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Posts listed chronologically

2024

GenAI (Generative AI)

Generate new text, images, audio, and video rather than discrete numbers, classes, and probabilities.

Outsystems

Generate feature-rich web and mobile apps using low-code running within a full suite of enterprise-grade utilities and services

SOC2

How to get a CPA attestation report on each service organization's information security controls, so salespeople can close faster with prospective customers ...

AWS Networking

Setting up VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), IPv6, IMDSv2, IPAM, DNS, Security Groups, WAF, BGP, etc. using CLI, GUI, Terraform, Cloud Formation

Security Certifications

There are several (overlapping) ones.

CAD (Computer Assisted Design)

To create stuff using 3D printers

Cyber Security

Enterprise data risks and vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them with controls

Acronyms

It's often difficult to know the context of an acronym. So here are all 900+ in one page to cover Business, Finance, Marketing as well as: AI/Quantum IT, Sec...

Flood the Internet (control JavaScript API)

Prove that tools emulating users (Playwright, Selenium, JMeter, Flood Element, etc.) can recognize the gamut of controls on a challenging web app.

Flight Simulator

Use Microsoft's Flight Simulator to fly around the world in various planes, experiencing real-time weather on a Windows PC or Xbox X.

Azure (Microsoft cloud) certifications

Microsoft provides free hands-on (gamified) tutorials and free time

Front-end (UI creation tools)

Here are the various tools developers use to create user-centric front-end UIs (User Interfaces)

Power BI

Visualize data using dashboards and paginated reports defined by DAX and Data Models on Azure Analytics Services. Pass Microsoft's PL-300

(Dates in) History

The most significant events in world history, in chronological order.

Microsoft Fabric

Azure cloud SaaS (Serverless) data handling and real-time analytics using the Data Lakehouse architectural pattern. Pass the DP-600 exam.

Azure Data (within Microsft's cloud)

Obtain storage and database skills to pass DP-900, DP-100, DP-203, DP-300 exams

(Mitre's) Attacks

How to to protect IT assets by mitigating attacker TTPs defined in Mitre's ATT&CK

MLOps (Machine Learning Operations)

with MLFlow and TFX from Google

Microsoft AI (Azure OpenAI Generative Services)

How to automate AI workflows in Microsoft's Azure and Fabric, despite marketing rebrands, and passing AI-900 & AI-102 certification exams.

Prometheus

Collect metrics (for visualization by Grafana), analyze using PromQL coding, and identify alerts, especially for Kubernetes (also from CNCF).

Python Samples

My experiments at coding Python for production use of Vault on AWS, Azure, GCP, in a production setting

Azure Machine Learning

Automate ML workflows in the Azure PaaS cloud, so you can get certified in AI-900, AI-102, and DP-100

Cyber Ranges

Proving grounds with safe sandboxes for experimentation and testing of how a full stack of technologies integrates and operates.

Feature flags

Evaluate the options for real-time feature configuration and impact control, coded in Python and other languages

Kubernetes (K8s)

A deep dive on how to orchestrate containers, especially in clouds, including OpenShift. Pass the CKAD and CKA exams.

Machine Learning

Different ways to use data to create a model (program)

Anomaly Detection

Evaluating approaches and success across different AI frameworks

Python Tutorials

Who will teach you to code in Python?

MacOS Homebrew

How to create brew formulas for installation on macOS

Jenkins Setup

Make your robot butler for CI/CD DevOps

Grafana (visualization)

Open-source server to display metrics for DevSecOps and others

Home Assistant

Control a wide range of IoT devices using Python on Raspberry Pi, iOS, and Android

Xcode (install on MacOS)

Homebrew, Python, and other development tools require utilities included in Apple's Xcode IDE or in Command-Line utilities installed separately. Thus the con...

SOC

How our Security Operations Center (SOC) detects and responds to security threats using software for SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOA...

Dashboards

Tips and tricks to display metrics in dashboards that are easy to understand actionable

SLSA

Establish security based on SLSA (Supply chain Levels for Software Artifacts) DevSecOps standards and controls.

