Talk: Windows Azure Web Sites are PaaS 2.0
Last night I had the chance to speak as part of the Some prefer PaaS over IaaS clouds event at the Boston Cloud Services Meetup. Thanks J Singh for inviting me and I enjoyed speaking with many of the...
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Talk: 7 Things Software Testing Professionals Should Know About the Public Cloud
Today I partnered with XBOSoft to present the webinar: 7 Things Software Testing Professionals Should Know About the Public Cloud. This is one of a series of webinars hosted by XBOSoft (@xbosoft) as...
View ArticleTalk: Meet Windows Azure, Your Next Data Center
Today I spoke at VirtG Boston’s annual Deep Dive Day. The title of my talk, Meet Windows Azure, Your Next Data Center, is probably descriptive enough to get the gist of it. My slide deck follows....
View ArticleTalk: Guest Lecture at BU Cloud Computing Class
A couple of nights ago, I gave a guest lecture at Dino Konstantopoulos’ BU MET CS755 Cloud Computing class to a small group whose ability to stay awake and alert until 9:00 PM was impressive. My deck...
View ArticleTalk: Top Azure Features Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know About at Groupe...
Last week I was delighted to speak to the très agréable folks at the Groupe Azure Montréal. My talk was: “Top Azure Features Every ASP.NET Developer Should Know About” and the abstract (in both French...
View ArticleTalk: Pragmatic Azure at Boston Code Camp 21
Today I was delighted to speak at Boston Code Camp 21… Yes, that’s 21 code camps over the past 10+ years put on by the Boston dev community. There is a long list of volunteers , speakers, and sponsors....
View ArticleTalk: Guest Lecture Harvard Cloud Computing Class
Last night I was pleased to speak at Zoran B. Djordjević‘s Cloud Computing class at Harvard Extension (my 4th year). After dazzling the class with my prowess at plugging in my laptop to the projector,...
View ArticleTalk: Failing in the Cloud – A How To Guide – Boston Code Camp 22
Earlier today I had the privilege of speaking at the 22nd Boston Code Camp. My talk was Failing in the Cloud: A How To Guide. Thanks to those who attended (and persevered through the A/V system from...
View ArticleTalk: Automating Automation with Azure Runbooks – Boston Azure
At this past Monday’s Boston Azure meeting, I spoke about using Azure Automation Runbooks to automate your automation. I have a short overview to define the need, then mostly gave demos. Here is the...
View ArticleTalk: Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns – O’Reilly Software Architecture...
I was pleased to speak at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference (#oreillysacon) in Boston today. My talk was Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns: A concise overview of some bad ideas, delivered to...
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Talk: Hidden Azure – Boston Azure – Boston location – 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp
Today I was pleased to present the talk “Hidden Azure” as part of the 2015 Global Azure Bootcamp, the 3rd such annual and globally-coordinated event involving many sites (175?) spread all over the...
View ArticleTalk: Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns – .NET Architecture Group
On May 20 I presented Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns: A concise overview of some bad ideas to the .NET Architecture Group. Here is the deck: 2015-05-20 – Cloud Architecture Anti-Patterns – .NET...
View ArticleTalk: Kolkata Azure – #Azure is a Toolbox
This past Friday afternoon, I spoke to a highly engaged group in an event hosted at the Finomial office in Kolkata, W. Bengal, India. There were two topics: An overview of Azure as a toolbox for dev...
View ArticleTalk: New England Microsoft Developers – The #Azure Toolbox for Developers
On Thursday December 3, 2015 I spoke to an engaged crowed at Andy Novick’s New England Microsoft Developers’ Group. The topic was a high-level look at the Microsoft Azure cloud platform with the...
View ArticleGuest Lecture: Zoran’s Harvard Class – Introduction to the #Azure Cloud Platform
On Friday 04-Dec-2015 I was a guest lecturer at Zoran Djordjevic’s cloud computing class at Harvard. As usual, I battled furiously with the Blackboard recording software as it repeatedly turned itself...
View ArticleTalk: SecureWorld Boston 2016 #SWBOS16- How Adopting the Public Cloud Can...
On 30-Mar-2016, I gave two talks: one at SecureWorld Boston (How Adopting the Public Cloud Can Improve Your Enterprise Security), and another at the ISSA NE breakfast meeting (The Cloud: Headache or...
