I spent the last couple of days building out the production infrastructure for my new project since the MVP code was ready to go live. It was also my first foray into putting Azure's Managed Kubernetes (AKS) offering into production.…
Lorenzo Aiello
A collection of 19 posts
Cloud-Managed MariaDB/MySQL Packet Error
It all started when I was trying to use the MySQL package to connect to Azure's Managed MariaDB offering but kept getting some cryptic errors – while I found the root cause and solution, the additional research uncovered more fascinating behaviors.…
Cursors vs Offsets in APIs
When you write an API you'll soon reach a decision point around how to format your read endpoints. Singleton read endpoints are easy because they return... well, a single record. Non-singleton read endpoints become a bit more challenging because at…
Believing is Delivering
Forming a great team is important, and no one will dispute that, but the key to a great team is their belief and passion for the problems that they are solving. I would rather have a small, less-experienced team who…
Focus on the Customer Experience
A lot of people talk about customer engagement and how to attract and keep their customers, but in a lot of cases, this is presented as an afterthought to building a product. The reality is a lot more nuanced than…
Defining Seductive Adoption
Whenever I get on my soapbox to talk about a customer-first mentality, I always use the term "Seductive Adoption" to describe the behavior that I expect from my products and to set the same expectation with everyone on my team.…
Office365 - A Quick Security Review
Securing Office365 can be a daunting task and a constantly moving target. Microsoft recently released a new Secure Score as part of their 365 Security Threat Protection suite. While it’s a phenomenal resource, some of the recommended changes have…
The Peter Pan Story
I recently watched Pan on a plane and it sparked my curiosity as it didn’t seem to track with the Peter Pan story that I was familiar with. So, I did some research and after finding out that the…