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How Microsoft Does DevOps – an Interview with Aaron Bjork, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

This post is provided by App Dev Manager Dave Harrison based on an interview with Aaron Bjork, Principal Group Program Manager for VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services) at Microsoft. The following content is shared from an interview conducted in January with Aaron Bjork, Principal Group Program Manager for the VSTS (Visual Studio Team Services...

Analysing visual content using HoloLens, Computer Vision APIs, Unity and the Windows Mixed Reality Toolkit

In this post, Senior App Dev Manager, Davide Zordan explores visual content using HoloLens, Computer Vision APIs, Unity and the Windows Mixed Reality Toolkit.(image) 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 ...

Considerations for load balancing your web applications

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...

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Developers

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 ...

Integrating Logic Apps and Azure Monitor

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 ...

Freeing Disk Space on a Developer Machine

In this post,  Senior Application Development Manager, Patrick King, shares some tips for freeing up disk space on a development machine.As a developer, I see my free disk space diminish over time. It usually isn’t an issue if I have ample disk and get to change hardware out every few years, but that isn’t the case for everyone. This ...