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Cloud Advocate Content Highlights (Week of 7/12)
Microsoft's Cloud Advocates help every technologist, from those in enterprises or startups, to succeed and do what they love: write, code, and learn. They engage developers and others in the software ecosystem to further technical education and proficiency within the Microsoft Cloud + AI platform. Cloud Advocates meet with developers around the world through talks, demos, and engagement in technical communities. Please check out the latest Cloud Advoacy content highlights below for the week of 7/12:
Title |
Cloud Advocate |
Description |
Topics & Technologies |
Thomas Maurer (Twitter: @ThomasMaurer)
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Windows 10 is not just a modern desktop operating system, and it also has some great IT Pro and Developer related features build in. One of them is client Hyper-V. This is the same hypervisor which powers virtualization in Windows Server and the Microsoft Azure datacenters. With Hyper-V, you can create virtual machines running on Windows 10, without the need for third-party software. You can not just run Windows virtual machines, and you can also run Linux virtual machines. In this blog post, Thomas is going to show you how you can create an Ubuntu VM on Windows 10 using Hyper-V. |
Linux VMs, Windows VMs, Windows 10, Ubuntu, Hyper-V |
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Build a Web VR game with JavaScript using the BabylonJS Framework
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Cassie Siljander (Twitter: @Cassieview)
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In this tutorial, learn step by step how to build a web VR game with BabylonJS, TypeScript, Node.js, VS Code and Webpack. |
Spatial Computing, VR, Game Development, JavaScript/Node.js, VS Code |
Adding live documentation to YOUR REST API with Swagger and Nest.js
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Chris Noring (Twitter: @softchris)
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In his article Chris describes how to add Swagger to your Nest.js project to provide live documentation, that gets updated through Swagger as your code changes. |
API Development, Swagger, JavaScript |
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Chloe Condon (Twitter: @Chloe_Condon)
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In this blog post Chloe Condon will walk you through how to use Microsoft Azure Bot Services to create a simple chatbot using minimal programming, Twilio, and a Word Doc. This post is part 1 of a series on how to create various bots that can be built using Azure, with varying difficulty. |
Azure Bot Service |
Deploying a Spring Boot + MongoDB application to Azure Web Apps + CosmosDB
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Julien Dubois (Twitter: @juliendubois)
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This study uses a normal Spring Boot and MongoDB application, and deploys it to Azure Web Apps and CosmosDB. It provides many performance tests, in order to better understand the expected behavior and pricing of the application under high load. |
Spring Boot, Java, Azure Web Apps, Databases, Azure Cosmos DB |
.NET Documentation Monthly Update (dotnet sub-Reddit)
.NET Documentation Monthly Update (csharp sub-Reddit)
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Maxime Rouiller (Twitter: @MaximRouiller)
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For the next 3 months, Maxime will share the latest .NET Microsoft docs updates with the .NET and C# subreddits - making it easy to learn about new releases, updates, and general improvements. |
.NET, C#, Documentation |
Azure Bastion - Access your Azure virtual servers without a public open RDP port
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Sonia Cuff (Twitter: @SoniaCuff)
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This blog post on IT Ops Talk adds context to official product launch announcement post & directs traffic to technical documentation. It covers why you'd use Azure Bastion then details the lessons Sonia learnt implementing it. |
Networking + Content Delivery, Azure Bastion, Virtual Machines |
Auto ML Forecasting Orange Juice Sales (Hands-on Lab)
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Francesca Lazzeri (Twitter: @frlazzeri)
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In this interactive code lab, Cloud Advocate Francesca Lazzeri walks you through a tutorial that shows you how to use AzureML's automated machine learning service with the University of Chicago's "Dominick's Finer Foods" dataset, to forecast orange juice sales. |
AI + Machine Learning, Azure Machine Learning Service, Azure Notebooks |
How to manage local users and groups using PowerShell
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Orin Thomas (Twitter: @orinthomas)
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In this article, Orin outlines how to manage local users and groups on Windows Server using PowerShell |
IT Pro, Windows Server, Compute, PowerShell |
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Jeremy Likness (Twitter: @JeremyLikness)
