In 2019, I posted my reading list here and some reasons for the choices.  In early 2020 I began to wonder if I could keep up the same pace or perhaps even accelerate it. When you tell family and fr...

Not that a post can’t be personal, but this one is more personal than most you will see from me.  The words in part 1 below were written by my wife, and it’s something I think is worth sharing.  An...

It all starts with an idea.  A friend approaches you about doing a podcast.  You agree, wondering if you really have anything valuable to add to the content.  The two of you hash out the idea a lit...

I see an empty conference center where VMworld once sat. If you’ve never attended VMworld in person, it’s a completely overwhelming experience for the first time attendee.  Now that it’s virtual a...

This is part 6 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service.  The goal of this post is to successfully integrate VMware’s Tanzu Observability (AKA Wavefront) ...

This is part 5 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service.  The goal of this post is to successfully deploy and update a simple Azure Function by placing co...

This is part 4 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service.  The goal of this post is to explore some differences in C# and C# script code that pop up when c...

A fellow Redditor responded to this post sharing an experience with Azure Functions and Azure DevOps, and it got me to thinking.  Several others also posted helpful replies.  Since I was planning t...

This is part 2 of my quest to explore Azure Functions for self-education in functions-as-a-service.  The goal of this post is to use VS Code to deploy, test, and edit a simple Azure Function. Part...

Since I had little to no exposure to playing with Azure outside of having an O365 subscription, I wanted to change that. Azure has the option to create a free account with access to a number of ser...