Posts listed chronologically

2019

Site Reliability and Load Tesing in the Cloud Era

Considerations for performance, high availability, latency, at lowest cost

2018

Pulumi

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

Service Mesh (Envoy, Istio, Linkerd)

The sidecar proxy separates cross-cutting operational concerns from business logic, handing off to a control pane to do the rest

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

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

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

Git basics (client-based workflow)

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

Salesforce exhibitors (videos at Dreamforce)

Videos of 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-profits

How the Benefit corp benefits non-profits, technically

Salesforce DX (Developer eXperience) deep dive

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

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, 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 rock stars

Individuals and teams who have published or influenced

Salesforce onboarding

Get up and running on Trailhead and Developer tools

Salesforce Glossary of Acronyms

Know the lingo

Salesforce Ohana

Offices, Financials, Roles, Personas, Podcasts, Social media, Communities, Events, Dreamforce, Store

Serverless computing

Invisible ubiquitious server clouds across the land

Apigee API Management

Design, Installation, configuration, Usage

Deeplens deep-learning enabled wireless video camera

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

Prometheus (CNCF with Kubernetes)

Free monitoring

Maximum limits (macOS etc.)

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

Azure Machine Learning

Get setup to run Python Jupyter Notebooks using CLI or ML Studio

Machine Learning Algorithms

Tools for data science

Azure Machine Learning certification

Exams 70-773 and 70-774 toward an MCSA

Mac OSX Command-Line Utilities kill, grep, sed, regex, cron

The Swiss Army Knife for almost every need

Manage MacOS Disk Space

Tools and techniques to minimize disk space usage

Bash script coding

Walk though the tricks used in a script to install, configure, and run many programs.

Microsoft AI

How to run Cortana AI on Microsoft's Azure cloud

JMeter install on a Mac to load test a RabbitMQ service

Know the options, including my shell script that does it all, each step explained

Neo4j graph database introduction

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

2017

Dockerize apps

Define how little bits work together

Kubernetes (K8s)

Container engine for every cloud

Hashicorp Vault and Consul

How to keep secrets on servers using

Test for OWASP using ZAP on the Broken Web App

Practice penetration testing identifying security vulnerabilities in sample BWA app

Environment Variables

How to pass them through Jenkins and Kubernetes

GCP (Google Compute Platform/Google Certified Professional)

The cloud that runs on fast Google Fiber

Terraform from Hashicorp

Client-only immutable multi-cloud provisioning, with open-sourced Enterprise support

Packer from Hashicorp within MacOS

Automate creation of Windows 2016 server as VMware Fusion images used to make Vagrant boxes for Atlas

JHipster app and DevOps generator

Generates all the hippest stacks from just an Entity Model (and default configurations)

Kafka

How to make streaming scream

Elastic Beats

Minions to collect data from each server

Elastic Logstash

Assemble and filter data from Elastic Beats

Elastic Kibana setup

Show all the numbers in a dashboard

Elastic Query

How to get wisdom from data

Elastic Scaling

This can, and does, get big

Elastic Stack Installation

Here are several ways to get it up and running quickly

ElasticSearch Ecosystem

People to see and places (links) to go about the Elastic (ELK) stack

Selenium-cs (C# or C Sharp, using Visual Studio)

Enable C# Microsoft developers to use Selenium test infrastructures on Alt-macOS

RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to Windows machines from MacOS

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

LoadRunner 12.55 Installation

From the new Micro Focus in AWS cloud and locally

Analysis for trends and anomalies

Analyze and visualize across multiple dimensions, automatically

Hands-on DevSecOps Course (for PerfTest Shift-Left)

Achieve performance engineering and testing at the end of every sprint

Cloud-Foundry

From Pivotal, the Java Spring Boot web services people.