Actions

The systems and processes that are the foundations for effective security and governance.

K6

Code JavaScript to do GUI & API performance tests locally and in their k6.io SaaS cloud

Code of Conduct

Rules for building vibrant and useful communities

Cloud services comparisons

Which cloud is best? Azure vs. AWS vs. Google

SIEM

How our Security Operations Center (SOC) detects and responds to security threats using software for SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and SOA...

CONTRIBUTING.md

here's a sample CONTRIBUTING.md file in GitHub repositories describing how to contribute.

Find (files and text in files)

Search, Find, grep, sed stuff on your hard drives using regular expressions

Quantum (AI computing)

The actual tech for terms (Teleportation) that's been overhyped by Hollywood movies. This is about how to prepare for when computers are 300X faster than the...

Chaos Engineering

Use Gremlin, Chaos Monkey, and monitoring tools (such as Datadog) to measure and improve MTTD and MTTR

GitHub Data Security

How to keep secrets out of GitHub

AKeyless

Safely retrieve static secrets from the enterprise-scale HA multi-cloud SaaS AKeyless, automatically from various programming languages.

Apple Mac OSX Keyboard Shortcuts

Stay focused and do things faster with Keyboard Shortcuts, HotKeys, and StreamDeck buttons

Alexa (from Amazon)

Here are my notes on creating Alexa skills programs, now with more AI than ever!

PowerShell Install Coding

Make PowerShell your superpower on Windows and Macs, for fun and profit

Jira

How to use Jira for good, not to create frustration

Is your offering enterprise-worthy?

How to provide enterprises multi-dimensional offerings with no limits of scale, geography, and complexity

Threat Modeling

This is perhaps the most impactful analysis, considering the importance and urgency of keeping your organization from being stolen

SwiftUI

Use Apple's XCode IDE to build native VisionOS apps for Vision Pro, iPhones, iPads.

Mac setup

Quickly build and update your macOS laptop with the most useful software for developers -- no more dreading losing your laptop, using my shell script.

Docker (Glossary, Certification helps, Ecosystem)

An index to tutorials, support sites, rock stars, and Docker Captains

jq (JSON Query utility for Bash CLI scripts)

Define JMESPATH syntax in --query; Extract city and other data from IP address lookup website ipinfo.io, Docker Hub, and other sites

2023

Azure Key Vault

Automation and every manual step to set up a production-worthy HA Key Vault in Azure cloud, then retrieve secrets using various programming languages.

Ambiance (Noise and Music)

See if listening to helps you better concentrate, relax, heal.

Job Search

The procedures I've found helping land a remote job within an acknowledged Great Place to Work

Kali (Linux OS)

Install in AWS, Azure, GCP clouds (with Burt Suite, Postman, etc.) for security audits and penetration testing

MacOS Bootup

To diagnose and troubleshoot getting started (vs. Linux)

AWS server deployment options

Pick which crew of robots to build your servers

IoT Raspberry Install

How to setup a Raspberry Pi on macOS with Raspbian, Python, Node, Ansible, Kubernetes

Linux on Apple macOS

How to run Linux on Apple Mac hardware

SQL (Structured Query Language)

Obtain storage and database skills to pass DP-900, DP-100, DP-203, DP-300 exams

Windows and Linux on Apple hardware

Triple-boot to run Windows and Ubuntu and other Linux on a Mac: Vagrant, BootCamp, VMWare Fusion, etc.

.Net Development

Write C# Azure Functions and cross-platform .NET Core apps within the Microsoft ecosystem

Apple Macbook Hardware

It's stylish because it's expensive. Or is that the other way around?

HashiCorp Vault

How to keep secrets secret (in a central place), but still shared and refreshed.

Azure Onboarding

Here's automation and steps to minimize manual toil and mistakes but build-in secure practices and mechanisms to build global enterprises need. Not just for ...

