Simon Bisson
Columnist
Author of InfoWorld's Enterprise Microsoft blog, Simon BIsson prefers to think of "career" as a verb rather than a noun, having worked in academic and telecoms research, as well as having been the CTO of a startup, running the technical side of UK Online (the first national ISP with content as well as connections), before moving into consultancy and technology strategy. He’s built plenty of large-scale web applications, designed architectures for multi-terabyte online image stores, implemented B2B information hubs, and come up with next generation mobile network architectures and knowledge management solutions. In between doing all that, he’s been a freelance journalist since the early days of the web and writes about everything from enterprise architecture down to gadgets.
Azure Cosmos DB gets the multiple-master boost for distributed apps
Microsoft’s cloud database platform is updated to improve distributed systems performance at a global scale
How to go serverless with Azure SignalR Service
Microsoft’s SignalR was designed for real-time web applications. It’s now a low-cost messaging layer for serverless applications
How to use Azure ML in Windows 10
With local machine learning support, there’s no need to worry about shipping data to cloud services, especially where bandwidth or data protection can be an issue
How to work with Azure Pipelines for devops
Microsoft’s devops build tools get a makeover, both in the cloud and on your servers
It’s gotten a little easier to develop PWAs in Windows
Microsoft’s progressive web apps tools remain unintegrated, but there's been some progress for Visual Studio developers
Understanding programmatic Azure infrastructures
With Azure, your infrastructure is code, so you can manage it from the Azure CLI or from third-party tools
Solving the UI challenge in Visual Studio code
The relationship between designers and developers is complicated and essential. Two imperfect tools help Visual Studio a little
Meet Microsoft’s new managed microservices: Azure Service Fabric Mesh
Microsoft’s Azure Service Fabric gets a containerized makeover with Azure Service Fabric Mesh
Introducing MSIX, the one installer for all Windows apps
Microsoft’s new installer brings Win32 and Windows Store apps together at last
A peek into Azure’s Kubernetes container pattern future
The future of the cloud is distributed applications. So how do you get better at building and deploying them?
Quantum katas teach you how to do quantum programming in Q#
Quantum computing needs new skills, and Microsoft Research now has a way to teach those skills
Build your own serverless platform in Kubernetes with Brigade
Microsoft’s big bet on Azure, Kubernetes, and containers is for more than massive applications
Build and test microservices applications with Azure Dev Spaces
Microsoft adds Kubernetes tools to Azure to help developers work with cloud native code. Here’s how to get started
How to develop cross-platform apps more easily with Xamarin.Essentials
The combination of Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin Forms should finally give Microsoft the end-to-end cross platform development story it’s been seeking for PCs and mobile devices
Microsoft Graph Explorer: A good tool that’s not yet ready
The GraphQL tools for programming the Microsoft 365 platform are promising but lack the needed integration into developer tools
How to debug web apps outside the browser
If a web app doesn’t use the browser, how can you test it? Microsoft’s Edge Dev Tools brings the familiar F12 tools to the desktop
Introducing React Native Windows for cross-platform apps
Building on Facebook’s React, Microsoft is delivering tools for building cross-platform code for Windows, the web, and beyond
Introducing SPFx, the SharePoint Framework for business apps
Microsoft’s open source web tool is changing how you build business applications on top of SharePoint
Introducing CloudEvents for event-driven development
An effective set of standards for handling events and API calls will make it easier for developers to extend existing services to support serverless endpoints
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