Whilst at DDD South West I did a very enjoyable panel podcast recording for Dan Clarke’s Unhandled Exception podcast on the subject of the impact of AI on software development. I am please to say that the recording of the panel has just been published. So why not have a listen to it, or any of Dan’s back catalog For …

Thanks to everyone who came to my session ‘Why don’t people seem to be able to diagnose problems these days?` at yesterday’s DDD South West. I don’t believe there is a recording of this session from any event where I have delivered it, but you can find a copy of my slides, with all my other presentations, in the repo …

AWS Summit London 2026 AWS Summit London 2026 was a compact, fast-moving event with practical sessions. The theme was “Innovate at Scale,” and the show was heavy on AI, sustainability, and hybrid cloud. Opening Keynote Main focus: resilience, scale, and customer-driven innovation. Graviton4 expansion: broader regional …

Problem Space In most Infrastructure as Code teams, Bicep quality checks start to look mature as soon as linting and deployment validation are in place. In practice, there is still a blind spot: logic-level testing of exported functions, types, and variables. Most teams validate by deploying to a subscription and …

Problem Space I recently had to troubleshoot an issue where two App Registrations in the same tenant had the same display name. Azure allows this. Operationally, it hurts. When names are duplicated, diagnosis gets slower and riskier because engineers cannot trust what they see first in the portal. Why It Matters …

⚠️ NOTE Microsoft guidance is clear that Azure RBAC should be used for data plane authorization moving forward, instead of legacy access policies Azure role-based access control (Azure RBAC) vs. access policies (legacy) Provide access to Key Vault keys, certificates, and secrets with Azure role-based access control …

Problem Space As Bicep adoption grows, so does the complexity of the environments and teams using it. Without clear authoring practices, Bicep codebases can quickly become inconsistent, hard to maintain, and error-prone. In this post I wanted to share some practical authoring practices and anti-patterns to help you and …

Background I have posted in the past on how we manage Azure DevOps Pipeline Agents with Packer and Lability. Whilst deploying a new agent I hit a interesting problem, the issue was completely a ‘UTS’ (user too stupid) error, but the way it was surfaced was I think interesting. The Problem My script built and deployed a …

Background My post-op chemotherapy treatment for my adrenal cancer meant I was struggling to get any fitness, so in 2019 I bought a Ribble CGR-ALe ebike based around the Mahle X35 system. It was in fact pre-ordered prior to the bike’s initial release by Ribble. This bike served me well, getting me out and about before …

Background We have a few non-critical systems running as single instance Docker containers hosted on Azure WebApps. On these systems we have started to see the warning Your app is configured with Docker Compose, which is set to retire on March 31, 2027. For multi-container support, please update your app to support …