Introduction In my pursuit to learn Swift, I've decided to branch out into the backend development. That might sound an odd statement to some, as Swift is usually associated only…
Mike JOctober 24, 2019
Earlier this week my girlfriend (who is a networking ninja) asked a great question, how do you secure traffic between pods in Azure Kubenetes Service (AKS). This simple sounding question…
Mike JMarch 27, 2019
The title is click bait, but I can picture situations where we could replace lighting programmers with artificial intelligence using language understanding techniques that power Alexa, Google Assistance and Cortana.…
Mike JNovember 17, 2018
Recently Microsoft announced a rebranding of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps and as a big fan of Azure, I wanted to check out if the changes were…
Mike JNovember 16, 2018
Anyone familiar with my ramblings will be aware that I mostly develop in C# using a mixture of Xamarin and .NET Core depending on what I'm building. Earlier this year…
Mike JSeptember 28, 2018
This post is a direct result of a conversation with a colleague in a taxi in Madrid. We were driving to Santiago Bernabéu (the Real Madrid Stadium) to demonstrate to…
Mike JMay 9, 2018
We've all seen tutorials which demonstrate how to deploy a simple todo list backend to Azure but how many have you read that go onto secure it? In this post,…
Mike JSeptember 7, 2017
Most mobile apps require some form of infrastructure to function correctly. In the case of something like Instagram, they'll likely have some blob storage for storing images and then a…
Mike JMarch 31, 2017
Search is a feature that can make or break your mobile app, but it can be incredibly difficult to get right. In this blog post, I'm going to share how…
Mike JJanuary 4, 2016