C4: Container, Code, Cloud & Context
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
In my previous article I wrote an introductory about NDepend and how it will be useful for Agile Team to ensure code quality. In that article we found how we can use NDepend in a developer machine. Now with this article we will familiarize ourselves in using NDepend in your build automation pipeline in your… Continue reading
Microsoft has recently announced new certification exam tracks for Azure Administrators, Developers and Architects. Here are the line ups that should help you move your career with right certifications. The three new Microsoft Azure Certifications are: Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Microsoft Certified Azure Architect These certifications would essentially split the previous… Continue reading
“70-777: Implementing Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB Solutions” is the new Microsoft certification in the town for any Developer or Architect who leverages Azure Cosmos DB. If you understand how Cosmos DB database can be configured and consumed using platform agnostic Cosmos DB API, this certification will help you prove your expertise. To read more about… Continue reading
Today Microsoft announced the preview of Change feed Support for Azure Cosmos DB, which allows you to build scalable solutions. By default change feed will be enabled in all the accounts. Change feed provides an output of sorted list of documents that has been changed in the order in which they are modified by client… Continue reading
As a developer, you always have to take the pain of getting adapted to the best practices and coding guidelines to be followed as per the organizational or industrial standards. Easy way to ensure your coding style follows certain standard is to manually analyze your code or use a static code analyzer like FxCop, StyleCop… Continue reading
While you are writing PowerShell modules, with lot with parameters and you might want to verify these parameters are not ‘null’ to validate some business cases. In normal powershell inline scripting context, $variablename -eq “$null” would work : if ($varibalename -eq $null) { Write-Host "variable is null.Please supply the values for variablename." } RECOMMENDED APPROACH:… Continue reading
It has been a while I have been reading about the major changes that areintroduced in Node.js 9.x.x / NPM 6.x.x and myself faced by Node.js application going to a toss after I upgraded to Node.js 9.x.x, as I always keep Node.js up to date in my development environment. I use NVM(Node Virtual Manager) to… Continue reading
CosmosDB is a planet scale multi model, multi-region NoSQL database service provided as part of Azure Platform. Azure Cosmos DB is designed to provide global distribution for every data model you choose while creating Cosmos DB. It is promised to provide low latency and various well-defined consistency models to ensure data redundancy and high availability.… Continue reading
Cosmos Db is a multi-region scallable, globally-distributed database solution as part of Microsoft Azure Platform. With a button click, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, and consistency guarantees with comprehensive service level agreements (SLAs), that no… Continue reading
Recently I have been trying multiple ways to optimize CosmosDb SQL.NET SDK integration calls from my web application that sits within a VNET. After carefully analyzing different options available within Cosmos Db SQL API’s have realized there are different aspects we could optimize in achieving minimal turn around time. In this article I am going… Continue reading