How to succeed as a Lead Architect? Super powers of informal leaders
Lead Architects own the technical vision without formal authority — here are four informal leadership superpowers that turn you from a bottleneck into a force multiplier.
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A collection of 74 posts on architecture, engineering and leadership
Exploring the capabilities of Azure NAT Gateway
How we gave an Azure App Service app a dedicated static outbound IP with Azure NAT Gateway, and the networking considerations we ran into along the way.
Enhancing the .NET Aspire Dashboard with Custom HTTP Commands
Use the custom HTTP commands introduced in .NET Aspire 9.2 to clear, migrate and seed your database straight from the Aspire Dashboard during local development.
Insights on Application Lifecycle Management - Make it visible and manageable
Tools and methods for making the application lifecycle visible — tracking state, technical debt and technology consistency across your applications.
Testing the architecture of your distributed .NET Aspire solution
What architecture tests (fitness functions) are, why they matter, and how to write them to keep a distributed .NET Aspire monorepo in shape.
Mastering Diagramming as Code: Essential Mermaid Flowchart Tips and Tricks
My key learnings from writing flowcharts with Mermaid, the diagramming-as-code tool now supported in Microsoft Loop.
Automate the installation of applications using Winget
Reinstalling Windows 11 from scratch? Here's how I automated installing all my applications with Winget.
Researching new hardware for a NAS/home server
My research into replacing a Synology DS220+: comparing off-the-shelf NAS devices with DIY home server builds.
What are Custom Integrations in .NET Aspire?
Refactoring a Curity Identity Server setup into a reusable .NET Aspire custom hosting integration — and what custom integrations are good for.
Revised .NET Aspire Lessons Learned After One Year
A year of .NET Aspire in a real monolith-to-microservices transformation: the lessons learned from my Finland Azure User Group talk.