Date: October 2023-May 2024Location: Utrecht / Orlando / Las Vegas / AntwerpenEvent: Techorama NL / VSLive / Techorama BEDuration: 60 minutes / 75 minutes AbstractAre you tired of overspending on cloud costs? Want to optimize your Azure spending and boost your ROI? Look no further than FinOps! In this session, we’ll dive into the basics […]
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The Fin-Tastic Way to boost your Cloud ROI
October 10, 2023 
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Dependency Reviews with GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (GHAZDO)
July 13, 2023 1 Comment
Last month GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (GHAZDO) was released at the Build conference . GHAZDO is the implementation of GitHub Advanced Security on the Azure DevOps platform. On GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) is already around for quite a while, but on Azure DevOps it is still in it’s infancy. Together with my colleague […]
Continue readingSolving the error “Could not retrieve credential from local cache” in the Azure CLI
June 26, 2023 Comments Off on Solving the error “Could not retrieve credential from local cache” in the Azure CLI
Azure DevOps Branch Policy does not trigger on push
June 21, 2023 Comments Off on Azure DevOps Branch Policy does not trigger on push
Today I was working on a Git Repo in Azure DevOps that is used for a training that I am currently building. together with my colleague Randy. One of the things we want is to set a branch policy on the main branch so that a Pull Request build is fired when we check in. […]
Continue readingMIND MATTERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A DEVOPS MINDSET
April 6, 2023 Comments Off on MIND MATTERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A DEVOPS MINDSET
Date: 06-04-2023, 16-05-2023Location: Groningen, AntwerpenEvent: DevCampNoord, Techorama BEDuration: 60 minutes AbstractWhile hard skills like continuous delivery and automated testing are important for practicing DevOps successfully, they are not the only factors that determine success. In many cases, people’s mindset and willingness to embrace new practices and tools can also play a critical role. Fear of […]
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February 1, 2023 Comments Off on Knowledge Driven Culture
In my previous blogpost about building an Engineering Culture I briefly touched upon the pillar “Knowledge Driven”. This pillar is really about culture. About behaviour and about mindset. You can only have a knowledge driven culture if people are willing to share knowledge, and if people are open to receive it. In many companies there […]
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January 20, 2023 Comments Off on Remove the [External] Tag in Outlook
I am an outlook user. A heavy outlook user. And there is something that is bothering me. The [External Tag in front of every message I get from an external email address (which is almost all my email) Don’t get me wrong. I understand it. There is so much phishing and spoofing going on that […]
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January 19, 2023 Comments Off on Aligned Autonomy in Practice
In my previous blog post I talked about Engineering Culture and how important it is to embrace the fact that you need to behave like a software company. In this blog post I want to dive a little bit deeper in to an aspect of the pillar “Empowering Operating Model”. When it comes to the […]
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January 17, 2023 1 Comment
In 2011, Marc Andreesen made an often quoted statement “Software Is Eating the World”. Now, about 11 years later I think we can all agree on the fact that this is true and every company has become a software company. Ok ok ok, I agree, there are some exceptions. The bakery, the butcher or the […]
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April 29, 2022 Comments Off on Embrace chaos to achieve stability
Date: 29 april 2022/25 may 2022Location: Porto, Portugal/Antwerp, Belgium, Utrecht, OnlineEvent: NDC Porto/Techorama Belgium / Techorama NL , AllDayDevOpsDuration: 60 minutes AbstractWhat do you do in case of a cyber attack? And a natural disaster? The absence of a person? Or, more concrete. What happens if the network is down, your data center is not […]
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- The Fin-Tastic Way to boost your Cloud ROI
- Dependency Reviews with GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps (GHAZDO)
- Solving the error “Could not retrieve credential from local cache” in the Azure CLI
- Azure DevOps Branch Policy does not trigger on push
- MIND MATTERS: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTIVATING A DEVOPS MINDSET
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Using Personal Access Tokens to access Visual Studio Online
- Changing the product backlog in TFS 2012
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Use Visual Studio as your Diff and Merging Tool for local files
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Using Custom Reports in TFS: Part 3 – How to set up my reporting environment and structure
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TFS as perfect tool for Scrum (Part 5) – Sprint Review and Retrospective
The Road to ALM 