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Continuous delivery
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Github actions
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Runtime variables
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GitOps
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Azure DevOps: Managing Settings on a Per-Branch Basis
Secrets rotation of environment variables and mounted secrets in pods
Low code solutions
Low code solutions
Recipes
Recipes
Github workflows
Github workflows
Terraform
Terraform
Save terraform output to a variable group (Azure DevOps)
Sharing Common Variables / Naming Conventions Between Terraform Modules
Guidelines on Structuring and Testing the Terraform Configuration
Secrets management
Secrets management
Continuous integration
Continuous integration
CI in data science
CI in data science
Working with notebooks
Working with notebooks
DevSecOps
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Azure devops
Azure devops
Azure DevOps Service Connection Security
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Dependency container scanning
Evaluate oss
Evaluate oss
Penetration testing
Penetration testing
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Secret management
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Recipes
Running detect-secrets in Azure DevOps Pipelines
Credential Scanning Tool: detect-secrets
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Dev conainters
Markdown linting
Markdown linting
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Design
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Design patterns
Cloud Resource Design Guidance
Data and DataOps Fundamentals
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Network Architecture Guidance for Azure
Network Architecture Guidance for Hybrid
Non-Functional Requirements Capture
Object-Oriented Design Reference
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Design reviews
Design reviews
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Decision log
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Doc
Decision Log
Adr
Adr
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2. App-level Logging with Serilog and Application Insights
Examples
Examples
Memory
Memory
Decision Log
Architecture
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Deployment
Deployment
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Trade Studies
Trade Studies
Trade Study: GitOps
Recipes
Recipes
Async Design Reviews
Incorporating Design Reviews into an Engagement
Engineering Feasibility Spikes: identifying and mitigating risk
Your Feature or Story Design Title Here (prefix with DRAFT/WIP to indicate level of completeness)
High Level / Game Plan Design Recipe
Milestone / Epic Design Review Recipe
Your Milestone/Epic Design Title Here (prefix with DRAFT/WIP to indicate level of completeness)
Preferred Diagram Tooling
Spike: {Name}
Your Task Design Title Here (prefix with DRAFT/WIP to indicate level of completeness)
Technical Spike
Trade studies
Trade studies
Trade Study Template
Diagram types
Diagram types
Design diagram templates
Design diagram templates
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Sequence Diagrams
Exception handling
Exception handling
Exception handling
Sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainable Software Engineering
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Developer experience
Developer experience
Separating client apps from the services they consume during development
Copilots
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Dev Containers: Getting Started
Executing pipelines locally
Fake Services Inner Dev Loop
Dev Containers: Going further
Onboarding Guide Template
Toggle VNet on and off for production and development environment
Documentation
Documentation
Best practices
Best practices
Replacing Documentation with Automation
Establishing and Managing Documentation
Creating Good Documentation
Guidance
Guidance
Code
Engineering Feedback
Projects and Repositories
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REST APIs
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Recipes
Recipes
Deploy the DocFx Documentation website to an Azure Website automatically
How to create a static website for your documentation based on mkdocs and mkdocs-material
How to Sync a Wiki between Repositories
Using DocFx and Companion Tools to generate a Documentation website
Tools
Tools
How to Automate Simple Checks
Integration with Teams/Slack
Languages
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Engineering feedback
Engineering feedback
Engineering Feedback Examples
Engineering Feedback Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)
Engineering Feedback Guidance
Machine learning
Machine learning
Data Exploration
Generic Envisioning Summary
Model Experimentation
Feasibility Studies
ML Fundamentals Checklist
ML model production checklist
Envisioning and Problem Formulation
Profiling Machine Learning and MLOps Code
Agile Development Considerations for ML Projects
Proposed ML Process
Testing Data Science and MLOps Code
TPM considerations for Machine Learning projects
Responsible AI in ISE
Observability
Observability
Guidance for Alerting
Recommended Practices
Correlation IDs
Diagnostic tools
Logs vs Metrics vs Traces
Guidance for Privacy
Observability in Microservices
Observability in Machine Learning
Observability as Code
Observability for Azure Databricks
Observability of CI/CD Pipelines
Things to Watch for when Building Observable Systems
Profiling
Recipes
Pillars
Pillars
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Tracing
Tools
Tools
Kubernetes UI Dashboards
Open Telemetry
Prometheus
Loki
Privacy
Privacy
Privacy and Data
Privacy related frameworks
Reliability
Reliability
Resources
Resources
Templates
Templates
Contributing
Security
Security
Rules of Engagement
Overview
Threat Modeling
Source control
Source control
Component Versioning
Merge strategies
Naming branches
Working with Secrets in Source Control
Git guidance
Git guidance
Using Git LFS and VFS for Git introduction
User interface engineering
User interface engineering
Maintainability
Recommended Technologies
Stability
Usability
Stability
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Last update:
November 10, 2021