A customer asked me to look at the behaviour of functions on consumption plans when they are deployed into slots or need to warm up. I thought I would publish […]

DevOps focuses on continuous value delivery to the customer… …now what does this – actually – mean? If you know me, then you will know that I am not big […]

If you are a Visual Studio Team Services user you will no doubt have seen the announcements around Azure DevOps. I wanted to put a blog article out to document […]

In one of my other blog articles I talked about queue times, and how they can be a good measure to detect if you have too many or too few […]

Most users of Azure know that you can use AzureRM PowerShell with a service principal. The process of creating one is well documented and fairly straightforward. The same is possible […]

Variable groups in VSTS are a very useful feature that allows you to share common variables and secrets across builds and releases. While being able to link a variable in […]

I am very excited about the new management groups feature in Azure and thought I’d do a post to talk about it. Management groups – finally – address a common […]

I got the following VSTS-related question last week from a customer: We are using pull request builds heavily to validate changes to our code. Our branching strategy is simplistic, focusing […]

A few days ago, I had an e-mail in my inbox asking about retrieving links between requirements and test cases over REST. I thought this was a great question and […]

Ever wondered how you can run integration-, system- or UI tests in different environments as your artifacts get promoted through them. Wonder no more. What are runsettings? Runsettings files are […]