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ARM Day: Infrastructure as Code workout with Bicep featured post

ARM Day: Infrastructure as Code workout with Bicep

The cloud opened the door to the ability for anyone, with the right permissions, to create and manage infrastructure resources. With this new power also came new challenges in managing infrastructure and new practices started to emerge.

DevOps

Monitoring and Managing Production Applications featured post

Monitoring and Managing Production Applications

Recovering from a production site outage during peak hours can be a daunting task. While everyone wants a 100% uptime, it can be near impossible because of things out of our hands. However, we can plan for these potential outages and architect the application and infrastructure to allow for a quick recovery.

Back-end / DevOps

WCF and the Azure Service Bus featured post

WCF and the Azure Service Bus

Are you working towards your MCSD: Web Applications Certification like me? If so and you are getting ready for the last exam in the series, Developing Microsoft Azure and Web Services (70-487) check out this post about getting familiar with WCF and the Azure Service Bus.

Back-end

Powershell, VSO Rest API and vNext Builds featured post

Powershell, VSO Rest API and vNext Builds

Let’s take a look at a simple example of using the Visual Studio Online REST API to retrieve information about a build using PowerShell. Then we’ll take a look at how we can use the information we retrieved in a vNext build step.

DevOps

SQL Server Reporting Services Series – Part III: Parameters featured post

SQL Server Reporting Services Series – Part III: Parameters

This is the third post in a series about SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). One of the other important topics of SSRS is adding parameters to a report which lets you filter the data down to a smaller group. As with many things, parameters can be simple selections or can be more complicated with cascading selections that depend on other parameters.

Back-end