Architecture of Azure Data Centres and Soft Skills

We are pleased to announce that we are going to be hosting another Crafty Coders hybrid event where people can attend both in-person or online via a live stream. The event will be running from our Ansty Park office in Coventry.

18:00 - 18:45 - Microsoft Speaker - Neil Kidd
18:45 - 19:15 - Drinks & Pizza
19:15 - 20:00 - Sainsbury's Speaker - Damian Kaminski

Microsoft Speaker - Neil Kidd
Neil is a Technical Architect in the UK Microsoft Technology Centre where he helps people build cloud scale applications in Microsoft’s datacentres. He started working on the Azure platform in 2008 and has helped over 1,000 organisation transform their businesses and technology to best leverage the cloud. While he joined Microsoft in 2000, he did leave the mothership for a few years to take on the role of CTO at a tech start-up in the aviation sector; growing the company from 2 people to around 30 and through a $10m series A.

Session Summary:
We will go on a virtual tour of Microsoft’s Data Centres. We will start by talking about the environmental impact that the increasing use of computers is having and what Microsoft is doing to combat this. We will look at the sheer scale and invest that Microsoft has made to make Azure available across the planet. We will move on to what is inside the DCs as well as some of the things that we do to secure them and make them reliable. We will look back at some of our previous generations of DC as well as look at some of the work we are doing to define how the future generations will work.

Sainsbury's Speaker - Damian Kaminski
Topic: Soft Skills
What are soft skills? Cambridge dictionary defines soft skills as:*"people's abilities to communicate with each other and work well together"*For most engineers, technical aspect of their work is usually the fun part. The hard part is to deal with their team colleagues, managers and clients. To ensure that development team works well together, all engineers in this team need a certain set of personal attributes that will allow them to perform their job well, stay productive and be good team players.In this talk we will explain what are the most important soft skills that every engineer should have in their toolbox, how to develop those skills and how to use them to communicate and work well together.

ATTENDING ONLINE
The online attendance of this event will be a live stream of the in-person event where you can post any questions you want to ask the speakers into the chat. The stream link will be shared with all attendees a few days before the event.

PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF LOCATION
We have recently moved from Walsgrave to Ansty Park.