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Testing ASP.NET Core services and web apps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/microservices-architecture/multi-container-microservice-net-applications/test-aspnet-core-services-web-apps .NET Microservices Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications | Testing ASP.NET Core services and web appsPublished Date : Thursday, January 17, 2019
Continuous integration and continuous deployment - Azure IoT Edge
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/iot-edge/how-to-ci-cd Set up continuous integration and continuous deployment - Azure IoT Edge with Azure DevOps, Azure PipelinesPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Troubleshoot problems with Azure Application Insights Profiler
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/profiler-troubleshooting This page contains troubleshooting steps and information to help developers who are having trouble enabling or using Application Insights profiler.Published Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Add a widget to a team dashboard - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/add-widget-to-dashboard Choose and configure widgets that you add to a team dashboard in Azure DevOps & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Set dashboard permissions for team members - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/dashboard-permissions How to set permissions to create, edi, or delete dashboardsPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Status and trend work item, query-based charts - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/charts Create status, progress, and trend charts from flat-based queries in Azure DevOps and Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Add, rename, delete, and manage team dashboards - Azure DevOps Services and TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/dashboards View progress and trends by defining dashboards in Azure DevOps & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
About SharePoint Integration - TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/sharepoint-dashboards/about-sharepoint-integration TFS/SharePoint integration - About SharePoint IntegrationPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Apply a field rule - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/xml/apply-rule-work-item-field Overview of XML elements you can use to modify field settings, such as pick lists, default value, copy value, or conditional rulesPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
View built-in data store velocity chart - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/velocity-chart-data-store Track team velocity across several sprints using the work tracking datastore velocity chart in Azure DevOps & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Add markdown content to a team dashboard - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/report/dashboards/add-markdown-to-dashboard Add and configure the Markdown widget you add to a team dashboardPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Expand list items and exclude groups from lists - TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/xml/expand-list-items-and-exclude-groups-from-lists Examples for expanding pick list items and restricting items using expanditems and filteritems attributes - Team Foundation Server (TFS)Published Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Request feedback - Azure DevOps Services & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/feedback/get-feedback Ask reviewers to provide videos, screenshots, type-written comments, and ratings on your application developed using Azure DevOps Services & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Git repository and branch default permissions - Azure DevOps and TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/security/default-git-permissions At-a-glance view of default permissions assigned to built-in security groups made for Git repositories and branchesPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Index of default and system work item fields - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/work-items/guidance/work-item-field Index to all fields used in the Agile, Scrum, and CMMI processes/process templates for Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Query by numeric field - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/queries/query-numeric Track work by creating queries based on effort, story points, schedules, or time tracking fields in Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Understand how work items are used to track user stories, issues, bugs, features, and epics - Azure Boards and TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/work-items/about-work-items Understand how to use work items to plan, track, & collaborate with others when developing software apps in Azure Boards & TFSPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Add and use work item templates to update user stories, tasks, issues, and other work items - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/work-item-template Add and manage work item templates to pre-populate fields in work item forms in Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, and Visual StudioPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Define & manage bugs or code defects - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/manage-bugs Manage technical debt and triage bugs using Agile tools in Azure Boards & TFSPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Group/organize backlog items - define features and epics - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/define-features-epics Define features and epics to organize your product and portfolio backlogsPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Add and manage issues or impediments - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/manage-issues-impediments Track problems, risks, or other issues that may impeded your plans or schedule - Azure Boards & TFSPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Share information in work items and social tools - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/queries/share-plans Email links, Copy URL, and share information about work items, queries, and more in Azure Boards or Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Organize your product backlog into a hierarchy of items - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/organize-backlog Map or parent backlog items to features, and features to epics in Azure Boards or TFSPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Pick list queries - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/queries/planning-ranking-priorities Create queries based on planning, ranking, and priority, integer and pick list fields in Azure Boards, Azure DevOps, & Team Foundation ServerPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Define/plan your product backlog of user stories, issues, backlog items, or requirements - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/create-your-backlog Add backlog items or user stories to plan your project, prioritize, and estimate deliverables in Azure Boards & TFSPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Add, update, and follow user stories, issues, bugs, and other work items - Azure Boards
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/backlogs/add-work-items Add work items to plan and manage a software project using Agile tools, Scrum, or Kanban when connected to a project in Azure Boards or TFSPublished Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Create user acceptance test libraries by using task guides and BPM - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365 | #MSDyn365FO
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/dev-itpro/lifecycle-services/using-task-guides-and-bpm-to-create-user-acceptance-tests This topic provides information about using Task guides and BPM to create and execute acceptance test suites.Published Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Overview - Visual Studio App Center
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/ Set up your app to distribute to your beta testers on every commit, see live user data, and test your app on 1000’s of real devices.Published Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
Get started with Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/get-started-with-devops/ In this module, we'll explore DevOps and learn how to get started with Azure DevOps.Published Date : Wednesday, January 16, 2019
What is NuGet and what does it do?
