I recently wanted to get a local instance of Docker on my workstation to kick around some cool things happening in the Microsoft space on Linux (e.g. Service Fabric on Linux, SQL Server on Linux, ASP.NET Core on Linux) locally so I thought I would setup a Hyper-V virtual machine with Ubuntu Server and save … Continue reading Installing Ubuntu x64 on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine
Month: November 2016
An Agile Team’s Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
I read an old colleague’s article about ‘Adaptive Leadership’. I really enjoyed it. He posted it on LinkedIn. Go check it out, it’s a good read. It’s his fifth article on there and I hope to see more. In it, Brian discussed and explained the different leadership styles used during different team development stages (you … Continue reading An Agile Team’s Progression Through the Stages of Team Development
So you wanna be multi-tenant…
I’ve recently been having some conversations with clients who currently provide an on premise software solution. Their product started out as a two-tier thick client and has moved towards a cloud-hosted N-tier web application. Currently they deploy their solution on premise for each of their customers. They think they need to become multi-tenant in order to … Continue reading So you wanna be multi-tenant…
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam: Study Guide
Here are the 9 parts of my study guide for the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam. Part I: VPC Part II: Security Groups & NACLs Part III: VPC Access & VPC Peering Part IV: EC2 Instance Types Part V: EBS Part VI: S3 Part VII: ELB & Auto Scaling Part VIII: Route 53 Part IX: … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Exam: Study Guide
BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
So I’ve been working on a new view in the Blob Storage Explorer app for Windows 10 today. The transfers view. I have a navigation item for it but right now the screen doesn’t do anything. The user story for this is: As a user, I want to be able to see the progress of … Continue reading BackgroundDownloader in MVVM
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part IX: IAM, CloudWatch and RDS High Availability
1. IAM a. Domain i. Users 1. Represents a specific set of credentials tied to the identity of a specific user ii. Groups 1. Group of users that can have permissions or roles associated 2. You can’t nest groups iii. Roles 1. Defines a set of permissions for a specific resource 2. Rather than … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part IX: IAM, CloudWatch and RDS High Availability
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VIII: Route 53
1. Configuring Route 53 a. Characteristics i. Name comes from the default DNS port of UDP Port 53 ii. Built from the ground up iii. Worldwide distributed DNS iv. Database of name to IP address mappings v. Uptime SLA of 100% vi. Server health checks b. Record Types i. A 1. ‘A record’ 2. … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VIII: Route 53
My ‘Home Lab’: Part II
My ‘Home Lab’
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VII: ELB & Auto Scaling
1. Configuring Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) a. Characteristics i. Region wide load balancer 1. Deploy to multiple availability zones ii. Fully managed load balancer iii. Can be used internally or externally iv. Layer-7 functionality 1. SSL termination and processing a. Important because if its not done at the ELB it will happen on the … Continue reading AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Part VII: ELB & Auto Scaling
Sky Cliffs 