With Microsoft now owning GitHub, the technical teams have been integrated, resulting in Azure DevOps and GitHub having the same leadership and personnel. The long-term strategic direction will be GitHub, but there is no plan for Azure DevOps to go into maintenance/sunset; therefore, choosing Azure DevOps is entirely OK in short to (undefined) medium term. Azure DevOps is currently in the early stages of development. When migration tools are needed, Microsoft will give them.
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MVP – Minimum Viable Product
“The minimum viable product is that product which has just those features (and no more) that allows you to ship a product that resonates with early adoptors; some of whom will pay you money or give you feedback” – Eric Ries
Deployment Strategies
There are a variety of techniques to deploy new updates for environments to production, so choosing the right strategy is an important decision, weighing the options in terms of the impact of change on the system and the end-users.
The following strategies need to be considered:
- Recreate: Version A is terminated then version B is rolled out.
- Ramped (also known as rolling-update or incremental): Version B is slowly rolled out and replacing version A.
- Blue/Green: Version B is released alongside version A, then the traffic is switched to version B.
- Canary: Version B is released to a subset of users, then proceed to a full rollout.
- A/B testing: Version B is released to a subset of users under specific condition.
- Shadow: Version B receives real-world traffic alongside version A and doesn’t impact the response.
GitHub Naming Repositories
As part of our customer engagement, we have defined a naming convention for GitHub repositories.
We have ideas around what conventions made sense, although the type of work influences these. As we tend to spend some of your engineering time working with different languages, conventions around naming formats make sense to the engineers. These, of course, might not make sense to individuals in other fields.
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gists
GISTS – engage in chat or gossip.
“I need a good friend I can always gist with.”
It is always good to chat with others, which is how we learn from each other. So why don’t project teams chat with each other? In this day and age of working from home, it is becoming more and more critical to form a social network, which helps not only with mental health but also work-related ideas and time.
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Requirements for Azure Red Hat OpenShift
The installation model for OCP 4.x is different than 3.x and there are no Azure Resource Manager templates available for deploying OCP 4.x in Azure
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Red Hat OpenShift
What is Red Hat OpenShift?
OpenShift is Kubernetes, but it is also more than Kubernetes it is a collection of other software services that gives you the ability to run an entire Kubernetes environment, which includes:
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Memory Leaks in .NET
On big enterprise projects, memory leaks are like rodents in a factory. You might not notice when there are a few of them, but you always have to be on guard in case they overpopulate, infesting the factory will cause the closer and failure of the factory.
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Hosted Background timer task
If you need a background task within .Net Core to be run at set times we can use the Hosted Service provided from the service within .Net Core.
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Hosting a service inside ASP.NET Core
A little hidden gem within .Net Core is the ability to run a Hosted Service inside the application. This allows for your service to run in a different thread to the main application, but keeps everything together though the need to host a separate service.
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