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I am currently the Agentic AI Enablement Principal at Asperitas Consulting. I help companies leverage AI to gain a competitive advantage. I concentrate on Azure and AWS cloud implementations. I focus on DevSecOps, infrastructure code, cloud computing, containerization, making applications cloud-native, and migrating applications to the cloud. I routinely speak at technical conferences such as Agile + DevOps East, DevOpsDays, and many others.

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For DevOps Professionals: Automatically Generating Terraform Documentation

Today, I'm furthering my war on DevOps busy work. This is a continuation of a previous post: For DevOps Professionals: Analyzing and Eliminating Busy Work. For this post, I want to remove the tediousness of properly documenting Terraform code.

Terraform code documentation should detail the following to make it easy for other developers to consume and maintain a Terraform configuration or project. T

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	The Java EE Architect's Handbook: How to be a successful application architect for Java EE applications 4.16 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Introduction to the Orchestral Conducting Technique in Accordance With the School of Ilya Musin: with contribution from the piano duo Bruno Canino and Antonio Ballista (with online video)

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“Many technical people consider estimating difficult; and indeed, at this stage, it is definitely as much art as it is science.”
― Derek Ashmore, The Java EE Architect's Handbook: How to be a successful application architect for Java EE applications

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“Facilitate and document business analysis. Assist the project manager in defining project scope. Estimate needed time and resources. Define and design interfaces to external applications.”
― Derek C. Ashmore, The Java EE Architect's Handbook: How to be a successful application architect for Java EE applications

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“must be able to understand the business aspects and requirements for the end user areas their applications support.”
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