Orchestrating AWS Serverless to Replace Backoffice Workflows with Nautilus and Axian

In 2020, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure surpassed spending on on-premises data centers for the first time. This watershed milestone highlights the significant shift to the cloud for organizations across the globe. For some companies, the migration to the cloud entailed like-for-like replication of on-premises infrastructure into a cloud environment. While this is a good … Continued

Microsoft Teams + Stream = a winning combination

Microsoft is throwing a lot of resources at improving Teams.  We certainly have been using Teams increasingly over the last several months.  There are some things I really like about it, and some things I like less (eh-hem multi-tenant).  One thing I have found recently, is using the record feature for meetings.  I do recognize … Continued

Containerizing Development Environments

In a given calendar year, our staff can be working in a LOT of different development environments. While Axian as a whole tends to focus on Node.js, Java and .NET runtimes/toolchains, we are also often found working with systems that comprise everything from Python, to Golang, Ruby and beyond! Needless to say this can create … Continued

Docker Cheat Sheet

My last post took you though setting up boot2docker on your system and provided a quick cheat sheet on how to configure and interact with it. In this post I will be laying out a running list of the commands I use with docker to get the most out of my containers. What is Docker? (From docker.com) Docker allows … Continued

Enable Apache on Mountain Lion

Mac OS X Mountain Lion comes with Apache installed but not enabled. Here are the steps to re-enable Apache 1. Open the OS X Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) 2. Create and open an Apache user configuration file named for your account in your favorite editor. I am using TextMate so I used the following command sudo mate … Continued

MSTR 9 + Win Svr 2012: A match made for hotfixin’

I recently spun up a MicroStrategy VM to be used as a demo/training box. In doing so it seemed natural to throw it on a Windows Server 2012. MicroStrategy 9 is shiny and new, Windows Server 2012 is shiny and new, what could possibly go wrong? Well, I’m posting about it. There’s the first clue. 1st … Continued

A PostMortem Template

In my last 2 posts I discussed the importance of engaging in a postmortem at the end of your projects and promised to provide a template that can be followed when gathering feedback prior to the meeting and consolidating feedback during the meeting. Templates like this have been created and posted all over the web … Continued