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/what-is-nuget A comprehensive introduction to what NuGet is and doesPublished Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
NuGet Frequently-Asked Questions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/policies/nuget-faq Common questions and answers for using NuGet on the command line and in Visual Studio, and working with the NuGet gallery.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Azure CLI release notes
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/release-notes-azure-cli Learn about the latest updates to Azure CLIPublished Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Publish Azure application offer - Azure Marketplace
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/marketplace/cloud-partner-portal/azure-applications/cpp-publish-offer Describes the process and steps for publishing an Azure application offer on the Azure Marketplace.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Create continuous integration Azure pipeline - Team Data Science Process
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/machine-learning/team-data-science-process/ci-cd-flask DevOps for Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications: Creating continuous integration pipeline on Azure using Docker and KubernetesPublished Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Source Control integration in Azure Automation
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/source-control-integration This article describes source control integration with GitHub in Azure Automation.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
.NET Client Library Samples for Azure DevOps Services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/integrate/get-started/client-libraries/samples C# samples showing how to integrate with Azure DevOps Services and Team Foundation Server from apps and services on Windows.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Understand what you get with Azure Boards - Azure DevOps Services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/boards/get-started/what-is-azure-boards Main features and functions supported by Azure Boards available from Azure DevOps Services and Team Foundation Server (TFS)Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Power BI Pro Benefit in Visual Studio Subscriptions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/subscriptions/vs-pbi Learn about the Power BI Pro subscription included with selected Visual Studio subscriptions.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
TFS is now Azure DevOps Server - Azure DevOps Server & Team Foundation Server
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs/server/tfs-is-now-azure-devops-server The newest version of Team Foundation Server (TFS) is Azure DevOps Server 2019Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Azure DevOps Server Documentation - TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs/ Quickstarts and how-to guides to install, upgrade, and manage Azure DevOps Server, formerly named Team Foundation Server (TFS).Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
TF31002-Unable to connect - Azure DevOps & TFS
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/reference/error/tf31002-unable-connect-tfs Receive the error when you try to connect to Azure DevOps Services or an on-premises Team Foundation Server.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Azure Pipelines Documentation - Azure DevOps Services
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/ Learn how to configure CI/CD for the app and platform of your choice using Azure Pipelines and Team Foundation Server (TFS). Includes tutorials, references, and other documentation.Published Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Azure DevOps Features Timeline
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/ Azure DevOps feature updates roadmap, release notes, release timeline, and server build numbersPublished Date : Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Previous monthly updates to Power BI Desktop - Power BI
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-latest-update-archive Feature updates from previous releases of Power BI DesktopPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Data sources in Power BI Desktop - Power BI
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/desktop-data-sources Data sources in Power BI DesktopPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Create cross-cloud scaling solutions with Azure
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/user/azure-stack-solution-cloud-burst Learn how to create cross-cloud scaling solutions with Azure.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Create a geo-distributed app solution with Azure and Azure Stack
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-stack/user/azure-stack-solution-geo-distributed Learn how to create a geo-distributed app solution with Azure and Azure Stack.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
PublishMarkdown files from a Git repository to a wiki in Azure DevOps - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/publish-repo-to-wiki MaintainMarkdown files in a Git code repository and publish them to your team project wiki in Azure DevOpsPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Create a wiki for your project to share information in Azure DevOps - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/project/wiki/wiki-create-repo Share information with your team and increase collaboration using a built-in team project wiki in Azure DevOpsPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Deploy a build and release agent on Windows - Azure Pipelines
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/agents/v2-windows Learn how to use Windows Build and Release agents to build and deploy your Windows and Azure code for Azure Pipelines and TFS.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Variable groups for Azure Pipelines and TFS - Azure Pipelines
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/library/variable-groups Understand variable groups in Azure Pipelines and Team Foundation Server (TFS)Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Build your .NET desktop app for Windows - Azure Pipelines
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/apps/windows/dot-net Learn how you can define a continuous integration (CI) pipeline that builds your .NET app on Team Foundation Server and Azure Pipelines.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Get the Android Studio Azure DevOps Services plug-in
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/java/download-android-studio-plug-in Information and download links for the Android Studio Azure DevOps Services plug-inPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Save and share code with Git - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/git-share-code Saving and sharing versions of code with your team are the most common things you do when using version control.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Learn Git with Team Services - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/learn-git-with-team-services This tutorial will walk you through some basic Git tasks using Azure DevOps.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Set up a repository - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/set-up-a-git-repository A Git repository, or repo, is a folder that you’ve told Git to help you track file changes in. You can have any number of repos on your computer, each stored in their own folder. Each Git repo on your system is independent, so changes saved in one Git repo don’t affect the contents of another.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Git Virtual File System Architecture - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/gvfs-architecture In previous articles, we have discussed the challenges of working in a Git repo with millions of files and some of our previous attempts to solve those issues.