Databricks

Create Analytics visualization dashboards pulling from Datalakes and DeltaLakes SaaS on Azure and AWS, coding ApacheSpark SQL, Python Notebooks, low-code Aut...

Azure networking

vNets, Peering, NSG, CDN, Scaling with Load Balancers, Gateways, Firewall, Front Door, Traffic Manager, DDoS, to get AZ-700 certified.

Browsers (and their Extensions on macOS)

Configure for security and productivity. Alter how websites look and what they do. But heed warnings here.

Pyenv and Pipenv (on MacOS)

The tools to dynamically install and use different versions of Python, packages, all within Virtualenv

Text Editors (on the Mac)

nano, pico, vim, subl, VSCode, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Cloud9, etc.

KQL (Kusto Query Language)

Adds filters missing in GraphQL. Adds graphs missings in SQL. The one language to rule them all.

Email (within Azure and AWS)

Send, receive, and process emails within the Azure cloud

OWASP

Practice finding security vulnerabilities within ZAP or the Broken Web App by running SCA, SAST, DAST, IAST using open-source SonarQube, Sonatype, Synopsys a...

Norway

Notes about my visit to Norway on the Queen Victoria Oct-Nov 2023

Packer (from HashiCorp)

Automate (repeatable) creation of Windows server within VMware Fusion images to make Vagrant boxes on macOS

Data Sources

Jump in and drown in all the data

WordPress

A vibrant ecosystem for quickly building and maintaining dynamic feature-rich websites

API Development Ecosystem

It does your job. And helps others to do your job.

Fonts

You are what font you use

Museums Roadtrip USA

Visual, architectural, and culinary art in every state and major city, mapped by Machine Learning

London (England)

Notes about my visit to London Oct-Nov 2023

DevSecOps

How to get people to use products and processes that yield faster competitive speed AND improved Security Posture throughout a secure SDLC

Azure Cloud

The #2 public cloud is a leader as well

Linux Bootup

To diagnose and troubleshoot getting started

San Francisco

Eat and geek your way through walking and riding historic trains in the City by the Bay, all in one day

AWS Certifications

Tips and tricks to get certified: links to tutorials, videos, practice exams.

Splunk

Indexing and visualization of logs, metrics, and other data - with AI

Static websites

Version controlled simplicity using Jekyll and GitHub Pages compared with AWS S3 and CloudFront.

Terraform

Immutable declarative versioned Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Policy as Code provisioning into AWS, Azure, GCP, and other clouds using Terragoat, Bridgecr...

AWS IAM (Identity and Access Management)

Define allow/deny privileges to actions by users, groups, roles by attaching to each identity a conditional policy file constructed for each of 250+ AWS serv...

Git-LFS (Large File System) and DVC

Git clean and smudge binary files to and from a separate LFS Store, transparently

AWS Data Tools

AWS data processing tools: Databases, Big Data, Data Warehouse, Data Lakehouse

OPA processing Rego language

Write Rego language policies code for decision by an OPA (Open Policy Agent) within Terraform, Kubernetes, etc.

Copilots

Damn Automcomplete on steroids - AI tools that provide helps you write code and other tricks.

AWS Config (Compliance-as-Code)

Dynamically audit AWS resource configurations under organization units using OPA Rego, Lambda alerts using SNS through EventBridge, then automatically remedi...

Snowflake (SQL Data Lakehouse)

How to quickly learn and use the cloud-native Snowflake SQL database's AI/ML features on top of AWS, Azure, GCP clouds

Docker setup

Get bits working in lightweight containers

Python Certs

The topics for learning the Python language thoroughly, for professional status

GCP (Google Cloud Platform/Google Certified Professional)

Master the cloud that runs on fast Google Fiber and Big AI, from the folks who created Kubernetes, Gmail, Google Docs/Sheets, etc.

