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Broadcasted from a studio in the Netherlands we will bring 12 hours of Azure Content from around the world!

Lights, camera ..... GitHub Actions!

On the last VACD I was challenged to dive into GitHub Actions. The challe...

Esther Barthel

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Help! Our Developers are using Kubernetes!

Kubernetes and containers are often something that developers pick up quite...

Wesley Haakman

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Break up with your dev machine

The days of dragging a bulky dev laptop around are over - affordable cloud ...

Callum Whyte

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Self-care for Developers

In the current world of WFH and virtual events, it's all the more important...

Carole Rennie Logan

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Gender Inequality in Tech - Why Is it a problem and How can we fix it?

Jonah shares her insights about gender inequality problem in tech and IT i...

Jonah Andersson

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Flex your Azure muscles with Bicep

Let's agree that authoring Azure Resource Manager templates is a tough job....

David Pazdera

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Serverless web applications with Blazor

Microsoft's implementation of webassembly, Blazor, forms a great way to...

Kris van der Mast

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Event-driven autoscaling on Kubernetes with KEDA and Azure Functions

Event-driven, serverless architectures are a hot topic in today's cloud-na...

Erwin Staal

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8 easy steps to improve your security posture in Azure

You've deployed your application on Azure. Instantly hackers are targeting...

Maarten Goet

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Give your old Wordpress site a serverless supercharge

Serverless static websites are much cheaper, faster and more secure than ...

Mark Allan

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Configuration in Azure. Done right.

When handling configuration in Azure, there's a really simple and quick way...

Rick van den Bosch

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Automate your social life with Azure

Exploring the capabilities of different Azure services for automation on...

Tomaž Kaštrun

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I(o)T takes two! Meet Azure Digital Twins

The newest IoT kids on the block Azure Digital Twins allow the customer to...

Glenn Colpaert

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BDD on Policies

Who defines the rules for the guardrails for your organisation? How do you...

Ebru Cucen

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eShop on Dapr: build microservice applications the easy way

Dapr is an open source, event-driven, portable runtime for building...

Edwin van Wijk

Sander Molenkamp

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Unlocking the Power of Azure with Quantum Computing

What do Azure, Einstein, and cats have in common? They will help us unders...

Locksley Kolakowski

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An Introduction to Kubernetes through OpenShift

Building Cloud Native applications and deploying to Kubernetes can be...

Nigel Brown

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Project Bicep: ARM Templates Evolved

ARM Templates are evolving! Microsoft have released a preview of brand new...

Sam Cogan

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Lights, camera ..... GitHub Actions!

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On the last VACD I was challenged to dive into GitHub Actions.
The challenge is accepted and I am extending my Azure Automation adventures to level up my GitHub n00b status.
In this session I will show you how GitHub Actions helped me to create workflows that automatically build, test, publish, release, and deploy Infrastructure as Code and create my first automated Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Azure Image Builder (AIB) CI/CD workflow.

Starring GitHub Actions, cool demos and guest appearances of Azure Image Builder and the Shared Image Gallery!

Esther Barthel

Solutions Architect at cognition IT

Esther Barthel has worked in different roles and functions as an IT consultant after she finished her Master’s degree in Computer Science in 1997. She soon discovered that Server-Based Computing combined servers, desktops, and user experience in one solution and specialized in virtualization solutions, like Microsoft Remote Desktop Services, Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop, Microsoft App-V, Microsoft PowerShell and Citrix ADC. Esther works as a Solutions Architect at cognition IT, where she combines her passion for designing and implementing Citrix solutions with her newfound love for DevOps automation, using PowerShell, REST APIs and JSON payloads to automate both on-premises and Cloud Infrastructure as Code solutions. Ever since she hosted introduction days for technical female student candidates Esther has shared her passion and knowledge for IT. As well as her experience in the CUGC Women in Tech mentorship program, founded by her and the other female CTPs. In addition to her MVP award for Cloud and Datacenter management, Esther is also awarded as a Citrix Technology Professional (CTP).

Event-driven autoscaling on Kubernetes with KEDA and Azure Functions

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Event-driven, serverless architectures are a hot topic in today's cloud-native application development. To take full advantage of the serverless benefits of event-driven, your application needs to scale and react to those events instantly. It needs to be able to scale from zero to potentially thousands of instances. KEDA is an open-sourced component that provides event-driven autoscaling for your Kubernetes workloads.
KEDA works with any container, but to enable additional serverless capabilities within Kubernetes you can pair KEDA with the Azure Functions runtime. Don't get fooled by 'Azure' in the name. Azure Functions provides a programming model that can run anywhere: in a container running on-premises, fully managed in Azure, or in any Kubernetes cluster and they can be written in many languages.
It allows application developers not to worry anymore about writing the code to connect, trigger, and pull from an event source like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or Azure Event Hubs. That's all handled for you.
In this demo-filled session, we will start with a quick introduction to both Kubernetes and Azure Functions. You will then see how you can create your first cluster and install KEDA, deploy a function and scale that to thousands of instances based on events.

Erwin Staal

Software Engineer & ALM Consultant @ 4DotNet

Erwin Staal is an Azure Architect and DevOps Consultant at 4DotNet (Meppel, the Netherlands). He has over more than 10 years of experience with both small and large organizations. He likes to immerse himself in the latest technologies. Currently, he is working a lot with ASP.NET Core, Docker, and Kubernetes. As a DevOps Consultant, he helps companies with the implementation of DevOps and Continuous Delivery.

eShop on Dapr: build microservice applications the easy way

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Dapr is an open source, event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices. It provides powerful building blocks to make it easy for developers to build resilient microservice applications using a variety of languages and frameworks.
In this session I'll introduce the Dapr building blocks and show how they can be applied to 'eShop on Containers'; a .NET microservices reference application. You'll learn about both the benefits and the limitations of using Dapr in your microservice applications.

Edwin van Wijk

Principal Software Architect at Info Support & Microsoft MVP

Edwin has been working in IT since 1999 and is currently working as Principal Software Architect and Microsoft Community Lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. He is a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies category (since 2016). His primary areas of expertise are: building distributed systems, systems integration, (cloud-native) software architecture and patterns, software craftsmanship, .NET (Core) development, Azure and DevOps. Edwin likes to share his experience and knowledge about these subjects by publishing videos (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix) and speaking on conferences.

Sander Molenkamp

Principal Cloud Architect @ Info Support & Microsoft Azure MVP

Sander Molenkamp is principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support (www.infosupport.com) designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures. Sander is passionate about community and is co-organizer of the Dutch Azure Meetup and a host on the dotnetFlix podcast (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix).

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