I get a lot of questions from my family about various computer related things, I thought I’d write down the answers for a few of the interesting ones…. Anti-Virus, is a bit of software that runs in the background on your machine, trying to analyse any changes to the system that are malicious. My usual… Read More »
Azure gives users the capability to write functions using simple building blocks which can wire up business functionality easily. The name of this offering is Logic Apps. Below I’m going to demonstrate this using my twitter account and linkedIn. My use case is simple, when I publish a post on this site, I have a… Read More »
A family member came to me with a 15″ MacBook Pro from 2011 and High Sierra saying that it would only boot up so far, before coming to a grey screen and then just staying powered on but not doing anything. A quick internet search revealed that this particular family of MacBooks had issues with… Read More »
We often find in the working world, that time is regularly spent just waiting for the next team to start their work. It’s a natural consequence of having teams of people with a specialised skill, and that team having to prioritise their work. But what if we turn that on it’s head. Treat that skill… Read More »
Devops means something different to different people. To me it’s about using automation to deliver value. Also looking at your system of automation (or work pipeline) and continually optimising the slowest steps, and if we can reduce dead time and queues by making as much as possible self service, all the better! I’ve been working… Read More »
Getting to the meat on the bones now. So what have we got so far? A Monolith WebApp that contains service endpoints within it to do maths on two input numbers from a user. A DockerFile we can use to Dockerise that App and store the Docker Image in a local library A set of… Read More »