Monthly Archives: September 2017

Talk: SQL Saturday Boston – Azure SQL DB, not just a hosted version of SQL Server

This past weekend I participated in SQL Saturday BI Boston in Burlington, MA. I spoke about Azure SQL Database, explaining why Azure SQL Database is much more than just a hosted version of SQL Server. The slides I presented are here:

If you are local, you may be interested in learning more about Azure by checking out @bostonazure and bostonazure.org. You can find me on twitter here: @codingoutloud.

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Talk: A Gentle Intro to Serverless Azure

Tonight I spoke at the North Boston Azure group and covering serverless concepts by looking at Logic Apps, Function Apps, and a couple of powerful/easy features of Web Apps (authentication via AAD/Twitter & CD via Github).

Before I posted the slides (see below), I needed to clean up the 1000+ emails I spammed myself with from my Logic App demo. (Doh!)

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The slides are available for review here:

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Talk: Logic Apps & Functions at Granite State SharePoint Users Group

Tonight I was pleased to have the opportunity to demystify Azure Logic Apps & Functions for the Granite State SharePoint Users Group. Here is the slide deck I used to present:

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Speaking at the “stimulation rich” Microsoft Store — photo credit: @jfj1997 Julie Turner

By the time I turned off the Twitter => Slack Logic App, a lot of messages were posted (in the #demo channel within Boston Azure slack account – which is open – join here):

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I will be giving a longer and more general version of this talk at the SharePoint Saturday New England 2017 event on Sat Oct 28 in Burlington MA.

Also planning other variants of this talk in the coming weeks:

  1. Azure Functions at Boston Azure – Thu Sep 14 in Cambridge MA (NERD)
  2. Serverless Azure at VT Code Camp – Sat Sep 16 in Burlington Vermont
  3. Serverless Azure at North Boston Azure – Tue Sep 26 in Burlington MA
  4. Logic Apps Thu Oct 5 at NE Microsoft Dev Group
  5. Serverless Azure at SharePoint Saturday NE event mentioned above Sat Oct 28 in Burlington MA

Talk: Logic Apps at Boston Azure

Last night’s Boston Azure meetup featured two talks – No App Left Behind by Kevin Brown of SoftNAS after an opening talk on Logic Apps by me. My slides are below.

I did not have time to show it, but the Slack => Email process did succeed. I saw this later when I checked my email. Subject: bill-tux-full.png, Body: 1504739903F6YKE996C bill-tux-full.png bill-tux-full.png. And you can see the photo for yourself in the Boston Azure slack #demo channel.

If you’d like to learn more about Serverless Azure, check out these upcoming talks: Azure Functions and Logic Apps Thu Sep 7 in NHAzure Functions Thu Sep 14 in Cambridge MA (NERD), and various playing of Serverless Azure (Azure Functions and Logic Apps) on Sat Sep 16 in Burlington Vermont, Tue Sep 26 in Burlington MA, and (if my talk is accepted for the Sharepoint event) Sat Oct 28 in Burlington MA.

As always, please let me know if you are interested in more talks at Boston Azure. 🙂