Cloud with Chris

In this session, Chris is joined by LaBrina Loving who leads Developer Advocacy for Game Developers at Microsoft who will share her journey as a .Net Developer working in enterprise into the world of gaming. We will cover some of the key challenges that game developers of all sizes face and how cloud can help.

Perf Testing has traditionally been a higher environment activity. This leads to issues such as performance issues being identified late in the cycle, high MTTR for such issues, unplanned work, etc. However applying 'Shift Left' to Performance Testing is a hard problem to solve. In this episode, Chris is joined by HariKrishnan as they talk through Hari's experience in the hurdles encountered running perf tests on local machines / lower environments.

Ten years and more passed since Patrick Debois coined the term DevOps, in 2009. In the IT world, nothing is definitive. All the technologies and techniques continue to evolve following an innovation trend that we cannot stop. We cannot merely say: 'I'm tired of changing; please give me a rest.' The only option is to be ready for the change. In DevOps, there is a significant change because of the rise of the cloud and the market, always more demanding. The DevOps philosophy was adopted by most companies and bring essential improvements to quality and cost-saving. Anyway, the DevOps scenario is continuously evolving and adapting to the new market requirements. In this speech, we will analyze the new frontiers of DevOps and what to know to keep up with the times. Let's see in this article what are the latest trends to follow.

Listen in to this session as Chris is joined by Thomas Thornton, as they talk about DevOps in real-world scenarios.

In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and Azure related news! We'll also be walking through the new GitHub Issues Beta!

Most organizations engaged in transformation today are moving from left to right in digitally-driven maturity models. The objectives are well known: increase agility, boost productivity, and provide seamless digital experiences for consumers. Architects play a pivotal role as the curators of this transformation. In this session, Asanka will share his experience on how architects can contribute and introduce a framework to follow on refactoring enterprises.

In this episode, Chris is joined by Susanne Tedrick. Susanne is an Azure Infrastructure Specialist for Microsoft and the award-winning author of 'Women of Color in Tech'. They will discuss the basic technical and business considerations to be made when migrating applications and workloads to the cloud, based on the Cloud Adoption Framework.

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.

In this session Chris is joined by Ivo who will explain how Telco providers are leveraging Azure to offer services to their customers. He will explain how they transform and what the future will be. He will also cover the benefits and struggles that they faced on the way.

In this session, Chris is once again joined by Lee Williams. Chris and Lee talk through industry trends around Game Streaming (i.e. streaming games to your device, rather than livestreaming what you're playing to others), and the opportunities this brings to game creators and consumers.

In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and Azure related news!

In this session, Chris is joined by Martin Woodward - Director of Developer Relations at GitHub to talk about building communities, building experience talking and leading communities and then of Developer Relations, what it means and how to get into that role as your job.

People with hearing impairments are often overlooked, yet they are actually in greater numbers most people believe. In this talk, I'll give insight to those people. I know this of my own experience since I am deaf user with Cochlear Implants which gives me a hearing back, but it is not a full hearing as you might hope for. I also can give some insights for other people who are less impaired because I've am a co-founder of two national associations in Switzerland.

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.

In this talk, Asanka will introduce the 'cell-based' reference architecture, which is decentralized, API-centric, cloud-native and microservices friendly. He will explain the role of APIs in the cell-based approach, as well as examine how real applications are built as cells. Asanka will explore the metrics and approaches that can be used to measure the effectiveness of the architecture and explore how organizations can implement the cell approach.

In this session, Chris is joined by Karl Cooke, Blogger at https://irishtechie.com. Chris and Karl talk all about the CloudWithChris.com integration platform, and the numerous automation/integration activities that Chris has in place to save time and focus on building content!

In this session, Chris is joined by DeveloperSteve Coochin, a Developer Advocate at Snyk. In this episode, Chris and Steve talk about vulns in the wild for a bit (well and to geek out in general), especially on the back of some research that Steve did recently on the likes of PHP. Steve has recently been looking into the security vulns that get let in without developers even knowing (Teaser: He was really surprised at some of them!)

In this video, Chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and Azure related news!

When using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), there's a chance that kubenet might be the only possible choice due to your requirements. If so, you may still want to use Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) to leverage Azure Application Gateway's Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. In this session, we will make the journey together to have a working AGIC in an AKS cluster with kubenet and managed identities.

