Semi-retirement for REST APIs with NGINX and Docker
You can’t really retire a public API, unless you want to break all your clients. But when a project winds down, you may need a cheaper runtime option for you...
Run GitLab on a USB Stick with Docker
I use Git for everything. Some of those things aren’t public (like books and courses I’m writing which are in-progress), and even when they are public I ofte...
HBase Succinctly: free eBook about real-time Big Data
The good people at SyncFusion have just published my first eBook, HBase Succinctly. It’s an 85-page introduction to Apache HBase, the real-time database solu...
Farewell ‘Switch-AzureMode’ & how to fix your scripts
The dust has settled on the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) model’s integration to PowerShell, and in the latest Azure PowerShell module (version 1.0.2 - which ...
Spark on Azure: Big Data Made Easy
Apache Spark is an all-in-one Big Data solution which makes it easy to get great results from large datasets; it’s gathering momentum - here’s how Google tre...