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Dylan Smith was a Microsoft MVP (ALM) and DevOps consultant for many years before joining Microsoft to build the DevOps Customer Advisory Team. Now he works with Microsoft’s largest customers to help them accelerate their DevOps journey.

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DEC
4
2020
Advent of Code 2020 - Day 3
Dylan Smith
Day 3 Solution. Some infinite char grids, int overflows, and a new Multiply() method;
DEC
2
2020
Advent of Code 2020 - Day 2
Dylan Smith
Day 2 solution with a new ParseLines() extension method, some Tuples, and the XOR operator
DEC
1
2020
Advent of Code 2020 - Day 1
Dylan Smith
There was a slight hiccup with the Advent Of Code site going down right at launch today. Within about 5-6 minutes they had solved the problem, and the site author gave a couple comments about it on reddit:
NOV
24
2020
Advent of Code 2020 - C# Framework
Dylan Smith
Advent Of Code 2020 is just around the corner. This year my hope is to create a short video after solving each day to show off my solution. Here's an intro video where I walk-through the framework/GUI I've created where I write and run my code.
JUN
13
2017
Dylan Joins Microsoft
Dylan Smith
After 6.5 rewarding years with Imaginet, I'm joining Microsoft as a DevOps Architect.
MAR
8
2017
Synchronize GitHub Repository with VSTS
Dylan Smith
Step by step guide to do an automated continuous one-way synchronization from a GitHub repository to a VSTS repository.
NOV
18
2016
What Is DevOps?
Dylan Smith
My personal definition of DevOps, in the context of lean principles.
NOV
4
2015
Doing Snapshots on Azure Virtual Machines
Dylan Smith
I've always been frustrated that I can't do snapshots when I'm using VM's in Azure. Especially when I'm developing some deployment automation, I like to be able to try something out - and when it inevitably screws up - reset the VM to a snapshot and try again.
AUG
24
2015
Using Azure ARM to Deploy a Docker Container
Dylan Smith
If you’ve been following the WesternDevs blog you’ll have seen a few posts lately about our adventures with infrastructure for our blog with Jekyll/Docker.

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