Carlos Mendible

Over the last couple of months, I’ve noticed that a lot of companies are trying to hire DevOps Engineers or DevOps Experts and I have to ask what are these companies looking for? Reading some of the job descriptions I found out that some are looking for experts on the tooling associated with infrastructure automation such as Chef or Puppet while others search for Developers with infrastructure knowledge.

A couple of years ago I started to work with one of my clients to implement an on-premises Service Bus solution. While investigating the options I discovered a nice library, EasyNetQ: an easy .NET API for RabbitMQ, which inspired me to create a very similar project to simplify the use of pub/sub messaging with Service Bus 1.1 for Windows Server.

I recently passed the 70-534 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions exam, and I want to share with you tips about the exam and the resources I used to study: Should you take the exam? If you are a Solutions or Software Architect looking to validate your Microsoft Azure skills then this exam is for you. Also note that Microsoft expects you to:

Four months ago I cleared the PMP exam as part of a program launched by @SogetiSpain and I want to share with you that the book: “PMP Rapid Review" by Sean Whitaker was key to success. "#PMP Rapid Review" by @SeanWhitakerPM was like an ETL placed between the #PMBOK & my brain. Guess what? I cleared the exam! cc @MSLearning

Since the year started I’ve been working hard with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) with Git as source control. I was getting tired of entering my git credentials on each clone, pull or push, on Windows or Mac OS X, so this weekend I decided to surf the web and look for a multi-platform solution.

You just inherited someone else’s code and you feel like the task is going to be impossible. You are overwhelmed by the lack of documentation, you also find out that there are no tests in place and you wonder how on earth you will make the requested changes without breaking things. Yes you are scared!