Dylan Smith was a Microsoft MVP (ALM) and DevOps consultant for many years before joining Microsoft to build the DevOps Customer Advisory Team. Now he works with Microsoft’s largest customers to help them accelerate their DevOps journey.
There was a slight hiccup with the Advent Of Code site going down right at launch today. Within about 5-6 minutes they had solved the problem, and the site author gave a couple comments about it on reddit:
Advent Of Code 2020 is just around the corner. This year my hope is to create a short video after solving each day to show off my solution. Here's an intro video where I walk-through the framework/GUI I've created where I write and run my code.
I've always been frustrated that I can't do snapshots when I'm using VM's in Azure. Especially when I'm developing some deployment automation, I like to be able to try something out - and when it inevitably screws up - reset the VM to a snapshot and try again.
If you’ve been following the WesternDevs blog you’ll have seen a few posts lately about our adventures with infrastructure for our blog with Jekyll/Docker.