Omar McIver

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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Dropping Availability Zone setting from Azure VMs

Jul 12, 20221 min read

From July 2023, Microsoft will start charging for Ingress/Egress data between Availability Zones (and non-Availablity Zones). You may find many of...

Dropping Availability Zone setting from Azure VMs

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...

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...

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...

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...

The Path to AKS - Getting started with minikube