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Migrate from TFVC to Git - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/migrate-from-tfvc-to-git Azure DevOps provides a simple migration tool to migrate from Team Foundation Version Control to Git.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is DevOps? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-devops DevOps is the union of people, process, and products to enable continuous delivery of value to our end users.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is Monitoring? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-monitoring Monitor your application in production. Monitoring delivers information about an application’s performance and usage patterns.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Limited Refs - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/limited-refs As we discussed in the previous article, one of the major scale challenges for Git is dealing with the linear costs associated with having too many refs. Let’s look a little more closely at the problem, and how we’ve solved it.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
How We Use Git at Microsoft - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/use-git-microsoft We've talked a lot about hosting the world's largest Git repository, about how we're moving Microsoft to Git, and about the challenges of Git at scale.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Using a simple code churn metric to find software bugs - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/using-simple-code-churn-metric-find-software-bugs A common problem in software engineering is understanding how to evolve large software projects, particularly when trying to maintain, modernize, or refactor.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the Public Cloud - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/moving-65000-microsofties-devops-public-cloud Moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the Public Cloud Author: Sam Guckenheimer Last Update: 8/4/2017 Interview and Transcript At Build 2017, I hosted an open Q&A session with me leaders from four engineering groups in Microsoft. We have been on a move for the last three years toward one engineering system in Microsoft. This is a decisionPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is Git? Tutorials - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/learn-git Learn Git Learn Git with tutorials and best practices for individuals, teams, and enterprisesPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
DevOps Resource Center - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/ Learn DevOps practices, Git version control, Agile methods, how we work with DevOps at Microsoft.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Security in DevOps - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/security-in-devops Security is a key part of DevOps. Buck Hodges first walks through how we have done our security war games with red teams and blue teams. Buck goes on to cover our best practices for DevSecOps in running a SaaS business.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What are Microservices? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-are-microservices Microservices provide many benefits over monolithic architectures.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is Continuous Integration? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-continuous-integration Continuous Integration (CI) is the process of automating the build and testing of code every time a team member commits changes to version control.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Get feedback with pull requests - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/git-pull-requests Get feedback with pull requests By Robert Outlaw Pull requests combine the review and merge of your code into a single collaborative process. Once you're done fixing a bug or new feature in a branch, create a new pull request.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Welcome to Agile - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/learn-agile What is Agile? What is Scrum? What is Agile Development? Learn about Agile principles, methodologies, and applications.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is DevOps Culture? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-devops-culture DevOps culture stresses small, multidisciplinary teams, who work autonomously and take accountability for how actual users experience their software.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Patterns for Resiliency in the Cloud - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/patterns-resiliency-cloud We use feature flags, and they’re awesome, right? What could possibly go wrong? Let’s rewind to November 2013 at the Connect() conference. We had a bunch of new functionality we wanted to roll out.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Migrate from other systems to Git - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/migrate-other-systems-to-git Before you try to migrate your source code from a legacy version control system to Git, be sure that you familiarize yourself with the differences between centralized version control systems and Git, and plan your team's migration.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Shift Left to Make Testing Fast and Reliable - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/shift-left-make-testing-fast-reliable Back in September 2014, we were three years into our cloud cadence. And we were still running our testing the way we had tested before moving to the cloud. We were trying to do things faster, we were trying to optimize our automation, but we were struggling.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Universal Store: Journey to Continuous Delivery and DevOps - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/universal-store-journey-continuous-delivery-devops The Microsoft Universal Store Team (UST) is the main commercial engine of Microsoft with the mission to bring One Universal Store for all commerce at Microsoft. The UST encompasses everything Microsoft sells and everything others sell through the company, consumer and commercial.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Release Flow - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/release-flow An introduction to Release Flow, the Azure DevOps team's branching strategy and development process that ensures that we deliver code to production safely and efficiently.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Progressive Experimentation with Feature Flags - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/progressive-experimentation-feature-flags One of the things that we needed to do as part of our cloud service journey was to be able to control disclosure of features. This was something we never had in the on-prem product.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
