Microsoft Azure
Splunk Enterprise is a powerful tool that is optimized to search, monitor and analyze data. Splunk can process both unstructured, structured and complex multi-line data. The three main components are: data ingestion, data search, and data visualization.
Modern applications are typically architected as distributed collections of microservices. As the collection of microservices grows in size and complexity, it can become harder to understand and route message traffic between services. That’s where Dapr and service meshes come in.
NGINX is open source software for web serving, reverse proxying, caching, load balancing, media streaming, and more. It started out as a web server designed for maximum performance and stability.
Architectural work often isn’t assigned to sprints. It’s better to put epics, features and user stories on the backlog and leave it there. No rocket science, but it saves you a lot of work.
The correct keyboard combination for CTRL-ALT-DEL on your virtual machine is: CTRL-ALT-End.
There are a number of useful Azure DevOps extensions related to agile working. One of them is Portfolio++. A free extension that let’s you create roadmaps with epics and features across teams.
To Visualize a Capability Maturity Assessment, you can use the Radar Graph stencil in Visio. The data can be stored in an Excel sheet. You can also use a visual diagram in Excel.
TDD is linked to the notion of built-in quality. You don’t test quality as an afterthought, at the end of the process. You build in quality checks at the start of the process. In SAFe, the TDD approach is linked to the Gherkin Given When Then syntax. There’s a extension named Specflow, that you can use in Visual Studio.
With Draw.io you can create flowcharts, organizational charts, ER diagrams, logos, process diagrams, network diagrams, UML, and more.
Microsoft does have Azure AD B2C as a solution for CIAM, but for more complicated Customer Identity and Access Management scenarios Microft has no real offering. That’s the reason why you might consider specialized solutions like Auth0 (pronounce Auth Zero).