Azure Database for MariaDB: Public Preview

During Ignite 2018, Microsoft has announced the availability of Maria DB support in Azure Database services. Today it has been opened for Public Preview for all Azure customers. What is MariaDB? MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system intended to remain free under the GNU GPL.Development is led by some… Continue reading

NDepend–VSTS/Azure DevOps Integration–Part 01

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

New Microsoft Azure Certifications

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

Introduction to NDepend : Static Code Analysis Tool

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

Azure Cosmos DB – Connection Policy – Setting Connection Mode and Connection Protocol

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

Blazer – The new experimental web framework from Microsoft

In this world of multiple Web frameworks Microsoft would not want to stop experimenting with new frameworks for Web development. Innovation is a key to Microsoft, doesn’t matter the start later than the React(Facebook) and Angular(Google) , but Microsoft has proven most of the times they are good in developing cutting edge frameworks.  That’s how… Continue reading