One of the most anticipated announcements in the Docker space when it comes to building images is Multi-Stage builds because of the huge benefits it gives to CI/CD pipelines in DevOps. Before this announcement, building software in a container usually involved creating a container with all the SDK’s and compilers in the container, uploading code
DevOps: Connecting VSTS to Azure
DevOps is about increasing efficiency and eliminating barriers. There’s a lot of convenience in deploying directly from Visual Studio Team Services into the Azure cloud. With plugin based build and release pipelines, it’s very easy to quickly configure a release and see the results online. You can quickly configure a release to deploy to Azure;…
A Lap Around Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform
Learn about the Features of Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform There is much choice when it comes to Business Intelligence (BI) products these days. In this webinar session, you will learn about Microsoft’s Business Intelligence Platform, and get a wealth of tips and tricks to make your life easier and keep your customers happy. In this webinar,…
Quick Start for Moby and LinuxKit
Docker has grown wildly in the last few years. It’s gone from a fledgling startup to a billion-dollar company, and now it’s got the attention of the enterprise. A number of changes have happened at Docker too – there’s been a leadership transition as well as Docker giving many of its core components over to…
Data Science with R in Visual Studio
Like our previous post on Python, we will walk through all the really nice offerings Visual Studio gives us now when working with R and related tools. Since we looked at installing in the previous post, and the steps are the same, I will omit that from this post. We’ll just focus on all the…
How to Avoid a Docker Database Disaster
Containers are cool – and everyone and their mother is trying to get on board with them. While many applications are natural fit for containers in many cases, it feels like some applications are forced into containers so vendors can say, “Hey look at me! I do containers too!” This is particularly true of database…
ASP.NET Core Development with Docker
Using Docker to Create a Testing & Deployment Target for ASP.NET Core apps ASP.NET Core offers the exciting ability to develop, test, and deploy on different platforms. In this 1-hour webinar with Jason Bell, you will learn how to use Docker to create a consistent testing and deployment target for ASP.NET Core applications. You will also examine…
Data Science with Python in Visual Studio
Yep, you read that right. Visual Studio isn’t the first thing you think of when you hear “data science”, but that may just change soon. In Visual Studio 2017 they have included several tools together where you can do Python, R, and F# data projects for analysis and visualizations. In this post we’ll go over how…
DevOps and Docker: Creating Automated Builds with GitHub, Docker Hub, and WebHooks
The GitHub repo used in this article can be found here. One of the lesser known features of Docker is its ability to do cloud builds based on WebHooks from GitHub and Bitbucket. Bitbucket and GitHub integration works in Docker natively so that when code is pushed to a repository, Docker will download and deploy the…
Xamarin: From Zero to Certified
I have been interested in mobile development for several years now. I have dipped my toes into the waters of mobile development here and there. Recently, I have completed my Xamarin certification exam; so now I am legit. I would just like to highlight a bit of that journey. In the Beginning My interest for mobile…
Understanding Microsoft Power BI
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