Being on call
True DevOps means you build it, you run it. You are responsible for the whole stack, including production. And when it comes to production, you have of cours...
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Use Application Insights over multiple systems to track dependencies
It is essential to have an overview of what your software is doing, not only to troubleshoot issues but also to see how data flows through your system and ho...
How to monitor a 24 hour global event
For the last three years, Xpirit and Solidify organize the Global DevOps Bootcamp, an online event that teaches people about the DevOps practices using Micro...
Generate Kubernetes Access Token
There are various ways to connect to a Kubernetes cluster, but for a recent event (GDBC) I needed to connect to an Azure Kubernetes Cluster using an API call...
Mess up your wall with Scribit
I recently received my Scribit, a wall drawing robot, that I backed using Kickstarter. You can read more about the device at the Kickstarter website or direc...
Add http compression to your httpclient in dotnet core 2.1
Microsoft added a nice feature in dotnet core 2.1 that allows you to register HttpClient instances in a central place and inject them using Dependency Inject...
Analyze your project with SonarQube using a docker container
SonarQube is an excellent static code analyzer tool as it has many different analyzers and provides useful suggestions for any potential bugs and issues. As ...
Retrieve the callback url of a logic app inside your ARM template
In a recent project, we use Infrastructure as Code to roll out resources to Azure. For this, we use ARM templates, and part of this template is the deploymen...
Use Carter to create a simple HTTP API in ASPNET Core
Creating an HTTP API can be done in multiple ways, but if you are a .NET developer, you most likely will use the ASP.NET Web API framework. In previous versi...
Sending Delivery information to VictorOps from Azure DevOps releases using Bash
When you are using an Incident Management alerting tool like Pagerduty or VictorOps, it might be beneficial to notice when your deployment system is performi...