Simon Bisson

Building distributed systems is hard. When you’re working with applications that span a planet, the speed of light is a…

Building real-time applications isn’t easy. You need tools to synchronize content, pushing information between servers and clients. While technologies like…

Microsoft has done a lot to encourage use of machine learning models in Azure, but there’s scope for their use…

Microsoft’s recent renaming of Visual Studio Team Services as Azure DevOps came as a surprise, rebranding a familiar service and…

Progressive web applications (PWAs) are web applications that cross the boundary between web and app. They run in your browser…

The more Azure grows, the harder it is to manage through its portal. After all, graphical user interfaces rarely scale…

There’s long been a tension between designers and developers, with code and user interface often seen as being in conflict.…

Microsoft’s Azure platform services have always offered support for microservices. In fact, Azure Service Fabric has been there from the…

Building installers on Windows used to be complicated. It all depended on which installation tool were you using and how…

Over the years Azure has evolved. First it was a host for stateless applications, using a range of Azure services.…

Upending the entire structure of modern computing isn’t easy. First, you need to invent technologies that can chill things to…

Microsoft is doing a lot of work to ensure that containers are a first-class citizen, not only on Azure but…

Azure’s service platform’s adoption of Kubernetes and containerschanges how you build, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications, treating containers and services…

The Xamarin acquisition was one of Microsoft’s smartest deals. It quickly gave it access to tools that let developers use…

One key platform feature of Microsoft 365 that is not well understood is Microsoft Graph. Building on the information stored…