Due to COVID-19, vOpen.Tech had to move so quickly from being a physical event to a virtual one. That meant that collecting registrations and user info as well as registering users had to be done online. Azure AD B2C was the silver bullet that allowed us to overcome and succeed, with almost no code and in less that 15 days! In this session we will see how easy, fast and cheap we can have a production-ready, fully scalable, robust and secure IAM PaaS system with Azure AD B2C.

In this session, Chris is joined by Vanessa Bruwer - Senior Engineer on the FastTrack for Azure team. Vanessa talks how the FastTrack for Azure team deliver monitoring sessions; teaching customers to fish, taking them from knowing nothing about Azure Monitor to being able to configure monitoring for any service in a few focussed sessions. Ready to go from Zero to Hero on Azure Monitor? Then come along and join us!

In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and Azure related news!

In this session, Chris is joined by Dr. Keith McNally. Dr. Keith teaches Azure Cloud to help transitioning military members gain employment in the IT industry. By using a project-based learning structure, he helps adult learners the features and functionality of Microsoft Azure. In this session, Chris and Keith talk through how this work came together, typical learning strategies/styles that work well in these scenarios and the types of technologies/projects that cohorts have worked through. Tune in to gain some tips that may help your own learning strategy!

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.

In this episode, Chris is joined by JJ Asghar as they talk through lessons learned from cultivating open source projects and communities. Over the last decade, JJ has had the privilege professionally of building and cultivating some Open Source projects and communities.This isn't a tools talk. This is a talk about the soft skills you have to have to be able to succeed as a leader in an Open Source project. JJ's journey started tending the frequently asked questions for a small Linux Distribution called CRUX, and then years later professionally moved to the OpenStack-Chef project to build OpenStack clouds. He has grown other projects along the way, helped build tooling and communities, some successful and still running today, others were just flashes in the pan. He's learned a ton on this journey; and still is, but has some lessons that are hard-learned and hopefully will warn against pitfalls that can cause wasted cycles and pain.

Are you now working with source code? Whether that's Application Code, Infrastructure as Code, Database Schemas or Data Science workbooks as code, you may have heard of a term 'Continuous Integration' (CI). This is the process of regularly merging code, and running a series of automated builds/tests/checks to ensure that quality remains high in your production codebase. Find out more in this video.

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris

In this episode, Chris is joined by Peter Gallagher, Freelance Programmer for PJG Creations, Microsoft Azure MVP, Pluralsight Author... IoT Expert, proud dad, gadget addict and Meetup organiser. Peter talks about the various IoT simulators available, Azure IoT and his experiences IoT across his career. If you're a maker or interested in IoT, then this is one not to be missed!

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.

There are so many types of data stores out there these days. You have relational, non-relational, documents, blob, tables, files and more. There's also a growing awareness of 'Polyglot Persistence' where you use different data stores depending on the task. But how do you know which is the 'right' one? Chris is joined once again by Steph Martin as we talk through some of these types of datastores, and the factors that may help you in your decision!

Playing games has always been a social experience. Whether it's board games, sports or video games - a multiplayer component is common. We see these experiences becoming forms of entertainment (e.g. watching our favourite sports teams compete). This trend continues into the Gaming Industry, as we see the growth of eSports in Gaming, as well as streamers regularly broadcasting over on YouTube and Twitch. Chris is joined by Lee Williams, as they talk through these trends and how Cloud has enabled this transition.

Team diversity refers to differences between members of startup team. Those differences can include demographic differences (like age, race, sex, ethnicity), personality (extrovert, introvert, and differing Myers-Briggs types) and functional (as in skill sets, like engineering, design, copywriting, and marketing). How does team diversity impact your customers' experience from the moment they learn about you through their journey with you? You will attract and relate to customers how look like you. They will understand your messaging and you will understand their needs. If you don't represent the right dimensions of diversity, you are leaving an amazing experience behind.

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris. He also explores GitHub Copilot using Ruby and Python, looking into the potential that it has!

In this episode, Chris is joined by Mert Yeter, a software engineer with 16 years of experience in .NET and Microsoft technologies. We'll be talking all things DevOps on Azure, including Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service. We'll also get a chance to talk about Traefik and how it's pluggable middleware can help you with your Kubernetes ingresses! Tune in to find out more!

