In May, Microsoft made a bold announcement with the release of Blazor WebAssembly 3.2: “full stack web development with .NET is now here!” Blazor is an open source, cross-platform framework for building interactive web UIs using C# instead of JavaScript. Components could already be hosted… Read More »Microsoft Blazor: Next Generation Web UI or Silverlight All Over Again?
API development is everywhere these days. With Microservice architectures taking off, and JavaScript frameworks needing a way to talk to their servers, writing the server-side code to be exposed through an API is ubiquitous. So when it comes to testing all these APIs to validate… Read More »Automated API Testing in Azure DevOps
Blockchain is getting a tremendous amount of buzz lately. Some say it’s the biggest technology bubble since the internet. But when you dig deeper with most pundits, they are hard pressed to explain exactly what it is and how it’s going to change the world.… Read More »DEV LUNCH: Blockchain Demystified
When the product you are working on is aligned with the strategic direction of your company, and everyone can see the work as it’s being done, magic happens. The politics, the fits and starts, the constant rework, the change in priority. It all melts away.… Read More »AGILE LUNCH: Product Vision, Alignment, Transparency, Results
In talking with people that are new to the idea of iterative and incremental development, this is often the most common thing I hear. “We can’t deploy anything until we have everything done” Of course, this raises the stakes, because you don’t get an opportunity… Read More »We have to have everything, or we can’t have anything
One thing that we learned from Google’s Project Aristotle is that the highest performing teams have a single thing in common. What is that thing, you ask? Safety. Not safety as in they are in physical danger, but a far more difficult to measure safety,… Read More »Creating team safety in 1 easy step
It’s said that the best teams can perform up to 20 times better than the average team. How can that be? Is it people? Process? Tools? What are they doing that hasn’t already been learned and exploited by everyone else. Join us for a lively,… Read More »DEV LUNCH: Secrets of High Performing Dev Teams
Both Amazon and Windows Azure now offer dozens of services upon which to build amazing technology solutions. Navigating this array of code named, ever evolving capabilities can be dizzying. And what about the promises they made to us? Reduce your data center footprint. Lower your… Read More »DEV LUNCH: Mythbusters – Cloud Edition
Microsoft is working Polaris and other partners around the central US region to put together free workshops focused on App Modernization and are designed to help developers get hands-on with Azure. These events will focus on the most popular Azure PaaS and DevOps offerings. Each… Read More »Azure Dev Day
THE NEED The question of buy vs build is often a very difficult one. On the one hand, you get everything exactly as you want it, on the other, you have to compromise, but implementation cost and support is lower. This is the dilemma one… Read More »Streamlined infrastructure for Pharmacy PaaS