October | 2016 | Coding Out Loud

Thanks Zoran for having me back again this year as a guest lecturer to help ensure your students don’t think AWS is the only cloud in the sky!

Here is the deck I went (partially) through: harvard-28-oct-2016

At the end I attempted to show how I could use the CLI from my macbook to clean up all my demo resources at once by deleting the containing resource group. It failed because I got the syntax wrong. I was typing something like azure resource delete Zoran, but ‘resource’ should have been ‘group’ and I failed to realize that at the time. I ran the correct command when I got home and it worked better. Here is my evidence… 🙂

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In case folks were wondering, the PowerShell command equivalent to azure group delete is:

Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup

The patterns I dug into are discussed in my book in chapters 2 (horizontal scaling) and 3 (queue pattern):

Boston Azure is 7 years old!

At today’s October Boston Azure meeting, we celebrated turning 7 years old, and had two talks. I presented one talk related to the Dyn DDoS outage from Friday Oct 21, which illustrated the dark side of IoT since it was used to power a huge DDoS attack on Dyn, taking down Netflix, Github, Spotify, and lots of other sites as collateral damage. In my talk I explained some of the background and how we addressed it with Azure DNS.

Here’s the deck for the “IoT has a dark side” talk:

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Jim O’Neil provides some resource relating to his talk. There are listed AS A COMMENT on the meeting page (scroll below the meeting description page to comments – Meetup.com does not allow changing a meeting description after the meeting begins, so amendments tend to be as comments).

And here’s a photo of the evening – taken by @jimoneil (Jim), showing (L->R) Mark (@MHEisenberg), I’m in the middle (@codingoutloud), and @nazik_huq (Nazik Huq) – all who have helped @bostonazure (Boston Azure) thrive through the years. And not to forget about some others who were not present – like @georgebabey (George Babey), @haleyjason (Jason Haley), Michael Stiefel, and @squdgy (Maura Wilder) – who have all deserve credit for the success of the group through the years.

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And finally, here’s Jim, the event’s featured speaker and the photographer and tweeter of the above photo. I think this photo was taken by @nazik_huq (Nazik Huq).

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