It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January 2024 meet up and we had yet another two amazing speakers join us. We were joined by Nikos Delis to discuss the Azure Service Bus and then we took a look at the AZ-305 Azure Architect Exam updates with Elkhan Yusubov. Huge thank …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December 2021 meet up and we had another set of fantastic people join us to talk around some brilliant areas. Olivier Bloch showed us how IoT has been Simplified, then Mike Pfieffer came to talk us through how to Take Control of your career. …
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Hey everyone, I just thought I would piece together a quick and simple way to add some automation to your social media presence using Logic Apps to post social media posts on a schedule from an RSS feed. As I work primarily in the world of Microsoft Azure, I thought I would use the Azure …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG November 2021 meet up and we had another two amazing speakers join us in Mark Allan to discuss Real World Azure Static Web Apps, and then David O-Brien showing us all around Building a Cloud Security SaaS Startup on Azure. AGENDA 6.30pm - Welcome …
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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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Hey all, so in this article I am going to take a look at the new Ingestion Client for Azure Speech that was recently Introduced by the Azure Cognitive Services team at Microsoft. This new announcement enables developers to ingest audio files and get them transcribed by the Azure Speech Infrastructure. This article will take …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG May meet up and we had 2 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk which took us on a Virtual Tour of Azure Data Centres! (Unfortunately due to the sensitive nature of the imagery we were unable to record the DC …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG April meet up and we had 3 Amazing Lighting Talks as well as a feature Length talk all about IoT Robot Arms and Azure! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm - Anirban Ganguly – Kubernetes it's not that hard7.00pm - Vukašin Terzić – Creating …
So we hear a lot about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning built into devices and applications. In this blog article I will walk through a simple example of how to utilise the CustomVision.ai website to create and train an AI model to recognise objects. This website is part of the Microsoft Cognitive Services features and …
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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG March Lightning Talks meet up and we had seven, yes seven amazing Community speakers join us for a plethora of talks in and around Azure! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and House Keeping6.45pm - Martyn Coupland - DevSecOps on Microsoft Azure7.00pm - Mert Yeter - Visual …
It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG February meet up and we had two amazing in Johhn Savill and Scott Hanselman on to discuss Resiliancy in Azure and transitioning a legacy blog and web site into Azure using Containers and App Service Plans! AGENDA6.00pm - Welcome!6.15pm - Moving a …
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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It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG January meet up and we had two stellar speakers in Christos Matskas and Graham Martin on to discuss Identity for Developers as well as Azure Synapse and Purview. AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome!6.45pm - Introduction to Identity for developers Christos Matskas – Senior PM …
Ok so again just a quick post here to really outline how fantastically happy I am to have been able to pass the AZ-204 Developing Solutions with Microsoft Azure Associate Exam. As part of my studies I used a number of resources to help me prepare, but the best things I utilised were to jump …
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Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow!!! Another superb event from awesome WAUG Organisers to Awesome Speakers to Awesome Attendees!!! It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG December A Very Merry DevOps Virtual Meetup and what a line up we had! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome!6.45pm - Real World DevOps - Abel Wang …
In keeping with the containers theme I thought I would look into running through a few tutorials on how to deploy into a Web App Service a containerised Web Application. The following tutorial takes you from creating a containerised image with Docker and storing these in Azure Container Registry. From here we will configure Azure …
A brief article today to have a quick run through of what Azure Service Bus is and why would you want to use it in your application. Microsoft Azure Service Bus is fundamentally a fully managed integration message broker. This service can aid in the configuration and creation of loosely coupled applications and services. This …
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Logic Apps can of course be created directly in the Azure Portal, but I thought I would get my VS Code environment set up with the necessary plugins and configuration after seeing some cool demo's at the recent Welsh Azure User Group. I am keen to get as much configuration capability worked out and understood …
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In this blog post I will be utilising Visual Studio Code (VSCode) to create a Python function that responds to HTTP requests. I will aim to test the code locally and then deploy it into the Serverless environment of Azure Functions. This run through will cost a small amount in an Azure Subscription, so please …
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Not strictly today, it was more last night! But its definitely the focus of my Day 67 of Cloud!!! It was the day of our Welsh Azure User Group #WAUG November Virtual Meetup and what a line up we had! AGENDA6.30pm - Welcome and Intro6.45pm - Admiral BCP and the part WVD played …
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In my previous post I outlined the 13 Learning Pathways on MS Learn that were aimed toward the PL-200 Power Platform Functional Consultant Exam which is currently in Beta. For me this is a curve ball of an opportunity to look into the Power Platform a little more. It is really interesting to see the …
OK so drifting slightly of the Azure tangent for a couple of posts this week, and this reason is really around the impending PL-200 that I have very hastily booked and thought would be a good idea! Ok so I'm not filled with confidence on being able to pass it, but Ill give the learning …
Ok so I simply ran out of time yesterday to update my blog! So here we go! Lots of exciting news around our Welsh Azure User Group! (https://www.twitter.com/welshazure) I know this isn't strictly relating to technology learnings, but the act of helping to organise a User Group is one that is both fun and exciting …
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Ok so today saw the climax of an intensive few days of Azure DevOps learning via the medium of an Open Hack. It's my very first Open Hack but I really hope it won't be my last. Such a fantastic format for learning and developing of understandings with hands on tasks and challenges where you …
Cloud Computing with a side of Chipz 