Python Install (Conda Anaconda Miniconda Pip) on MacOS

Confusion and errors from too many alternatives and options

Passkeys

Instead of using passwords which can be stolen (via phishing - the most common vector for stolen credentials - setup Passkeys here

SIEM SOAR IDS

Here is how to, and who enable enterprises

Making videos

Tediously using Camtasia, Audacity, OBS, and automating animated PowerPoint on a Mac

Python API flask

Step-by-step using the Flask REST API library using SQLite3 locally in venv on a Mac

Regex (Regular Expressions)

Don't avoid them. Don't fear them. Make them your friend. Here and now.

IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems)

How to setup Google IDS to send your VM traffic to Palo Alto's Unit 42 security pros who alert your SIEM based on their malware signatures

Jekyll (JAM) site development

Getting started with Jekyll

RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) into Windows machines

Connect to Windows machine in AWS or any cloud from within MacOS, Linux

Okta

Universal Directory IAM via OIDC using JWT over OAuth2 for API and SWA or SAML SSO Authentication with MFA for identity federation using SCIM in cloud or on-...

Classification

Statistics to evaluate classification: Confusion Matrix, Specificity, ROC, and AUC, etc.

Artifactory (with X-Ray security scan)

Privately store and retrieve binary artifacts vetted of vulnerabilities, instead of public DockerHub, PiPI, etc.

DevOps

Skills and certification around the DevOps industrial complex

Google Apps Scripting

If you liked Microsoft's VB script for Word, Excel, you'll love Google App Script for Google Docs and Sheets

Python Coding

The rules shown in samples using Keywords, arguments, Exception Handling, OS commands, Strings, Lists, Sets, Tuples, Files, Timers

Helm Charts for Kubernetes

Package manager for Kubernetes

Hello-Vault

How to code your app to use HashiCorp Vault to get rid of static database passwords by generating credentials in Secret_ID temporarily in cubbyholes, wrapped...

Data Visualizations using Tableau

It's so simple, a Data Scientist can do this.

Van build (designs for living large in a high-top van/RV)

Getting ready for when cars drive themselves, seats in sedans will be replaced by convertible beds and tables in vans

JFrog (Artifactory and XRay)

All about installing and using an in-house registry of installers, libraries with SBOM, and container images for Kubernetes

GoLang (Go Language) ecosystem

This is what the cool kids are using to create fast and portable apps

Mac OSX Terminal (command-line tips and tricks)

Make things happen quickly without touching the mouse

Neo4j graph database introduction

Don't use this if you're fond of SQL joins and static schemas

HashiCorp Consul

Enterprise-grade secure Zero-Trust routing to replace East-West load-balancing using service names rather than static IP addresses. Enhance Service Mesh with...

Git basics (client-based workflow)

Here is a quick way to learn Git version control for contributing to open source

GitHub Actions

Run pipelines from within GitHub, for free (instead of Jenkins, CircleCI, etc.)

Graph databases

It's more relational than relational databases

Design Systems

Specs, libraries, code examples for UX look and feel by Shopify and other big tech companies

Git Signing

Sign git commits and tags (for non-repudiation) in GitHub using GPG, Vault, Yubikey, Keybase

(Statistical Multi-Variate) Regression

How to calculate a formula from multiple variables in Excel, and stistics to evaluate them

AWS Onboarding

Get started, safely & quickly using AWS GUI, CLI, and Terraform

MacOS within AWS

Mac Mini instances without buying hardware within AWS EC2 (and MacStadium): step-by-step and in one command using Terraform

Scaled Agile

Are organizations really more Agile with SAFe?

Firewalls

Filter out ads and malware sites on your home network using PiHole.

Deeplens deep-learning enabled wireless video camera

It comes with a little computer and a big AWS AI cloud

HashiCorp Boundary

Secure SSH accessing servers in AWS and other clouds: implement Zero-Trust with granular control of least-privilege just-in-time access using HashiCorp Boundary

AWS Security

Securing secrets in Bash shell scripts while learning to pass the AWS Certified Security - Specialty (SCS-C01) exam

DApps (Distributed Applications) for DAOs (Distributed Autonomous Organizations)

How to use and write code running blockchains (Etherium ECS cluster based on AWS Blockchain Templates)

AWS CLI

Tips and tricks to install and use the MacOS Terminal for Programmatic access to AWS.

