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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

Ansible Runner Environment for Azure in a Docker Container

Sep 19, 20211 min read

If you want a jump start on creating a Docker image for an Ansible Runner Environment, ready to target Azure VMs... Then look no further than this video which provides a link to a Repo and a full explanation of it is setup. https://github.com/omarmci...

Ansible Runner Environment for Azure in a Docker Container

Joins in Azure Resource Graph KQL

Sep 4, 20212 min read

Despite the high number of KQL queries I write to interrogate the Azure Resource Graph, I mostly manage to avoid joins! Call me strange, but learning them is a big commitment to a query language - once you JOIN, you're on the precipice of assimilatio...

Joins in Azure Resource Graph KQL