Pull Requests: A Fantastic Way To Collaborate

We recently had the chance to help a major company in Omaha convert from a self-hosted Team Foundation environment to Visual Studio Team Services. This was a big project, since we wanted to include all work items (stories, features, bugs, tasks, etc), shared queries...

Smarter SQL With Azure SQL Database

As developers, we love things that make our lives easier. We’d rather spend time developing, than we would maintaining servers and tending to our database and we want to be able to deploy our apps with the click of a button. That’s why we love...

Azure Webjobs, And Why To Use Them

In a well-architected system, an application oftentimes needs to execute tasks outside of a traditional web request. Some examples might include: Updating a search indexRolling-up log tables into aggregate tables, for reportingSending...

Expertise

You have plenty of experts within your company, already on your payroll. So, why should you hire a consultant? In our experience, there are two different reasons companies look to consultants for help. First, you may be looking for an outside...