Food (online, delivered)

How I feed via deliveries by UPS, FedEx, and USPS, instead of dining in different restaurants during the pandemic.

Spinnaker

Open-source CI/CD with full features, running in Kubernetes

Log Parsing

Analyze logs using the AWK CLI utility and systems

Bash shell running within Windows using Microsoft's WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

It's less like Power Rangers clicking rings, more like living among expats in a foreign country

K8s Operators

Control Kubernetes internals from Golang programs, as a part of the Red Hat Industrial Complex

2022

Load Balancers

Distribute load to scale and upgrade servers with no down time. Also route transactions across clouds using ZeroLB

GitOps

ArgoCD (for Kuberetes Helm), Flux from WeaveWorks, etc.

Investing

How to stay ahead of inflation and recession

Distinguished Engineers (and Fellows)

What is the highest level for technical people? How does one get there?

Problem Solving

Tools for solving problems

AWS Lambda Basics

Scalable stateless short-lived functions. Nothing to do with Java Lambdas.

Self-driving cars

What can possibly go wrong with autonomous vehicle robots smarter than humans?

Dockerize apps

Define how little bits work together

ROS (Robotic Operating System)

Learn the operating system for controlling simple robots

Node API Starter

Add routes to basic features included

AWS Service Catalog

Select your way to a set of services to assemble your app, with curated (known-safe) settings (in Terraform too)

Rustlang (Rust language)

Efficient, secure, performant concurrent systems programming that compiles to machine running byte-code

Ports Open (Networking)

What ports are open for hacking on my Mac and Linux machine?

OCM (Organizational Change Management)

This may be the most important skill for Digital Transformation -- or to implement any change

Bash (script) coding

Walk though the tricks (Bashisms) used in a script to install, configure, and run many programs on macOS and Linux

apple-carplay

Apple's integration for practically every car except Tesla

tls

TLS v1.3 (Transport Layer Security), the latest successor to SSL, secures network communications with https protocol and mTLS (mutual TLS) using x.509 format...

Cloud Services

Here is a dictionary of the 200+ AWS.

Well Architected Cloud

What is your team's maturity at adopting best practices? Here is the comprehensive industry-standard framework from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google

Service Mesh (Envoy, Istio, Linkerd)

The sidecar proxy enables business logic to hand off to a control pane to take care of cross-cutting operational concerns

AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit)

Write dynamic Python, Java, .NET, NodeJs, or TypeScript code which are synth'd into Cloud Formation or Terraform static yaml

Zero Trust

Evolve your traditional systems to new ways before your ransomware adversaries do.

CAIQ (Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire) for Consul users' auditors.

Only questions with answers generated from file CAIQ4.0.1.consul.csv by caiq-yaml-gen.py

Monitoring infrastructure

Toward Observability

CAIQ (Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire)

A single set of questions about security controls that all cloud vendors use to present a description of their controls to SOC2, ISO 27000, FedRamp auditors

prodsys - production systems

Here we maintain assets SREs (System Reliability Engineers) use to fearlessesly and adroitly face production.

HashiCups (demo app and infrastructure code)

My customizations and notes about using the HashiCups sample app and infrastructure code created by HashiCorp to do their demos and training

Generate (Evangelist Job Description) from YAML

Example of automated yaml generation (using Jekyll within GitHub) referencing values defined in markup variables at the top of the YAML file

Get to Production (with less stress)

Specific strategies and procedures to address concerns, on schedules, with metrics,

Changing Enterprises (and individuals in them)

How to move ahead and seize opportunities by making elephants dance, pigs fly, etc.

Markdown text for GitHub from HTML

Tricks to force Markdown to show things the way you want.

HashiCorp Waypoint

Build, deploy, and release across platforms

Zsh (Z shell on MacOS)

Apple's heavy hand is forcing adoption of POSIX and even switch to Python, to get away from Bashisms

DNS (Domain Name System)

Translate domain names to IP addresses

Backup options

What will happen when you lose that data?