Foundation website generation on MacOS

Install a complete development environment for generating a website using the flexible UI Foundation Framework top UI pros use

GitLab CI (and CD and CD too if you dare)

One integrated pipepline, for free

Git shortcuts (in a CLI Terminal)

A few swipes of your hand and it's done for you

Git Configuration

Create and use certificates to push to GitHub

Java Spring REST API Sample

Spring for some Java web service client

JVM Profilers

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, and threading issues

Groovy (Language) introduction

A groovy way to use the Java Virtual Machine

IoT Hub service on Microsoft Azure

Get value from IoT means getting wisdom from analytics and notifications

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

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

ci-cd (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery)

The path of maturity in organizations going faster via DevSecOps

Git imerge (interactive merge)

This is the way to merge. It needs to be setup, but you'll love it.

Progressive Webapps (PWA)

Responsive desktop and mobile hybrid apps that manage data offline too

Cucumber testing

Gherkin user specs drive Selenium tests for behavior-driven and test-driven development

Selenium Setup

How to emulate real users with robots touching your web apps

Pact for Integration Testing of REST APIs

Simplify integration testing by verifying equivalance of twins vs. real services

Git HEAD (commit-ish references)

Here is an (evolving) explanation of illustrating how Git refers to commits and branches

Git Rebase

Make it appear that you only made one edit before pushing to the team repo

Swagger-codegen

Install a generator of mock servers and client programs of the PetStore sample app

Package Managers

Download and install dependencies and keep them updated

GoLang (Go Language) introduction

This is what the cool kids are using to create utilities

Git Custom Commands

Less typing means less mistakes, and more time on social media

Why Git?

Git stores changes to use GitHub for backup and change management

Git Whoops

Don't panic. Here's how to un-do mistakes in Git

.NET profiling

Here's how to use Redgate ANTS to make C# really sing on NerdDinner

Perftest (Performance Testing and Engineering)

A high-level explanation of Why do it? And how

Agile Performance Testing and Engineering

Why do it? And how to do it in an Agile way

Software Evaluation Criteria

Example of a comparison of competing tools

Time Series

See all 4+ dimensions (time) in visualizations

InfluxDB time-series SQL-like database

Open-source programmed in Go to be fast and scalable

Ambiance (White Noise)

See if listening to this helps you concentrate and be a better person

DevOps Dashboards with Hygieia

All the stats that fits on a dashboard

White Noise

See if listening to this helps you concentrate and be a better person

Image processing

Processing of image files using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Python REST API programming

Step-by-step using the Flask REST API library

XCode install and usage on MacOS

Utilities for Apple MacOS

Python Install (Conda Anaconda Miniconda Pip) on MacOS

Confusion and errors from many alternatives and options

Encrypt all the things

How to store and send files securely using XMPP over the hostile internet

Scaled Agile

You're SAFe with Agile!

Machine Learning

It can do it for you ... before it does you in

Data Sources

Jump in and drown in all the data

Python Robot

A robot python mimics what human users do to entertain real developers

Self-driving cars

What can possibly go wrong with robots smarter than humans?

Testing AI

What can possibly go wrong with robots smarter than humans?

Parsing logs

Making sense of semi-structured data

Juypter

Notebooks that displays HTML markup between executable Python code

Excel Load automation

Load data into Excel automatically using a script

Amazon Lex (AI Chatbots)

Make a robot talk to you

JPetstore

Sample Java Spring app for your abuse and amusement

Tweet yourself

The twitterverse, 140 characters at a time

2016

Virtual Meetups

Attend meetups naked, but nobody will point and laugh.

Code Generation

It does your job better and faster than you can imagine

OpenCV SikuliX robot

A robot sees what's on your screen and clicks on it

Vue.js

This is the last framework you'll ever need to switch to, just like ReactJs. And Angular.

