Blockchain solutions are definitely becoming more popular. Not content to be just a currency, it is finding its way into more business scenarios. It may seem unusual, but that includes Azure SQL Database. Why would we use blockchain technology in a database? That’s what today’s article will explore!

It’s a best practice to use private registries such as Azure Container Registry with container solutions on Azure. There’s very little guidance if you’re considering using a different registry to store your images. In this post, we’re explore how to use other private registries, such as the GitHub packages Container Registry.

There are lots of options for running containers in Azure, such as Azure Container Apps, Azure Container Instances, Kubernetes, Functions, and App Services. Each offering provides different features to support different scenarios, so it’s important to understand some of the container options that Azure provides today.

With programming, things aren’t always what they seem. In fact, sometimes more is less. More specifically, sometimes we get better performance by doing the opposite of what we’ve learned is right. Let’s explore an example and how it applies to cloud-scale systems and big data.

Continuing with last week’s post, we’re going to explore how to take interactive staging (line staging) one step further in Git. Sometimes you need complete control over the process of selecting which lines to commit. Perhaps you need fine control over what code is being committed. Perhaps you just want to organize what’s in the commit. Today, we continue the exploration of this feature by learning how to edit what we’re staging.

The latest preview of Visual Studio 2022 has introduced interactive staging and the ability to stage and commit a subset of a file. Today we’ll examine how you can use the Git command line to choose to commit parts of files.

Several of the more powerful features of Git are only exposed from the command-line interface. However, some of these features rely on being able to invoke a text editor. In today’s post, we walk through how to associate a text editor with Git.

In last weeks post, I mentioned that there are ways to modernize Function apps. In truth, most App Services support an improved model for deploying your code — the deployment package. Learn to use ‘Run From Package’ to improve your Azure App Service deployments.

Sometimes continuous deployment of the code is just not enough to update your Azure Function. The symptoms are simple enough — triggers stop working or the Function stops scaling. In these cases, you need to make Azure aware of the changes. You may need to synchronize.

Did you know that you can have your favorite environment configurations follow you wherever you go, including into Development Containers and Codespaces? All of your environments can reflect your personal preferences through the power of a dotfiles Git repository.