The Developer Advocates - Observations on Microsoft's New Competence
Recently a whole slew of people got hired at Microsoft. Many of us have taken notice. It’s left a lot of people with questions like:
- Why would Erik, Ashley, or Jesse work at Microsoft?
- Doesn’t it seem suspicious?
- I wonder what kind of cash they allocated to that payroll budget?
- Does Microsoft hire anybody that actually uses Microsoft tooling anymore?
- I’m confused, what is even going on?
The answers may be more obvious for those of us that have kept an eye on Microsoft. There has been this grand upheaval and cultural change that has occurred. CEO Satya Nadella has legitimately shifted the culture in a way that much of the company has wanted to go. Somehow, he’s also managed to start changing the culture even for those that weren’t sure or didn’t want to go.
State for Terraform with Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
UPDATE INLINE BELOW - SEPTEMBER 29, 2017
Article Code/Config Repository
I’ve started this process by setting up two stages for execution. The initial Terraform execution which will create the Google Cloud Storage (GCS) bucket and then the Terraform stage that will then init that bucket for Terraform State and then create a simple resource.
For phase 1 I have created a simple connetion.tf file that has the provider information in it.
Thrashing Code Metal Monday for Week of September 25th 2017
Start off today with a little Gray Matter Mechanics.
So here’s the programming challenge. Determine what year, pending we continue at the rate we’re building clean tech energy of solar, wind, and hydro, that we as a planet could be 100% clean energy.
Here’s some starting points.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency
- https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-broken-the-record-for-solar-panel-efficiency-again
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_development
- http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nuclear-power-solar-wind-provide-more-electricity-gas-coal-combined-first-time-renewable-energy-a7778541.html
- https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/?page=us_energy_home
Quick Start Connections With Terraform and Kubernetes
Friday is here… a quick sitrep on my practices around Terraform connections with Azure, AWS, and GCP. In the past week I’ve been working on getting Terraform deploying a clean Kubernetes Cluster, then getting connected to that cluster and getting some resources deployed to the cluster. This article I’m just going to cover the practices I’m using to secure connections with the respective cloud providers, but more is coming soon.
Thrashing Code Metal Monday for Week of September 18th 2017
Ok, previously I’d had a few Metal Monday posts. I’m officially kicking that off again with an extra kicker. Coding problems… but likely not the easy kind. So first, here’s some tunes to thrash the mind awake. Then read on for the coding challenge.
Technology Talks & Upcoming Projects
I’ve started a new effort to line up some meetups to talk about what I’ve been working on the last few months. This is some cool stuff everybody, so I hope you’re ready for the deluge! Here are the first dates of many meetups and some conferences I’m lining up to speak at. I’ll be diving into a host of technologies; Terraform, AWS, GCP, Azure, Drone.io (CI in general), continuous delivery, practices, and a whole lot of other systemic things.
In addition to these dates, if you’d like me to swing by and speak, demo, or show some of this technology I’ve got a fairly open schedule and would be happy to schedule more.
Self-Awareness vs. Obliviousness in The Tech Industry
Are You Self-Aware or Oblivious?
I’m not one to worry about people’s opinions very often. I’ll admit I’m one of those people that tends to clear the path and do good by my own intent not for the approval of others. However, life is of course more complex than that. It’s often stated, “perception is reality” for far to many.
But often, to move forward toward my own goals I need to get an updated check of other’s perceptions of what reality is for them. The reason is simple, to achieve my goals and others’ to achieve their goals we all are going to work together on things. It’s a simple thing really, it’s how humanity and society move forward as a whole.
Organizing Great Events Like .NET Fringe
In the few remaining hours of .NET Fringe I found a seat, sat down, and just started contemplating the reasons .NET Fringe, and conferences it was inspired by like JSConf, Node Conf, and others are such great conferences. This is the list of reasons I came up with. Each bullet includes a few of the reasons why this is a contributing reason to these types of conferences. I also tried to prioritize them as seemed logical.
The Victory of Windows to MacOS to Linux
In 2011 I got a Macbook Air for a christmas gift. It changed my life in a huge way. I’d been a Microsoft Windows user for a long time. I’d also been doing primarily .NET C# Coding (along with more than a few other languages) for more years than I’d like to count. But at this particular time I knew that I was at a turning point in what I would be working on in the coming years. This Macbook Air was the gateway into a new realm of getting things done on the bleeding edge. This was something that had truly been a long while coming, and I was more than ready for this change.
My days exclusively using Microsoft Technologies were coming to an end.