Spring Petclinic

Sample Java Spring app for your abuse and amusement

Git Hooks on local Git clients and Git server

On git commit it's hooked

PowerShell Modules

Share scripting functions with others

Git and GitHub Videos and Tutorials

Binge watch all the vidoes on distributed source version control

Git files (in repository)

What are those files in repositories on GitHub

IoT Text to Speech (TTS)

Make your Pi say things it doesn't mean

IoT Clouds

The value of IoT is the wisdom from analytics and notifications

IoT Apprentice School

How to enable people to make money and satisfied customers with IoT

Selenium NeoLoad

Load test sooner by updating NeoLoad scripts from Selenium

Selenium Flex

Make it work before it becomes totally obsolete

Robotic Process Automation

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News feeds

Ways to get out of the Facebook echo chamber

IoT Use cases

Ways to enjoy your life more through automation

Shift-Left Load Testing

How to achieve earlier feedback

Operate a Mac without hands

Pain from Carpel Tunnel will make you want AI speech and gesture recognition

GraphQL API

Now THIS is the industry standard. REST API is so last season.

GitHub GraphQL API

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

PowerShell GitHub API Programming

GitHub reaching to web servies on the web gives scripts data power

GitHub GraphQL PowerShell Module

How I got in front of the GraphQL and PowerShell parade.

PowerShell REST API Programming

Reaching to web servies on the web gives scripts data power

Technical Press Mentions

Blogs and publications covering technology

Finding fault in JVM-based Apps

How to find and fix JVM reliability running Java

1Password on Mac OSX

I need this even though it's querky

IoT Raspberry Install

How to setup a Raspberry Pi 3B Pi Raspbian with Python Ansible Node

Raspberry Pi IoT Hardware

A board by any other name is just as sweet

IoT Camera

How to setup a camera on the Raspberry Pi 3B and other boards

Task runners

Gulp, Grunt, and other noises as it works automatically

Find (files and text in files)

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

Node API Starter

Add routes to basic features included

Ports Open on my Mac

What ports are open for hacking on my Mac?

Android Development install on Mac

Install Android Studio and other steps to Android Things

React Native

Yes, it's getting ripe for production

React Testing automation

Use Jest and Enzyme to make your React apps great again

Fonts on Mac OSX

You are what font you use

Electron

Write and test native desktop apps in JavaScript within Node.JS

System Monitoring

He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake ...

Making videos

Tediously using Camtasia and Audacity PowerPoint on a Mac.

Apple Mac versions (plus Installers and Wallpapers)

From Mac OSX to MacOS

Xamarin

Microsoft made it free, as in if you have a license for Visual Studio

Puppet

Puppet

IoT Ecosystem

Whose's making money on IoT?

IoT reminders prevent dead mobile battery

The annoying mobile-IoT-cloud mash-up we actually need

SAP HANA Express on Mac

The biggest server, on your laptop

Code Signing on Windows

I am who I say I am because my CA says so

Security Certs on MacOS

Keep safe, my friend

GitHub REST API

I say it's the industry standard for web services

MacOS setup automation using a bootstrap script and Ansible

How I setup several Macbooks while I sleep

PowerShell on MacOS

Love Child or Demon Spawn?

PowerShell Ecosystem

Here are the social media, videos, courses, bloggers

JavaScript from clients

Call REST APIs from static client browsers

EasyTravel sample app

Catch the bad boys if you can

Samsung IoT Cloud

It can take it

IoT barn feeder

Provide just enough food for animals at just the right time, automatically

Selling from Static Jekyll sites

Make it easy to get

Gulp Task Runner

Let me do that for you

Mac - iPhone integration

Copy files

MacOS Configuration dotFile

How I make OSX work my way

Mac OSX Terminal (command-line tips and tricks)

The terminal is your friend, who only speaks a foreign language

Cloud services comparisons

Take my cloud ... please

Mac Finder Terminal

This is the Mac equivalent of Windows File Explorer

Website Styles

What do you mean by clean, pretty, easy, fun?

MySQL to MariaDB (and Aurora)

It worked for your dad. Embrace it.

