DevOps with VSTS - The Third Way - Feature Flags - 2/19/2017

This is part 9 of the DevOps with VSTS series
As part of The Third Way, Feature Flags provide functionality for savely experimenting in a live environment without impacting all customers.
The Feature Flag pattern does this by enabling or disabling a specific feature without the need to red(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The Third Way - The Principles of Continual Learning and Experimentation - 2/10/2017

This is part 8 of the DevOps with VSTS series
The Third Way of DevOps is about The Principles of Continual Learning and Experimentation.
The First Way The Principles of Flow allow that any change can be delivered to the customer in a fast and reliable way.
The Second Way, The Principl(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The Second Way - Monitoring - 2/6/2017

This is part 7 of the DevOps with VSTS series
A big part of The Principles of Feedback is making sure that the system is providing enough telemetry data about the performance and usage of the system.
By having this data, analysis can be done on the whole system, but especially on newly rel(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The Second Way - Custom WorkItem Types - 2/4/2017

This is part 6 of the DevOps with VSTS series
By leveraging the ability in VSTS to create custom WorkItem Types, feedback flows that don't already have a supporting WorkItem can be easily created.
VSTS already supports different flows of feedback, like feedback about a bug that can be trac(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The Second Way - The Principles of Feedback - 2/2/2017

This is part 5 of the DevOps with VSTS series
The Second Way of DevOps is about The Principles of Feedback.
The First Way, Principles of Flow, makes sure that any change can be delivered to the customer in a fast and reliable way.
Since delivering new value is done in such a fast mann(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The First Way: Kanban - 1/29/2017

This is part 4 of the DevOps with VSTS series
The First Way is all about improving work going from left to right, eg. from concept to customer.
As part of this it is important to make work visible, reduce batch size and limit work in progress.
In VSTS the Kanban board can help tremend(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The First Way: Continuous Delivery - 1/26/2017

This is part 3 of the DevOps with VSTS series
Continuous Delivery is the automation of creating and updating environments and deploying a release package into an environment.
Automating this step enables us to reduce handovers and eliminate bottlenecks and therefor is a major improvement o(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The First Way: Continuous Integration - 1/24/2017

This is part 2 of the DevOps with VSTS series
Continuous Integration is the automation of building and testing code every time a developer integrates changes into a shared repository.
Automating this step enables us to commit changes to the repository very fast and, using unit tests, verif(...)

DevOps with VSTS - The First Way: The Principles of Flow - 1/20/2017

This is part 1 of the DevOps with VSTS series
The Principles of Flow describes how value can be delivered to the customer, both internal as external, in the fastest and safest way.
This can be done by making sure all work is visible, by reducing batch sizes, limiting work in progress and a(...)

DevOps with VSTS - Introduction - 1/18/2017

This series of blog posts will showcase a potential setup in using DevOps principles and patterns with Visual Studio Team Services.
In DevOps the Three Ways are at the foundation for all DevOps principles.
Using these principles, DevOps enables companies to deliver software in a faster and(...)

Persisting IoTHub Device Connection State using an Azure Function - 10/2/2016

In this blogpost we're going to look at how we can persists the connection state of an IoTHub device into a SQL Database.
The connection state is also available in the IoTHub device registry, but quering the device registry each time an application needs the connection state, isn't optimal.

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