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Featured image of post MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers
Agentic AI Platform Engineering

MCP in Practice: What Anthropic's Model Context Protocol Actually Means for Developers

Why MCP matters in practice: not as another AI buzzword, but as a clean protocol for connecting models to real tools, systems, and delivery workflows.

Mar 20, 2025
4 minute read
Featured image of post Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)
Build in Public Platform Engineering DevOps

Why I Started Building My Own DevOps Platform (And What I Learned)

Why I started building CueMarshal: not to replace engineers, but to turn Git, reviews, and automation into a more practical coordination layer for software delivery.

Feb 15, 2025
6 minute read
Featured image of post Conditionally Deploying Resources in Azure App Configuration Using Deployment Scripts
Azure DevOps Infrastructure as Code

Conditionally Deploying Resources in Azure App Configuration Using Deployment Scripts

How I used Azure deployment scripts and Bicep to dynamically query existing labels and keys in Azure App Configuration and conditionally deploy only what is missing.

Jan 10, 2025
6 minute read
Featured image of post Automating Notifications in Azure Devops Using Power Automate
Azure Automation DevOps

Automating Notifications in Azure Devops Using Power Automate

Learn how to automate notifications for work item updates in Azure DevOps using Power Automate. This step-by-step guide covers everything from setting up the trigger to handling work item state changes with expressions.

Oct 08, 2024
6 minute read
Featured image of post Automating OWASP Top Ten Scan Reports in Azure DevOps
DevOps DevSecOps Security Automation

Automating OWASP Top Ten Scan Reports in Azure DevOps

How I automated OWASP ZAP scans in Azure DevOps release pipelines: running the scanner, converting findings to NUnit format, and surfacing vulnerabilities as test results.

Sep 05, 2024
9 minute read
Featured image of post How to Enable VM Insights on an Azure Virtual Machine Using Bicep
Azure DevOps Cloud Infrastructure

How to Enable VM Insights on an Azure Virtual Machine Using Bicep

A step-by-step guide to enabling VM Insights on Azure Virtual Machines using a Bicep module to automate diagnostics and telemetry collection.

Jun 27, 2024
3 minute read
Featured image of post Dockerfile for containerizing Classic ASP
Containerization Web-Development Docker Asp-Net

Dockerfile for containerizing Classic ASP

Jun 16, 2023
6 minute read
Featured image of post Consume Secrets in Azure Key vault From Kubernetes On-prem
Containers Cloud Key Management Security

Consume Secrets in Azure Key vault From Kubernetes On-prem

Using a Service Principal, you can use Azure Key Vault on on-prem or non-Azure Kubernetes clusters.

Nov 07, 2022
9 minute read
Featured image of post Resolving Azure Devops Fastlane Error 'An exception has occurred: issuerId is required'
Development Deployment Release

Resolving Azure Devops Fastlane Error 'An exception has occurred: issuerId is required'

When deploying iOS apps with Azure DevOps, you may run into the error message: 'An exception has occurred: issuerId is required'. Changing the Agent Specification to macOS-12 will resolve the issue.

Oct 24, 2022
1 minute read
Featured image of post Set Calculated Value to Azure Devops Pipeline BuildNumber
Development

Set Calculated Value to Azure Devops Pipeline BuildNumber

Azure DevOps automatically generates a BuildNumber for every build in Azure Pipelines. What if you want to generate a calculated BuildNumber?

Oct 11, 2022
2 minute read
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