Registration for the new season of Black Marble events have just been opened. If you can make it to Yorkshire why not come to an event (or two) Azure DevOps: So VSTS has Changed - 24 Oct 2018 Next Generation Business Productivity with Office 365 and Teams - 25 Oct 2018 Moving your Development Process to the Cloud with Azure DevOps - 14 Nov 2018 Modernising Enterprise Information Architecture - 21 Nov 2018 Next Generation Business Productivity with Office 365 and Teams - 05 Dec 2018 Architecture Forum in the North – 11 - 12 Dec 2018 Moving your Development Process to the Cloud with Azure DevOps -16 Jan 2019 If you are stuck in the grim south, why not look out for us at Future Decoded in London at the end of the month

Whilst I was off work last week TFS 2018 Update 3 was released. As stated in the 2018.3 release notes this is the final bug fix update release of TFS 2018. The next major release of TFS will not be named TFS 2019 as you might have expected, but will use the new name of Azure DevOps Server. You can see the features planned for this next release in the Azure DevOps Features Timeline

The Azure DevOps (VSTS) team have published the promised postmortem on the outage on the 4th of September. It gives good detail on what actually happened to the South Central Azure Datacenter and how it effected VSTS (as it was then called). More interestingly it provides a discussion of mitigations they plan to put in place to stop a single datacentre failure having such a serious effect in the future. Great openness as always from the team

Today Microsoft made a big announcement, VSTS is now Azure DevOps. The big change is they have split VSTS into 5 services you can use together or independently, including Azure Pipelines for CI/CD - free for open source and available in the GitHub CI marketplace. An important thing to note is that IT IS NOT JUST FOR AZURE. Don’t be afraid of the name. There a wide range of connectors to other cloud providers such as AWS and Google Cloud, as will as many other DevOps tools Learn more at have a look at the official post

The Problem The documentation for the VSTS WIKI suggests you can embed a video in a VSTS WIKI using the markdown/HTML``` Problem is that this does not seem to work, the MP4 just does not appear, you get an empty video player. However, if you swap to a full URL it does work e.g. ### The Workaround The workaround is to either place the MP4 file in some URL accessible location e....