As I mentioned in a previous post, we are in a festive December month with a great event! The Festive Tech Calendar is in a full swing and presents new sessions to everyone, every day.
If you missed my live session, No problem. I have recorded it and you can re-watch it 🙂
Check this session below, if you want to learn important things on how to configure your Azure Bicep environment and use Azure security resources with them!
Last week, we had an engaging session on Cloud Lunch and Learn meetup about exploring Azure Stack HCI and Azure Arc with Thomas Bründl .
Azure Stack and azure arc
In this post, I will reflect upon some major points in this session that covers:
Azure in Hybrid & Multi-Cloud Scenarios
Managing existing infrastructure on-premises in Azure
Getting you familiar with using hybrid Azure services with focus on Azure Arc and Stack HCI
What was covered?
Our guest speaker covered the following topics in his presentation:
Evolving services in Azure Infrastructure
Azure Arc
Azure Stack HCI
Azure Arc Jumpstart
References to how to get started with Azure Stack HCI and connectivity
Summary
At the end of the session, we had an interactive Q&A (Questions and Answers). Please check the recording and reference links as the recording is uploaded to the Cloud MarathonerYT channel.
Thank you for stopping by and checking this session!
I hope you are all excited about the upcoming special, a month-long event. The Festive Tech Calendar 2022 Session details are coming soon!
This year, organizers are aiming for something a bit different and more joyful. It will be a joyful learning experience throughout the month of December as the event will bring you much new content from different speakers and communities around the globe.
We are presenting
Awesome news came from the Festive Tech Calendar, as I am presenting this year too, with the recent content on Azure Bicep configuration details.
Thank you, organizers, I will be doing a session with a holiday theme to help our community members with configuring the Azure Bicep development environment.
We are a vibrant worldwide community with a passion to learn and grow our career with Cloud technologies! We are also a growing community who are dedicated to giving back and sharing with #community as well!
We are more than 1040+ members strong and continue to grow while supporting the community members with online, #free content on a variety of cloud technologies.
I would like to thank everyone who has followed and #shared the #CloudMarathoner posts and announcements.
As you already know, this is the beginning of something “GREAT” that we need to carry on by spreading the goodness and power of #knowledge that empowers people.
Summary
Thank you for stopping by and checking the announcement and celebrating this “HUGE” milestone with us. Please, check our architecture, cloud infrastructure as code, and overall, Azure videos in the #CloudMarathone YouTube channel.
Yesterday, we had an engaging session on Cloud Lunch and Learn meetup about Azure Architecture, particularly for Modern Analytics Cloud Data Platform with Warner Chaves.
Modern Analytics
In this post, I will reflect upon some major points in this presentation and architecting session.
Our guest speaker covered the following topics in his presentation:
Reference architecture for modern analytics platforms
Data Warehousing
Big Data
Lakehouse
Data Mesh and more in Microsoft Azure
Summary
At the end of the session, we had an interactive Q&A (Questions and Answers). Please check the recording and reference links as the recording is uploaded to the Cloud MarathonerYT channel.
Thank you for stopping by and checking this session!
There is a great announcement from the Microsoft Ignite event that announced the Cloud Skills Challenge will be back this year. YAY !
Cloud Skills Challenge
This is a time bounded event where you choose your tech challenge and earn a Microsoft certification exam by studying the Microsoft technology of your choice.
And this year, there will be 7 challenges available to choose from, select one that’s right for you.
Registration Page
Complete one of the learning challenges below to get a 100% discount (aka #free) on one of the following Microsoft certification exams:
▶ AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions ▶ AZ-400: Designing and Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions ▶ DP-100: Designing and Implementing a Data Science Solution on Azure ▶ MB-240: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Field Service Functional Consultant ▶ MS-700: Managing Microsoft Teams ▶ MS-720: Microsoft Teams Voice Engineer ▶ PL-100: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker ▶ SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
This week, I had an opportunity to join a meeting in order to share my experience with military veterans on how to get them ready for the first cloud position interview. We had really awesome participation and a number of questions that benefited all attendees.
Thank you, Douglas for an opportunity to help the transitioning service members and veterans with critical technical and career skills development and tips.
The MSSA provides technical training that enables the service members to leverage their core skills and interests to chart—and start—their career journey in IT.
Summary
It was truly a unique event to help our transitioning service members and veterans and Thank You to everyone who took some time in providing follow-up feedback on the following LinkedIn post.
I am very honored to prepare an Azure Bicep session for the Azure Dominicana meetup group and would like to thank Gregory for extending his invitation.
As you know, the Azure Bicep language brings a new Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) approach to managing your Azure resources in a clean way. In addition, we also have a classic ARM JSON template that is traditionally used to define Azure infrastructure resources in a declarative way. However, it is not easy to author and maintains ARM JSON templates when your project grows in complexity.
That is when Azure Bicep comes into play, to simplify the management of your infrastructure while re-using code. So, please join my session and I will explain to you how to start using Azure Bicep and easily manage your cloud infrastructure.
Azure Dominicana user group
“This Meetup is for all those interested in knowing and learning more about Azure and trying to keep up with the latest trends and new features. Let’s talk together about interesting topics in our language and let’s all grow together in new knowledge and experiences!” – according to the Azure Dominicana meetup page.
Summary
If you are also excited about this session, please register here. I hope to hear from all of you in this session and address the questions that you may have.
Updates
Please, check the meetup homepage as I have been told that the session recording is going to be uploaded soon. Thanks!
Are you ready for the Microsoft Ignite 2022? This is an annual signature event for developer and IT professionals hosted by Microsoft. As usually, there would be many new Microsoft and Azure announcements in this upcoming conference.
How to register for Microsoft Ignite?
The registration for this event is #free. Yes, it is indeed free for digital attendees, and you can do it below:
I hope you will register and book your calendar for this fantastic event, and explore the latest innovations, learn from product experts and partners, level up your skillset, and create connections from around the world.
The Azure Back to School event is still in full swing and I am happy to announce my second session on this great event.
My session #2
This session is focused on new features and capabilities of Azure Bicep’s latest language. But don’t worry if you never used it before as I will have a brief introduction into what it is and where it could help you.
In this demo heavy session, I am planning to demonstrate how it is simple to create, manage a modularized Azure infrastructure-as-code, while using familiar tools.
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