I'm thinking about moving one of my projects onto Windows Azure - But was wondering if any super talented developers have written a guide on how to configure / set it up and then deploy a site?
I have seen a couple of videos for people doing it on EC2 but wanted to do it on Azure...
Thanks
Maarten Balliauw has a great series of articles on building a Twitter client app in the cloud using the Azure platform.
Well worth a read.
Kindness,
Dan
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As a frontend engineer and where the freelance market seems to be, I'd like to dig into some WordPress stuff and build one for myself to at least know how to play around with it. And soon later I'll dig into backend and probably would deploy a dynamic website.
I'd like to find an option for a way that could host both, and also I can learn and develop more in such hosting method.
I tried heroku but its policy changed so the current way I forked on GitHub wouldn't be available soon. I cancelled bluehost subscription cause I believe it's not gonna be suitable for future deployment with dynamic website.
I've seen aws but its services are too many that I have no where to start with.
I'm so confused with all hosting options and iaas paas saas even tho I tired to read articles to understand them. Plus information online is like crazy a lot so that I have no idea which should I start with.
I am fine with paid service,
Could anyone share some experience with me?
If you are just getting started with web hosting you should use firebase hosting (You can't host Wordpress sites in firebase). It is completely free for hosting and also has a free database. You can deploy react.js apps or basic html,css,js websites in firebase. If you are using next.js you can check out Vercel. After exploring all of these you should try to get into the fun stuff such as Hostinger, WP Engine, DigitalOcean which support wordpress, static sites and dynamic sites.
I am not an experienced engineer like you are, but I have used these and trust me they are worth it. I hope this answer helps you
I am evaluating wep api gateway for my new projects. I used azure api gateway in the past. Reading about nginx as it is new and adopted by many. Can someone help me point out with some facts, pros, cons? Bug matrix will be a best help for me
Azure API Management is a mature and widely-used product, with many customers being very respected enterprises. Take a look at some public case studies.
It offers a very wide range of features, which are typical of an API management platform, and it is still being very actively developed. However, one of its biggest strengths lies in integration with Microsoft Azure services and features - multiregional deployments, virtual networks, monitoring and alerting solutions, native support for Service Fabric, Azure Function Apps and Azure Logic Apps, Azure Active Directory and others.
If you are considering hosting your new projects with Microsoft Azure, Azure API Management is a no-brainier.
The product is also one of the main reasons why Gartner named Microsoft a leader in the enterprise integration space.
Disclaimer: Although all of the above is best to my knowledge, I am affiliated with Azure API Management.
Although I have just started looking into this myself, here's what I can already conclude.
Looking at www.nginx.com/blog/deploying-nginx-plus-as-an-api-gateway-part-1/, Nginx requires a lot of manual configuration washed over many text files. That doesn't look flexible or effective, but I may have gotten a wrong impression.
Judging by how you're supposed to define your API keys using the map directive, Nginx API Gateway also looks like a new idea stretched on top of the existing product, while Azure API was designed for that exact purpose from the ground up.
Azure APIs, when published, come with auto-generated documentation and an interactive console that are in sync with all your updates.
With Azure API, you're putting all your eggs into one basket and completely depending on it's pricing and availability. At any moment Microsoft can increase their prices, or discontinue the product, and you cannot migrate elsewhere, at least not easily/quickly. At the same time, you can do your Nginx work once and run it on pretty much any server, starting with a low-end VPS or a Raspberry PI, if you'd like. It's pretty much yours.
I want to integrated Zoho CRM with Reckon application,
firstly i am trying to integrated Reckon Accounts Hosted and read out Docs and they provide some FTP details and forcing to implement first Reckon Accounts Desktop API.
also i am using Ubuntu 16.04 so is it possible to integrated this on linux machine and does anyhave idea to implement API of Reckon Step by stp.
Thanks.
Reckon api
This is correct. The first step is to learn how to write the XML used by the desktop version - and it is also used with Hosted. The destop version used the qbxmlrp2.dll - Hosted connects initially through the API, but then you embed the xml in post requests that are passed through the qbxmlrp2.dll. Reckon use Version 6.1 of the QuickBooks SDK which is now quite a few versions behind the American SDK. We found the Intuit documentation for the SDK to be quite thorough, but as of may 2017 the Reckon Hosted documentation is not overly helpful and leaves a lot to be figured out.
Recently Microsoft (via Scottgu) has announced some new technologies (WebMatrix, ASP.NET Razor, IIS Developer Express, SQL Server Compact Edition). I think this is something new direction in which Microsoft is trying to move since launching of ASP.NET MVC. I think the clear target of these new moves are Ruby/Python/PHP/.. developers or current ASP.NET developers who are thinking to move to Ruby/Python/PHP.
What's your opinion?
Will Microsoft be successful in its objective?
The objective is clearly to lower to bar of entry for new developers. Getting a .Net-based website has never been easier and by adding the PHP support they can tempt PHP developers by offering a familiar face in a new environment.
I think this will unleash a new wave of developers discovering .Net web development.
I disagree that WebMatrix is only useful for not-particularly-programmers or novice developers. It is (especially that Razor thing) incredibly useful for developing "one-liner" websites of non-production quality (e. g. to demonstrate some feature or just to provide a test web service for programmer's needs).
I hadn't used WebMatrix enough yet, but it already seems that I can create 50% of a simple web calculator before VS2010 even starts up :-)
Seems to me that its substantially aimed at people who are not particularly programmers - web development for SuperUser.com perhaps? (c.f. the link to Scott Hanselman's blog in my comment to the question) And who don't necessarily want to be "developers" but do want to have some capabilities to go beyond plain HTML.
Its also aimed at demonstrating that there is a complete stack and further that you can deploy applications using that stack to shared hosting without incurring additional costs (which is a new feature enabled by the new release of SQL Server Compact Edition)
Last its an entry point for those who might want to be developers - if you're talking about "developing" a website or a web application its not always the case that the programming involved is complicated
Without playing - I need to set up a VM so I can play in a sandbox - its hard to go further but WebMatrix is composed of a number of very capable tools and therefore offers considerable potential to develop apps beyond what is possible "out of the box".
Their goal:
Simplify and court new developers.
Will they be succesfull:
This seems to me one of the easiest ways to get out a website so I don't see how this can fail.
In response to catbert's comment about WebMatrix being useful for non-production quality sites, I'd like to point out that Rob Conery and Scott Hanselman used WebMatrix to create their This Developer's Life podcast site. Which is not a heavy duty commercial production site, but is definitely not a demo site.
anyone already tried to build a Flex App, which would be run as a Federated Application on the Intuit IPP?
From my understanding it is very easy to build a native Flex App which runs on the Intuit environment. They also allow the approach of "Federated Applications", which lets you host your app (they say written in any language) anywhere and you still can connect to the workplace.
I am looking for a starting point for this approach. Thx,
Martin
I've create two screencasts that show how to build applications on the IPP.
Working sample SAML gateways for IPP federation can also be found here:
https://code.intuit.com/sf/projects/ipp_fed_auth
Should anyone come across this post, please be aware that Native and Federated Applications are deprecated on the Intuit Partner Platform. The new programming model to integrate with QuicKBooks is called Intuit Anywhere