Did you know that your favourite cafe does much more than satisfy your caffeine craving?

Small to medium enterprises (SMEs: less than 200 employees), like your local cafe, are the bedrock of the Australian economy. They are responsible for more than half of our GDP and employ a whopping 2/3 of the Australian workforce

APIs make the digital world go round. According to Gartner, they are an essential element of every digital strategy. They enable systems and applications to interact, connecting disparate data sources and bridging access protocols. APIs can unlock your organisation’s digital assets and allow them to be consumed in a...

Against most common belief, DevOps is not a team nor a department, and it isn’t merely a stack. DevOps is a movement, a mindset that has shocked the tech industry to its core. I believe DevOps will keep playing this vital role in guiding industries toward innovation, launching them into novel space without...

Asking for help is a common and natural thing that everyone does. You need help immediately, so if you can help others help you, everyone wins. Getting help from others is a skill that can be learned and refined over time. This post is geared towards getting help with problems in software development and operations...

Thanks to the introduction of the Kubernetes CRI there are now additional runtimes that exist for running containers within the Kubernetes orchestration ecosystem.

In this article, we will look at how we can use a lightweight runtime layer to create smaller resource overheads when running a container.

The tools that...

Overview

In the previous post of the series, we covered how to implement the different observability features that are available in Logic Apps Standard to send traces to Application Insights. In this post, we’ll discuss how to query and analyse these traces, and how to share these queries and publish query results....

A few weeks back at our monthly #PETechtalk for Deloitte Platform Engineering, I spoke about "Hexagonal Architecture" and how exploring the past can help us to build our future. I promised those who attended I would follow up with a blog article giving you the highlights we went through and also provide some of the...

Overview

In the previous post of the series, we’ve covered the different built-in observability features that are available in Logic Apps Standard and how many of them are part of the traces sent to Application Insights. In this post, we’ll discuss how these features can be implemented in a sample scenario. The...

Overview

As I previously discussed, it’s very common that developers tend to focus their efforts on building and shipping applications and services to production but forget to consider what happens after go-live. It’s easy to dismiss that the solutions being built are going to be supported by someone else. Once the...

Introduction

Managing updates and patches for Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted in any enterprise environment is essential and can be a daunting task.

Patch management for VMs consist of frequent updates to the operating system such as anti-virus definition updates, operating system updates, software updates and much...