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Omar McIver

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Software architect, hands on coder, technical coach and cloud native microservice junkie (...and a very busy dad!)

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Office Explorers Podcast: MACO with Will, Peter, and Omar

Jan 25, 20221 min read

Taylor and Rob bring you the latest news AND a conversation. This time with a twist! Cognizant Microsoft Business Group's - Will, Peter, and Omar discuss the Managed Azure Cost Optimization process.

Office Explorers Podcast: MACO with Will, Peter, and Omar

Practical OAuth, OpenID and JWT in C# .NET Core

Oct 18, 20211 min read

I have published a Udemy course on Practical OAuth, OpenID and JWT in C# .NET Core which includes source code to get you up and running with the various OAuth and OpenID challenges you will face in an enterprise setting (and beyond!). This should b...

Practical OAuth, OpenID and JWT in C# .NET Core

Vertical Separation of Concern in Microservices

Oct 6, 20211 min read

As if life couldn't get more interesting! Here is a video on the importance of your internal microservice code architecture to enforce separation of concern. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-IDye3Zgis

Vertical Separation of Concern in Microservices

Pros and Cons of Microservices

Oct 5, 20211 min read

A pretty opinionated view on how to consider the pros and cons of Microservices... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIFyotMW-6w

Pros and Cons of Microservices

The Path to AKS - Getting started with minikube

Sep 29, 20211 min read

In this short video, we'll get started with minikube. In setting up minikube and understanding its basic functions you can start playing with Kubernetes workloads on your local machine at no cost! This is a great first step to learn cloud-native work...

The Path to AKS - Getting started with minikube

Basic Results Paging in Powershell with az graph

Sep 20, 20211 min read

Here is a short video with guidance on using az graph query paging in PowerShell, and one of the pitfalls to watch out for! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzZj1nU8sVA $query = "where location == 'centralus' order by id" $skipToken = $null; $queryRe...

Basic Results Paging in Powershell with az graph