Continuous Delivery Architecture, A Rainbow of Tools
The Age of Architecture Architecture is one of those universal roles that no matter the job, its critical you have a good understanding of the architecture to be successful in both development and operations. As with any architectural role, there are so many moving parts that if you can’t see the machine for the cog…
IQ, EQ and MQ: Assessing Your People
A peer recently asked me to sum up how I was able to assess people quickly to know who the top performers were and what challenges I would have with other personalities and levels of performance. There are three core traits that I use to evaluate performance in an organization vs. labeling via A, B,…
An Apple A Day – Day 30
My Journey to Center of Apple Due to not being able to use devices at the summit, I took the weekend to collate all the data about my experiences, pricing, and investments, etc. So that I could lay it all out for you. For those of you who are skipping to the end to see the…
Azure Service Bus, Cheaper By The Hour
A new announcement from Microsoft shows how the billing for Azure Service Bus is changing from daily and monthly to hourly billing for standard and premium tiers; thus moving them closer to a usage model that closes the pricing gap between constantly used resources and rarely used resources. One thing I’ve always loved about Microsoft…
An Apple A Day – Day 29
Summit Meeting! Haven’t really gotten to put my iDevices through the paces on the road so this is exciting to be able to do before the end of the road (in the series) so to speak. I also picked up a couple of things off Amazon to make life a little easier. First, I bought a Lightning…
An Apple A Day – Day 28
Coming to the End of the Beginning of my Journey Today was fun and interesting as I had to visit the Microsoft office and of course, I’m the only guy with an Apple. I’m asked repeatedly by everyone I encounter the question I always love answering. Why? I take pleasure in every interaction as one who has…
Open Source DevOps PowerShell Module
There’s a growing need for automation to implement skeleton projects for DevOps deployments and application migrations. It requires a fair amount of finesse and some scripting magic. So for this need, I created the start of a small PowerShell module to help solve that problem. The Pledge A colleague a while back contacted me and…
An Apple A Day – Day 27
Reflections Today was a day of reflection of the journey and thinking back to some of the challenges I had when I began and some of the things I’ve discovered for better or for worse in the last few weeks using this new platform. I wish I had been more understanding and open-minded about trying…
An Apple A Day – Day 26
Pokemon Go! Spent most of the day Pokemon hunting with the wife accidentally as we had actually gone out to buy a large amount of copper pipe to build a closet shelving system for her. The Apple watch experience, as always, was second to none for it’s Pokemon Go companion app that allows you to…
An Apple A Day – Day 25
iPad & Microsoft Global Azure Boot Camp Today is the day! Time to go full on Live at a huge event and see how this new platform performs. Armed with an iPad, AppleTV, and Logitech Spotlight I am poised and ready to deliver an exceptional experience using my new tools of the trade and for…
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