DevOps: The New Face Of Application Development - Global Azure Bootcamp

Editor's Notes

• #5: The top challenge holding Ops and Dev teams back from faster delivery is a lack of collaboration between Dev and Ops teams. This lack of collaboration is exacerbated by a skills mismatch: Dev and Ops teams use different languages to specify configurations, and this leads to miscommunication, misunderstandings, and more frequent errors, especially when development or test environments aren’t configured to match production environments. Every configuration error (between a developer laptop and a testing machine, for example, or between a testing machine and a production server) introduces delays. Someone must resolve the error, and that usually means that both Dev and Ops must get involved to understand what went wrong, agree on a resolution plan, and implement it. Benefits Deliver better quality software faster and with better compliance Drive continuous improvement and adjustments earlier and more economically Increase transparency and collaboration among stakeholders involved in delivering and operating software Control costs and utilize provisioned resources more effectively while minimizing security risks Plug and play well with many of your existing DevOps investments, including investments in open source
• #18: Image 1 - The test suite that you selected was created from a backlog item. When you add a test case to this kind of suite, the test case is linked automatically to the backlog item. Image 2 - Add test steps with actions and expected results so that any team member can run the test. You can add attachments to a step if you want.
• #37: image 1 - right now, I've v25 out to production and v26 out to my alpha and beta testers.  Now how did we release the code to them ? Image 2 – got it to them using release mgmt. Release Mgmt allows me to not only deploy my solution but also my databases, websites and infrastructure needed to support my solution / mobile application. I can even automatically allow my mobile testers to get notifications on their phones to mention the new release and allow them to go download the new version. Using hockeyapp you can collect device/user/perf/crash info.
• #43: ‘Near Real Time’ Proactive Alerts is a new capability that automatically detects and helps diagnose any abnormal rise in the rate of failed requests in your application. As soon as it detects a rise, it analyzes the failed events to find common attributes such as app version, response codes or geography. Then it finds exceptions, traces and other events related to the failure. It alerts you with all the relevant information so that you can quickly diagnose the problem and fix it. With support for Webhook Callbacks you can now do so much more with Application Insights Alerts, connecting them to 3rd party alert management systems. The new Live Stream Metrics shows you your application metrics right at this very moment, with a near real time latency of 1 second. This is extremely useful when you’re releasing a new build and want to make sure that everything is working as expected or investigating an incident in real time. The new Application Map automatically discovers your application topology, laying the performance information on top of it, to let you easily identify performance bottlenecks and problematic flows across your distributed environment. It allows you to discover application dependencies on Azure Services. You can triage the problem by understanding if it is code related or dependency related and from a single place drill into related diagnostics experience. For example, your application may be failing due to performance degradation in SQL tier. With application map you will be able to visually see it and drill into SQL Index Advisor or Query Insights experience. Dashboards allow you to mashup data from multiple Azure resources and applications in a single view. You can bring together charts, metrics and KPIs across all your applications and easily share the operational dashboards with your team members.
• #45: ‘Near Real Time’ Proactive Alerts is a new capability that automatically detects and helps diagnose any abnormal rise in the rate of failed requests in your application. As soon as it detects a rise, it analyzes the failed events to find common attributes such as app version, response codes or geography. Then it finds exceptions, traces and other events related to the failure. It alerts you with all the relevant information so that you can quickly diagnose the problem and fix it. With support for Webhook Callbacks you can now do so much more with Application Insights Alerts, connecting them to 3rd party alert management systems. The new Live Stream Metrics shows you your application metrics right at this very moment, with a near real time latency of 1 second. This is extremely useful when you’re releasing a new build and want to make sure that everything is working as expected or investigating an incident in real time. The new Application Map automatically discovers your application topology, laying the performance information on top of it, to let you easily identify performance bottlenecks and problematic flows across your distributed environment. It allows you to discover application dependencies on Azure Services. You can triage the problem by understanding if it is code related or dependency related and from a single place drill into related diagnostics experience. For example, your application may be failing due to performance degradation in SQL tier. With application map you will be able to visually see it and drill into SQL Index Advisor or Query Insights experience.