Cloud Application development has blown up to the point that it has increased the vital need for enterprise mobility and security solutions to manage people, devices, apps, and data for all organizations’ sizes. Additionally, the pandemic has led to businesses’ need to increasingly offer remote working options that facilitate employees to use their personal or company-owned devices. Therefore, enterprise mobility management and security solutions will have a long-term impact in the future. Governance and compliance regulations are the biggest challenges […]
Now available as a Visual Studio Code extension, Microsoft Edge Developer Tools lets you inspect network activity, view layout, and styling changes, and see runtime HTML, all without leaving VS Code. What prompted the Microsoft Edge Team to develop these tools? In their words: Continuously switching between editor and browser adds cognitive load to your workflow throughout the day. You change from one environment to another – from development to debugging mode – and you need to switch back. That […]
In a previous article, I wrote about the Key Vault FlexVolume driver for Kubernetes. I demonstrated how to use it to mount an HTTPS certificate from Azure Key Vault onto Kubernetes pods. Since then, the FlexVolume driver has been deprecated in favor of the Container Storage Interface (CSI) secrets store driver and Azure Key Vault provider. The CSI Standard The Container Storage Interface (CSI) is the latest evolution in storage plugins for Kubernetes. It is defined by a standard design […]
I am currently working as a development operation engineer at a client that maintains a large and complex infrastructure with an even more complicated development workflow. Cloud infrastructure had already been provisioned, and several development cycles had been completed when I joined the team a couple of years ago. As a result, I came into an environment that had already established a development workflow, with barely any infrastructure as code (IaC) practices in place. What is unique about this client […]
Microsoft has recently released a new office 365 service called SharePoint Syntex. SharePoint Syntex adds Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities to SharePoint document libraries. SharePoint Syntex is the first product to be released from Microsoft project Cortex. SharePoint Syntex provides us with out of the box capabilities to build no-code AI models and apply them to document libraries. SharePoint Syntex is now available for Office 365 commercial customers. You can integrate this service into your Office 365 tenant. There is also […]
Recently, I was working on a SharePoint Framework web part that requires displaying large lists and libraries in SharePoint 2016. As many of you may already know, with a list of more than 5000 items, you may run into a list view threshold error. My requirement is allowing users to be able to view more than 20,000 items. After exploring various options, I decided to create a solution that recursively calls the SharePoint REST service with page and skip-token query […]
Gaining experience through new technologies I’m here to share my internship experience at AIS to hopefully give a good idea of what to expect if you, too, are considering entering the program. Your experience will likely be a bit different as I started during the COVID-19 pandemic. Once I accepted the position, I was shipped a laptop, and it was off to the races. By the second day, I had a project assigned: implementing Jupyter Notebooks into Scale. This project […]
This past Thanksgiving marked the first anniversary of going live with a SharePoint environment that AIS migrated from on-prem to Microsoft Azure IL5. Since then, our client has experienced 100% uptime during business hours and reduced deployment timelines, from weeks to minutes. Challenge: Improve Performance, Speed Up Deployments AIS set out to help a DoD agency that had experienced ongoing service issues with their existing provider while operating their on-prem SharePoint farm. During the year before the migration, the DoD […]
An AIS client recently started developing a design system of components commonly used throughout multiple Angular 9 applications. To that end, we decided to take a component-driven approach using Storybook JS, version 6.1. We developed individual base components that would be used in more complex components, and then we would use a combination of those complex components and base components in web pages. We quickly discovered that though Storybook supports Angular and other frameworks, it is primarily documented for React […]
2020 is a year we will never forget. A year fraught with challenges of all shapes and sizes. But it was also a year full of learnings, gratitude, and reflection. We’re looking back at the top blogs from the past year from team members committed to our mission and embracing our corporate value of continued learning. We are lucky to know, learn from, and grow alongside them. Top 10 AIS Blogs from 2020: ASP.NET Core: Telemetry and Application Insights, by Kip […]