July 2019 | Premier Developer

DevOps and Mental Models

Premier DeveloperJuly 28, 2019Jul 28, 201907/28/19

We need to regularly update our Mental Models but more importantly we need to find better means to update our Mental Models if we are serious about enabling a better culture which enables more innovation and happier individuals in our organization.

Creating a Ghost Blog on an Azure App Service

Premier DeveloperJuly 27, 2019Jul 27, 201907/27/19

Have you ever wanted to run your own blogging website but not sure if you want to build your own site or purchase an existing service? I had the same question myself and when I was studying for an Azure certification, I came across a demo of using this Ghost platform and the Azure Container Registry (ACR).

DevOps and Complex Adaptive Systems

Premier DeveloperJuly 26, 2019Jul 26, 201907/26/19

What is DevOps? This is a question that I find challenging to answer and the more I study the subject the more difficult it is to define the term. One way to think of DevOps is by applying the notion of Complex Adaptive Systems.

Versioning REST APIs in Azure Serverless

Premier DeveloperJuly 24, 2019Jul 24, 201907/24/19

In this post, you will see practical examples on how to version Logic Apps and Function Apps for breaking and non-breaking changes with common API versioning schemes and related techniques such as API gateway pattern.

Angular How-to: Page load times using Application Insights

Premier DeveloperJuly 22, 2019Jul 22, 201907/22/19

Find out how to integrate Application Insights into your Angular SPA and track custom metrics such as Page Views and Load Time. You will also learn how instrument Angular apps with Application Insights with some best practice guidance.

Automation and Integration with Azure Logic Apps

Premier DeveloperJuly 18, 2019Jul 18, 201907/18/19

Azure Logic Apps are pretty amazing. You can quickly create elaborate workflows, integrating with many of your favorite Microsoft applications and develop your own custom connectors for 3rd party systems and platforms.

Scrum Isn’t Always Perfect (and that’s okay)

Premier DeveloperJuly 17, 2019Jul 17, 201907/17/19

Over the years, I have coached and researched dozens of scrum teams to adapt to “real world” scenarios. Some may call them anti-patterns or some may call them “not scrum”-- but that is okay too because sometimes we have to work with what we have and still find ways to be successful.

DevOps or Economies of Flow

Premier DeveloperJuly 16, 2019Jul 16, 201907/16/19

The very notion of economies of scale arose during the early industrial age but unfortunately is still prevalent in many industries, including software development. However, that has changed with DevOps but it still isn’t obvious otherwise I would not come across customers that still work in this paradigm.

One Project To Rule Them All

Premier DeveloperJuly 15, 2019Jul 15, 201907/15/19

Unfortunately, many enterprises have multiple organizations and projects in their portfolio and merging them into a single project can seem a daunting task. While there are tools out there that can help, there is no “Single Tool To Rule Them All”.

Deploying a Virtual Assistant on the cheap

Premier DeveloperJuly 12, 2019Jul 12, 201907/12/19

The thing I was interested in recently was deploying to the smallest and least expensive dev/test instances of the various services in order to keep the cost down. Since this was just for demo purposes and I would be the only one talking to the bot, I didn’t need the capacity and scale of the default install.

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