July 2018: ML & Analytics optimized by Cloudera Altus | IAC: ARM Best Practices

Hey all,

July is turning out to be a great month for our meetup.
We have 2 great speakers with two exiting topics:

Session 1: Self-Service Machine Learning and Analytics Optimised for Azure by Cloudera Altus | by Mahdi Askari from Cloudera
Session 2: Lessons Learned & Best Practices - Infra as code with ARM Template | by Justin Yoo from Mexia
More session details are below.
Please note that we will have the meetup at the lovely people at Index Consultants again. Adress details are on the meetup page.

Session details:

Session 1: Self-Service Machine Learning and Analytics Optimised for Azure by Cloudera Altus
Speaker: Mahdi Askari: Senior System Engineer at Cloudera

Cloudera Altus lets you automate massive-scale data engineering and analytic database compute workloads in your public cloud, without the headache of managing the infrastructure yourself. At the core of Altus is Cloudera's Shared Data Experience (SDX) that eliminates data silos with persistent metadata, security, and governance.

Altus platform-as-a-service (PaaS) empowers data engineers and BI engineers with self-service capabilities to create and maintain data pipelines on exabytes of data in cloud storage. It eliminates the need for dedicated clusters and the ongoing overhead of resource maintenance for data processing workloads.

You can now implement high-value use cases and focus on delivering business insights through a pay-as-you-go model for an enterprise-grade environment, without the enterprise-size infrastructure headaches

Session 2: Lessons Learned & Best Practices - Infra as code with ARM Template
Speaker: Justin Yoo
Justin is a double-awarded Microsoft MVP in both Azure and Visual Studio since 2015. He is very interested in serverless technologies including Azure Functions and Logic Apps and tries to find a better way of doing things right and getting things done.

Session:
Believe or not, if you use Azure cloud, you have been using ARM templates explicitly or implicitly. What exactly do ARM templates do? How can we use them properly as DevOps engineers? We use ARM templates in many different ways and not all of them are considered "Best Practice".

ARM template is a very convenient tool to manage Azure resources. But at the same time, it is very difficult to manage and time-consuming, unless it is efficiently written.

At the end of this session, audiences will have ideas of 1) how to manage ARM templates in YAML, 2) what the best practices using ARM templates are, 3) how we test ARM templates before deploying, and 4) how we proactively manage ARM template deployment history.

See you all there
Michael