{"id":3807,"date":"2022-06-23T00:50:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T00:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/?p=3807"},"modified":"2022-06-23T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T00:50:10","slug":"tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools To Boost Azure Cloud Development Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a developer who is leveraging Azure Cloud Services, this blog is for you. Your development productivity is often dependent on the tools you leverage for coding. By this time, you should already be familiar using Azure portal. You can use Azure portal not only for provisioning any of the Azure resource but also for debugging applications, monitoring performance and interacting with the Azure ecosystem of services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on the type of software module being developed and Azure cloud resources being used, your productivity can be&nbsp; boosted in a number of different ways, by using different free tools available. Below are some important developer tools to help you get started and take your productivity to the next level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Related Blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/10-effective-tips-to-increase-productivity-as-a-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to bring your A-Game to the development role<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_66_1 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e86416c91a8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-69e86416c91a8\"  aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/#Visual_Studio_Code\" title=\"Visual Studio Code&nbsp;\">Visual Studio Code&nbsp;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/#Azure_Storage_Explorer\" title=\"Azure Storage Explorer\">Azure Storage Explorer<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/#Application_Insights\" title=\"Application Insights\">Application Insights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/#Microsoft_Power_Apps\" title=\"Microsoft Power Apps\">Microsoft Power Apps<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/#Postman\" title=\"Postman\">Postman<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/tools-to-boost-azure-cloud-development-productivity\/#Conclusion\" title=\"Conclusion\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Visual_Studio_Code\"><\/span>Visual Studio Code&nbsp;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You want a lightweight code editor with tons of features, <a href=\"https:\/\/code.visualstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Visual Studio Code<\/a> is the way to go. This IDE is made by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. Out of the box features include support for debugging, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, code refactoring, and an embedded Git. It also has inbuilt terminal for running your favorite commands.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/microsoft-azure-beginners-guide\/\">New to Azure: Check out Azure Beginners Guide<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Azure_Storage_Explorer\"><\/span>Azure Storage Explorer<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/features\/storage-explorer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Storage Explorer<\/a> is a free storage management tool that gives users a bird&#8217;s eye view of their Azure storage account, including information about volumes, objects and files. Although you can access Azure files, blobs, and queues through the Portal, CLI, PowerShell, or APIs but its all about how fast and easy the access is. Azure Storage Cloud Explorer provides an easy to use UI and essentially works like Windows Explorer for all your Azure storage. This powerful tool can help you to troubleshoot storage issues and optimize your Azure storage usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Application_Insights\"><\/span>Application Insights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/azure-monitor\/app\/app-insights-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Application Insights<\/a>, is essentially a feature of <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/azure-monitor\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure Monitor<\/a> that provides extensible application performance management (APM) and monitoring for live web apps. It will automatically detect any performance issues, help you diagnose them, and continuously improve app performance and usability. It&#8217;s extensible &#8211; integrates with lots of tools and DevOps processes, gives you lots of telemetry, and just makes testing and debugging your project so much easier than using any other tool out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Microsoft_Power_Apps\"><\/span>Microsoft Power Apps<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/en-us\/demo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Power Apps<\/a> is a low-code\/no-code option available to make and scale your applications quickly and securely. Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors, as well as a data platform. Using Power Apps, you can quickly build custom business apps that connect to your data stored either in the underlying data platform (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powerapps\/maker\/data-platform\/data-platform-intro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Dataverse<\/a>) or in various online and on-premises data sources (such as SharePoint, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, SQL Server etc).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Postman\"><\/span>Postman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Postman<\/a> is an API platform for developers to design, build, test and iterate their APIs. If you are working on Azure, chances are you would interact with JSON based API&#8217;s a lot. Postman makes it easy to test your API&#8217;s and integration with Azure resources. Combined that Application Insights and you can triage any application be it Production or your own development environment. Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postman.com\/explore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">open sourced collection of API&#8217;s<\/a> available on Postman website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Conclusion\"><\/span>Conclusion<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It should not come as a surprise that Azure is one of the leading public cloud platform out there competing head on with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). The development ecosystem that Azure provides is one of the best out there. To advance in your career, it&#8217;s always best to validate your skills with an official Azure certification. Check out all the <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/marketplace\/rnp_search_result?keyword=Azure#practice_exam\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Azure certifications training courses<\/a> and become an Azure certified professional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Further Reading: <a href=\"https:\/\/reviewnprep.com\/blog\/how-to-prepare-for-azure-architect-certification\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">How to prepare for Azure Architect Certification explained in this blog with tips and resources<\/a><\/p><cite>Blog<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be highly productive coding in the Microsoft Tech stack, this blog is meant for you. 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