Blog Improvements Reading time ~2 minutes

I wanted to start off the new year with some improvements to the theme on my blog. Ironically, I haven’t spent a lot of time blogging over the last year but I have spent a lot of time tweaking the theme to my site. So… I figured I should just......

On the current trend away from Microservices... Reading time ~1 minute

Top trending article on Hacker News of Build the modular monolith first Over the past several months, you seldom go a few weeks without seeing a top HackerNews article pulling us back towards building monoliths instead of building with microservices. Reading the comments, it’s clear people are frustrated with their......

Sometimes... Constraints Are Good Reading time ~6 minutes

One of the common benefits touted for splitting a singe REST API into many smaller REST APIs or splitting a single frontend into many micro-frontends is that: Devs can choose whatever technology they want! This sounds amazing on the surface to some people. In practice this winds up being overwhelming......

How I Study For Microsoft Certifications Reading time ~2 minutes

I have recently obtained both the DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400) and the Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) certifications and was asked by a colleague if I had any tips for studying. I don’t have any quick shortcuts or magic tips but I’ll share in this blog post the three things I......

How To Generate A Report On Your Classic Build/Release Pipeline Agent Specifications Reading time ~5 minutes

Warning ⚠ Ubuntu 16.04 LTS environment is deprecated and will be removed on October 18, 2021. Migrate to ubuntu-latest instead. For more details, see https://github.com/actions/virtual-environments/issues/3287 Perhaps you may have seen this warning in Azure DevOps already. It’s easy enough to fix once you identify a classic build or release pipeline......