Beta Activities

7+ strategies to make betas more useful

RBAC vs ABAC vs PBAC (Access Control)

Role, Attribute, and Policy Based Access Control simplify IAM at scale using the most fine-trained way access in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and other systems

FedRAMP

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) enables cloud services providers to meet one standard for all US fed govt agencies

AWS Automatic remediations (of Vulnerabilities in AWS)

Dynamically audit AWS resource configrations using using OPA Rego, Lambda alerts using SNS through EventBridge, then automatically remediate (via SSM)

AWS Amplify

Create and host web & mobile apps in a low-code way within AWS

Elixir-lang

Elixir leverages the Erlang BEAM VM for running low-latency, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems in web development, embedded software, data ingestion, a...

Dotfiles (MacOS custom configuration specifications)

Instead of clicking around, edit all configurations in a single file of system commands.

2021

Power Automate

Reduce repetitive tasks using Microsoft's Windows RPA and DPA low-code flows accessing various connectors, augmented by AI/ML

Security (index)

An index to my posts about security

Python

An index to my tutorials about using Python programming

Azure DevOps

Pass Microsoft's comprehensive AZ-400 on DevOps for automated CI/CD pipelines in the Azure cloud as well as GitHub Actions

Windows client config (Server 2012+)

How I setup my Windows UI look and feel

pytest-bdd

Behavior-driven Development (BDD) by automating Gherkin test specs using Pytest for test coverage analysis, data-driven tests, and localization verification

Internet Computer

A distributed ecosystem for hosting containers (apps) without AWS, Google, Facebook.

AWS DevOps (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeDeploy)

Get certified in Developer Operations on AWS

Apple Mac versions (plus Installers and Wallpapers)

From Mac OSX to MacOS

Jupyter

"Notebooks" display HTML markup as comments between executable Python code (for Machine Learning and Data Science), for Style Transfer of images, etc.

eXplinable AI

Ask your Machine Learning/AI why it made the decisions it did, to satisfy GDPR and other legislation

Docker Registry

Where Docker images are stored for Kubernetes to run

TFE (Terraform Enterprise)

Use Terraform's sentinel command on Workspaces from a module registry, to automatically identify RBAC-based violations

JMeter install (on a Mac)

to emulate HTTP requests testing load/capacity

IoT services on Microsoft Azure

Getting value from IoT means getting wisdom from analytics and notifications

Water Conservation

Ways to minimize use of water

CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery)

The path of maturity in organizations going faster via DevSecOps

lightstep (with OpenTelemetry)

How to get proactive health metrics for managing cloud-native applications quicker, with less toil

Azure (Serverless) Functions

Effortless instant (theoretically) infinite capacity to take several different actions

API Management by Microsoft Azure

SaaS-only, proprietary. Get it for .NET

Building a team remotely?

8 questions to ask

Asana (freemium open-source and SaaS product)

Get stuff done, as a team or individually, by integrating tasks, calendar, projects (as boards)

Azure Storage (in Microsoft's Azure cloud)

Files, Disks, Blobs, Tables, Queues, SQL, CosmoDB, Synapse, LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS

Azure Compute (within Microsoft's cloud)

VMs, Scale Sets, App Services, Websites, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Docker Containers, AKS

Build load-balanced servers in AWS EC2 using CloudFormation

Automate High Availability in the cloud

Azure Monitoring

How to get logs and metrics ingested and displayed with actionable alerts

Docusaurus (v2)

Build book-like internationalized, indexed, searcheable websites using React made easy

GitHub GraphQL (API)

GitHub's REST API was perfect. Now THIS is more perfect.

PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration)

Let PowerShell make it right and keep it right

Azure Cloud PowerShell Scripting

Do anything you want!

