Fine tuning of $PATH makes life easier — Lately I’ve been working with Python and Node both on Windows on WSL (WSL2 specifically) and I noticed a certain number of inconveniences with WSL when having Python and Node installed on both systems. For example, some node packages were found when running node on WSL, even if I never…

Yeah, you’re not dreaming! — I’m pretty sure that at some point of your developer career you have wished — dreamed! — to have something that could turn your database tables exposed as a REST or GraphQL endpoint, automatically, just by expressing that intention (maybe via a configuration file or some other conventions). Such a…

Well, look no further, you have found the article with the final answer (at least to me). — What’s the role of a Program Manager in an enterprise like Microsoft? We get this question many times. Luckly a friend of mine, Matthew Roche, recorded a video where he explains in detail, and IMHO in the best way possible, what a PM is and does in Microsoft. So, if…

A list of curated resources useful for the developer using Azure SQL — It’s been a while now I’ve been collecting links to resources I found useful for a developer working with Azure SQL, and today I realized that the list I’ve created become quite big and nice over the last months. I so decided to turn it into an official Awesome List…

Serverless Full Stack implementation on Azure of TodoMVC app with support both for REST and GraphQL endpoints via Prisma — If you’re into Typescript and prefer a code-first approach when working with databases, you’ll be happy to learn about Prisma! Prisma is a next-generation Node.js and TypeScript ORM, that allows you to define a schema using a dedicated DSL so that you can then…

A great package to take advantage or Azure SQL with Node — As mentioned already in a previous posts, I’ve just started learning Node in the last months. At first I had a rough start as the totally asynchronous nature of Node, and the many ways it can be leveraged, wasn’t something I was used to. I battled a bit with that…

Fast, lean and cleaner code, with some SQL magic. — The Challenge Recently I found a quite common request on StackOverflow. Generalizing the problem, it can be described as the requirement of insert some data into a table only if that data is not there already. Many developers will solve it by trying to execute two steps: check if the data exists…

A video and sample code to create a end-to-end REST solution with from zero using Azure SQL, with unit testing and automated deployment. Let’s give the new year a kickstart! — If you are about to start your next project, which will presumably involve the creation of a backend REST API that will interact with data stored in a database, you should do so by using a modern approach and apply DevOps principles right from the start.

Automatically scale up and down Azure SQL Hyperscale depending on detected workload, using an Azure Function — Azure SQL Hyperscale is the latest architectural evolution of Azure SQL, which has been natively designed to take advantage of the cloud. One of the main key features of this new architecture is the complete separation of Compute Nodes and Storage Nodes. This allows for the independent scale of each…