Azure Red Shirt 2017

My notes from the one day event.


Main presentation:

Az - command line utility Azure Mgmt -

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli

L series VM for large SSD - Might be useful for I/O bound activity like Magneto debuging

Thing that allows Apps in staging to be swapped with live. And allows A B testing or say 5% of traffic to be divided. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-web/web-sites-staged-publishing

Hockey app now owned by ms. Xamarin rich mobile app development, allows virtual testing against multiple phones. Via the test cloud

https://www.hockeyapp.net/

https://testcloud.xamarin.com/devices

Need to look at Docker

Cosmos DB introduction. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/introduction

Node.js using connotative services - Able to answer natural language questions. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/cognitive-services-bot-intelligence-overview . Node.js graph based API calls. Able to recognize faces https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/overview/

Serverless computing. Create a trigger to do something. Only the execution in billed. Example listen and respond to a github event. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/services/functions/

Machine learning demo that can differentiate cat and dog images

Logic app designer in Azure - 'if this then that'

Sentiment analysis on Power bi dashboard.

Remember you can customize the AZ dashboard, remember full screen is available

Lightening talks:

1. Mindcraft hacking demo - http://www.computercraft.info/ Richard Conway using https://github.com/Microsoft/malmo https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/uk_faculty_connection/2017/05/23/azure-craft-a-hack-for-kids-and-parents-to-learn-ai-programming/

2. NSFW presentation (lots of swearing) about possible downs sides to cloud architecture and microseconds. Treat your services as cattle and not pets.

https://twitter.com/david_whitney

http://www.davidwhitney.co.uk/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

3. Cognitive services overview

https://www.purplefrogsystems.com/paul/2017/05/cognitive-services-with-u-sql-reference-guide/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL-c00M2CnI

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/

4. Biztalk dashboard company

https://www.servicebus360.com/

5. Legacy ASP.NET discussion

Other links

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/azurecon/#sessions

https://twitter.com/scottgu?lang=en

https://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu