Build Tour 2015 – São Paulo
Pete Brown, Jeff Burtoft, Wael Rabadi and yours truly just finished delivering the Build Tour 2015 in Brazil. It was awesome. I never imagined I’d do anything important in a soccer stadium. We had...
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My presentation from Build 2015: https://mix.office.com/watch/hz3p9nw4aeur
View ArticleWatching the birth of a viral site under the microscope
So far we’ve been talking about Microsoft’s Machine Learning and the amazing things it can do, like allowing me to create a viral site in just 4 hours of work. But Microsoft has so much cool stuff that...
View ArticleBut… will it scale?
So I was concerned that with the increasing load, the TwinsOrNot.net would end up having problems. But it looks like I overestimated things a bit. The site is hosted as an Azure Web App (by far the...
View ArticleAnd here’s the Azure secret sauce nobody tells you
So when people try to convince you to use Azure, the typical justifications are “elasticity” or “scalability”. Great, all good points but also too obvious. I want to share what I think is the golden...
View ArticleAnd because we love open source…
Here’s the v1 of TwinsOrNot.Net source released under MIT license: https://github.com/matvelloso/twinsornot Again, this was a 4 hours project. It isn’t fancy. It was done quickly after a long trip and...
View Article…and we hit 1 million page views
While I was preparing for some updates coming soon I’ve noticed in the Application Insights dashboard that we have just hit 1 million page views. How cool was that?
View ArticleSnippet from Czech Republic’s presentation
This is a part of the presentation we did in Czech Republic when I showed TwinsOrNot for the first time and then later started visualizing how the usage of the site started picking up on Application...
View ArticleAnnouncing the first alpha of AzureLens.net
This is another crazy idea I’ve been working on for a while, and now I’m finally getting a few volunteers to help me with: www.azurelens.net This allows the visualization of Azure based systems in a...
View ArticleRunning Bitnami tracks and Ruby/MySQL on Azure
I have very little experience with Ruby, it’s not really a thing I use every day so I went around to find out how to run it on Azure. Unfortunately, Azure only runs it as IaaS. As a comparison, for...
View ArticleDoes Visual Studio freeze your keyboard when debugging JavaScript or TypeScript?
I was having this issue for a while: When doing debug integrated with Internet Explorer, Visual Studio would just freeze my keyboard. Even outside Visual Studio, I couldn’t type anything anywhere....
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