Developer platforms, PowerShell, Azure, and observable systems
I am a hands-on software architect with more than 20 years of experience building developer platforms, delivery automation, and production infrastructure. I work primarily with PowerShell, C#/.NET, and Azure, turning infrastructure complexity into application-centric self-service workflows using CI/CD, GitOps, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability.
I build PowerShell tools and write about Azure automation, graph-based infrastructure analysis, messaging, and data visualization. My open-source projects include PSQuickGraph, PSGraphView, ipmgmt, and pubs.
In Build Vega-Lite HTML Reports with PowerShell, PowerShell downloads data, builds a Vega-Lite specification, and saves the resulting HTML as a report. Nothing in that approach is specific to a file. Show-VegaLite returns HTML, and the final pipeline command decides where it goes. A notebook can …
PowerShell is good at acquiring data and turning it into objects. Vega-Lite is good at turning structured data into interactive graphics. A small function is enough to connect the two without adopting a reporting framework or opening a browser from the script. In this article, we download the Palmer …
Observable Framework can run PowerShell scripts during a build and expose their output to interactive pages as static data. The part that needs extra attention is deployment: the automatic Azure Static Web Apps build does not know about your custom PowerShell interpreter. This article shows how to …
Suppose the network team assigns 10.172.0.0/16 to an Azure landing zone. You need to divide it into correctly aligned virtual network and subnet ranges, then find space for future networks without overlapping anything already deployed. This article uses PowerShell to perform both tasks: break a …
Azure Service Bus sessions are the natural choice when a consumer must process related messages in order. But what if the messages already arrive through a non-session subscription, while a downstream consumer still expects an ordered, session-aware stream? This article explores one possible bridge …
PowerShell normally sends text and objects to a terminal. This experiment sends an image. 1 Out-Sixel -Path ./sixel-demo.svg -Width 480 Instead of opening Preview or a browser, the command decodes the SVG, converts it into a palette, and writes a stream of terminal escape sequences. iTerm2 …
PowerShell is excellent at collecting objects. The harder question often comes one step later: how are those objects related? A table can tell us that an Orders API uses a database, a message broker, and a vault. It is much less useful when we need to answer questions such as: What will be affected …
Verso is an open-source interactive notebook platform and embeddable .NET execution engine. Its language kernels include PowerShell, C#, F#, Python, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, and HTTP, and it provides VS Code and browser front ends. That timing is useful for PowerShell users. The .NET Interactive …
PSRule for Azure makes it straightforward to validate the properties of individual resources before deployment. But some architecture requirements describe a relationship, not a property: every Function App must connect to the expected virtual network, or every application must have exactly one …
