I work with Microsoft Cloud technology, spend a lot of time thinking about Azure and infrastructure as code, and am fortunate enough to be a Microsoft MVP in the Azure Infrastructure as Code category. When I’m not at work in Sopra Steria or doing other technology-related things, I enjoy traveling (often with some kind of camera), watching all the sports, messing around with little plastic bricks, and playing games with considerably more enthusiasm than talent.
If you’re using Azure, there is a fair chance you (or some consultant) have implemented an Azure Landing Zones-architecture to split your workloads into a bunch of different subscriptions. it’s also a pretty good guess that you have done this with either Terraform/Opentofu or Bicep. And if you’re really unlucky, you (or the consultant who did the setup) pinned the version of the module and haven’t thought much about it ever since.
For the last 2-3 years I have been using Umami.is to track the tiny bit of website analytics I am interested in. It has served me well, it's nice and easy, and I do like that it only collects anonymous information (as in: doesn't track client IPs), but after I moved all the images in the Photography section to its own website the limitations of the free tier was a bit frustrating. I don't need many of its features, but I want to track more than 1 website. I could of course just create multiple accounts, but that would be cheating, and I would need to swap between logins to view the different sites.
Once a year, a little less than 4000 Microsoft MVP's have minor breakdowns, on what some just call "F5 day" (because they are obsessively refreshing their inbox), while others barely notice something is going on until all kinds of group chats wake up from hibernation in the middle of a lazy summer. This year, this day was July 15, and I'm happy (and judging from the myriad of LinkedIn posts the lingo is "humbled and honored") to be renewed for another year. Same category, same technology area, and honestly I was a little bit surprised I got the congratulatory email and not the sad goodbye.
The week before easter I visited Microsoft's HQ in Redmond for the annual MVP Summit. Naturally, as you probably expect, the topic of everything AI was almost impossible to avoid (I tried) and when I woke up on Saturday morning, with hours to spare before we had to drag our weary butts and heavy luggage to the airport I was having some shower thoughts: There must be something in this whole AI thing right? "Everyone" who's raving about the amazing opportunities and possibilities can't all be wrong, can they?
The client I’m currently spending most (all) of my working time with have a lot of Terraform code. And I mean a lot. Like, you will spend a solid amount of time getting an overview of where everything is before you start being productive, a lot.
