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Kevin Mack

I am a well documented nerd and software developer.

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Cloud Solution Architect, Twitter @DocumentedNerd at Microsoft

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Debt is bad, and Technical Debt is no different

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re: Have you ever felt to run away from programming?
Yep mix of imposter syndrome, burnout, and stress. The best ...
re: MIT, Stanford, Harvard: 500 Free Computer Science Courses from World's Top-50 CS Universities
Very cool, thanks for sharing.
re: Startup Books for Developers
Really great list max, I would add a couple more. Mindset by...
re: What do you do if you're in the middle of a project and you realize it already exists in the world?
And one more note, if anything look at how they did it and ...
re: What do you do if you're in the middle of a project and you realize it already exists in the world?
Keep going, more than likely you are still doing something ...
re: What are your tips for dealing with a stressful project on a tight deadline?
breaking things down into manageable pieces and making sure...
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Navigating Career Decisions without analysis paralysis

#softskills #career #decisions #growth
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Why you really need a private nuget feed

#codeproject #technology #configurationmanagem #nuget
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MagicMirror on the Wall

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Adding Application Insights to Azure Functions

#codeproject #technology #applicationinsights #telemetry
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Learning how to use Power BI Embedded

#codeproject #gettingstarted #technology #embedded
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Remote Gaming – Lessons Learned

#nerdproject #softskills #digital #fun
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How to pull blobs out of Archive Storage

#technology #archive #blob #storage
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Stem with Kids – Quarantine

#nerdproject #softskills #activities #fun
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Summer time: Managing Burnout

#nerdstuff #softskills #burnout #gaming
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Leveraging Private Nuget Packages to support Micro-services

#technology #microservices #nuget
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A Few Gotcha’s for Resiliency

#technology #availability
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Building CI / CD for Terraform

#projects #technology #automation #devops
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TerraForm – Using the new Azure AD Provider

#codeproject #technology #azuread #serviceprincipal
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Good practices for starting with containers

#codeproject #technology #containers #docker
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Fast and Furious: Configuration Drift

#technology #availability #configurationdrift
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Building a Reservoir of Good Will

#softskills
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Configuring SQL for High Availability in Terraform

#codeproject #technology #availability #terraform
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Weekly Links – 5/18

#links #privatelink #spark
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Embracing the Chaos

#technology #engineering #practices
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Terraform – Key Rotation Gotcha!

#codeproject #technology #keyvault #secrets
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Configuration can be a big stumbling block when its comes to availability.

#technology #appconfiguration #availability #configuration
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Weekly Links – 5/11

#links #hdinsight #zerotrust
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Copying blobs between storage accounts / regions

#codeproject #technology #blob #copy
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Azure Search SDK in Government

#codeproject #search #technology #azuregovernment
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Weekly Links – 5/4

#links #build #coding #development
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Log Analytics – Disk Queries

#codeproject #technology #kql #loganalytics
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Book Review – The Infinite Game

#bookreviews #nerdstuff #softskills #bookreview
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Weekly Links – 4/27

#links #datalake #maps #migrate
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Cloud Networking and Security

#codeproject #technology #networking #security
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AI / Analytics Tools in Azure

#ai #codeproject #technology
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Weekly Links – 4/20

#links #docker #dotnetcore #search
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How to pitch an idea! And make them actually want to do it.

#softskills #ideas
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Reserved Instances and where everyone gets it wrong

#codeproject #technology #costsavings
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Weekly – 4/13

#links #ai #azuregovernment #datascience
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Big Month for Azure Government

#technology #government
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Weekly Links – 4/6

#links #chatbots #serverless
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Power BI Embedded … confused?

#technology #azure #azuregovernment #licensing
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Weekly Links – 3/29

#links #disks #government #kidscoding
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Governance in Azure Dev Ops

#technology #alm #azuread #azuredevops
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Weekly Links – 3/23

#links #monitoring #python #xamarin
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Things I listen to…Podcasts / Audio Books

#bookreviews #nerdstuff #gaming #listening
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Weekly Links – 3/16

#links #ai #cosmos #government
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What are some things I can do to improve application availability?

#codeproject #technology #resiliency
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Aligning Actions and Values

#goals #growth #softskills #values
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Weekly Links – 3/2

#links #cloud #datastudio #jupyter
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How to learn TerraForm

#technology #terraform #gettingstarted #learning
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Microsoft Certifications – Explained

#softskills #technology #certifications #education
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Working With Modules in Terraform

#technology #terraform #gettingstarted #modules
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Weekly Links – 2/8

#links #ai #aks #bigdata
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Working from home…without letting it take over

#softskills #technology #career #workingfromhome
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High Availability – a storage architecture

#technology #highavailability #resiliency
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#discussGoal setting and the year in review

#softskills #discuss #goals #growth
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Weekly Links – 1/13/2020

#links #technology #aks #highavailability
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Return of weekly links – 12/30

#links #ai #architecture #azure
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RT? – Making Sense of High Availability

#codeproject #technology #highavailability #rto
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Weekly Links – 11/25

#links #technology #cloud #machinelearning
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Weekly Links – 11/18

#links #education #machinelearning
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Keeping the lights on! – Architecting for availability?

#cloud #codeproject #faulttolerance #highavailability
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Weekly Links – 11/4

#links #angular #multitenant #tensorflow
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