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vcpkg 2023.06.20 and 2023.07.21 Releases: GitHub Dependency Graph Support, Android Tested Triplets, Xbox Triplet Improvements, and More…

The 2023.07.21 release of the vcpkg package manager is available. This blog post summarizes changes from April 16th, 2023 to July 21th, 2023 for the Microsoft/vcpkg, Microsoft/vcpkg-tool, and Microsoft/vcpkg-docs GitHub repos. Some stats for this period: 59 new ports were added to the open-source registry. If you are unfamiliar with ...


Getting Started with Power Platform CLI and Power Pages

In this blog, I will highlight the pac paportal command group that is part of the Power Platform CLI. This blog is part of a multi-part series on the Power Platform CLI. Previously, the following blogs appeared in this series: Part 1 - Getting Started with the Power Platform CLI Part 2 - Streamline your solution development ...


FCM v1 Migration Steps

Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) legacy API will be deprecated by Jul 2024. The ANH team is preparing so customers can begin migrating from Legacy HTTP protocol to FCM v1. Customers may start this migration process Feb 1, 2024 and will need to be migrated by June 2024. To migrate from FCM legacy to FCM v1, please follow these steps: Migrate ...


Load testing AAD-based authentication for Azure Cache for Redis

At Microsoft, we continue working on modernizing our services to make them faster, more reliable, and up to date with the latest technologies. In this blog post, we’ll cover how We set up tests to measure the throughput and operations per second under high load conditions. Specifically, we performed tests for DDoS (Distributed Denial of ...