Lessons Learned

Tech Talk Tuesday
June 4th, 2019

Azure Cloud

• ARM Templates - Nesting/Inheriting
• Resource Groups
• MSDN Subscription
• Personal Subscription
• Free Resources
• Azure DevOps Projects

Azure DevOps

• YAML
• Free Pipelines
• Free Repos

PowerShell

• Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force
• Pipelining
• Object oriented
• Unit testing with Pester
• See my prior talk...

VS Code

• Fast
• Lightweight
• Not as much hand holding
• See my prior talk...

Load Balancer Configuration

• Layer 4 - Protocol aware
• Layer 7 - HTTP aware
• Certificate conversion

Angular CLI

• Can be slow
• Bulky
• npm ci

.NET Core

• Templates

NuGet

• Glorified zip
• Enforced versioning

Markdown

• Use a linter
• Fast content creation

Blob Storage

• Temporary keys
• So cheap
• Static sites

Serverless

• Durable functions
• Many triggers
• Logic apps

Windows Configuration Management

• Chocolatey
• Boxstarter
• PowerShell DSC :-(

CosmosDB

• Multi-modal
• Watch the scale
• Keeps getting better

Scaling Patterns

• Lots of ways...
• Keep it small
• Low overhead/linear scale out

It's Your Fault

• It's never the network
• It's never Azure
• It's always you...

Podcasts - Azure Specific

• The Azure Podcast ←at least listen to the intro/news
• .NET Rocks
• RunAs Radio
• The Azure DevOps Podcast

Podcasts - General Software/Tech

• Tech Meme Ride Home
• Software Engineering Radio
• Software Engineering Daily
• The 6 Figure Developer
• Data Skeptic
• The Hanselminutes Podcast

Me, in the Wild

• slack.lansing.codes
• digestibledevops.com
• twitter.com/thiedebr