I spend a majority of my day working in Visual Studio Code editing files, committing these changes to a git repository, and in some cases triggering Azure Pipeline builds .via the commit and continuous integration. I use the Visual Studio ... continue reading

This blog is co-authored by Nick Lopez, Technical Advisor at Microsoft. Grafana is one of the popular and leading open source tools for visualizing time series metrics. Grafana has quickly become the preferred visualization tool of choice for developers and ... continue reading

Designed for developers and solution architects who need to understand how to move business critical apps to the cloud, this online workshop series gets you hands-on with a proven process for migrating an existing ASP.NET based application to a container ... continue reading

Using Azure AD credentials for accessing Azure Linux Virtual Machines improves security by: Centrally controlling and enforcing access policies on Azure AD credentials Reducing the reliance on local access accounts Integration with multi-factor authentication In this blog post, I will ... continue reading

A few months ago, I shared best practices for alerting on metrics with Azure Database for PostgreSQL. Though I was able to cover how to monitor certain key metrics on Azure Database for PostgreSQL, I did not cover how to ... continue reading

Hello Folks, During the preparation of the Ignite The Tour conference, @Neil Peterson and I along with the whole Cloud Ops Advocate team, were looking at issues that IT/Ops professionals are facing when looking at hybrid environments and migrating workloads ... continue reading

You've followed an excellent walkthrough and built a solid prototype web app. You run npm start locally and browse to http://localhost and all looks great. Now you're ready to put your app in the cloud, utilize a managed database and ... continue reading

TL/DR: The Azure CLI can be used to query data from Azure. For more information on how to use the Azure CLI query functionality, see the Azure CLI Query documentation. The Azure CLI can be used to not only create, ... continue reading

Working with Azure Resource Manager Templates provides you with a way to codify your infrastructure using JSON! In this tutorial we'll show you how to get started with using different parameters along side with your template. From the Azure Resource ... continue reading

There are numerous IoT use cases in different industries, with common categories like predictive maintenance, connected vehicles, anomaly detection, asset monitoring, and many others. For example, in water treatment facilities in the state of California, IoT devices can be installed ... continue reading