Southampton Data Platform and Cloud Meeting - 2nd March 2022

Welcome to Southampton Data Platform and Cloud Group.

Please join us for some great quality content, and feel free to supply your own pizza!

We hope we'll be back to in person events in the future, please bear with us for the time being.

Agenda

18:30: Welcome and Intros

18:45: Mikey Bronowski - Arm your Bicep with D(i)SC - how to make your life easier while building new environments

20:00: Hamish Watson - Kusto Query Language - the next query language you need to know

Session details:
Arm your Bicep with D(i)SC - how to make your life easier while building new environments:
This little wordplay is about the Bicep a domain-specific language (DSL) and PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) for Windows. We will cover the basics of both concepts, we will mention the ARM templates and show some examples. The goal of this session is to present the tools to those who want an easier way to create their environment or labs.

Kusto Query Language - the next query language you need to know:
Azure is the leading platform for many companies, and to manage your databases and other infrastructure you need to have insights into what is happening.
You need to be able to query the Azure platform, to not only understand your infrastructure but also to leverage monitoring and analytics to react to operational changes occurring in it.
This session will introduce you to the Kusto Query Language (KQL) which will allow you to query a variety of Azure resources.

About Mikey:
Data enthusiast with a mathematics background. Working with SQL Server for over 15 years. Works as a database engineer (Microsoft SQL Server) responsible for environments upgrades and migrations. Microsoft Certified Trainer with a couple of certificates. Blogger at (bronowski.it). Since 2021 Microsoft Data Platform MVP.

Not long ago Poland Data Community member, now proud UK Data Platform active member.

When not working or teaching, learns new things or attends various data/technical conferences and meetups.

Italian Calcio fan and traveller.

About Hamish:
Hamish is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP with a passion for efficient database & application deployments using DevOps methodologies.
He has formed his own company – Morph iT – based in Christchurch, New Zealand and provides consultancy services to clients in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

He has exactly 8,500 days IT experience in managing and deploying large scale applications/databases.
He has been managing SQL Server since SQL Server 2000 and pragmatic approaches to delivering business value to end users is his career passion.

Educating and helping others learn is a driver for Hamish and he is a PASS Chapter Leader, International speaker and a repeat guest lecturer at a local university.

21:00: Finish

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