n 23rd September 2025, the Welsh Azure User Group marked a major milestone—its 5th anniversary—with a vibrant virtual meetup that blended community spirit, technical innovation, and a healthy dose of nostalgia. Hosted by long-time organisers John Lunn and Matthew Fortunka, the event brought together Azure enthusiasts from across the UK to reflect on the journey …
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Imagine a software company with a product loved by many, but built on aging technology held together by patches and prayers. Every new customer demo comes with silent dread: Will the system hold up this time? I’ve met countless ISVs in this exact predicament. They are battling a legacy tech-debt dragon that threatens to scare off customers. Outages, security scares, and …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by yet another two awesome presenters. First up we had Deiter Gobeyn with a great talk around Triaging Email with Azure AI Language Services and Logic Apps. …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG August 2023 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. First up we had Johnny Hooyberghs on to discuss Azure Quantum and Q#, then we were joined by Leo Visser to talk Running PowerShell with Azure Deployment Scripts. Huge thank …
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In this YouTube Series where I am joined by a guest to get 'Schooled In' a particular Technical Topic. I am really pleased to announce that in this third episode I am joined by Microsoft Product Manager Gahl Levy, where he talks to me about Azure Cosmos DB and the enhancements with the Mongo DB …
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In this YouTube Series where I am joined by a guest to get 'Schooled In' a particular Technical Topic. I am really pleased to announce that in this third episode I am joined by Microsoft Azure Software Developer Keith Atherton, where he talks to me about Unity! https://youtu.be/bXHQ7TvU5JM Twitter: https://twitter.com/MrKeithAtherton I hope you enjoy this …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March 2022 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us with Elkhan Yusubov to discuss how to Set up Bicep for success with Azure. Then we had our very own Matthew Fortunka talking us through building WebApps with Blazor and …
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined Oh My Posh Creative Genius Jan De Dobbeleer. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released multiplatform on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) Jonnychipz Twitch (www.twitch.tv/jonnychipz) my Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube simultaneously and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 7.00pm (GMT) …
So over the past few weeks I have been working behind the scenes with a fantastic group of community folk and Microsoft for a Tech Days Event. The point is in order to realise an end to end IoT solution based on sending flight data from a small ESP32 microcontroller device running nanoFramework C# .Net …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Digital Analyst and self confessed #PowerAddict May Alharji (aka Agent 008). This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 30th July 2021 In …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Microsoft Cloud Solutions Architect Mike Martin. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday 23rd July 2021 In this episode, we look at …
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Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he is joined by Airline Pilot, .NET / Maui Dev, MVP and all around IoT expert Mr Clifford Agius. This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (BST) on Friday …
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On my quest to learn more about Azure's native Artificial Intelligence capabilities I am aiming to have a run through of each component and look to see how each can be utilised. Azure Content Moderator is a Machine Assisted set of content moderating API's as well as a human readable review tool that you can …
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Week 17 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 23.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the Azure Updates of the week, talk about the up and …
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Week 16 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 16.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I delve into the 30+ Azure Updates of the week, talk about the success …
Week 15 of my Jonnychipz weekly VLOG, covering the Last Week of Azure News and Updates, Welsh Azure User Group News and some great Community Callouts. Live at 12.30pm GMT 09.04.21. on my YouTube channel (Click the link below!) This week I talk about the continuation of my AIoT Studies with Object Detection models and …
Join John Lunn aka Jonnychipz as he chats with Software Architect / Azure MVP. Traefik Ambassador and Community Leader..... Mr Mert Yeter This episode of Jonnychipz In Conversation with' will be released on Azureish Live (www.twitch.tv/azureishlive) and its a great episode that you can't miss! Join us at 6.30pm (GMT) on Friday 12th March 2021 …
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This Blog post and associated YouTube Video follows on from my previous posts where I build a Blazor WASM application and push this as a container into Azure Container Registry: This Blog post extends the above two posts by doing the following things: Utilises the docker-compose.yaml file to build and publish the Blazor WASM Application …
Following on from my previous post around creating a Blazor WASM Container Image of my application which you can access below..... this blog article will focus on the next step of my process which is to take my container image created and push this into an Azure Container Registry: You can follow along with this …
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Huge thanks to Mike Pfeiffer for inviting me onto the Cloudskills.fm podcast to discuss my Cloud Journey, you can check it our here: ✅ https://cloudskills.fm/104 Also, be sure to check out CloudSkills.io for awesome Cloud Training Content!
So in my quest to provision and play with IoT devices I came across a little demo that could utilise location information and for that we would require access to a Geospatial API. I thought I would put this simple step up as a blog as I didn't realise at the time that Microsoft Azure …
Hey everyone, thanks for clicking on this link, I tried to go for the longest title I could! But stay with me on this one! There is a lot to take in! I really should have blogged about this in smaller batches as progressed, but I didn't so this is going to be a bumper …
John is joined by DevOps consultant Liam Gulliver in this episode of 'In Conversation with...' where discussions around the perception of DevOps as well as navigating around the plethora of technologies to choose form in the dev and ops worlds! We cover a huge amount of ground in this talk but all centred around helping …
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Happy New Year everyone! With a New Year comes a New Initiative..... I am going to launch a Weekly Round Up VLOG with this being the first! Hopefully I will find the time and consistency to keep pushing forward with the VLOG and hope it will overtime move into a useful Video Series related to …
In keeping with the Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge, I signed up to the 'Glasgow Ladies of Code' user groups CSC. As a father I have two young daughters and for me, to follow in their dads footsteps with a focus on STEM would be fantastic, and the brilliant work being done to advocate more women …
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