Since I’ve moved up to the Seattle-area three years ago, there’s been a hole in my life. No longer. The Habit just opened up around the corner from me. I missed that place! While most of the attention (including my… Read More ›
Cloud
Creating a continuous integration pipeline in Concourse for a test-infused ASP.NET Core app
Trying to significantly improve your company’s ability to build and run good software? Forget Docker, public cloud, Kubernetes, service meshes, Cloud Foundry, serverless, and the rest of it. Over the years, I’ve learned the most important place you should start:… Read More ›
Here’s where you’ll find me over the Summer
I mean, you’ll mainly find me in Seattle, where I actually live. But, I’m also speaking on a variety of topics at a few shows over the next few months, and thought I’d point those out. “Architecting Highly Available Cloud… Read More ›
How to use the Kafka interface of Azure Event Hubs with Spring Cloud Stream
When I think of the word “imposter” my mind goes to movies where the criminal is revealed after their disguise is removed. But imposters don’t have to be evil geniuses. Sometimes imposters are good. You may buy generic types of… Read More ›
My latest Pluralsight course—Architecting for High Availability in Microsoft Azure—is out!
Imagine that someone asks you to build a cloud-hosted app. So far so good. And that app should be resilient against any glitches within the data center. Um, ok. And the app should stay online even if a whole region… Read More ›
Creating an Azure VM Scale Set from a legacy, file-sharing, ASP.NET app
In an ideal world, all your apps have good test coverage, get deployed continuously via pipelines, scale gracefully, and laugh in the face of component failure. That is decidedly not the world we live in. Yes, cloud-native apps are the… Read More ›
2017 in Review: Reading and Writing Highlights
What a fun year. Lots of things to be grateful for. Took on some more responsibility at Pivotal, helped put on a couple conferences, recorded a couple dozen podcast episodes, wrote news/articles/eMags for InfoQ.com, delivered a couple Pluralsight courses (DevOps, and Java related), received my… Read More ›
