Author: Justin O’Connor

• December 20, 2021

  Enable Developers to Adopt Cloud and Build the Future by Shifting Left

  Looking to inspire broad cloud adoption and rapid transformation within your company? Finding ways to shift left so that product teams and app developers are in control of their cloud journey is an important step. Shift left simply means making it possible for development teams to self service the cloud for building their applications. Said another way, it takes…
• October 10, 2021

  Installing Visual Studio Code on MacBook

  Visual Studio Code is an open source, cross platform code editor with a vast library of extensions and integrations. If you are not religious about another editor, I would push you to give this one a try. This is a brief tutorial to help Mac users get Visual Studio Code installed on their MacBook entirely…
• September 6, 2021

  The Essential Terraform Cheatsheet

  One of the best things about being a digital transformation leader in the cloud space is the humbling experience of working with so many smart, talented, creative, driven, and hard-working engineers. Over the past several years, our team has worked together to go from mostly manual and error prone deployments to fully automated infrastructure deployments…
• July 6, 2021

  About The Recent PowerShell Remote Code Execution Vulnerability And How To Stay Secure

  New versions of PowerShell 7.0 and 7.1 have been released by Microsoft to address a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in .Net 5 and .Net Core. This vulnerability has been rated as critical and should be looked at closely. PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language,…
• May 28, 2021

  Creating a Virtual Machine Operator Role with Azure CLI

  Sometimes you want to be able to create custom roles that give fine grained control over your cloud platform and environments. This can be done entirely with the Azure command line interface and it is awesome! The example role are going to create is a role that allows a user to start and stop a…
• May 24, 2021

  Searching Nested Dictionaries In Python Using Recursive Functions

  Sometimes it is helpful to be able to search for all values that match a key within a non-arbitrarily nested combination of lists and dictionaries in Python. A great way to solve this problem is using recursive functions. Sometimes also simply referred to as recursion. A recursive function is a function that refers to itself…
• May 6, 2021

  Managing Tags In Microsoft Azure

  Overview Tagging can be a powerful tool in Azure. You can use it to organize and categorize your resources making them easier to find. Tags can also help with other things like automating processes like locking virtual networks or destroying test resources which can protect and reduce the cost of your Azure environment. Tagging can…
• May 2, 2021

  Automated PyPi Package Release Versioning With GitHub

  GitHub is a powerful code hosting platform with millions of developers from all over the world. It is a great way to collaborate with others on code and share it with the world. I was recently working on an open source project in my free time to create a Python package that could be used…
• April 30, 2021

  Working With the Microsoft Graph API

  Recently, I was asked to collect data about our Microsoft licenses and users in our Azure Active Directory who are consuming those licenses. This presented the perfect opportunity to work with the Microsoft Graph API! Microsoft Graph is a RESTful API that allows you to access Microsoft Cloud services resources. It supports GET, POST, PATCH,…
• April 29, 2021

  Hello World

  Sometimes you hear people say say things like “it is a fight to the finish”. I always thought that was a good place to end. But I’m not here to talk about endings. I’m here to talk about beginnings. Something I have been putting off for a long time. Creating a place to share what…