Azure Cloud - December Lightning Talks

Networking and Pizza

Technical Talk 1
(45 mins + Q&A)

Azure Artifacts : An overview of a favorite Azure Devops offering.

Joel Hebert is passionate about API's, Integration and Software Architecture. He is a 12 time Microsoft MVP and is one of the User Group Leaders in Ottawa. Specializing in Enterprise Application Integration / SOA , he has build large scale distributed systems for various companies and government organizations.

Technical Talk 2
(45 mins + Q&A)

Centralized monitoring solution using Azure Log Analytics and Serverless Applications - Advantages, benefits and Challenges.

Beatriz Kanzki is a Senior Data Platform Engineer at Export Development Canada specializing in Big Data Analytics and Cloud computing technologies using AWS and Azure. Her area of expertise lies in productionizing Machine Learning, and AI using Big Data and Cloud technologies. She authored multiple articles on the subject and is being cited in books for best practice in implementing these solutions.

Technical Talk 3
(45 mins + Q&A)

Configuring CI/CD Pipelines as Code with YAML in Azure DevOps

Damien Redhead is a Sr Cloud Engineer at Export Development Canada
IHe started his career at EDC 6 years ago as a Tier 3 System Analyst and has moved into the Azure Cloud space in the last couple of years. He enjoys golf, video games, the gym and his family.

Technical Talk 4
(45 mins + Q&A)

Use YAML in Azure DevOps / GitHub for your CI/CD

We will use the example of a MEAN (Mongo/Express/Angular/Node) application which is initially hosted on-prem and we will migrate it to PaaS solutions on cloud by automating and employing CI/CD. We’ll provision and Azure Web App for Containers for hosting Non-Windows applications, provision Containers, build Docker images, enable continuous deployments with GitHub and Azure DevOps.

Wes MacDonald

Wes MacDonald is a DevOps Consultant at LIKE 10 INC., a Microsoft 365, Azure and Azure DevOps consulting firm with offices in Toronto. As a Senior Developer/Architect with over 15 years of experience has been responsible for all aspects of software development and provides technical leadership to his clients and the .NET developer community. He also organizes the local Ottawa Global DevOps Boot Camp.