Consultant and trainer.
Microsoft
MVP.
Pluralsight
Author.
Using Declarative Jenkins Pipelines
May 2020 |
Using and Managing Jenkins Plugins
April 2020 |
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): The Big Picture
March 2020 |
Managing Apps on Kubernetes with Istio
February 2020 |
Serverless Programming with Fn Project
May 2019 |
Handling
Data and Stateful Applications in Docker
January 2019 |
Monitoring
Containerized Application Health with Docker
August 2018 |
Managing
Load Balancing and Scale in Docker Swarm Mode Clusters
March 2018 |
Modernizing
.NET Apps with Docker
December 2017 |
Get
Started with Docker Datacenter
January 2017 |
Hadoop
for .NET Developers
August 2016 |
Managing
Azure IaaS with PowerShell
April 2016 |
HDInsight
Deep Dive: Storm, HBase, and Hive
November 2015 |
Real
World Big Data in Azure
June 2015 |
Getting
Started with Ubuntu
February 2015 |
Five
Essential Tools for Building REST APIs
December 2014 |
Executable
Specifications: End-to-End Acceptance Testing With SpecFlow
August 2014 |
IDisposable
Best Practices for C# Developers
June 2014 |
Message
Queue Fundamentals in .NET
April 2014 |
C#
Extension Methods
December 2013 |
Implementing
the Reactive Manifesto with Azure and AWS
October 2013 |
Nginx
and PHP Fundamentals
July 2013 |
Caching
in the .NET Stack: Inside-Out
June 2013 |
One of my goals for 2020 was to publish much more content, and I've started well with a new Pluralsight course every month :) Here's what's new.
And it's FREE April on Pluralsight
You can get access to all the first few chapters of my new book right now.
It's called Learn Docker in a Month of Lunches, and the goal is simple: to get
Pluralsight's entire course library is FREE for everyone this weekend, from Friday 6th September to Sunday 8th September! That's over 6,000 courses covering everything in development, ops and creative.
That's too
The Second Edition of my book Docker on Windows is out now. Every code sample and exercise has been fully rewritten to work on Windows Server 2019, and Windows 10 from update
Kubernetes now supports Windows machines as worker nodes. You can spin up a hybrid cluster and have Windows workloads running in Windows pods, talking to Linux workloads running in Linux pods.
TL;
A reverse proxy quickly becomes a must-have when you're running a container orchestrator with more than a couple of services. Network ports are single-occupancy resources, you can't have multiple processes listening on
This adventure lets you code on your normal dev machine from some other machine, using the browser. It's powered by Docker plus:
It's very cool setting up a 10-node Docker Swarm for less than the cost of a modest SoHo server (is SoHo still a thing?). But the more nodes you have, the less
Docker Swarm is a super easy container orchestrator. It is more opionated and less configurgable than Kubernetes. There are some things Kube can do which Swarm can't, but payback for that is
Docker is a fantastic technology for making your apps uniform. Everything in a container has the same set of artifacts to build it and the same workflow to run it - whether
There's a bunch of docker commands I run all the time, and I've saved countless hours of typing and making typos and fixing typos by putting them in PowerShell aliases. When I
There are thousands of Windows Server 2016 machines running Docker containers in production, but there's always been a small functionality gap between Windows containers and Linux containers. Windows Server 2019 closes most