Website Style Programming

How to make it clean, pretty, easy, fun

JAM-stack website project plan

Fast, scalable websites with cart and social reach, step-by-step

MacOS Apps

OSX Applications for a long, prosperous, happy life

Intel IoT setup

It will do what you want if ask correctly, in the proper sequence

Java Install on Mac OSX

Because programmers can't get enough caffeine

Text Editors (vim, subl, code, atom, Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc.)

One second saved per minute = 1.666% better living

GitHub Hooks

Let's all hold hands and sing songs

Jenkins2 Pipeline jobs using Groovy code in Jenkinsfile

Slave nodes are now opinionated agents

Amazon and ATT IoT Buttons

Touch and it talks for you

Jenkins Freestyle job

Slave nodes are now opinionated agents

Windows on Apple MacOS laptops

RDP to EC2, Amazon WorkSpaces, Vagrant, BootCamp, VMWare Fusion, Docker

Digital Ocean Cloud Ops

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

Notifications

How the computer gets you to do what you should be doing now

Docker setup

Get little bits working in containers

Evangelism Cost-Benefit Analysis

Best bang for the buck

Node API Starter

Add routes to basic features included

Tech Conferences

Meet, greet, and spiff

MongoDB setup

Database

Social

Social

Evangelism dependencies

Sequence of deliverables

DevOps 2.0 in hybrid clouds with Docker

Smart customization with no scripting. No cloud vendor lock-in. Full traceability

Python Coding

Tricks and tips from learning resources

Python Tutorials

Learn to play with python

Swim.it Cloud Evaluation

Here is how your Internet of Things gets massive, fast

Lithium Klout API

Social management

Static Code Analysis

It has your back ... by riding your back

API JWT Authentication

Authenticate like Google

Mac OSX Homebrew

How to install brew packages based on XCode, Ruby, Homebrew

AWS DevOps

Get certified in Developer Operations on AWS

API Development Ecosystem

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

API Development Ecosystem with Swagger

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

Maven on MacOS (OSX)

for Java, Jenkins, etc.

AWS server deployment options

Pick which crew of robots to build your servers

AWS AIM (Access and Identity Management)

Secure your account

Backup options

What will happen when you lose that data?

Image processing using AWS Lamba actors

Run one after another, independently

AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

How to reach servers

Social media strategy

Tell them well

Serverless AWS Lamba

An invisible server for the masses

AWS Lambda Serverless (using Python)

An invisible server for the masses

Node.js Installation on MacOS

JavaScript for the win

Jenkins Plugins

You own Minions

Email from Static Jekyll sites

I won't sell it, I promise

HTTP/2 Transition Project Plan

for Project Management to make adoption real

GitHub Data Security

How to keep secrets out of GitHub

AWS Lambda Basics

Kinda like Java Lambdas, but not really

SVG Image Files

Sharp corners on every screen

PowerShell DSC (Desired State Configuration)

Let PowerShell make it right and keep it right

Jenkins Setup

Make your robot butler

Ansible for Continuous Integration

Your robot butler is simple, but not stupid

Search within Hyde format Jekyll websites

Add a feature-rich search box in your JAM stack website

Windows 10 client config (Server 2012+)

How I setup my Windows UI look and feel

508 Accessibility - for blind and visually impaired

Information to help tools work for all users

Azure Cloud PowerShell Scripting

Do anything you want!

Azure (cloud) certifications

Study. Take a test. Put a badge on your uniform.

Histograms (and Frequency Diagrams in Excel)

See your data

Cloud Regions

Who is where

Azure Cloud

Challenger becomes a leader

Azure Cloud Onramp

The basics of how to get into and around the Azure cloud

IntelliJ IDE

This gives you more, free for Java users (who have Eclipse)

Eclipse IDE (STS and for Selenium)

Open source and free since the 90's.

Swagger (REST API specification)

Design your API for code generation

API Management by Microsoft Azure

SaaS-only, proprietary. Get it for .NET

API Management by Amazon API Gateway

Microservices

About DevOps

You gotta do it.

API Management Evaluation

Which to choose?

Website scanners

I'm innocent! Really!

