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Join us and the developer community to celebrate Azure Static Web Apps #Azure
#Microsoft Join us to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Azure Static Web Apps! Come connect with others in the developer community and increase your Azure Static Web Apps skills in a fun, collaborative way. It's hard to believe that it was just under a year ago that we announced the general availability of Azure Static Web Apps.
Accelerate your websites with Azure Static Web Apps enterprise-edge
Site performance is crucial when creating applications on the modern web. It has a direct impact on user experience, search engine rankings, and user conversion rates. With Azure Static Web Apps, we're committed to building a platform that helps you deliver the best results for your users at a global scale. It provides streamlined full-stack development and hosting across static content and serverless APIs to power high productivity from source code to global high availability.
The History of Visual Studio Code
We speak to the creator of Visual Studio Code about the early challenges to now becoming the most popular development environment in the world.
Episode 2: What is Cloud Computing?
In Episode 2, we are exploring cloud computing with our experts from Microsoft, Dr Ian McDonald and Simona Cotin. Simona and Ian in the cloud…pun very much intended. The cloud is something we hear about all the time. “Just save it all in the cloud!” adverts proclaim everywhere. To many of us, The Cloud is just one of the many buzzwords tech companies throw around- but what actually is it?
Serverless Can Help You To Focus
Time is crucial in startups. We are experiencing a constant race against time. Your market might be time sensitive, and you need to grow fast. Most startups fail because they run out of cash and time. Serverless helps you spend time only on things that matter instead of stuff that seems shiny but isnât essential. âGet the important things rightââââN. P. Calderwood. Anthony Casalena wants to empower every single person out there to build personal websites without having to code.
Build Node.js APIs Using Serverless
Transcript Cotin: I'm Simona Cotin and I work as a developer advocate for Microsoft. If any of you have questions about Azure, and JavaScript, and obviously GraphQL, and Serverless, do make sure to reach out. You can find me on Twitter @simona_cotin or by email, simona.cotin@microsoft.com.
Containers: Orchestration and Beyond
Although some believe Java is dying, developments such as the upcoming release of Java 9 and the strength of the Java community tell another story. New JVM-based languages like Kotlin and exciting changes in Java 9 such as Project Jigsaw, Streams API improvements, and JShell prove a bright future ahead. The 2017 Guide to Java explores upcoming features of Java 9, how to make your apps backwards-compatible, a look into whether Microservices are right for you, and using the Futures API in Java.
7 things you should know when getting started with Serverless APIs
I want you to take a second and think about Twitter, and think about it in terms of scale. Twitter has 326 million users. Collectively, we create ~6,000 tweets every second. Every minute, that’s 360,000 tweets created. That sums up to nearly 200 billion tweets a year. Now, what if the creators of Twitter had been paralyzed by how to scale and they didn’t even begin?
Infrastructure as code for Serverless APIs – Microsoft Azure – Medium
When building a serverless API using Azure, we typically need to provision several resources: A storage account to save our code files An App Service plan to configure the consumption plan An App Service to execute our code An Application Insights instance to monitor our app Ideally, because all these resources belong to the same logical application, we want to manage, monitor and deploy them as a group.
Play by Play: Build a Serverless Node Web API
Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: Build a Serverless Node Web API, John Papa and Simona Cotin explore some of their favorite features and use cases for Serverless, along with VSCode you can use to develop and debug your serverless applications. Learn the basics of Serverless, how to create a functioning App inside VSCode, and options for deployment.
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