Reading List Mar 16 – 23, 2017

SAzure Architecture Center Ever wondered what the best practice for setting up and configuring cloud architectures well here is the answer welcome to the Azure Architecture Center

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/03/18/azure-architecture-center/
Accessing Azure App Services using Azure AD Bearer token Here are some simplified instructions on how to setup and use Azure Active Directory authentication for Azure App Services and code that will allow an application to use a Bearer Token to access that app.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jpsanders/2017/03/17/accessing-azure-app-services-using-azure-ad-bearer-token/
Cloud Messaging – Amazon or Azure? When architecting solutions that need to communicate between separate services or applications, messages queues and services buses become increasingly important. http://ardalis.com/cloud-messaging-amazon-or-azure

 

ASP.NET Core: Building chat room using WebSocket WebSocket is real-time communication protocol we can use to make UI in browser to send and receive messages from server over real-time communication channel. WebSocket is also supported by ASP.NET Core. This blog post demonstrates how to build simple browser based chat room on ASP.

http://gunnarpeipman.com/2017/03/aspnet-core-websocket-chat/
Tweak sign in messages with the ASP.NET OWIN middleware Configuring the ASP.NET OWIN middleware (MW from now on) in your web app makes it super easy to sent your users to authenticate with Azure AD, as the MW takes care of manufacturing the right message for the Authorization endpoint from the options you provided at startup.

http://www.cloudidentity.com/blog/2017/03/20/tweak-sign-in-messages-with-the-asp-net-owin-middleware/
Short introduction to serverless architecture Serverless architecture and Functions as a Service (FaaS) are new trends in cloud computing. Besides Microsoft and Amazon there are many other vendors providing FaaS services. This blog post is short introduction to serverless architecture and here I try to explain what it is and why we need it.
http://gunnarpeipman.com/2017/03/serverless-architecture/

Demystifying a few Angular2 concepts for starters Being immersed in the JavaScript frameworks world can be intimidating. Today, I will try to demystify a few concepts and perhaps at the same time answer some questions that someone starting with Angular2 will most probably have.
http://www.domstamand.com/demystifying-a-few-angular2-concepts-for-starters/
An Angular 2+ . Net Core Application Consuming an Azure Machine Learning Model Skip Navigation Links.
http://aihelpwebsite.com/Blog/EntryId/1021/An-Angular-2-Net-Core-Application-Consuming-an-Azure-Machine-Learning-Model

NuGet is now fully integrated into MSBuild In the past, NuGet packages were managed in two different ways – packages.config and project.json – each with their own sets of advantages and limitations. With Visual Studio 2017, we have revamped the NuGet package management experience by introducing package reference.

http://blog.nuget.org/20170316/NuGet-now-fully-integrated-into-MSBuild.html

20 Software Scalability Questions & Answers for Architect Interview Web applications scalability is a common problem most of the web architect face. Any internet facing web application may require to be highly scalable due to heavy load of traffic. Now adays , developing a smart web application is much more than creating dynamic Web pages.
http://www.fromdev.com/2013/07/architect-interview-questions-and-answers.html
The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics “I cannot define the real problem, therefore I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170215-the-strange-link-between-the-human-mind-and-quantum-physics
Pressure Doesn’t Have to Turn into Stress When I was in my late twenties, I was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Doctors operated and told me to hope for the best. I returned to Japan, where I was working, and tried to forget about it. The tumors returned a year later, this time in my liver.
https://hbr.org/2017/03/pressure-doesnt-have-to-turn-into-stress
What are the 21st-century skills every student needs? The gap between the skills people learn and the skills people need is becoming more obvious, as traditional learning falls short of equipping students with the knowledge they need to thrive, according to the World Economic Forum report New Vision for Education

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/21st-century-skills-future-jobs-students/