Published Jul 16, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Love them or hate them, email notifications are a topic nearly every project needs to solve. Having to trigger them from Azure has come up multiple times in the last week which prompted me to ask, ...

Published Jul 12, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

While i’ve been using Mermaid diagrams for some time, i realize not everyone knows what they are or how best to use them.  I’ll work through how you can have diagrams as code, expose via Azure DevO...

Published Jun 29, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Last time I talked about Datadog it was to focus on how Datadog helps us track deployments into AKS and tie to Azure DevOps data from builds.  Today I want to dig in to how Datadog can help track a...

Published Jun 23, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

While i have signed up for the new Codespaces feature in Github and am awaiting enrollment, we can explore codespaces (formerly Visual Studio Online, which Microsoft also first called VSTS, now Azu...

Published Jun 9, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

Helm offers a fantastic way to install charts in a repeatable way, but often it can seem daunting to get started creating charts.  And once one has charts, there are a variety of ways to serve them...

Published May 27, 2020 by Isaac Johnson

On recommendations from a colleague, I decided to checkout Whitesource Boltwhich was recently made free for developers and demo’ed at Microsoft Build 2020.  It integrates natively with Azure DevOps...