Azure - Serverless Architecture with Azure Functions
Serverless compute is transforming the way we build applications for the cloud, by abstracting application infrastructure from the code and providing unlimited scaling capabilities. Joseph Fultz and Darren Brust dive into serverless concepts and explore how they are supported by Azure Functions.
Cutting Edge - In-House Business Intelligence with Events and CQRS
Once you have raw information saved at the lowest possible level of abstraction, you can use it in many different ways at many different times. This articles show how to add business intelligence capabilities to an event-sourcing solution.
Azure - Inside the Azure App Service Architecture
Azure App Service is a rich Platform-as-a-Service that enables Web, mobile and API applications to scale to global levels with minimal complexity. Learn how applications map to App Service scale units and how applications run within the App Service infrastructure.
Data Points - First Look at Azure Search—a Handheld Walk-Through
Julie Lerman explores Azure Search, a service that lets you use Microsoft’s processing and intelligence to add sophisticated search capabilities to your own data.
Mobile DevOps - Driving Development with Active Monitoring of Apps and Services
In the final installment of his Mobile DevOps series, Kraig Brockschmidt, along with Thomas Dohmke and Alan Cameron Wills, delves into the tools and practices that enable monitoring of apps and services, and also explores Application Insights and HockeyApp.
Test Run - The Sign Test Using C#
In this article you’ll learn what type of problem the sign test solves, get to know exactly how to perform a sign test using C#, and understand how to interpret the results of a sign test.
HoloLens - Moving from Virtual to Mixed Reality
Mixed reality goes beyond virtual reality by combining the virtual world with the real to create an overall experience. Tim Kulp updates the virtual reality app he created in the September issue to enable a mixed reality app that employs gaze, gesture and voice for interactivity.
The Working Programmer - How To Be MEAN: Working the Angular
In this month’s The Working Programmer column, Ted Neward gets started working with Angular 2, starting with a basic “Hello World” and exploring some of the big concepts that Angular 2 espouses.
Modern Apps - Twitter-Searching Utility
Frank La Vigne shows how to make a Twitter search client for the Universal Windows Platform with the UWP Community Toolkit.
Don't Get Me Started - Backlash
In the era of AI and machine learning, software is moving into the driver’s seat and taking on tasks that once were trusted solely to human operators. David Platt asks, what happens if we get it wrong?
Upstart - Age Before Beauty: Success and the Older Developer
"Don't trust anyone over 30." The counter-culture catchphrase of the 1960s could easily be the mantra for hiring managers in the tech industry. Here's how to fight it.
Editor's Note - Our Serverless Future
The march toward a services-dominated future continues, as serverless approaches change the way applications are written and deployed.
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