Linux Scripting for the Uninitiated

At the root of software engineering is the operating system and the kernel. Learning to navigate the file system and execute commands in the shell remotely or otherwise is essential. Often times you find that you are performing repetitive tasks even on your local environment and this is where shell scripting comes into play. Join…

3 Ways to Automate Custom VMs on Azure

Azure provides a whole suite of tools for customizing and provisioning virtual machines on Azure including custom VM images, a VM Extension for scripting, and Cloud-Init though it’s not always clear which way is the best approach. In this webinar, we’ll show you how to use each of these options with use cases and learn…

Missing Tests on Azure DevOps

Trying to integrate unit tests and code coverage Azure DevOps to other systems and things seem to be disappearing? Learn why it happens and how to fix it...

Securing Your Modern Azure SQL DB Deployment

In this webinar, you’ll learn modern security approaches in Microsoft Azure SQL DB, and how to leverage them in your applications. In SQL Server 2012, Microsoft introduced the self-contained database, a new way to implement security in SQL. Not many people payed attention to this feature, but it is in the center of secure Azure…

Building and Deploying Your First Machine Learning Model with Azure ML

Azure Machine Learning service offers an end-to-end platform to build, train, deploy, and manage machine learning models. The service fully supports open-source technologies such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and scikit-learn and can be used for any kind of machine learning, from classical ml to deep learning, supervised and unsupervised learning. Attend this session to learn how…

Azure Databricks is Easier Than You Think

In this 1-hour webinar, we’ll show you how easy it is to create ETL pipelines in Python. In this session, we’ll spin up a Spark cluster, create a pipeline in a notebook, and talk about why this process is far better than creating pipelines in other frameworks. Migrating to Databricks from SSIS is far easier…

Building Apps in Azure App Services and Serverless Workloads

In this webinar, we will focus on how and what services we should use to build Cloud Applications using PaaS and Serverless workloads. We will build an application using Azure Services like App Service, Azure DevOps, Azure KeyVault, Azure Storage, Azure Functions, and SQL Databases.
Nextcloud on Azure

Nextcloud and Azure Blob Storage: A Match Made in the Cloud

Hosting your own File Sharing service like DropBox or OneDrive is not only possible, it’s actually not too hard. One of the most widely used products for doing just this is an app called Nextcloud. In short, Nextcloud is an open source web app written in PHP that acts as a front end for and…