The Race to Push - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/race-to-push In a team with more than a dozen or so members, people often end up racing with each other to push their changes to master or another shared branch. This results in wasted time, frustration, and reduced code quality since people can’t take the time to fully validate their changes out of fear of losing the race.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is version control? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/what-is-version-control Version control systems are software that help you track changes you make in your code over time.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Technical Scale Challenges with Git - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/technical-scale-challenges It’s become “common knowledge” that Git struggles with larger repos, but what does that mean, exactly?Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is Git? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/what-is-git Git is the most commonly used version control system today. Will it be the standard for the future?Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Install and set up Git - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/install-and-set-up-git IGit isn't usually set up by default on your computer, so you need to install and configure it before you can start using it to manage your code. It's important to keep Git up to date, just like all the other software on your machine.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Live site culture and site reliability - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/live-site-culture-and-reliability Live-Site Culture (or a Production-First Mindset) is essential to running a service. Tom Moore discusses both how we handle service reliability and how we practice. Along the way, Tom Moore discusses how we use telemetry to monitor Azure DevOps and gain continual insight into both the health and usage of the service.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Moving to Cloud Cadence - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/moving-cloud-cadence At VSTS in Microsoft, we’ve been on a DevOps journey. We're not perfect, we didn't do this in six months and we're not done. We had major milestones along the way and the pattern that we followed is very similar to the pattern I see customers following. They start with, 'Gosh, I want to reduce my cycle times. I want to do this DevOps thing. I want to move to that cloud cadence. My business isn't keeping up.' Yes, that's why we changed too. First Change the Cadence What do you do first? Change your schedule. I want to ship...Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Software testing at scale to increase velocity - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/software-testing-scale-increase-velocity his article discusses how to decide what you need to test without spending more than necessary. Don't pay too much for software testing Software testing is like insurance. Creating tests is buying coverage against risks. Redundant tests, flaky tests or running tests unnecessarily isPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Git Virtual File System Design History - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/gvfs-design-history GVFS virtualizes the file system beneath a Git repo to solve two main problems: Only download contents that the user needs and make local Git commands consider just the files that the user cares about, and not all the files that exist in the working directory.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
DevOps Resources - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/events-and-talks/ Videos related to DevOps transformations, events, and productsPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is Infrastructure as Code? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-infrastructure-as-code Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management of infrastructure in a descriptive model, using the same versioning as DevOps team uses for source code.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Boosting your code reviews with useful comments - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/boosting-code-reviews-useful-comments Having peer developers review code before changes are submitted and integrated to the main codebase can be beneficial for a number of reasons: First, code reviewing helps to improve software quality, as the additional attention of peers can help to detect errors, improve readability of the code, or even help with design decisions. Second, code reviewing also helps to disseminate knowledge between team members or even across different teams or organizations.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Safe deployment practices with Ed Glas - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/safe-deployment-practices When you deploy continuously, you need to control the blast radius and continually expand based on the health of the release. Ed Glas goes over the safe deployment practices that we use for progressive exposure.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Git at Scale - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/git-at-scale In this series of articles, we’ll discuss each of these scale challenges in depth, and how we have solved them to enable a team of this size to work successfully in Git.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Understand Git history - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/understand-git-history Git represents history in a fundamentally different way than centralized version controls systems (CVCS) such as Team Foundation Version Control, Perforce, or Subversion.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Shift Right to Test in Production - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/shift-right-test-production There’s No Place Like Production This is the third and last part of the major changes we made. As you saw earlier, we reduced our reliance on functional tests in the lab in favor of unit tests. The flip side of that strategy was to rely a lot more on testing in production. When it comes to cloud services, there is no place like production. The full breadth and diversity of the prod environment is hard to replicate in the lab. And the real workload of customer traffic is also hard to simulate. Moreover, the prod environment keeps changing.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
What is Continuous Delivery? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/what-is-continuous-delivery Continuous Delivery (CD) is the process to build, test, configure and deploy from a build to a production environment.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Is 100% code coverage worth the cost? - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/100-code-coverage-worth-cost Often you have code that does not have 100% test coverage. In other words, tests don't exercise all code paths. (The code and tests were developed independently, and the system has evolved over time.) How much engineering effort is worth investing to increasePublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
DevOps at Microsoft - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/ This center will keep you current on how we continue to adopt DevOps at Microsoft. We’ve selected the best videos and articles from both public conferences and internal training sessions. For most of the videos, we also provide an accompanying article. We focus on practices that we use in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), which is the backbone of our One Engineering System (1ES), lessons learned from across Microsoft, and the best of our learning from Microsoft Research.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
From monolith to cloud service - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/monolith-cloud-service What is version control? If you're developing code, building websites, or writing documentation, using version control is essential to protect your work.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
Achieving No Downtime Through Versioned Service Updates - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/achieving-no-downtime-versioned-service-updates What is version control? If you're developing code, building websites, or writing documentation, using version control is essential to protect your work.Published Date : Monday, January 14, 2019
SMoving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) - Azure DevOps
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/devops-at-microsoft/move-engineers-to-devops placeholderPublished Date : Monday, January 14, 2019