Salesforce DX (Developer eXperience) deep dive

Begin to use Git and GitHub (DevHub) for software-driven (modular) continuous development

GitHub

How we configure each GitHub repo to maximize teamwork

Pen-testing

My learnings from FreeCodeCamp's Information Security certification and other resources on penetration testing

AWS Cognito (federation)

Federate authentication of authentication through API Gateway via Python Lambda

Encrypt-all (on AWS)

How to store and send files securely using AWS KMS (Key Management Service)

Git Guardian

Full-featured free secret scanning for open source and small teams on GitHub and GitLab

2020

ServiceNow

ITSM automated in the cloud for Incident Management and other ITSM functionality

Technical (and Business) press mentions

Blogs and publications covering technology

InnerSource

Caring about sharing within commerical enterprises using GitHub

Bash scripts (coding)

This sample Bash script contains multiple features: install, configure, and run (then remove) a web app within Docker on macOS and Linux, with one copy/paste

Printing

How to get your stuff on paper from macOS and Linux

WebGoat

Run the deliberately insecure Java app within Docker with a Contrast Security agent reporting issues and trends over time.

TensorFlow

TensorFlow Certification

AI Ecosystems

Brand names for how corporate overlords are making humans into robots

Histograms (and Frequency Diagrams in Excel)

Visualize your data by splitting them into several bins

Google Cloud Build

Build for Kubernetes within GCP

Make (from) Makefile

How the venerable utility is used in Jenkins and GoCD to invoke shell commands around building Docker images for Kubernetes

Developer Teamwork

Tips for encouraging team Code Reviews, Pair Programming, and other techniques for better quality and productivity

OpenCV Color Python

Use the OpenCV to recognize a portion of your screen and have Selenuium Python click on a portion of it

2019

Streamlit

Create data visualizations declaratively for ML and Data Science on a Mac, powered by Python

Web Scraping

How to use the Scrapy Python crawler framework to fetch HTML which Beautiful Soup parsers, on a Mac for Machine Learning visualizations

ImageMagic

Manage photos and Python Scikit Learn

Tesseract (OCR)

Recognizes text and special characters in image files (after Imagemagic), for 60+ languages (using LTSM machine-learning). Used by Selenium

Maven on MacOS (OSX)

for Java, Jenkins, etc.

OpenCV SikuliX robot

Use the OpenCV to recognize a portion of your screen and have Selenuium Python click on a portion of it

Selenium Setup

How to emulate real users touching your web apps using Python controlling Selenium and Beautiful Soup for reading HTML

Katalon (functional testing studio)

Automates testing on top of Selenium, Cucumber

Airflow (by Apache)

Workflow as Code (WaC)

Virtualbox

Although it doesn't have the path to production like Docker and Kubernetes, it's free (unlike VMware Fusion)

Kedro (Python template for production-quality ML data pipelines)

My Bash script explained by an animated flowchart about installing (from Homebrew) Conda (Anaconda3) and utils to run tests and tasks invoking kedro (from Py...

GoCD (Continuous Deployment and Delivery)

Integrated DevSecOps from Thoughtworks

Flood (vs. Selenium automation) coding

Coding Flood Element TypeScript which (like Selenium) emulates manual actions in Google Chrome browsers

Microtrader (sample microservices CI/CD to production Docker within AWS)

How to build, test, and integrate async http/2 app (written in Java with Vert.X) using Shell scripts, Boto3 Python, Ansible, Packer, IAM, KMS, CloudFormation...

Cloud Formation

to animate Templates in StackSets of Stacks in AWS

Flood local setup

Install Flood Element CLI to run TypeScript which (like Selenium) emulates manual actions in Google Chrome browsers

AWS X-Ray

Observability: Tracing within the AWS Cloud

Tricentis Tosca

Model-based functional testing through the lifecycle

SAP Fiori

performance engineering SAP UI5 Fiori sample apps using Tricentis Flood.io Elements

DevOps job tasks (the work of DevOps)

Get DevOps done using job tasks and projects based on job tasks defined by professional certification

Git Patch (Bash script)