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Talk: Comparing Azure SQL Database and SQL Server
I spoke tonight at the New England SQL Server Group to a large audience of feisty SQL experts. Thanks for all the tough questions. And thanks to George for backing me up on questions I couldn’t answer....
View ArticleTalk: Azure SQL Database – Not just a cloud version of SQL Server
Earlier today I presented at the Get to know SQL Server 2016 / Business Intelligence / Azure event at 1cc. My talk was “Azure SQL Database: Not just a cloud version of SQL Server” to an inquisitive...
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Talk: IoT has a dark side; #Azure DNS can help; Happy 7th Bday @BostonAzure
Boston Azure is 7 years old! At today’s October Boston Azure meeting, we celebrated turning 7 years old, and had two talks. I presented one talk related to the Dyn DDoS outage from Friday Oct 21, which...
View ArticleTalk: SecureWorld Boston 2017 #SWBOS17- Using Public Cloud Platforms to...
Spoke earlier today at SecureWorld Boston on Using Public Cloud Platforms to Increase Enterprise Security. Deck is below: SecureWorld Boston 2017 – Bill Wilder – Improving Enterprise Security with the...
View ArticleTalk: Spy vs. Spy (SQL Server vs. SQL #Azure SQL DB) at @NorthBTownAzure
Last night I spoke at the North Boston Azure cloud group, where the topic was Azure SQL Database – not just a cloud version of SQL Server. So much of the talk was interactive — a really high-energy...
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Talk: When NOT to use PowerShell with Azure
Today at PowerShell in Action I spoke twice about not going TOO far in your PowerShell when managing Azure resources. The point of the talks wasn’t really that using PowerShell is bad/wrong, more that...
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Talk: Azure Security Toolbox at Boston Azure
Last night’s Boston Azure meeting featured Marija Strazdas from @AlertLogic who spoke about the Shared Security Model for security in the cloud. I also showed in more detail some of the tools that...
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Talk: Logic Apps at Boston Azure
Last night’s Boston Azure meetup featured two talks – No App Left Behind by Kevin Brown of SoftNAS after an opening talk on Logic Apps by me. My slides are below. Serverless Azure – Logic Apps – Boston...
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Talk: Logic Apps & Functions at Granite State SharePoint Users Group
Tonight I was pleased to have the opportunity to demystify Azure Logic Apps & Functions for the Granite State SharePoint Users Group. Here is the slide deck I used to present: Serverless Azure –...
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Talk: A Gentle Intro to Serverless Azure
Tonight I spoke at the North Boston Azure group and covering serverless concepts by looking at Logic Apps, Function Apps, and a couple of powerful/easy features of Web Apps (authentication via...
View ArticleTalk: SQL Saturday Boston – Azure SQL DB, not just a hosted version of SQL...
This past weekend I participated in SQL Saturday BI Boston in Burlington, MA. I spoke about Azure SQL Database, explaining why Azure SQL Database is much more than just a hosted version of SQL Server....
View ArticleTalk: SharePoint Saturday Burlington – Gentle Introduction to Azure
We first looked at how we might solve a random StackOverflow question using Azure Logic Apps, Azure Function Apps, the nifty PhantomJsCloud.com service, and a look at how a little Cognitive Service...
View ArticleTalk: SQL Saturday 694 – Azure SQL Database – not just a cloud version of SQL...
Spoke today to a small crowd of hardy soles who braved the snow to make it to SQL Saturday 694 – Providence – held at nearby Bryant University in Smithfield. My slides are included below. Azure SQL DB...
View ArticleTalk: Running Securely On Azure
On Tuesday evening 27-Mar-2018 I had the pleasure of speaking to the Nashville Azure group about keeping workloads safe in the Azure cloud. Was a great group with a lot of interesting questions and...
View ArticleTalk: Running Securely On Azure – 29th Boston Code Camp
At the 29th Boston Code Camp, I spoke about Running Securely on Azure. Thanks to all of you who waited patiently for the A/V hookup challenges to be overcome. Slides are here:...
View ArticleTalk: Running Azure Securely — PART I — Boston Azure 18-Oct-2018
At most recent Boston Azure meeting I give (what turns out to be…) the first part of a multi-part talk on Running Azure Securely. Even though I did not cover all this content, I’ve attached the whole...
