Technorama is a “Deep knowledge IT Conference” as the event is described on the website. And that is definitely true, I wouldn’t describe the sessions as entry level. Most of the presentations given by the large list of speakers require knowledge and experience of working in the field. And for me, that makes it worth spending two days hopping between 14(!) different cinema rooms.
Year: 2023
Wouter Fennis
Scrum and the Summer Break
In this article I’ll zoom in how a team can prepare itself for this period and how to get back together in the original formation in the months that follows
Wheel of Misfortune
Nobody likes to be called in the middle of the night to be confronted with a failing system without a clear symptom on what is going on. So why wait until problems arise before you tackle them? There is often only so much that can go wrong, and if you already have a mitigating plan ready you’ll be back in your bed in no time.
Bicep and environment specific requirements
Infrastructure as code, the eternal promise of stability, shared understanding and high maintainability. Often it starts out that way. You start writing the first components, tie them together in a procedure. It runs excellently in the development environment. Just one click away from rolling it out in other environments. But then you realize you can’t.
SQL Server Authentication and Authorization on Azure with Managed Identities
Deploying infrastructure to Azure is easy enough these days with Azure Powershell, CLI or Bicep. Making interactions between infrastructure components secure is also facilitated in Azure with Managed Identities for example. Databases however, often have their own authentication and authorization internally which is out of reach for Bicep and ARM templates. How can you secure your dynamically created SQL Server databases in Azure?
Snapshot testing with Verify
Have you ever programmed ugly unit tests that had to check file formats and structured content? With snapshot testing this actually has become manageable.
Retrospective Idea: Pizzaria Retrospettiva
Retrospectives have a tendency to sometimes be repetitive and less fruitful. However sometimes just a simple change of scenery can already open up a new perspective of underlying problems or successes that a Scrum team has been through.
One method I’ve tried in practice is bringing the retrospective in an authentic Italian vibe. And what is the first thing people associate with Italia? Pizza 🍕 of course!
Getting Code Coverage to SonarQube
You finally managed to get your first SonarQube analysis published to the SonarQube server. Yet no unit tests and Code Coverage is showing up. What is going on?