Positive Spirits, Helpful Shouting

  • Debug, Dev, Release, and Prod in .NET

    A recent exchange between coworkers revealed a confusing but important distinction in .NET runtime nomenclature. These folks were looking to reproduce the same behavior on their individual machines, but just couldn’t stick...

  • Using MS SQL Server in GitHub Actions

    One of my favorite features in Azure DevOps is the Service Container, which allows spinning up infrastructure dependencies for build process as Docker containers. They are also available in GitHub Actions, which...

  • Options for a More Agile Data Architecture

    The old data strategy standard of “chuck it in SQL” is as low-effort as ever to implement. But as time passes and applications change, hard-set relational data structures become easy to trip...

  • Can A Linux Docker Swarm Run on Windows Hosts?

    TL,DR: Not Yet in Production I am currently working on a failover orchestration for a small system of servers running a medium number of applications. Most of those, and their supporting infrastructures,...