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• Azure App Service CI/CD using AppVeyor

  By Christos S. on March 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Publishing a web app to an Azure App Service is quite easy thing to do using Visual Studio but it certainly isn’t the best way to go with for enterprise solutions. Consider for example that you wish to deploy your… Read More ›

• Release process for distributed applications with data Geo-Replication

  By Christos S. on February 24, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  One of the most critical parts in software architecture is designing a release process for upgrading the software in your applications. The release plan is crucial and affects several factors such as: Website’s availability or downtime Time required to release… Read More ›

• New e-book: Globally-Distributed Applications with Microsoft Azure

  By Christos S. on February 2, 2018 • ( 3 )

  

  Microsoft Azure provides a huge amount of cloud services and is probably the best option for building applications in the cloud. While Microsoft provides documentation for its services, many times it isn’t clear how those services can fit together in… Read More ›

• Azure Cosmos DB: DocumentDB API in Action

  By Christos S. on August 13, 2017 • ( 5 )

  

  During tha last years, there has been an significant change regarding the amount of data being produced and consumed by applications while data-models and scemas are evolving more frequently than used to. Assuming a traditional application (makes use of relational… Read More ›

• Continuous Integration & Delivery with Microsoft Azure & GitHub – Best Practices

  By Christos S. on June 18, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) automation practices, is one way path when you want to continuously produce and deliver software in short iterations, software that is guaranteed that when deployed, it has passed successful reviews, builds and tests through an… Read More ›

• ReactiveX operators – Angular playground

  By Christos S. on May 28, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Reactive programming pattern seems to get more and more trusted by developers for building large-scale Web applications. Applications built with this pattern make use of frameworks, libraries or architecture styles that eventually will force you to intensively use RxJS and… Read More ›

• Master Microsoft Azure Web application deployment

  By Christos S. on October 29, 2016 • ( 4 )

  

  During this year we had the chance to build several Web applications using ASP.NET Core combined with frameworks and libraries such as Angular 2 or SignalR. Since then I have been receiving requests to post about how to deploy that… Read More ›

• Real-time applications using ASP.NET Core, SignalR & Angular

  By Christos S. on October 10, 2016 • ( 27 )

  

  The source code for this post has been updated to the latest ASP.NET Core version (.NET Core SDK 1.0 project – can be opened using VS 2017) and angular 4 as well (Repository). Real-time web applications are apps that push… Read More ›

• Building hybrid mobile apps using Ionic 2 and Firebase

  By Christos S. on August 27, 2016 • ( 33 )

  

  Mobile application development has been dramatically changed in the last years with more and more frameworks trying to stand on the front-line and convience developers that they are their best option for building hybrid mobile applications with the smallest effort…. Read More ›

• Angular 2 CRUD, modals, animations, pagination, datetimepicker and much more

  By Christos S. on June 27, 2016 • ( 65 )

  

  The source code for this post has been updated to Angular 4 (repository). Angular 2 and TypeScript have fetched client-side development to the next level but till recently most of web developers hesitated to start a production SPA with those… Read More ›