Randy Walker

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Spec-Driven Development Needed a Rewrite
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Spec-Driven Development Needed a Rewrite

Last post I talked about finding out that what I’ve been doing has a name. Spec-driven development. Heeki Park’s article, Birgitta Böckeler’s taxonomy, the whole thing. It was validating. It was exciting. It was also, after about forty-eight hours of...

04 Mar 2026 By Randy Walker
Apparently What I've Been Doing Has a Name
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Apparently What I've Been Doing Has a Name

Spec-driven development. Who knew that was a thing?

03 Mar 2026 By Randy Walker
So I Started a Company. Cool Cool Cool.
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So I Started a Company. Cool Cool Cool.

Here we go. Again.

02 Mar 2026 By Randy Walker
When the Recruiter Becomes the Bottleneck
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When the Recruiter Becomes the Bottleneck

I’ve been in technology leadership for over two decades. I’ve managed multi-million dollar budgets, led enterprise cloud transformations, built teams from scratch, and navigated the kind of organizational complexity that would make most people’s heads spin. But nothing in my...

27 Feb 2026 By Randy Walker
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cloudxplorer-discount

For years working with blobs in Azure storage, my go to favorite tool has been Clumsyleaf’s CloudXplorer.

16 Feb 2018 By Randy Walker
Blogging Again
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Blogging Again

Every now and then I keep promising myself I’m going to start blogging again. So here’s yet another attempt.

15 Feb 2018 By Randy Walker
VSTS with code signed PFX certificates
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VSTS with code signed PFX certificates

While using VSTS, one of the most common questions is how to code sign your application.  It’s extremely problematic, because there’s no easy way to import a PFX with a password.

26 Apr 2017 By Randy Walker
Performance Tuning in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
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Performance Tuning in Azure SQL Data Warehouse

(This was originally posted on 01/09/2016 on another site and has been moved here)

14 Mar 2017 By Randy Walker