DevOps User Stories by Persona

Value from autonomous speed

API HTTP Responses

Here's what I think of your request

API design tools

Save time and hassle

Play Framework

For easier, faster play for all

DevOps Choices (a Plethora)

You gotta have one of each. Or several.

Microsoft TFS vs. Git and GitHub

Check out Git, then commit to it

LoadRunner JavaScript Coding

Sample code and tutorial here

NGNIX

The kick-ass secure front-end web server proxy

API Portals

Oh the places we go

API Programming

My computer talks with your computers

API Design

Make it work

Generate REST API Test Code

No waiting for test automation

Sound out text on page

Listen to this

Beta Activities

7+ strategies to make betas more useful

Java Google Guava Ecosystem

End of any doubt Googlers are our boss.

Java DevOps Workflow

Write once. Test everywhere.

Build load-balanced servers in AWS EC2 using CloudFormation

Automate High Availability in the cloud

AWS Onboarding

for System Administration and billing

Next-Previous Topic Navigation

Go through the site in sequence

Accelerated Mobile Pages

Faster is better!

Windows Tile Pin Picture to Website Feed

So your picture can be on everyone's desktop all the time

Authenticate users on Jekyll sites

So you can personalize content

Crop (Mask) images

Get just the right 1900x500 picture for your website

Jekyll templates

The most popular

Jekyll site development

Getting started with Jekyll

Image search and edit

Make picture be worth a 1,000 words

Static websites (Jekyll)

Version controlled simplicity

Museums Roadtrip USA

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

Microsoft Azure Machine Learning

All the options for Enterprise integration

Microsoft Data Science

Here's how to earn a legitimate micro-degree

Markdown text for GitHub from HTML

Yes, it's a round-trip ticket

AI Ecosystems APIs

Brand names for how corporate overlords are making humans into robots

Personas vs. Participants

You are who you are when

Social media for evangelism

Tell them good

Budget spreadsheet

Your future, in little boxes

Scala programming

The language, not the opera house in Milan

Scala ecosystem

The language, not the opera house in Milan

Resume

I can do it!

Competitive Comparisons

I'm better!

Evangelist Job Description

Example of yaml markup variables for Jekyll to generate HTML

Markdown readers and hosting

Take the easy way or the flexible way

Git Commands and Statuses

The Visual Cheat Sheet

JavaScript in LoadRunner

Sample code and tutorial here

Data visualization using Tableau

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

Regression

How to calculate a formula from multiple variables in Excel

Clickable diagrams and maps in Jekyll posts

Includes make me happy

Log Parsers

Analyze without agents

2015

WebTours (from LoadRunner)

A stand-alone sample app that can exhibit performance issues

Walkthroughs and Automatic Scanners

Let's do them together

Website features

Whether it's wanted or not

Using Microsoft Word in a team

8 questions to ask

2014

Ruby with RVM or RBenv on macOS

Switch among multiple versions of Ruby

PHP On Mac OSX

Not Pretty Hypertext Preprocessor?

XCode CLI from Apple

This is a pre-requisite for Homebrew, Python, and other development tools

Screen Capture and Image File Management on Mac OSX

Did I really see that?

Git Utilities

Helps you do your job

Backup Archival and Restore on Mac OSX

Save your life

MacOS Bootup

Getting started

Git Stash (automated by a script)

Get tips about the most common git commands (including stash, checkout, etc.) executed in a script so you can experiment on your own

Apple Mac OSX Keyboard Shortcuts

Shortcuts and utilities

Apple Macbook Hardware

It's stylish because it's expensive

Scenarios for load

Artificial

2013

Building a team remotely?

8 questions to ask

2012

IoT

An index of my work on IoT

Front-end Development

An index of my work creating front-end UI

Cloud innovations

An index to my tutorials about cloud computing

Git and GitHub Topics

An index to my work on Git and GitHub

My MacOS Topics

An index to my work on Apple Macintosh computers

API links

An index to my work on APIs

Salesforce

An index to my work on Salesforce