

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.


Getting started with Azure SQL Edge
Microsoft scaled down its flagship database, squeezing it into 500MB and running it on edge hardware.

Testing web applications with Node.js and Playwright
Microsoft’s web testing framework mixes browser and dev tools access to give you a comprehensive automation and test framework.

Rapid UI development with Flutter for Windows
Google’s cross-platform user interface tool arrives on Windows with support for Win32 and UWP

Ignite 2020: Introducing Azure Communication Services
New APIs from Microsoft let you build both Team’s chat services and telephony into your code

Understanding development with the Fluid Framework
Microsoft’s Fluid Framework promises latency-free collaboration. How does it work?

Microsoft flexes Bicep to strengthen ARM
Azure gets a new infrastructure as code language that can help deploy and manage complex architectures

Analyzing web application APIs using Edge DevTools
Edge’s built-in developer tools have added a Postman-like REST API explorer. Now you can test applications without leaving your browser

Write clearer code with TypeScript 4.0
Microsoft’s open source JavaScript superset gets a big update, making it easier to write complex applications for the Web

Build MVVM applications with the Windows Community Toolkit
Model-view-viewmodel works well with XAML and .NET. Now there’s a first-class implementation from the .NET community

Understanding Microsoft’s Open Service Mesh
Microsoft has announced its open source service mesh implementation. What does it mean for Kubernetes on Azure?

Presenting the Azure Well-Architected Framework
Start using cloud-native applications on Azure with design patterns and best practices

Introducing Microsoft’s Dataflex low-code data platform
The latest member of the Power Platform family of tools brings business data into Teams collaborations

Getting started with Azure Arc and Kubernetes
Azure brings GitOps to Kubernetes at scale with a preview of its new application operations platform

The end of the line for PHP on Windows
Microsoft will no longer build new releases of PHP for Windows. What does the Windows Web application development future look like?

Understanding .NET MAUI and the future of Xamarin
Microsoft continues to explore the future of .NET and cross-platform Xamarin development tools

Future-proofing .NET application development with the Uno Platform
With support for WinUI 3.0, the cross-platform Uno development environment is an important alternative to Xamarin

Working with Teams in the Microsoft Graph
Create and manage collaborative teams with code

Working with the Azure Kinect Developer Kit
Building applications on top of the Kinect depth sensor

Using Redis Enterprise in Azure
Microsoft and RedisLabs are collaborating to bring advanced Redis features to Azure, adding new in-memory database tools to Azure’s cache service
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