Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned - *  In Azure App Service, Web Apps, API Apps, and WebJobs can be remotely profiled. *  Azure Load Balancer has a default idle timeout setting of four minutes or 240 seconds. * Amazon got its start in a Bellevue garage in 1994, and it first grew without much of a plan..until 2005. Amazon so dominates Seattle that it has as much office space as the city’s next 40 biggest employers combined. Amazon now occupies a mind-boggling 19 percent of all prime office space in the city. In most big cities, the top employer has less than 5 percent of local office space. Amazon employs about 40,000 employees in Seattle, up from 5,000 in 2010. Apartment rents this year are 63 percent higher than in 2010, as Seattle has become the fastest-growing city in the country. Seattle now also has the nation’s third-highest concentration of mega-commuters — people traveling at least 90 minutes each way to work. - Seattle Times * ‘Mercurochrome’ (mercury organohalide...

This Week I Learned - * Azure Media Redactor is a cloud video processing service which is capable of automatically detecting and blurring faces in your videos, for use in cases such as public safety and news media. * Azure Application Insights provides search capabilities to query and get insights from your telemetry data. * The ARM API deploys resources to Azure, but doesn’t deploy code onto those resources. For example you can use ARM to deploy a virtual machine with SQL Server already installed but you can’t use ARM to deploy a database from an SSDT DacPac....we need to use some other technology such as DSC or PowerShell to manage the deployments onto the infrastructure once it is deployed - Simple Talk * The Freecharge site was launched on August 15, 2010.  Axis Bank has acquired Freecharge from its parent company Snapdeal for $60 million — a drop in the bucket compared to the $400-$450 million that the e-commerce company paid for it two years back, touted as the bigges...

*  Azure VM Chooser can help in picking the most optimal Azure VM * Containers are commonly used in conjunction with a microservices architecture, although they can also be used to containerize web apps or services which follow any architectural pattern. When creating and deploying a container, the size of its image is far smaller with .NET Core than with .NET Framework. Use .NET Core for your server application when you have cross-platform needs & you are targeting microservices especially using Docker containers. .NET Framework and .NET Core can both be used for building server-side applications with .NET.  .NET Framework is suitable for your server applications when you are using third-party .NET libraries or NuGet packages or .NET technologies like ASP.NET Web Forms, WPF, Windows Forms are not available for .NET Core . * redBus is the world’s largest bus booking platform having completed 100 million bus rides in India. Their desktop web platform cate...

Stack Exchange is the family of Q&A websites all based on the Stack Exchange engine. The Stack Exchange API allows developers to use quite a lot of data from websites on the Stack Exchange network. The Stack Exchange API is based on HTTP and URLs. The responses are all in JSON. There is a "Hello World" introduction but  no tutorial for the API other than the documentation The API enforces a daily limit of 10,000 requests for those with a Key & 300 requests for anonymous calls from a single IP address with no Key. The API will cut you off if you make more than 30 requests over 5 seconds to any single endpoint. To discuss about the Stack Exchange API, applications that use the Stack Exchange API, or scripts that work on the Stack Exchange network of websites use the StackApps website or post programming related questions by tagging them with the  stackexchange-api tag on StackOverflow . If you are learning to program with JavaScript & JSON,...

This Week I Learned - *  Whether you are using Azure App Services, Cloud Services or ServiceFabric, Dynatrace is fully integrated in your PaaS solution as an Azure Site Extension. No modification of your build pipeline, no manual configuration required. * Instant recovery of files from Azure VM backups is generally available. *  VNet-to-VNet traffic within the same region is free for both directions when using a VPN gateway connection . If you are connecting your VNets using VNet Peering,  ingress and egress traffic is charged at both ends of the peered networks.  VNet-to-VNet traffic travels across the Microsoft Azure backbone, not the Internet. It is protected by IPsec/IKE encryption. VNet-to-VNet connectivity can be used simultaneously along with multi-site connections. Virtual Network in Azure is free of charge. Every subscription is allowed to create up to 50 Virtual Networks across all regions. *  ASR includes a failover automation f...