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The first in a series of blog posts were Jeremy Likness covers lessons learned migrating from Medium to a static website generator (Hugo) that uses Azure DevOps for continuous integration and deployment to an Azure Storage Static Website. |
Azure Storage, Web Development, Static Websites, Azure DevOps |
How You Actually Use Kubernetes, Starring YAML Files
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Chris Noring (Twitter: @softchris)
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In his blog post about Kubernetes and YAML, Chris Noring is elaborates on YAML - what it is and how it works - and how you can use YAML files to configure your Kubernetes experience. |
Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service |
Learning Python from Scratch 001 - Getting Started (Windows)
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Cecil Phillip (Twitter: @cecilphillip)
Brian Clark (Twitter: @_clarkio)
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Cecil Phillip and Brian Clark's new Twitch series tackles learning a new programming language: Python. In the first session, they focus on how to set up Python on Windows and get started with Python in VS Code. |
Education + Training, Programming (General), VS Code, VS Code Marketplace |
Building a Live Caption Tool (Part 1)
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Jim Bennett (Twitter: @jimbobbennett)
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In this first blog post Jim Bennett explores creating a live captioning tool using Python and Cognitive Services as a learning tool. The next part, will cover how to customize the output by training the model using voice and background noise. |
Azure Portal, Python, AI + Machine Learning, APIs, Azure Cognitive Services (Speech API) |
AzureR: Create, Manage and Monitor Azure Services with R
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David Smith (Twitter: @revodavid) |
In this blog post, Cloud Advocate David Smith and Senior Data Scientist Hong Ooi dive into AzureR, the family of eight packages that provide tools to manage Azure resources from the open source R language. |
Azure Data Science Virtual Machines, Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure VMs, Compute, Containers, Data + Analytics, Azure Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Active Directory, R |
Azure Cloud Shell Tips for SysAdmins: View and Modify your VM.
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Jay Gordon (Twitter: @jaydestro)
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As an Azure Advocate, Jay spends a lot of his time learning the easiest ways for beginners to get started with Azure. |
Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Cloud Shell, Azure CLI |
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (Part 1)
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Laurent Bugnion (Twitter: @LBugnion)
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In this video series (7 videos to be published over the summer), Laurent shares recordings from his DotNetDay 2019 Ethics in AI session. In Part 3, he introduces the concept of Bias in AI, due to various societal biases found in the data. The main issue in AI models is not the math, which is accurate. Because bias is present in our societies, it is also found in the big amounts of data needed to train AI models. Laurent illustrates this with a few examples. |
AI + Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Azure Cognitive Services (Custom Vision), |
Free Webinar: Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security
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Thomas Maurer (Twitter: @ThomasMaurer)
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Thomas shares his upcoming "Azure Security Center: How to Protect Your Datacenter with Next Generation Security" webinar, delivered in partnership with Microsoft MVP Andy Syrewicze. |
Azure Security Center |
Xamarin Documentation Update for June 2019
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Brandon Minnick (Twitter: @TheCodeTraveler)
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A Reddit post to announce the updates on docs.microsoft.com/xamarin with the goal to drive awareness in the community and encourage more developers to visit our docs. |
Xamarin, Mobile, Documentation |
BinderHub official documentation: Set up Azure Container Registry
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Tania Allard (Twitter: @ixek)
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Learn how to integrate BinderHub with the Azure container registry as an alternative to DockerHub through the official documentation, which Tania has contributed to. |
Azure Container Registry, Open Source |
Nuxt on Azure AppService for Windows
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Burke Holland (Twitter: @BurkeHolland)
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This repo includes a sample Nuxt.js application and instructions for how to deploy it to Azure App Service for Windows. |
JavaScript, Azure App Service for Windows, Open Source, VueJS |
