I have noticed a disturbing trend within the Terraform community beginning with Yevgeniy Brikman’s, “Terraform Up & Running,” although it could predate the material. Monorepos! I don’t recall if Brikman called them monorepos, or anything for that matter, I just recall the practice.
I should probably qualify that statement a bit. A common term used in the Agile (Scrum) methodology is the “sprint”. It is an interval of time planned to complete some defined amount of work. The use of this term with respect to Agile is dumb. Why? The purpose of the Agile methodology is organize around … Continue reading Sprints Are Dumb
Creating a Git repository is an easy enough task: mkdir my-new-repo cd my-new-repo git init If this is just a local repository, you might be safe to just start using it. However, if there is any chance that this repository is going to be stored in a platform, whether it is public or private, it … Continue reading Creating a Git Repo with Terraform In Mind
I just created an example Python repository, better_memoization, for applying the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle to some code I found demonstrating memoization. What is Memoization? Memoization is a practice of storing previously calculated iterations of recursive function in a memory cache. Instead of calculating the results every time, cached results are returned when available. … Continue reading Memoization and DRY
Having taught both A+ and Python courses, I have used IP subnetting as a topic to teach some fundamentals about logic. This is an important skill for IT professionals and developers to understand, yet there are so many that have not picked up these concepts. In this post, I will explain: What is subnetting? Why … Continue reading IP Subnetting and ANDing
When implementing broader security controls in Azure Active Directory, it is a best practice to create an “emergency access” or “break the glass” account that is not subjected to those controls. The purpose of this account is to use for remediating issues with those controls. If Azure MFA is broken, for instance, a privileged account … Continue reading Emergency Access Account Use Alerting in Azure Active Directory
The year was 2000 and I worked for a small web-based solution team and we wrote applications in Java. Many people that know me may not realize that I have a development background. I began teaching myself web development before we called it that back in the mid-90s. There were not many things going on … Continue reading AJAX Before AJAX Existed
Have you experienced an inconsistency with some mailboxes going into a quarantined state after being migrated to Exchange Server 2019 that seemed unexplainable? I had this very situation. A customer with a small-to-medium environment had a single mailbox that would routinely go into a quarantined state after it was migrated. At the time, about 100 … Continue reading Mailbox Quarantined After Migrating to Exchange Server 2019
Sentry Mode is a great feature available with Tesla vehicles that are equipped with cameras that can automatically record data based on detection of events. This has been beneficial for many owners that have had their cars vandalized. We are going to enable this on my Tesla Model 3 and use a little bit of … Continue reading Enabling Sentry Mode Recording for Tesla with PowerShell
I have been working in IT for over 20 years now with a broad background that began in programming with client and server-side web development (JavaScript, Java Servlets/JSP, and PHP) and quickly moved into systems and networking. I have had some conversations lately that have got me thinking, how does someone start a new career … Continue reading A Cloud First IT Career
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