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Best practice of using Secrets in Azure DevOps

Best Practice of Secrets in Azure DevOps

Best practice of secrets in Azure DevOps and life-cycle management can be a complicated topic. In some cases, existing AzDo tasks might not fulfil your needs. This post reviews the options. The need to use secrets in Azure DevOps pipelines increases the more extensive the enterprise environment, and the more complicated Azure resources are in use. There are three options that I’ll go through in this blog post, and the usage of each case depends on the requirements and the…

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Meltlake by Futurice, the founding story

Meltlake by Futurice

Meltlake by Futurice got founded as a new sister company early this month. I’ll review the founding story in this blog post. Many of friends and colleagues have asked me about the company and the relationship I have with the founded start-up. In this blog post, I’ll explain how everything started and what was my role in the new start-up. Joining The Futurice UK I joined Futurice Group London branch in September 2018. That is after having an eight months…

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Azure SaaS platform, an output of exam preparations and experiments

Saas

The latest Azure certification exams are demanding and need a lot of demos and hands-on training. During the preparations and experiments, an e-commerce Azure Saas Platform was formed unintentionally. Taking Microsoft certification exams has been apart of my professional career since 2007. Certifying myself not only verifies the current level of my knowledge but also makes me study hard for newly available technology. I’m currently on the DevOps journey with the following exams: AZ900 Azure Fundamentals (Done) AZ-103 Azure Administrator…

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9 Important facts to consider when looking for a new job in London!

It took me nine months to relax from my previous entrepreneurship era and start a new career as a Technology Advisor at Futurice Ltd in London. During the nine months period, I had enough time to explore new markets and think about what could be my next interesting and lucrative move. I’m going to write more about my explores later, but first I will share my thoughts about finding a job in London as it is in my fresh memory.…

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The sweet goodbye

Recently I have seen some motivation videos about successful people like Jack Ma or Elon Musk on Facebook. The Video begins by telling how miserable was their life by failing over and over, dropping-off or leaving the university, nobody wanted to give them a job and then something happens. Their life changed by trying harder and they become successful, a Billionaire! I guess in most cases becoming a Millionaire/Billionaire part is what makes people watch those videos? The only thing I could…

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An Excellent Idea for A START-UP! (PART 2)

Recently, I attended a conference at Metropolia University of Applied Science as a co-speaker with my dear friend and workmate Jouko Nyholm. We attended to present about “Enterprise IT and Microsoft Solutions”. Attendees were a group of final year students from the Information Technology and Media engineering course. I spoke about entrepreneurship and during the questions and answer part, a student raised a funny question. The question was “So what is the next good idea to create a new start-up?”. My…

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Technical Challenges of Extranets and Customer Engagement

Customer engagement

Over a decade of being a part of Microsoft ecosystem and solving customer’s needs, one of the most challenging tasks has been the engagement of customers and providing self-service systems to the end-users. In the old days and even currently some enterprises refer to the system as an “Extranet”. The cloud era and especially Microsoft’s Azure and the seamless integration between services has eventually changed the world. Few years ago to have an environment where customers could authenticate, update their…

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An Excellent Idea For A Start-up! (Part 1)

Excellent Idea

It has been a while since my last blog post, but in IT business a lot happens at beginning of the year which has kept me particularly busy. I would like to dedicate my next two posts to the subject of an “Idea” and the importance of the idea behind start-ups. Whilst acting as an entrepreneur, I have engaged in constructive discussions with young entrepreneurs and some students who are planning their own start-ups. In most cases, I felt that young entrepreneurs do not focus on the idea…

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To Be Or Not To Be A Startupper

Back days during my university studies, I was always wondering what is the source  of multi-billion dollar/euro enterprises. How can you create such a company, and what do you need to be able to run the company. There are still many people, who are thinking about the same questions and trying to seek the answer. Let me make the answer easy to understand. Any living object in this world has a start. Even our world had its own start during the big bang process. Companies…

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Begin A Part Of A Big Machine

I was watching a video clip from the founder of Alibaba.com jack Ma who is the richest man in China these days. He said: As young guy and before 30’s follow somebody. In a big company it is good to learn about processes and you are a part of big machine. In this blog post I’ll go through how I ended up to Tieto Corporation and few words about the unit I was working for. The post will give good reasons why did…

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