Archives: Webinars

Microsoft Azure is an amazing platform. In just a few minutes, we can create an infrastructure to support a workload, but if this is not done in a structured way, we end-up with a disorganized Azure Subscription. In this session, we’ll show you how to generate ARM Templates for consistent and repeatable deployments, and how…

Kubernetes is the king of container orchestration and the results are clear: more than ever, employers are looking for IT professionals that know Kubernetes. It can, however, be hard to get started with Kubernetes, because it is not trivial software. In this webinar, we’ll help you get started with Kubernetes, particularly Azure Kubernetes Services, as…

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…