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Azure Spring Clean - Application Insights - Inside Out

Hey folks, Welcome to #AzureSpringClean, an initiative from Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton which celebrates its 4th edition this year. I’m thrilled to be part of this again for the 3nd time this year. My first article had security in mind, explaining the difference between Azure Service Principals and Managed Identity. My 2nd article focused on understand DevSecOps, and how you can optimize security in your application deployment lifecycle, by “shifting left”.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Thursday, March 6, 2025

Book Review - Azure Cookbook

In this post, I want to share my review of my next technical book I read recently, Azure Cookbook this time from Massimo Bonammi and Marco Obinu published by BPB Online and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms. I have the joy of calling both fine Italian gentlemen my friends and colleagues for a few years already. I bumped into Marco around 2017 when I was delivering an Azure Architect workshop for his employer.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Thursday, December 26, 2024

Introduction to Semantic Kernel

Introduction to Developing Azure AI Solutions In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone for innovation. Azure AI offers a robust suite of tools and services that empower developers to build intelligent applications. From natural language processing (NLP) to computer vision, Azure AI provides the building blocks to create solutions that can understand, interpret, and respond to human inputs in a meaningful way. While Microsoft has several Copilot offerings for different use cases, ranging from an AI assistant in Azure, Copilot in M365 or web and mobile, there are still valid use cases for developing your own custom Copilot.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, September 15, 2024

Building your first Blazor .NET8 app - MSTS Summit

Introduction I got invited to present on Blazor .NET8 as part of the [https://mstechsummit.pl/en/](MS Tech Summit Poland (MSTS Summit)), for which I’m very excited and honored. For most of my public speaking engagements, I try to focus on live demos, with only a minimum amount of slides, and this session is no different. To help my audience in reproducing the demos in their own time, I decided to write out the steps.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Thursday, May 30, 2024

ScifiDevCon 2024 : Building a Marvel Hero App using Blazor and .NET8

Building a Marvel Hero catalog app using Blazor Server and .NET8 Introduction At the end of 2022, as part of the Festive Tech Calendar community initiative, I provided a step-by-step instruction blog on how to build a Blazor Web Assembly app from scratch, using .NET7. About 18 months later, a lot of things have changed in the .NET8 world, which also impacted positively new features around the Blazor Web App Framework, on both Web Assembly (Client/Browser) and Server side.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, May 18, 2024

Festive Tech Calendar - Azure AI - OCR on Steroids

Hugo Azure Static Storage Sites Welcome to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar!! Hi everyone, welcome to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar once more. This will be the fourth year, and I still love the concept of bringing some (Azure) joy to you/your family this season. If you ask me what the biggest news in tech was this year, especially within the Microsoft ecosystem, it’s Azure AI. Shouldn’t be surprising to most of you who know me and my role within Microsoft as Technical Trainer - providing Azure workshops every week to our top customers and partners across the globe - we also integrated (A lot :)) of AI focus early in the year.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, December 23, 2023

Packt Book Review - Azure Architecture Explained

In this post, I want to share my review of another Azure book I read recently, Azure Architecture Explained this time from Brett Hargreaves and David Rendon published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms. Apart from the great content, it was nice to see one of my own Microsoft Technical Trainer Team colleagues, Sarah Kong, providing the foreword. About the book (from the cover) This book provides you with a clear path to designing optimal cloud-based solutions in Azure, by delving into the platform’s intricacies.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, December 10, 2023

Packt Book Review - Azure for Business Decision Makers

In this post, I want to share my review of another Azure book I read recently, Azure for Decision Makers this time from Jack Lee, Jason Milgram and David Rendon published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms. About the book Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Sunday, October 22, 2023

Trigger a YAML Pipeline from a Classic Release Pipeline in Azure DevOps

Hi y’all! Over the last 18 months, I’ve been developing a tool for our internal Microsoft Trainer team, allowing them to deploy trainer demo scenarios in Azure using a Blazor Front-End web app, connecting to Azure DevOps pipelines using REST API calls. At the start of the project, Classic Release pipelines were still common, since YAML was too new, and rather unknown. However, over the last few months, more and more I was thinking of shifting from Classic to YAML Pipelines.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, September 30, 2023

Azure Back to School - Achieving SRE on Azure

Disclaimer: this was supposed to be a recorded session for Azure Back To School 2023, but due to a too-busy-work-and-family-schedule over the last 2 weeks, I didn’t find the time anymore. While I don’t like to let down this amazing community, I hope the textual descriptions of what I was going to talk about is still appreciated. Achieving Site Reliability Engineering with Azure In today’s digitally driven landscape, ensuring the reliability of cloud-based applications and services is paramount.

Posted by Azure Readiness starts here... Saturday, September 9, 2023