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For a long time, conversations about delivery performance in the teams I worked with were mostly anecdotal. Someone would say releases felt…

In engineering, we naturally reach for engineering terms when we talk about reliability. Uptime percentages. Recovery times. Deployment…

Introduction As software delivery becomes faster and more complex, teams often need to decide how their Azure DevOps pipelines should be…

Introduction I recently discovered that the GitHub Copilot app is built on top of GitHub Copilot CLI. This means we get access to powerful…

The Problem When deploying a .NET MAUI (or Xamarin) Android application to a physical device or emulator, you may hit this error: Each time…

Introduction While onboarding a brand new user to a tenant, the Microsoft Authenticator app refused to register the account, even though…

Introduction I ran into a small but frustrating issue recently. Git was telling me my branch was ahead of origin by a couple of commits…

When working with Pulumi, especially coming from traditional .NET development, you might expect that wrapping resource creation in a try…

Special thanks to my fantastic colleague Fatih Kucukkara for helping figure these details out. 🧩 What They Are and How to Fix Them If you…

Building Multi-Agent AI Applications with Microsoft Semantic Kernel The rise of AI-powered content generation has opened new possibilities…

Level Up Your Docker Workflow Are you tired of the tedious process of updating Docker Desktop? Or maybe your corporate policies is blocking…

Introduction In the age of AI, developers are increasingly looking for ways to integrate powerful language models into their workflows…

Introduction If you’re using PowerShell scripts to manage secrets like API tokens, passwords, or other sensitive data, you may think you’re…

This is a nice trick, which I was not aware of, even though I have been using Azure DevOps for many years. So thought will write a post…

Introduction When working with Azure’s App Configuration service in .NET, it’s common to use the class to interact with our configuration…

TLDR If you need to rename role assignment, rename identity too. Otherwise deployment will fail with role already exists error as Pulumi…

Introduction When it comes to testing Docker images, having a reliable platform to quickly spin up containers for testing purposes can be…

Introduction In the world of infrastructure as code (IaC), managing dependencies and relationships between resources is crucial for…

Understanding the NU1301 Error Before we delve into the solution, let’s briefly understand what the NU1301 error signifies. This error…

As a newcomer to the world of Android development and Unity, encountering errors can be a daunting experience. One common stumbling block…

Introduction Pulumi, a powerful Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, empowers developers to define, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure…

The Problem: There is a peculiar behavior when downloading artifacts using Azure Pipelines. The artifact, when viewed on the repository…

Introduction In a recent StackOverflow post, I sought advice on making a specific stage in an Azure Pipeline non-cancellable. This blog…

Introduction There is a nice post on the many available ways of passing in application configuration into a docker container. Here is…

Introduction Many of us are likely running Linux-based container images on the Windows operating system. This is where writing scripts in a…

Introduction Azure Pipelines is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) service that helps you automate the building…

Introduction This post is about an error over which I spent hours trying to get anywhere until my colleague Sebastian Wiejas spotted the…

Introduction The automated update tool Dependabot is a very helpful bot and it creates many fixes in the form of pull requests. Recently I…

Introduction Azure Firewall is an exciting cloud native network security service and provides a lot of features to make our life easier…

Introduction After an Azure ExpressRoute is setup we can use Get-AzExpressRouteCircuitRouteTable Cmdlet to view what routes are advertised…

Banner from wixstatic Introduction Azure DevOps service connection to Azure, using a Service Principal can use a secret (a password) or a…

Introduction Azure policy is a service on Azure which helps us achieve organisation-wide resource governance by creating policies in Azure…

Introduction It is quite useful to know the outbound IP address of an Azure function app or an app service. Both these services are the same…

Introduction Recently many teams I have been working with have been hitting this issue with Terraform. We have noticed that it is only…

Introduction Took me a while on how to enforce https on the websites I have deployed using Azure App Service. The main blocker for me was…

Introduction Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the management of infrastructure (networks, virtual machines, load balancers, and connection…

Introduction This post is more for my notes and hopefully helps someone out figure out how to set up Visual Studio environment from pwsh in…

Introduction Azure Static Web App The Azure static web app is a modern web app service that helps with streamlined full-stack development…

ARM Template Deploying resources to Azure using ARM templates is generally quite easy given Azure’s native support in the generation of the…

Azure Front Door Rules Engine Rules engine in an Azure front door allows us to customize how HTTP requests get handled. It is the go-to…

Azure Front Door In this post, we will see a simple active-active configuration using Azure Front Door. As per Microsoft documentation…

Terraform modules In Terraform world, modules are a way of reusing infrastructure configuration. We could create a module as a lightweight…

Introduction Azure Cosmos DB provides a great way to perform transactional batch operations using the .Net SDK. This operation method…

Introduction HttpClient is an easy way provided by dotnet to send http requests. But the problem is that it doesn’t implement an interface…

Introduction In recent holidays at the end of 2020, I thought of brushing up my dotnet core web development skills or to be honest learn…

Introduction Static code analysis of code has been there for quite a while now and it is very useful now in case of configuration as code…

Introduction Xamarin has made monetization of mobile cross-platform apps very easy. Mainly with nuget packages such as Xamarin…

Introduction The ability to conditionally raise errors is very useful if we are introducing logic and rules in our deployment. Say for…

Introduction This post is regarding a small PowerShell function that I was writing. It started returning two values at the same time and it…

Introduction The IP address of an Azure function can be very useful, especially if you are using IP based network restrictions or any kind…

Introduction Secured access to azure functions is very important, especially when your distributed application can have a public-facing…

Event grid trigger Azure function We can use Azure Event Grid with an Azure function as an endpoint to handle the events. With great…

Event grid Azure Event Grid is designed to build applications with event-based architectures. The events can be published from Azure or…

Obfuscation We are in the golden age of open source software and yet at least I (surely many others too) work at places where safeguarding…

GitHub Actions GitHub provides GitHub Actions to help with automating workflows. We can design CI-CD pipelines and also apply policies on…

Templates in Azure pipelines Templates are a great way to achieve what we could do using Task groups for builds and releases in classic…

GitOps Have you heard of GitOps yet? I have come across this term on multiple Software Engineering Daily podcasts. And it is amazing how it…

Introduction MediaWiki and MD based Wikis MediaWiki is a popular wiki. It powers Wikipedia as well as used by thousands of other companies…

Introduction Azure Logic Apps Azure Logic Apps is a Microsoft cloud service that helps to schedule, automate, and orchestrate tasks…

Introduction The sdk style csproj (csharp project style) are becoming the new standard for csproj files. All dotnet core and .netstandard…

Introduction Among many other advantages of using sdk style csproj in our solutions, to be able to generate nupkg without a nuspec file is a…

Introduction We will agree that flaky tests make software development a challenging affair. Such tests add non-determinism and uncertainty…

Introduction As in any other professional field, we know the value of self-improvement. It not only helps us face the competition, but we…

Developer! Developer! Developer! Day The DDD14 held at Reading on 12th Oct 2019 was my first ever experience of Developer Developer…