It was 8:30 in the morning, just 5 hours before our flight for a 3-week family vacation. My wife told me that she’s having some stomach pain. One hour later, we found ourselves rushing to the hospi...

Someone recently asked me an interesting question, “Rafferty, doesn’t your role as an architect conflict with your role as an agile coach?” “Tell me more,” I asked. “In agile, the architecture cha...

Yesterday, I posted about how I am building a Second Brain using Obsidian. In this post, I am sharing how I created an automated workflow that converts handwritten notes into markdown (*.md) and sa...

In my attempt to take better notes as I learn multiple things in parallel, I encountered this concept called Second Brain. Do watch the video or read other articles about what it is. This post is ...

As I see more and more offices install a content camera for their Microsoft Teams Rooms, I’ve always wondered if it will work on paper using the standard MS Teams desktop client, to use this featur...

Last month, I wrote about how work items in Azure DevOps can be automatically created as you receive alerts from Azure (Microsoft Sentinel Alerts and Incidents & Microsoft Defender for Cloud Al...

In my previous post, I shared that skills toward effective remote collaboration are critical in the new normal workplace. In this post, I will share the timeless attitudes that matter now more than...

Last week, I was invited to speak to Grade 12 students in my alma mater about the Attitudes and Skills in the New Normal Workplace. It is inspiring to see high school students with good ideas on wh...

A few weeks back, a customer asked us for a way to effectively track the alerts that they get from Microsoft Sentinel and Defender for Cloud and ensure resolution. For organisations with an ITIL pr...

I started blogging around the year 2017. My main inspiration was this post. The primary motivation was to document learnings for others and my own reference. One of the features that I like about b...