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# Embrace the Vibe

"Vibe" is an unfortunate term that implies an emotional response or feeling; however, I want you to maintain reason as you "vibe" a plan. In the early days of "vibe coding" people were just looking for an idea machine; "ChatGPT: build me a

8 May 2026 · 8 min read

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"embrace the vibe", man and women walk up the beach waving at their Android friend wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

"embrace the vibe", man and women walk up the beach waving at their Android friend wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

# Embrace the Vibe

"Vibe" is an unfortunate term that implies an emotional response or feeling; however, I want you to maintain reason as you "vibe" a plan. In the

Daniel Matthis

8 May 2026 · 8 min read

Putting Numbers on the Fuzzy Stuff: Architecture Governance with AppFaktors

Putting Numbers on the Fuzzy Stuff: Architecture Governance with AppFaktors

At 27Global, we build software for clients across a lot of industries and each project brings its own tech stack, its own quirks, and its own definition of "done.

Marc Kleinschmidt

10 Apr 2026 · 6 min read

Building a Confluence to Azure DevOps Migration Tool with Claude Code

Building a Confluence to Azure DevOps Migration Tool with Claude Code

Skip to the repo and start your own migration: https://github.com/patspace/confluence-to-azure-devops-wiki Background When I first started at 27Global in 2015, we used a self-hosted tool, Redmine, to

Patrick Kinne

15 Sep 2025 · 4 min read

Setting Up And Using Azure Application Insights In Development

Setting Up And Using Azure Application Insights In Development

Application Insights is a powerful tool for monitoring and troubleshooting which is provided by Microsoft Azure. It is designed to help developers monitor the performance, availability, and usage of their applications.

Marc Kleinschmidt

2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

A Week in the Life of a 27Global Architect

A Week in the Life of a 27Global Architect

Architect is an impressive title, especially in the technical world, but many don’t fully understand what an Architect does, or what the role entails.

Kelly Fisher

31 May 2024 · 5 min read

How We Governed Data Lake and SQL Server using Unity Catalog across Multi-Environments

How We Governed Data Lake and SQL Server using Unity Catalog across Multi-Environments

This blog articulates our approach to configuring Unity Catalog to govern both the data lake and SQL Server in a centralized manner across multiple environments.

Sun jang

17 May 2024 · 4 min read

Unveiling the Power of Logic Apps in Azure: Standard vs. Consumption Models

Unveiling the Power of Logic Apps in Azure: Standard vs. Consumption Models

Greetings, Azure Enthusiasts! 🚀 In the recent project, we had to make the choice between Standard and Consumption Logic Apps in Azure which can significantly impact the efficiency and scalability of

Mark Myers

3 May 2024 · 2 min read

Development and the Epic struggle against (Date)Time.

Development and the Epic struggle against (Date)Time.

When it comes to application development time, and by extension, dates are inevitable. We store them everywhere and for everything: user's date of birth, last updated date, product

Marc Kleinschmidt

15 Mar 2024 · 5 min read

Protecting data at rest: Encrypting an RDS Instance

Protecting data at rest: Encrypting an RDS Instance

Introduction Using the KMS (Key Management Service) in AWS you can encrypt your data at rest on your RDS instance. In today's IT world with an ever-growing need

Ethan Fank

8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read

Self-Hosted CI/CD Runners: Choosing Between Ephemeral and Permanent Architectures

Self-Hosted CI/CD Runners: Choosing Between Ephemeral and Permanent Architectures

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) has revolutionized software development by enabling automation of the build, test, and deployment process.

Brandon Givens

14 Feb 2024 · 2 min read

Building an AWS Landing Zone: Setting Your Cloud Infrastructure Up for Success

Building an AWS Landing Zone: Setting Your Cloud Infrastructure Up for Success

A robust AWS landing zone segments accounts by function—like Security and DevOps—to enhance security, streamline management, and support precise cost tracking, enabling efficient scaling and adaptation.

Brandon Givens

5 Feb 2024 · 4 min read

Accessing Your Elastic Container Service Tasks on Fargate Using ECSExec

Accessing Your Elastic Container Service Tasks on Fargate Using ECSExec

ECSExec allows you to login to a running Elastic Container Service (ECS) task without the need of opening additional ports or managing separate logins. ECSExec can be used with command

Anthony Miller

31 Jan 2024 · 2 min read

Debugging Windows based App Service Startup in Azure

Debugging Windows based App Service Startup in Azure

Azure Windows based App Services are a fantastic option for hosting native .Net applications in the cloud. In service of the hosted applications, Microsoft provides a number of extremely valuable

Kelly Fisher

3 Jan 2024 · 4 min read

How to setup Docker on M-series Mac to run x86_64 images

Newer MacOS laptops have M-series processors which are arm64, not x86/64 like their Intel predecessors. Some docker images do not have an arm64 image yet released to public registries

Russell Parks

8 Dec 2023 · 1 min read