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Hosting Python packages in Azure DevOps

January 21, 2019 Jan 21, 2019 01/21/19

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What I wanted to accomplish here was simply to create a redistributable Python package. Also show some of the practices on how to work with Python in a Windows environment, but I could not stop there. I went ahead and built a complete CI/CD pipeline for the package, showing how easy it is and how well Python projects integrate with Azure DevOps.

DevOps and Culture, part 2

January 16, 2019 Jan 16, 2019 01/16/19

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This article is part 2 of DevOps and Culture. See part 1 here. In this entry I’ll discuss how we can think of culture in a systematic way and how we can change it.

DevOps and Culture, part 1

January 16, 2019 Jan 16, 2019 01/16/19

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Peter Drucker famously said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” This is a great introduction to how we think about DevOps and in this article, I’m going to unpack this statement so that we have a bit more context. This is the first part of multiple articles on culture as it relates to DevOps.

Tutorial: Run Spring Boot web service in Windows Docker container

December 27, 2018 Dec 27, 2018 12/27/18

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Build a Boot web project, create a Dockerfile, build a Docker image, then run it in Docker.

Why you should consider VS Code for your Kubernetes/Docker work

December 26, 2018 Dec 26, 2018 12/26/18

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VS Code can really be the platform of choice to benefit from the best features. Furthermore, its cross platform support allow users to have the same customer experience on multiple platforms (Windows, Linux and Mac OS).

People First – The Frequently Overlooked Importance of Culture Change in DevOps Journeys

December 22, 2018 Dec 22, 2018 12/22/18

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Why is it that some organizations, though they may invest great expense in tools, process development, and rigor, fail to obtain the transformation and benefits other organizations have so greatly experienced?

Beyond “Lift-and-Shift”: Application Modernization with Microsoft Azure

November 16, 2018 Nov 16, 2018 11/16/18

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The "lift-and-shift" approach with Azure IaaS can only deliver on small measure of the promise of agility and innovation in the Cloud when compared to modernized application (i.e., Cloud-optimized). Modernizing application with Azure PaaS, on the other hand, can deliver on the promise of agility and innovation to a great extent. It reduces the time required to manage the application and the time required to deploy a new release, and optimizes the speed to market.

Completing the Redundancy Story of API Manager

November 9, 2018 Nov 9, 2018 11/9/18

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In a previous post I discussed an approach to handling backend redundancy using Azure API Manager (APIM). In this post I want to discuss the various options for providing a high-availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) to your services exposed by API Manager.

Microsoft Flow and PowerApps monitoring strategy

October 10, 2018 Oct 10, 2018 10/10/18

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Both Flow and PowerApps are great tools that can be in the hands of business and power users to accelerate the building of automated workflows and business apps across on-premise and the cloud services. It’s easy to see how there could be many such Flows and Apps built, deployed and running within your tenant. It’s a best practice for the IT administrators to devise a monitoring strategy in place that could proactively keep a watch on these Flows, Apps and other related resources and alert and perform remediation actions as necessary.