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Event: Boston #Azure / MIT edition of Global Azure Bootcamp
We had a great event at MIT on Saturday 27-April-2019 — the Boston Azure edition of the Global Azure Bootcamp hosted at MIT. There were lots of great session contributions – making this a true...
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Talk: Are all these #Azure security features for me?
On Tuesday July, 30, 2019 I had the opportunity to speak at North Boston Azure. The talk was part of a series on Running Azure Securely and was called Are all these Azure security features for me? and...
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Talk: Running SQL Azure Securely — SQL Saturday #877 — 14-Sep-2019
Today I had the opportunity to speak at SQL Saturday #877 in Burlington, MA. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today was Running Azure SQL Database Securely and applied...
View ArticleTalk: Running #Azure Securely – Are all these security features for me?
Today I had the opportunity to speak at VT Code Camp #11 in Burlington, VT. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today was around defense in depth and was called Running...
View ArticleTalk: Running #Azure Securely – Granite State Code Camp #GSCC – Are all these...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp (#gscc) in Burlington, MA. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today was around defense in depth and...
View ArticleTalk: Running #Azure Securely – Turning on the WAF
Tonight I had the opportunity to speak at #VirtualBostonAzure to talk about raising the visibility of security signals in your environment by turning on your WAF. In demos the WAF available in Azure...
View ArticleTalk: Running #Azure Securely and Compliantly – Granite State Code Camp...
Today I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp (#GSCC2021) in Manchester, NH. This was the first time I’ve given an in-person talk since the start of COVID and it was great to see...
View ArticleTalk: Running #Azure Robustly – Granite State Code Camp #GSCC2022 – Fail and...
I had the opportunity to speak at the 2022 Granite State Code Camp in Manchester, NH. The last couple of years I was more focused on Security and Compliance-enablement in Microsoft Azure. This year I...
View ArticleTalk: Exploring DORA at Boston Code Camp #34
Today at the 34th edition of Boston Code Camp (#boscc) I presented (in person – yahoo!) my talk “Exploring DORA – Using data to drive better outcomes” which introduced the DORA project. DORA is short...
View ArticleTalk: GitHub Copilot: Meet Your AI Pair Programming Assistant!
On 27-June-2023 at our first back-from-the-pandemic in-person regularly scheduled Boston Azure monthly meeting, the main event featured Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez from Microsoft talking about Azure...
View ArticleTalk: GitHub Copilot is your AI Pair Programming Assistant
08-Aug-2023 I gave an extended demo of GitHub Copilot at the Boston Azure AI event tonight. Most of the session was a demo, but I did also walk through some slides. Those slides are attached. I also...
View ArticleTalk: Meet GitHub Copilot! at Boston Code Camp 35
(I gave two talks at this event – the other one was on DORA.) Always great to engage with the OG Code Camp crew at Boston Code Camp. My talk description: According to legend, programmers back in the...
View ArticleTalk: Exploring DORA! at Boston Code Camp 35
(I gave two talks at this event – the other one was on GitHub Copilot.) Always great to engage with the OG Code Camp crew at Boston Code Camp. My talk description: Haven’t heard about DORA yet? You...
View ArticleTalk: Meet GitHub Copilot, your AI Coding Assistant at Granite State Code...
My talk description: According to legend, programmers back in the stone age would write code without IntelliSense and refactoring tools. The next generation of developers will wonder how our...
View ArticleTalk: Orlando Code Camp – Meet GitHub Copilot
24-Feb-2024 Had a great time hanging out with the Orlando tech community at their annual Code Camp. I made the trip with Maura (she gave a talk on blockchain) and we met a lot of cool people and had a...
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Talk: Boston Code Camp 36 – Meet GitHub Copilot, Your AI Coding Assistant!
23-Mar-2024 Always great to hang out with the greater Boston tech community. Today I attended and contributed a talk to Boston Code Camp 36 (the 36th edition of this event). I made the trip with Maura...
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Workshop: AI Mini-Workshop at Boston Azure
The March 28 Virtual Boston Azure was headlined by Pamela Fox from Microsoft. She explained all about the RAG pattern which is commonly used for building effective applications based on Large Language...
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hello-ai: A Simple Demonstration of Azure OpenAI
I wrote some code demonstrating how to use Azure OpenAI to support the AI mini-workshop we ran for Virtual Boston Azure. I created versions in Python and C#. This weekend I create a web front-end for...
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