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The Software Crisis Never Ended, It Just Evolved
In 1968, in a small German town called Garmisch, NATO gathered fifty of the brightest minds in computing to discuss a growing problem. Software was becoming essential for governments, defence systems and large organisations, yet the development process was chaotic and unpredictable. Projects ran late, ran over budget, or failed…
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The secret power of the “+” in live, outlook or hotmail addresses
I’m always looking for small tricks that make a difference. And recently, I stumbled on something that felt a bit like discovering an old Swiss army knife I forgot I had. It’s built into Outlook.com (and works with @outlook.com, @live.com, and even old @hotmail.com addresses). I actually learned from it…
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Growing a DevOps Mindset
In 2024 I created the LEAD podcast with my good friend Geert van der Cruijsen. In this podcast we explored the various aspects of building an engineering culture. We made quite some episodes. With guests and without guests. And I thought it would be a great idea to share some…
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Developer Experience: More Than a Buzzword
In 2024 I created the LEAD podcast with my good friend Geert van der Cruijsen. In this podcast we explored the various aspects of building an engineering culture. We made quite some episodes. With guests and without guests. And I thought it would be a great idea to share some…
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How the 2007 thriller Maximum Impact predicted Agentic AI without knowing it
In 2007 I read a book that never really left me. It was called Maximum Impact, written by Jack Henderson. I barely remember the plot. Something with action and conspiracy, probably. But that’s not what stayed with me. What stuck was the beginning of the book. A scene that felt…
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Navigating Digital Strategy
In 2024 I created the LEAD podcast with my good friend Geert van der Cruijsen. In this podcast we explored the various aspects of building an engineering culture. We made quite some episodes. With guests and without guests. And I thought it would be a great idea to share some…
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Creating the Global DevOps experience 2024
In 2017-2019 Marcel de Vries, Matthias Olausson (Solidify) and I created the Global DevOps Bootcamp. A worldwide event that evolved around DevOps and Azure and was aimed at local communities all around the world to create a unique event that had the same content everywhere. This was a huge success.…
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The Fin-Tastic Way to boost your Cloud ROI
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,…
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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…
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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…
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Building an Engineering Culture
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…
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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,…
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Using the GitHub Container Registry with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Last week I wanted to try the GitHub container registry as an alternative for Azure Container Registry. Since many things are moving towards GitHub this seemed a good idea. The plan I wanted to execute was as follows:* Build a Docker Container with GitHub Actions* Push a Docker Container to…
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Corona gives us the opportunity to teach our kids (and schools) to learn and adapt
Just like almost any other blog writer, I also want to divert a little bit from my normal topics to write about this pandemic that hits us all. COVID-19 or Corona. Just like almost every other country in the world, my family and I are also bound to our house.…
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Pushing to an Azure Container Registry from Azure DevOps
Azure DevOps is full of great wizards and helpers to make life of the developers easy. One of them is setting up a service connection to an Azure Container Registry. When you go to the Service Connections of your Azure DevOps project and create a new Docker Registry Connection, it…
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Growing your DevOps Mindset @ Techorama Belgium
Tuesday 22 May, I did a talk on Techorama Belgium on Growing your DevOps Mindset. The session: Practicing DevOps successfully requires knowledge of hard skill areas such as continuous delivery and automated testing. But even if you have all these tools in place, you are not necessarily successful. And why…
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Road To ALM – Episode 3 Local Credential Scanning
In this episode I’ll show how you can use the CredScan build task to scan multiple repositories at the same time. By running locally on your PC or by using the same mechanism to create a schedule Continuous Assurance Job.
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Road To ALM – Episode 2 Credential Scanning in the pipeline
In this episode I talk about Credential Scanning in the pipeline. By using the buildtasks that are available on the website http://secdevtools.azurewebsites.net/ you can use the new Microsoft Credential Scanner to find secrets, password, certificates, SAS tokens and PAT’s before they end up in your master branch. I will show…
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Road To ALM YouTube Channel
It’s 2019 and I wanted to start something new. So I started a Road To ALM YouTube channel as an addition to this blog. In this channel I will create short, compact videos that cover a subject that interests me. Probably something in the DevOps space. But hey, why write…
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