As you and your team start using Azure to support your DevOps initiatives, you may find yourself looking for a way to control costs and provide your team a way to easily create, start/stop, and tear-down environments. This is where DevTest Labs come in. As your teams go through and complete their iterations, we’ve proven […]
I’ll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando, December 5-9. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Live! 360 provides you with immediately usable training and education that will keep you relevant in the workforce. I’ll be presenting the following sessions: · ALM/DevOps Track: Application Insights: Measure Your Way to Success · Cloud Computing Track: ARM Yourself […]
If you are using Azure SQL Databases (PaaS), over time, your database may need to be tuned to account for how your application accesses data. Azure has a feature called SQL Database Advisor, which will make suggestions on changes that can be applied to help your database perform better. Azure SQL Database Advisor provides guidance […]
Join me tomorrow, July 21st at Noon Eastern, on Nebbia’s DevOps Webcast Series. I will cover ARM Templates, and show you how to Manage and automate your Azure infrastructure. The infrastructure for your application is typically made up of many related components such as a virtual machine, storage account, and virtual network, or a web […]
My latest Pluralsight course titled “End-to-End Software Development with Team Foundation Server 2015” is now available in the Pluralsight library. This course will take you through the great features available in TFS 2015 to help you and your team plan, code, build, and test your applications. The course is broken down into the following […]
On Thursday, May 19th, at Noon (Eastern), I will be presenting a Webcast: Build Automation & Continuous Integration with VSTS. This is Nebbia’s third Webcast in our Azure DevOps Series. This Webinar will show you how to create and manage build processes that automatically compile and test your applications. These builds can be triggered […]
Last week, Microsoft announced the ability to change work item types in VSTS. So if you create a Product Backlog Item, you can change it to a Bug. This came in handy today as I was entering a bug into VSTS, but I mistakenly entered it as a PBI. You can open the Work […]
VSTS and TFS has added a lot of functionality to make it easy to not just integrate with other parts of VSTS, but also to make your planning life simpler. One of the things that teams may do during a planning session is determine the test cases that should be run against a user story. […]
If you need to know the branch that you are running your build against, you can use Build.SourceBranchName Environment variable. As described here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vs/alm/build/scripts/variables The name of the branch the build was queued for. For Git this is the last path segment in the ref. For example inrefs/heads/masterthe name ismaster. For TFVC this will last […]
At Nebbia Technology, we recently started delivering a monthly DevOps Webcast series. The first session, in March, gave viewers an end-to-end high-level overview of DevOps practices that are enabled by Visual Studio Team Services and Azure. As we proceed, we’ll take you through focused sessions on these practices. I am often asked to define DevOps […]