Archives: Webinars

Python’s async and parallel programming support is highly underrated. In this webcast, we will introduce the entire spectrum of Python’s parallel APIs. Then we will focus in on the most promising, most useful, and modern feature of Python’s async capabilities: the async and await keywords. During the webcast, we will build a small application that…

Vue.js describes itself as an approachable, versatile, and performant JavaScript framework. Vue.js is gaining in popularity among developers because it’s lightweight, intuitive, easy to learn, and combines many of the best characteristics of the most popular JavaScript frameworks such as React and Angular. In this webinar, Chris will explain what Vue.js is and he’ll show…

Bootstrap 4 is the latest version of the popular CSS and JavaScript framework originally created by Twitter. Through live coding demos, Chris will show how Bootstrap makes creating dynamic and responsive web user interfaces easy. You’ll also learn how Bootstrap 4 differs from previous versions, and get some tips for whether and how to upgrade…

If you learned JavaScript before 2015, you may have noticed that the syntax used by today’s popular JavaScript frameworks looks very different from the JavaScript you know. JavaScript got a major upgrade in 2015, and it has been gaining new and useful features every year as part of its new annual version update schedule. In…

So you’ve got the latest in build automation around your Git checkins and PR’s. You’ve set up your CI system to feed into a Continuous Deployment solution and are VSTS/Octopus/Chef/Puppet-ing your way happily through the journey that is DevOps. Not so fast. You’re forgetting the third DevOps pillar – Continuous Monitoring. Without good telemetry and…

The heart of software systems today is data storage. As software development cycles get shorter, database development is being forced to adapt the same pace. It’s increasingly important to be able to combine Agile practices with data storage development. In this webinar, you’ll get an overview of Data DevOps and the practices which can enable…

Not all databases are SQL databases. In recent years, demand for non-relational databases has grown into document, column family, and graph databases. Microsoft’s answer to this demand is Azure Cosmos DB, the multi-paradigm managed platform that gives developers options and organizations power to scale globally with all these models. In this webinar, you’ll get an…

In this webinar, you’ll learn what React is and how it fits into the big picture of modern web development. Through live coding demos, you’ll learn about the key concepts of React, including: the Virtual DOM, one-way data flow, and how to write, test, and compose React components.

Bots are consuming our digital world from SMS messages to Facebook Messenger allowing us to accomplish things we never thought we could before. The Microsoft Bot Framework allows anyone to build a bot once and allow it to be consumed through multiple channels. In this webinar, we’ll go over the different components of the Bot…

Natural language understanding is one of the core aspects of deep learning, and using it as part of your application can make or break it. With Microsoft’s Language Understanding Intelligent Services, or LUIS, you don’t need to know how to create a deep learning model for your application. In this webinar, we’ll go over what…

Azure Databricks is an exciting new platform, designed with the founders of Apache Spark, to provide one-click setup, streamlined workflows, and an interactive workspace that enables collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts. In this webinar, we’ll go over Azure Databricks, and explore where and how it fits into the Azure Data Platform.…

Do you need to get quick insights on your data? Build a dashboard for your entire organization? How about a report that shows streaming content in real time? Power BI can do all of this and much more to get the most out of your data. In this webinar, we’ll introduce Power BI to give…