Bryan writes: How can a small, mainly click-next-admin team/culture best get started on the journey toward Infrastructure-as-code, build-test-deploy / Release Pipeline? I see many blogs and books about more mainstream DevOps, but our shop is more like the one referred to in the Microsoft / Chef Release Pipeline whitepaper, where we only create and maintain …
Allen writes: Let me Begin by saying thank you, thank you for providing tons of material and resources on PowerShell. You have helped me boost my IT career and climb my way up the ranks in my agency with PowrShell scripting. My question is how can I find a job where all I do is …
Jimmy writes: Do you, or did you ever, feel like trends in IT are really just driven by fashion and trends? With that in mind, do/did you ever find yourself worrying that your trajectory with your career is heading/headed towards obsolescence? As someone who tries to pay attention to the news, trends, and the latest …
Axel writes: How come cmdlets don’t act the same – or better yet, why is the syntax for similar things different? When I run Get-AzureADUser -All, I have to append a boolean $true for it to work. I would expect the switch to return true, if I append it to the cmdlet in the first …
As I’ve written here before, I do believe that the current concept of “operating system,” at least with regard to servers, is on the way out. Not quickly, of course – these things take time – but faster than you might think. So I wanted to take a moment to perform a little thought experiment: …
It’s been fun to watch Microsoft pitch cloud, cloud, cloud, Azure, cloud, fluffy cloud, with relatively little attention devoted to Windows Server these days. In fact, I’m told it almost caused a semi-rebellion in the Windows Server team, who was all like, “um, we bring in eleventy billion bucks a year, love us please?” But …
Given that the entire tech industry is based on electricity and unicorn tears, I thought I’d offer some fun facts on the former.
In the past few months, I’ve engaged in a number of discussions on trust. Specifically, in relation to software found on the internet, and most specifically with regard to software in public repositories like PowerShellGallery.com, a NuGet repo, an NPM repo, and so on. I’ll lay out some of what people have told me, offer some observations, …
Thsoe who don’t know history, as the saying goes, are doomed to repeat it. That saying is just as applicable to tech as anything else, and so today we’re going to do a little tech primer on communication busses.
The United States is, at present, experiencing record or near-record (depending on whose numbers you believe) low unemployment, making it hard for employers to fill jobs. One of our country’s largest generations, the Baby Boomers, have already begun to retire and will continue to do so in droves over the next few years, further reducing …
