If you are just starting with an Azure Functions API implementation, first take a look at the first post to get caught up. In this post, we will take a look at a more traditional example of a web API implementation. A couple of things you will notice…

Implementing an Azure Function is the theme here, specifically creating a highly elastic web API quickly. But, what does highly elastic really mean? Initially, when this API is deployed to production there will be 0 users of it. Not so great, but…

This may not come as a surprise but there is no shortage of children born and raised these days. My wife and I are guilty of taking large amounts of pictures for all the memories too. We have years of digital images piling up all over the place. Some…

As a budding software engineer, I had always heard Azure around the office. But, I didn't quite understand what the offering was. Perhaps I didn't even know that a product was offered and it was just jargon people used to sound intelligent. I finally…

Your first step in this final post on Gatsby is to check out the previous posts to get caught up. Those posts can be found here, here and here. To get this templated content rolling first we will need to add some handy NPM packages and configuration…

Before releasing this hot new content, if you have not read my previous posts on Gatsby. Please, get caught up with us so you too can follow along. The posts can be found here and here. With the shell of a site, how do we go about modifying the…

Before we get going with this post if you have not read my previous post on Gatsby. Please, take a couple of minutes to get caught up. The post can be found here The goal of this post is to create a new Gatsby site, but we have to do some setup…

At one point in time as a web developer, the only objective was to get content out into the world at a particular URL for it to be consumed. In today's world of website development, the team has to consider much more. The content existing on a page…

You are a developer on a team going about your day, then, out of nowhere you find out there is an ongoing outage. This news flips the day from calm to frenzied in the blink of an eye. In this post, we will discuss some techniques to make the outage…

The other day I was looking for the next backlog item to start working on. Once the item was identified, the team had a quick conversation to discuss to share our collective knowledge about the work item. Making sure that we were all on the same page…

What an exciting past couple of days. A brand new development machine was delivered to the doorstep after a 3-week wait for it to be built. The new toy is a Dell XPS 15, complete with 32 Gb of RAM, an Intel i7, and Windows 10 Pro. While this is not…

This is a continuation of a blog post series to talk about my path from mechanical engineering to software engineering. If you have not already done so, check out out part one and part two. I do not believe there is a perfect execution of a plan…