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) bought you such fan favourites like Kubernetes & Prometheus. In this talk Annie Talvasto will introduce you the most interesting and coolest upcoming CNCF tools and projects. This compact and demo-filled talk will give you ideas and inspiration that you can 1) discover new technologies and tools to use in your future projects as well as 2) be the coolest kid in the block, by being up to date with the latest and greatest.

In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris while sailing the seas with friends from the #CloudFamily Community. Like this episode? Please like the video, subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you know as soon as there's new content!

In this session Erin and Chris reminisce, talking about how they met and Erin's journey into Technology. Erin talks a little bit about what Agile is, how it works in the real world, and shares some stories and anecdotes she's seen as an Agile Coach in the trenches.

In this episode, Chris is joined by John Lunn, aka jonnychipz! An organizer of the Welsh Azure User Group, Blogger and Vlogger, Chris and John talk around 100 days of Cloud, Learning Cloud and Exam Certifications, Cloud Adoption and getting involved in the community. Wanted to start learning cloud, or getting more involved in the community? Then this may be a talk to follow!

In this session, Chris is joined by Shannon Kuehn, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. In this Livestream, they talk all about, Azure and VMWare and what this combination means for your cloud deployments!

In this video, Chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and Azure related news!

We've previously covered the theory of the Geode pattern in episode 11. Now it's time to see it unfold live and in action! Tune in to see Will demonstrate the concept of the Geode pattern and how it adds value to a globally distributed application.

In this session, Chris is joined by Senior Cloud Advocate Sarah Lean. Chris and Sarah will talk about the latest and greatest in the world of Hybrid Cloud, and explore the day-to-day experience of being a Cloud Advocate, working in the DevRel space.

In this session, Chris is joined by Karl Cooke - Implementation Specialist at Action Point Technology Group, Blogger at https://irishtechie.com. Chris and Karl talk all about the CloudWithChris.com architecture and the decisions surrounding the GitHub setup that drive the deployment and management of CloudWithChris.com.

In this video, Chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and the Azure, Azure DevOps and GitHub news!

People often talk about work life balance, how its not working for them, and how they feel pushed over the limit. Lets dig into it a little, look at how it can be managed, and address some difficult truths as well.

Over the last year, our world has changed. Many of us have had to work from home due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In this session, we'll focus on the Gaming Industry and some of the types of cloud tools/technologies that may have been used to continue their internal collaboration and ultimately deliver games to gamers!

Welcome to weekly Vlog #22! We'll be covering all of the latest from Microsoft Build!

In this episode, Chris is joined by Matt Bradley! Matt helped start the Public Cloud Division at UKFast. While UKFast works with both AWS and Azure, Matt's focus is on the Azure side, dealing with architecting and building solutions. Matt has delivered several talks within the community, including 'The Azure Storage Minefield'. Join Chris and Matt as they talk through some of Matt's learnings along the way and observations as he has been on his own journey with Azure and public Cloud!

In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what's coming soon and Azure related news!

Understanding how our applications function in the wild is essential for developers when issues arise. With the power of knowledge, we can enable ourselves to provide the best experience to our fellow developers, and our stakeholders. One of the solutions that supplies this power is Application Insights. Application Insights is a service provided by Microsoft allowing you to monitor your application live, detect performance anomalies, and observe this data with powerful analytics. Together we will see how easy it is to add Application Insights to our applications, whether we have access to the code-base or not. Once instrumented, we will dive deeper into the capabilities of Application Insights and show how to leverage all the rich data collected from our application. Finally, as developers the last thing we want to do is troubleshoot an issue in Production, with everyone watching and the stakes are high. Watch as we monitor a live application that is throwing exceptions and how Application Insights can be used to help us solve the problem faster. When we are done, attendees will be empowered with the knowledge to leverage Application Insights to be more productive with their work.

Welcome to weekly Vlog #20! This one will start off focusing on Cloud with Chris, and a big thank you! Thank you for all of your support. It's allowed me to hit my 2021 goal of 500 subscribers way ahead of schedule. We'll be covering Cloud with Chris, and then the latest from Azure, Azure DevOps and GitHub!