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Why Choose Consulting and not Product?
When looking for a new job, or your first job, in software engineering, there’s several types of company you can choose to pursue. I started out in what we would call Enterprise, went to a Product company, then went into Consulting, then back to a Product Company and now am back into Consulting. Even during my Enterprise days, many of my projects were actually Products in that they were software solutions sold to customers. In a nutshell, I’ve been doing product work for a good part of my career, yet here I am in consulting. While that may (and probably will change), what are the advantages I see in choosing consulting? Warning: Opinions Ahead
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Don't Mind the Dust
Please don’t mind the dust while I move providers. I am moving from my WordPress based site to a Jekyll based site. This will simplify content management for me because I like to use a plain text editor. WordPress was just a bit much and the hosted WordPress didn’t give me the control I wanted over the site layout. So, here we go…
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Why Azure Iot Hub?
One of my favorite things about cloud services in general and Azure (my world) in particular is the wealth of options for quickly creating message based architectures. In Azure we can use Service Bus, Event Hubs, Event Grid, and more to manage our messages and easily consume them using our traditional sorts of applications or easy to use services like Azure Logic Apps or Azure Functions.
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A Few Tips for Azure Resource Manager Templates
Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates are often looked upon as some sort of magic voodoo. People who use them every day often have a limited understanding of them and this leads to doing things the hard way. The users aren’t always to blame, the documentation is often terse (at best) and features change quickly. In particular, mid-2017 saw a few critical features appear that really improve their usability in a few cases. I’m not going to try to completely solve the knowledge gap or try to create a comprehensive set of guidelines. Instead, I’ll point you to a few things that have been useful for me or helped me get to that “click” moment where they stopped looking like a blob of json and started looking like a language.
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Don't Repeat Yourself x3
Don’t Repeat Yourself. DRY. It’s an oft repeated axiom among software developers but do we apply it broadly enough? Where we do apply it, do we apply it too aggressively? Today I’ll look at this fine old acronym three different ways: Avoid repeating code, Avoid making the same decisions, and avoid doing work over again.
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