Welsh Azure User Group December 2021 Meet Up! – A Festive Feast for the Soul

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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Welsh Azure User Group November 2021 Meet Up!

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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Transcribing Audio? Let’s take a quick look at the Ingestion Client for Azure Speech

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 …

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Welsh Azure User Group May Meet Up!

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 …

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Welsh Azure User Group April Meet Up!

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 …

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Welsh Azure User Group March Meet Up!

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 …

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Welsh Azure User Group February Meet Up!

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 …

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Jonnychipz – In Conversation with Liam Gulliver

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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Welsh Azure User Group January Meet Up!

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 …

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Day[86/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Welsh Azure User Group December Meet Up! (A Very Merry DevOps with Abel and April!)

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 …

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Creating my First Python Azure Function using VSCode

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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Day[67/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Welsh Azure User Group November Meet Up!

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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Day[43/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Create Serverless Applications in Azure

On my quest to study for the AZ-204 Azure Developer Associate I have been studying through the Microsoft Learn Path: Create serverless applications The Learning Path is packed with hands on labs and learning material covering the ins and outs of the Azure Funciton. It is split into 10 modules as follows and has an …

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Day[41/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Azure Durable Functions

In keeping with the Azure Serverless theme that I am on at the moment, I took the time today to explore the concept of Durable Functions. So What is a Durable Function? In summary an Azure Durable function is an extension to Azure Functions that enables Long lasting stateful operations in Azure. Typically, Azure Functions …

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Day[28/100] #100DaysOfCloud – Jonnychipz – Automating Business Processes with Azure

Over the last few months I have becoming a little bit more familiar with the term 'Serverless' and what it means in the context of automating business processes in Azure and what features and products are available to help with these kinds of tasks. With the fantastic wealth of information provided by Microsoft Learn I …

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