Cloud Using Linked ARM Templates with VSTS Release Management If you've ever had to create a complex ARM template, you'll know it can be a royal pain. You've probably been tempted to split out your giant template into smaller templates that you can link to, only to discover that you can only link
Development Configuring AAD Authentication to Azure SQL Databases Azure SQL is a great service - you get your databases into the cloud without having to manage all that nasty server stuff. However, one of the problems with Azure SQL is that you have to authenticate using SQL authentication - a username and
DevOps Continuous Deployment of Service Fabric Apps using VSTS (or TFS) Azure’s Service Fabric is breathtaking – the platform allows you to create truly “born in the cloud” apps that can really scale. The platform takes care of the plumbing for you so that you can concentrate on business value in your apps. If you’
DevOps Docker DevOps Recently I attended the MVP Summit in Redmond. This is an annual event where MVPs from around the world converge on Microsoft to meet with each other and various product teams. It’s a highlight of the year (and one of the best benefits
Cloud Azure Web Apps, Kudu Console and TcpPing I was working with a customer recently that put a website into Azure Web Apps. This site needed to connect to their backend databases (which they couldn’t move to Azure because legacy systems still needed to connect to it). We created an Azure
Cloud PaaS and Time Compression in the Cloud Recently I got to write a couple of articles which were posted on the Northwest Cadence Blog. I am not going to reproduce them here, so please read them on the NWCadence blog from the links below. PaaSThe first, PaaS Architecture: Designing Apps for