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Building a better DSC script

Developer Support May 10, 2019 May 10, 2019 05/10/19

For those people that want to build a better DSC script, one that checks for most conditions and wants to keep their custom scripts from failing with no error handling, check out these recommendations.

Using Azure DevOps to Deploy Web Applications to Virtual Machines

Developer Support April 23, 2019 Apr 23, 2019 04/23/19

While it’s worth mentioning that hosting web applications using Azure PaaS offerings or via containers would be the preferred route for a variety of reasons, VMs are still widely used in many organizations. With that scenario in mind, this post is geared to helping you get started with streamlining your release process. As a note, much of this process translates easily to using Azure PaaS offerings.

Tips on Starting DevOps Projects

Developer Support April 20, 2019 Apr 20, 2019 04/20/19

DevOps uses Agile principles and combines infrastructure, development, QA, and operations engineers together through the entire cycle of software development, deployment, and support, eliminating many of the silos between teams. Most importantly, DevOps improves communication and enables better collaboration, helping enterprises to bring products and innovation to market much more rapidly.

Accessibility Testing with Azure DevOps Pipelines

Developer Support March 5, 2019 Mar 5, 2019 03/5/19

I was recently working with one of my customers to help them improve the usability of their applications as mandated by their IT staff. The goal was to create quality web applications that can be equally useful to all users including those with disabilities. Together, we reviewed many good tools and potential best practices, but we wanted something that would specifically run as part of the application release process.

Hosting Python packages in Azure DevOps

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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