The latest episode of the podcast, feature hybrid cloud expert and Senior Manager at Dell, Kenny Lowe. The Cloud Talking is a podcast aimed at getting you closer to members of the community, talking about their career journey, the community, and a guest topic. We start each episode by asking "What do you tell your … Continue reading The Cloud Talking – E2 – Kenny Lowe
The Cloud Talking – E1 – John Kilmister
Launching the new podcast which gets you closer to members of the cloud community is Software Architect and serverless enthusiast John Kilmister. The Cloud Talking is a podcast aimed at getting you closer to members of the community, talking about their career journey, the community, and a guest topic. We start each episode by asking … Continue reading The Cloud Talking – E1 – John Kilmister
Elgato Product Review
Thanks to the kind folks over at Elgato, I was lucky enough to receive a number of products from them, I wanted to use this post to take some time to do a short review of the products I received from them. First of all, I want to provide a quick summary of what I … Continue reading Elgato Product Review
Deploying Containers with Common Configuration
You may well be aware of technology such as Helm and the creation of Helm Charts to manage applications on Kubernetes. It's a great solution if you want your container to be consumed by the general public, but what if you want a reusable YAML file to deploy your services internally. We can easily have … Continue reading Deploying Containers with Common Configuration
It can be a lonely place…
I love the community that I am part of, I can get help from any number of incredibly kind humans who go the extra mile to make sure you get the result you want. Sometimes though, as with everything in life it takes its toll. I wanted to share something more personal with you. It's … Continue reading It can be a lonely place…
Auto-Scaling .NET Core Web API Containers
In this post, we take a look at how to make sure you .NET Core Web API containers work well in auto-scalaing scenarios on Azure Kubernetes Service. When you first access a newly released .NET Core Web API, even locally, does not have to be in a container, you will notice the first request is … Continue reading Auto-Scaling .NET Core Web API Containers
It’s Good To Be Back
For the first time since March 2019, it was conference time! It was so good to be back at an in-person conference. Over the past weekend (15th - 16th October), I was lucky enough to attend the South Coast Summit in Southampton. For me, it was the first in-person event since the Cloud Expo in … Continue reading It’s Good To Be Back
Taking a Look at Polywork
Note: This is a paid partnership with Polywork. Not long ago, I saw a thread on Twitter from an connection of mine about Polywork. #Cloud community, are you on @PolyworkHQ? If so, comment with a link to your profile so others can follow.#CloudFamily #Azure #AWS #GCP #Microsoft #Amazon #Google #Community #100DaysOfCloud— James Cook 👨🏻💻 (@OfficialCookJ) … Continue reading Taking a Look at Polywork
Protecting Web APIs Using Microsoft Identity Platform: Part 3
The following posts are part of this series: Part 1: Creating your App Registration Part 2: Configuring your code Part 3: Securing your API endpoints In the previous post, we looked at the setup of your code to start accepting bearer tokens for authentication. Now we are looking at the validation of these tokens and … Continue reading Protecting Web APIs Using Microsoft Identity Platform: Part 3
Protecting Web APIs Using Microsoft Identity Platform: Part 2
The following posts are part of this series: Part 1: Creating your App Registration Part 2: Configuring your code Part 3: Securing your API endpoints Defining protected First of all, let's look at what we mean by protected. Much like in ASP.NET, in ASP.NET Core, you can use the [Authorize] attribute to define that your … Continue reading Protecting Web APIs Using Microsoft Identity Platform: Part 2