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- Containers vs Serverless
How we got from physical servers to containers and serverless, what each one is good at, and how I choose between them.
- Retrospective: 2019
Running a proper retrospective on my own year: celebrating what went well, learning from what didn't, and moving on.
- IoT with an ESP32
Building a soil moisture and temperature monitor for my struggling roses with an ESP32, for under fifty dollars.
- Azure DevOps, unit testing and code coverage with .Net Core
Setting up an Azure DevOps pipeline for .Net Core that runs your unit tests and reports code coverage on every commit.
- Refactoring code - restructure, not rewrite
Refactoring means restructuring, not firing everyone and starting over. Comparing software to business processes to show why.
- Static Site Generation with Vuepress
A closer look at Vuepress for blogging: how quickly you can create content, and where it fell short when I tried it.
- Blogging for consistency
The feedback I've had on my writing, and the small consistency details that lose readers before they reach your content.
- Kubernetes: AKS and Windows Containers
What Windows containers can and can't do on Kubernetes and AKS, and whether I think they're ready for production.
- Kubernetes: A Beginner's Guide
An introduction to Kubernetes: what containers, nodes and orchestration give you, and why they make running services easier.
- Kubernetes: Setting up a cluster on AKS
My cheat sheet for getting a Kubernetes cluster running on Azure with AKS, including the extras worth setting up.