2-for-1: “Google Cloud for Developers” AND “Using Azure for Dev & Testing”

by | Mar 19, 2018 | Community, Toronto Enterprise DevOps User Group

2-for-1: “Google Cloud for Developers” AND “Using Azure for Dev & Testing”

March 15, 2018 – 72 people attended

Details:

Two talks were scheduled for this event.

The first talk is “Google Cloud for .NET Developers” by Ken Cenerelli.

The second talk is “Using Azure for Software Development & Testing”
Azure DevTest Labs is a free service that helps developers and testers quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling cost. You can test the latest version of your application by quickly provisioning Windows and Linux environments using reusable templates and artifacts. Easily integrate your deployment pipeline with DevTest Labs to provision on-demand environments. Scale up your load testing by provisioning multiple test agents, and create pre-provisioned environments for training and demos. The only cost comes from the actual Azure resources consumed such as VMs, storage, databases, etc. The topics covered include:
* Quickly provision development and test environments
* Minimize waste with quotas and policies
* Set VM automated shutdowns and startups to minimize costs

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Azure Triple Play

by | Dec 8, 2017 | Community, North Toronto .NET User Group

Wednesday, December 6, 2017 – 43 went

In this event, three excellent Azure-related presentations were featured in what we call the “Azure Triple Play” event.

Building Microservice Applications using Azure Service Fabric
Speaker: Jack Lee

Azure Batch for Parallel Computing for Data Collection
Speaker: Roy Kim

Serverless Code Architecture with Azure Functions
Speaker: Callon Campbell

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A Multi-Cloud Solution using Azure & AWS

by | Jun 6, 2017 | Community, Windsor Essex .NET Developers


June 6, 2017 – 10 went

While some cloud users are evaluating AWS vs. Azure, many enterprises are planning to use both cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and latency while creating redundancy. While Azure is now the clear #2 in public cloud behind AWS there are some notable differences between how the two hyper-clouds operate and the best practices for deploying workloads in each to create a multi-cloud solution that can optimize for cost and performance. The session covered:
1) AWS vs. Azure differences for compute, networking, storage and pricing.
2) Recent and coming enhancements for AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.
3) Multi-cloud environments can be complex so let’s discuss the best practices for cloud deployments when using both AWS and Azure.

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DevOps in the Cloud for Software Development & Testing

by | May 10, 2017 | Community, North Toronto .NET User Group

May 10, 2017 – 42 went

During this talk, we reviewed how you can easily provision and manage a Dev-Test environment in the cloud, move existing environments into the cloud for testing, then back to on-premises datacenters with relative ease, less complexity and comparatively small cost. All of this will help you meet the needs of your teams faster and manage Dev-Test environments with more visibility and control.

•  How the cloud can accelerate traditional software development and testing
•  Maximizing return: The game changing scale and economics of the cloud
•  Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) vs Platform as a Service (PaaS)
•  Connecting on premise resources to the public cloud
•  Securing cloud infrastructure using existing investments and processes
•  Automation – saving time and money managing infrastructure deployment
•  How cloud apps are different: elastic capacity, redundancy, backup and recovery
•  Addressing organizational concerns: security, cost, and control

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What’s New in Visual Studio 2017

by | Apr 26, 2017 | Community, London .NET User Group

April 26, 2017 – 23 went

Description:

Visual Studio turns 20 this year and to mark the anniversary Microsoft Tools team has released Visual Studio 2017.  We will be taking a look at the new IDE and focusing in on what  developers need to know about the new version of their favorite developer tool.

Overview:

VS 2017 Versions & Install
·  Install process to see what’s available
·  Feature comparison between the different Visual Studio versions
VS 2017 New Features & Functionality:
·  Overview of General Software Development Features
·  VS2017 + .NET Core + Azure
·  Microservices
·  Agile & DevOps workflow
·  Enterprise DevOps/TFS 2017

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MIGANG Monthly Meetup – A Multi-Cloud Solution using Azure & AWS – Arlan Nugara

by | Apr 19, 2017 | Community, Great Lakes Area .NET User Group

April 19, 2017 – 59 went

While some cloud users are evaluating AWS vs. Azure, many enterprises are planning to use both cloud providers to avoid vendor lock-in and latency while creating redundancy. While Azure is now the clear #2 in public cloud behind AWS there are some notable differences between how the two hyper-clouds operate and the best practices for deploying workloads in each to create a multi-cloud solution that can optimize for cost and performance. The session will cover:

• AWS vs. Azure differences for compute, networking, storage and pricing.
• Recent and coming enhancements for AWS Lambda and Azure Functions.
• Multi-cloud environments can be complex so let’s discuss the best practices for cloud deployments when using both AWS and Azure.

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It’s all about Data…DocumentDB, Data Analytics using Azure & PowerShell

by | Feb 23, 2017 | Community, Mississauga .NET User Group

February 23, 2017 – 33 went

Data Analytics & Data Management Using Azure & PowerShell
·  Quick introduction to Azure and PowerShell and why you should use them for data analytics and data management
·  How to manage and send data queries to an Azure SQL database
·  Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell
·  Automation of third-party reports against a data source with PowerShell
·  Manage Log Analytics (i.e. Operational Insights) data using Azure

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Lightning Talks

by | Jan 31, 2017 | Community, London .NET User Group


April 26, 2017 – 23 went

Data Analytics & Data Management Using Azure & PowerShell
• Quick introduction to Azure and PowerShell and why you should use them for data analytics and data management
• How to manage and send data queries to an Azure SQL database
• Creating HTML Reports in PowerShell
• Automation of third-party reports against a data source with PowerShell
• Manage Log Analytics (i.e. Operational Insights) data using Azure

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