Did you had a chance to attend this awesome event last year? If yes, then please let me know on LinkedIn chat what is/was your favorite topics or session.
All right, hope you all will enjoy the #MSBuild and share your experience ❤
Well, I don’t want to speculate on that but, everything is possible with your help 👍👍👍
Yes, YOU – my dearest readers and supporters 💪 of #cloudmarathoner movement!!!
Thank you for all you do 🙌🙌🙌
What is a FeedSpot blog site?
This site has a very selective editorial team and does a very hard job of on objectively deciding which blogs deserve the top spot for the readers.
I was informed that the FeedSpot editorial team extensively searches on Google and social media websites to find the best Microsoft Azure blogs and ranks them based on several factors such as:
Blog content quality
Post consistency
Age of the blog
Average number of shares on social sites of the blog posts
I had a great joy while interacting with a number of attendees. Thank You for checking this blog and please feel free to reach out back with your questions.
As you might know, the Azure Bicep language brings a new Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) approach to manage your Azure resources in a clean way. We also have a classic ARM JSON template that is/was traditionally used to define Azure infrastructure resources in a declarative way.
However, it is not easy to author and maintain ARM JSON templates when your project grows in complexity.
A demo screenshot from the session
But, I have good news for you – Microsoft infrastructure team has been working on new language to ease this process. Thus, an Azure Bicep language is created to simplify management of your infrastructure while re-using the code.
In this, I have introduced new features and capabilities of Azure Bicep v0.5 & v0.6 language. You also see demos on how it is simple to create, manage a modularized Azure infrastructure-as-code, while using familiar tools and extensions on VS Code.
A screenshot from the slides
If you missed this session, no worries, you are covered, as this session was recorded. It is freely availiable on the #cloudmarathoner 🖐 ⏩ YouTube channel here.
The slides and as well as links to the recommended resources are posted on my 🖐 🍴 GitHub repo here.
Please, feel free to check up this GitHub repo, share & fork it as you like 👍
Two weeks ago, I have earned and shared a Microsoft Advertising badge. I got several request to provide information about the training material and my expereince with the exam.
What is the digital advertising?
Well, if you are you new to digital advertising, then these Microsoft courses will provide you an introduction to the digital marketing industry. You could start learning the foundations and then looking at search, shopping, and display advertising.
Earn the Badge
By complete the 4 courses in the Learning Path (in any order) you could earn a digital Badge. As you know, it can be shared and verified on LinkedIn or other social media platforms to demonstrate your new knowledge.
Keep in mind that each chapter has assessment questions
Finally, review all the material and get ready to pass the final assessment
In this session, I focused on a number of changes in Microsoft Azure Architect exam, as it might be troublesome to get ready for it with all the digital distractions around us.
However, in this lightning talk, I shared bits and tips on how to focus on the AZ-305 Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam objectives and help you to prepare for a big day.
A screenshot from the participants comments
As part of this presentation, I have shared free, official and community learning resources that will boost your knowledge, and hopefully help you pass this important exam with confidence.
A screenshot of an official practice exam reference
If you missed this session, no worries, you are covered, as this session was recorded. It is freely availiable on the #cloudmarathoner ⏯ 🖐 YouTube channel here.
The slides and as well as links to the recommended resources are posted on my 🖐 👨💻 GitHub repo here.
Please, feel free to check up this GitHub repo, share & fork it as you like 👍
Few days ago, I was really honored to receive an invitation to speak at a great “Career Panel” Q&A event from Robin Smorenburg and Kevin Evans. This event was the first organized event of Streaming Clouds.
Oh boy, it was such an interesting and honest discussion where myself and other guests honestly shared experiences and struggles, while addressing questions from the live audience.
Cloud careers with Streaming Clouds
This panel focused on addressing the following hot question: – How to break into a cloud career or how to get your career journey to the next stage?
This event covered the certifications and how to gain hands-on experience, community and personal branding, and mentorship.
Dear friends, this event was recorded and available for re-watch at the following LinkedIn url.
High availability (HA) is an important quality measure of computing infrastructure that is mission-critical for the customer facing applications and overall organization’s systems. High availability permits the computing infrastructure to continue functioning, even when certain components fail.
Thus, cloud solution providers (CSPs) are expected to deliver certain measures and guarantees to claim the high availability of the offered services.
The diagram below, equates Service Level Agreement (SLA) percentual to actual downtime, measured in seconds per week, month and year.
How to achieve High Availability in Azure?
Azure infrastructure is composed of geographies, regions, and availability zones which in turn limits the impact of a physical server or Sofware update failure and therefore limit potential impact to customer applications and data.
The Azure availability zones construct was developed to provide a software and networking solution to protect against datacenter failures and to provide increased high availability (HA) to the Azure customers.
Availability zones are playing very important role in designing your HA solution to meet customer needs. Please, read more about the Azure Regions and availability zones here.
Part 12: Design for high availability
The references below are taken from official Microsoft docs and focused on designing HA solutions in Azure. You could also find it helpful to check the Microsoft docs and learning paths with [Tutorials] below 😉.
This collection of links is gathered with a focus on the exam objectives of the AZ-305 certification exam.
Welcome to the 11th blog post (Part 11/12) of the Azure Architect series to help you get ready for the AZ-305 exam. This post starts the last section of this exam – Design Business Continuity Solutions.
And please feel free to check the previous sections & blog posts listed below if you landed on this page for the first time 🙂
Table of content (blog series)
*** Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions ***
Simply put, a Business Continuity (aka, BC) solution is based on a plan 🙂 A BC plan is a predefined approach and procedure for how a business will continue to run when dealing with an emergency.
In another words, it is a process of creating systems of prevention and recovery to deal with any potential threats to your company. These threats could be a natural disasters, such as hurricanes, fires, floods, power outages or an unintended misconfiguration of a system. It could also be a malicious cyberattack as well.
There are many benefits provided by BC planning and Disaster Recovering (aka, DR) planning to your organization when they are drafted and approved across the board, such as:
Improved decision-making
Risk Management
People and Property Protection
Morale boost 🙂
The “Morale boost” element is very important piece, because when employees know plans are in place, they may feel safer. Moreover, it does not just boost morale, but potentially increases the business value perception to customers who recognize the high preparedness and responsibilities of the company.
What are the Backups and Disaster Recovery solutions in Azure?
In the case of service disruption or accidental deletion or corruption of data, recover your business services in a timely and orchestrated manner. The Azure backup and disaster recovery solution is simple to architect, cloud-native, highly available, and resilient.
Backup and Disaster Recovery in azure
Azure Backup and Disaster Recovery (DR) services are important services that help you to achieve your company’s reliability goals for all of the system workloads in the cloud or on-premises. It is very important when CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) prioritizes transparency and keep it’s customers informed during and after the service issues.
You could easily target following goals when planning to deliver your Backup and DR services to your most critical customers:
Simplified Management across environments
Azure built-in security controls
Reduced complexity and cost
Extent solutions to Azure with our partners
Part 11: Design a business continuity solution
The references below are taken from official Microsoft docs and focused on designing solutions in Azure. You could also find it helpful to check the Microsoft docs and learning paths with [Tutorials] below 😉.
This collection of links is gathered with a focus on the exam objectives of the AZ-305 certification exam.
Welcome to the 10th blog post (Part 10/12) of the Azure Architect series to help you get ready for the AZ-305 exam. This post finalizes the third section of this exam – Design Data Storage Solutions.
Our next post will be discussing the last section of this exam – Design Business Continuity Solutions.
And please feel free to check the previous blog posts listed below if you landed on this page for the first time 🙂
Table of content (blog series)
*** Design Identity, Governance, and Monitoring Solutions ***
It is very natural to wonder – “what is the meaning of data integration”? In a nutshell, it is a combination of differently sourced data for a high-level overview and analysis. In other words, “Data Integration” – is a common term referring to the requirement to combine data from multiple separate business systems into a single unified view, also known as a single view of the truth.
This unified view is typically stored in a central data repository known as a data warehouse.
Data integration can serve your organization some short- and long-term benefits, including the followings:
✔️ Better Data ✔️ Better Collaboration ✔️ Fast connections between Data Storage ✔️ Increased efficiency and ROI ✔️ Better customer and partner experiences ✔️ A more comprehensive view of your business
What are the Data Integration solutions in Microsoft Azure?
Application integration often requires connecting multiple independent systems, often in complex ways. This white paper explains how the components of Azure Integration Services—API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus, and Event Grid—work together to provide a complete solution for integrating both cloud and on-premises applications.
There are several Azure services such as Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Logic Apps are just a few of the services that can help you efficiently solve complex data challenges.
Check out the Overview of Data Integration in Azure from this official resource.
Part 10: Design a data integration solution
The references below are taken from official Microsoft docs and focused on designing Data Integration solutions in Azure. You could also find it helpful to check the Microsoft docs and learning paths with [Tutorials] below 😉.
This collection of links is gathered with a focus on the exam objectives of the AZ-305 certification exam.
A relational data is a set of data that have a certain pre-defined structure. Once this data structure (aka, data schema) is enforced on data then we can start talking about a relational database.
Thus, a relational database (DB) is a collection of data items with some pre-defined relationships. These data items are organized as a set of tables with columns and rows. The tables are used to hold a similar type of information object to be represented in the database.
WHAT is relational data storage in azure?
In Microsoft Azure, relational data could be stored in different forms and shapes. The early approach of storing and running relational databases has been accomplished through Virtual Machine (VM) instances. However, this approach brought a certain operational overhead and required specialized skills within the team to manage those VMs properly.
Nowadays, we could run the relational databases as a managed service (aka, PAAS) in the cloud. In other words, Microsoft Azure helped to offload operational overhead associated with the management of VMs that are assigned to run your database services. All this became possible by the introduction of managed relational Azure Database services like SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MariaDB.
In this study guide, you will learn about these managed, relational DB services in depth.
Part 9: Design a data storage solution for relational data
The references below are taken from official Microsoft docs and focused on designing Data Storage solutions for Relational data in Azure. You could also find it helpful to check the Microsoft docs and learning paths with [Tutorials] below 😉.
This collection of links is gathered with a focus on the exam objectives of the AZ-305 certification exam.
