Docker is one of the disruptive technologies within virtualization, allowing the different containers to run on the same machine, sharing resources, reducing the overhead. The technology allows DevOps teams to have another tool to develop, build and ship software. One use case for containers is the Microservices Architecture Pattern.
AWS Lambda is one of the AWS Compute Services, alongside with Amazon EC2 or Amazon EC2 Container Service. In a nutshell, AWS Lambda is the serverless offer from AWS, allowing "you run code without provisioning or managing servers".
We should seek excellence in our jobs, doesn’t matter our line of work. As professionals, we should always aim to improve the quality of our outputs, either it is customer satisfaction, code quality or just faster builds and deployments.
Microsoft is doing a huge effort to bring SQL Server 2016 to Linux. Back in the summer, during the Dublin 2016 SQL Saturday 501, Mark Souza presented the SQL Server history. One of the major features is the ability to run SQL Sever 2016 on Linux.
In the previous post, I wrote about my experience changing the operations of a Software Company, improving the development process.
Agile is great… and sometimes painful. Do not get me wrong, I love an Agile work environment when everyone is keen to “Try, Fail, Fix, Learn and Move On”. For those ones that work in the software development space, we have more tasks than develop software.
As a developer, I need to take a good rest at night. In my line of work the only way to achieve it is using an integrated workflow pipeline, aka Source Code Management (SCM), Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) with some tools in the middle.
Today was a debut using GitHub Gist. In one of my GitHub projects, I need a close integration between the Continuous Integration tool (in this case AppVeyor) and my .NET Core project, specifically in how to update the version of the DLL based on the version in AppVeyor?
In this post I’m writing about my CISSP journey. For those who aren’t aware of what CISSP stand for, it’s (probably) the most respectful security certification. It’s under (ISC)2 portfolio and you can find more information here.
