools.The Recruiting ProcessTEALS starts recruiting for volunteers for the next school year in the prior spring season, so that there is a full list by the summer f...
Securing Azure Storage for the Software Architect
In this post, App Dev Manager Keith Anderson explores how Azure Key Vault can be used to secure access to Azure storage operations. In the beginning... As I began to learn about Microsoft’s cloud a couple of years ago, I began to realize that some services had been around since its inception and were fundamental to the way things worked, with other services built on top. Azure Storage is certainly one of those fundamental services that can be used as building blocks in your own applications. To any organization leveraging Azure Storage, it seems to me that, like with any tool or construction material, you...
Getting Started with DevOps and Continuous Delivery of Value
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 innovation with digital-era velocity; they face numerous challenges. These challenges prevent flexible and agile creation of business value. With multiple industry definitions of DevOps, the definition we adopt at Microsoft is the following: DevOps is the union of people, pro...