Create patch messages to apply into other repos, like old-school pros

Git messages (conventions and styling with emojis)

so you can separate one commit from another, succinctly

CICD pipeline (Docker of Python Console program being tested within TravisCI)

Featuring a Bash shell script that does everything, explained

AWS Lightsail (and other VPS)

Create and use EC2 instances at fixed prices per month, vs. other Virtual Private Servers

JMeter in the cloud for distributed performance testing

Impose load remotely from Docker instances in the AWS cloud

Protractor (automated functional testing)

Using Jasmine to verify AngularJs web app UI based on Selenium (behavior) driven by Gherkin specs run by Cucumber

Site Reliability and Load Engineering in Cloud Economics

How to achieve work productivity, high availability, scalability, resiliency, low latency, at lowest cost?

TruWeb (from MicroFocus)

Performance Testing and Engineering on macOS

2018

GatsbyJs (JAM Stack web app generator)

Create and publish fast, secure, feature-rich, mobile-friendly, scalable, low-cost cloud-native websites that rank high in searches

Pulumi

Deploy and control AWS, Azure, GCP, K8S, Serverless by coding JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Python, etc.

SMACK Mesos stack (based on Mesosphere/Marathon DC/OS)

SMACK = Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka, etc.

Salesforce myTrailhead

Create custom content on Salesforce's Trailhead website

How to contribute to a Non-profit using Salesforce

An example of a document for volunteers of technical talent

Salesforce Alexa for Business skills for custom voice UI

Voice commands via shared Echo devices in common rooms

Git configuration

How to setup Git clients like a pro

Salesforce exhibitors (partners)

Answers to the same questions

Salesforce Selenium (Protractor Gerkhin)

Automate not just testing but also explanations about user state

Salesforce Einstein

Artificial Intelligence built into the Saleforce you already have

Salesforce Data (Importing and exporting)

How to get data in and out of Salesforce

Salesforce NPSP performance

How Gatling is used to measure the speed and capacity of microservices for Salesforce add-on NPSP (Non-Profit Success Pack)

Salesforce Non-profit (NPSP)

How the Salesforce Benefit corp benefits non-profits, technically

Salesforce Heroku

Start using Heroku with a Postgres database and integrate it with Salesforce

Salesforce Apps

Apps and Components to add from AppExchange

Salesforce Jobs

Where to look, favored certifications, sample job descriptions, tips

Salesforce Project Plans

Strategies for getting going quickly yet sanely

Salesforce projects, superbadges, and sample apps

Build a portfolio of apps you built yourself

Salesforce certifications (training and exams)

To get recognized for your knowledge, skills, and persistance

Salesforce offerings

Competitors, Languages, Clouds, Industries, Domains, GitHubs, editions, pricing, features, versions

Salesforce onboarding

Get up and running on Trailhead and Developer tools

Salesforce rock stars

Individuals and teams who have published or influenced

Salesforce Users

Roles, Personas

Salesforce Glossary of Acronyms

Know the lingo

Salesforce Events (Meetups, Tours, Conferences)

Visit them all to shake hands and hug everyone!

Salesforce Ohana

Offices, Financials, Social media, Communities, Events, Dreamforce, Dreamoji, Store

Serverless computing

Invisible ubiquitious server clouds across the land

Apigee API Management

Design, Installation, configuration, Usage

Maximum limits (in macOS file descriptors)

Set this higher to prevent errors during high load

Chatbots

Computers interacting with people by voices, without keyboards

Anomaly Detection

Here's a way to achieve WTF (What the Face) - the unexpected

Machine Learning Algorithms

Tools for data science

Azure Machine Learning certification

Exams 70-773 and 70-774 toward an MCSA

MacOS (Command-Line) Utilities

kill, grep, sed, regex, cron, etc. vs. Linux commands

Manage MacOS Disk Space

Tools and techniques to minimize disk space usage

Hacker vs Sustainer (Culture)

How to succeed in production by resolving the singular source of conflict teams must resolve for DevOps