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Load testing your applications using Azure Load Testing, JMeter and GitHub Actions

July 20, 2023 Jul 20, 2023 07/20/23

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Dominique St-Amand shares an introduction on JMeter concepts and goes on to create a basic test plan to load test a sample application and run it through a GitHub Action workflow. I’ve been working with more customers that are starting to take testing (unit, integration, end to end and load testing) more seriously. You may ask, “Dom...

Deploying an Azure APIM Self-Hosted Gateway

April 25, 2021 Apr 25, 2021 04/25/21

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With so many customization and integrations options, organizations can leverage these powerful Azure services for a variety of architectures and applications. Self-hosted gateways help improve performance, while ensuring secure and efficient API traffic.

Dangling DNS and Subdomain Takeovers

March 23, 2021 Mar 23, 2021 03/23/21

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This post explores what is commonly referred to as a “Dangling DNS Subdomain Takeover” and why you never delete a resource that backs a CNAME entry in your DNS without first redirecting or removing the CNAME record first.

Calling a Helper API in an Azure APIM Inbound Policy

March 22, 2021 Mar 22, 2021 03/22/21

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With Azure APIM, you can completely control how developers consume your services. Through policies, you can transform data, validate requests, integrate backends, and probably cook the world's best cheeseburger. This powerful feature enables complex systems and architectures to be seamlessly connected, ensuring your data and process stay safe.

Collect and Automate Diagnostic Actions with Azure App Services

September 30, 2020 Sep 30, 2020 09/30/20

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Troubleshooting production systems is often a balance between restoring services quickly and trying to collect enough information to isolate what caused the issue. For complex application issues, it’s almost always helpful to capture a memory dump.

Taste of Premier: Azure Security Center

August 11, 2020 Aug 11, 2020 08/11/20

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Security is foundational for Azure. Take advantage of multi-layered security provided across physical data centers, infrastructure, and operations.

How Microsoft helps customers adopt Azure through developer education

June 26, 2020 Jun 26, 2020 06/26/20

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In this post, we review how Microsoft is helping our customers achieve tech intensity by providing a wide array of Azure learning opportunities to constantly build, maintain and strengthen the cloud capabilities of their developers and IT staff.

Azure Private Link vs. Azure Service Endpoint for App Services

June 24, 2020 Jun 24, 2020 06/24/20

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In this post, App Dev Manager Chris Hanna compares Azure Private Links and Azure service Endpoints for App Services.

Managing Cloud Ready .NET App Secrets in Visual Studio

May 31, 2020 May 31, 2020 05/31/20

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Secrets need to be handled with care and this is the responsibility of every developer. We’ve all read those news reports of someone accidently checking a production password into source control only to find out the next day that their credit card has been maxed out.

Moving legacy ASP.NET apps with Windows authentication to Azure App Service (Part 2)

May 19, 2020 May 19, 2020 05/19/20

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We discuss moving legacy backend services that use Windows authentication over to an Azure App Service, with emphasis on web service stack and authentication & authorization considerations.

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