The Morning Brew

Software

• Announcing the 1.0.0-rc1 of Microsoft Azure WebJobs SDK – Pranav Rastogi announces the release candidate release of the Azure Web Jobs SDK available as a pre-release package from Nuget
• New D-Series of Azure VMs with 60% Faster CPUs, More Memory and Local SSD Disks – Scott Guthrie announces the new series of Azure Virtual Machine sizes, featuring increased memory allocation, faster CPU and SSD backed disks for increased performance work loads.
• New D-Series Virtual Machine Sizes – Kenaz Kwa also discusses the new Virtual Machine instance sizes
• Git Diff Margin extension – Laurent Kempé shares the latest update to Git Diff Margin, a Visual Studio Extension to show changes against Git controlled files directly in the IDE. This release includes community contributions which increase the supported versions from 2010 to 2014 CTP.

Information

• Troy Hunt: Your Azure website CPU is going nuts and it’s not your fault – Troy Hunt continues his series sharing his experiences with running a large data, high traffic service on Azure Websites, with a discussion of a strange bit of CPU behaviour he experienced recently.
• The value proposition of Hypermedia – Jimmy Bogard discusses the architectural merits of Hypermedia in terms of REST based APIs and beyond, discussing how the concepts work, and where the value is in such a system.
• Opening Word is Software Development Fail – Erik Dietrich discusses the importance of documentation, and how Word Docs and Wikis are not the ideal way for it to be created.
• Design and document your RESTful API using RAML – Bryan O’Connell discusses a technique for creating documentation for RESTful APIs
• Visual Studio Online Update – Sept 23th – Brian Harry announces the latest batch of features released on the Visual Studio Online platform.

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