When working with lots of Azure Functions apps or in microservices architectures with a moderate workload, it’s quite common to … More
Category: DevOps
Testing Azure Functions performances with Azure Load Testing
If someone of you remember, in the past I wrote about doing performance testing of Azure Functions using tools like … More
Testing Azure Functions or Dynamics 365 Business Central API calls performances with BenchmarkDotNet
In these days, for a big cloud-based project, I had the need to conduct an assessment of the different cloud … More
Microsoft Reactor: Proactive monitoring of your Azure cloud applications
Are you interested on efficiently monitoring your Azure cloud workloads? Are you curious about all the monitoring possibilities (and more) … More
Azure tenant’s telemetry at your fingertips
Monitoring is an essential task for handling a cloud tenant at best. Azure has built-in features for monitoring a tenant, … More
Me @ Directions EMEA
Next week it’s finally the Directions EMEA week and the conference this year will be in Italy in the great … More
Dynamics 365 Business Central APIs Load Testing with JMeter
Yesterday I saw a Twitter thread asking for suggestions about tools for load testing APIs. There are lots of tools … More
Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure made it to the Best Microsoft Azure Books of All Time
I’m happy to announce that our book, “Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure: Re-architect and rebuild your applications using … More
“Azure DevOps Explained” book announcement
I’m very happy and proud to announce the hard work I’ve done during the quarantine together with two great MVPs … More
Creating a Dynamics 365 Business Central Docker container with artifacts on Azure Container Instances
Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a great service offered by Azure that permits you to run serverless Docker containers in … More
Automating the creation of work items in Azure DevOps (from Powershell and from Dynamics 365 Business Central)
If you’re using Azure DevOps in yor organization for the entire product lifecycle, you know for sure that you can … More
Sending Azure Alerts to Dynamics 365 Business Central
When working with Dynamics 365 Business Central (but also on Azure applications in general) it’s a best and recommended practice … More
Azure DevOps and cross-repo branch policies
In the webcast we had this Monday for Microsoft Western Europe about using Azure DevOps for managing Dynamics 365 Business … More
My session at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020: 15 tips to follow when deploying Azure Functions to production
Thanks to all the attendees that followed my session yesterday at Global Azure Bootcamp 2020. We saw 15 tips that … More
A quick way to deploy your Azure Functions in the cloud
After my last webcast about Azure Functions, I received an interesting question: how can I quickly deploy a function to … More
Using Deployment slots for your Dynamics 365 Business Central Azure Functions
In my session at Ignite Tour Milan in January I’ve talked (with a real demo too) about how to use … More
Learning DevOps for Dynamics 365 Business Central developers
In the next months Microsoft Western Europe has planned a series of one-day training events for helping Dynamics 365 Business … More
Microsoft Ignite The Tour – Milan
Microsoft Ignite The Tour brings the very best of Microsoft Ignite to a city near you. The tour provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your … More
New book “Migrating applications to the cloud with Azure” finally released
While waiting to officially announce to the Dynamics 365 Business Central community our latest and biggest work ever, I’m happy … More
CI/CD for .NET with GithHub Actions
We manage all our internal projects with Azure DevOps (projects not only related to Dynamics 365 Business Central). All our … More
Visual Studio Code and team-working: recommending extensions
There’s an interesting feature in Visual Studio Code that I see it’s quite unknown to all but that internally we … More
Using Azure DevOps for managing your Dynamics 365 Business Central projects
All the people that were on my Dynamics 365 Business Central Development courses for Microsoft Italy (and that will be … More
Stefano Demiliani 