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I am a big fan of open source and cross-platform. And I also work for a company that build Windows and cares about security. So what tools do I use to get st...
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Devops
GitHub Models
GitHub Models in public preview: Every developer can now become an AI developer with AI models in GitHub Marketplace integrated with Code 🎉 Blog post Video...
.NET Conf Focus on AI
The recording of dotnetconf with a focus on AI is here: 8 hours of in-depth content on a variety of .NET solutions with artificial intelligence. YouTube pla...
Startup Azure subscriptions and tenants
When you are new to a technology, vendor or ecosystem, you may find that others talk about concepts, which may be common to them but alien to you. Tenants an...
Startup Microsoft Entra
In previous posts I described ways to get started with Azure, and walked through the steps required to create an Azure subscription. Since identity is consid...
Startup Azure free trial
I like to experiment with technology. Recently I was wondering what it looks like to start to use Azure as a new customer nowadays. In another post I explain...
Startup on Azure
During my work with customers everyday, I have met various types and sizes of organizations. Sure, this would vary depending on the organization or departmen...
Volunteering at three local events
Recently I was able to meet real people at events: AI Community Day, Experts Live, and Azure Lowlands. These events cost money to attend, but you can get in ...
Azure Functions performance
Two interesting blog posts on Azure Functions performance and scale:
Microsoft Q&A
❓ Do you have a question about Microsoft technologies but afraid to ask?
Dapr
Dapr is a distributed application runtime that helps manage common challenges in development. Simply put: every app has state it needs to store, and services...
.NET Aspire
As you know, I love how Microsoft Azure has changed my work from competition between languages and products to freedom of choice. No more: my language is bet...
Radius CNCF sandbox
At Ignite, project Radius was announced. This week Radius was accepted as CNCF sandbox project.
.NET 8 and AI quickstarts
If you’ve been thinking of infusing your existing .NET apps with generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs), now is a great time to dive in and we have...
Azure AI cli
I just used Azure AI CLI, a cross-platform tool in preview that can connect your application to Azure AI services and perform operations without having to wr...
Web development for beginners
Get ready to build your next great web app with .NET! ASP.NET Core is a fully featured and high-performance web framework that ships as part of the .NET plat...
Mastering GitHub copilot
Unlock the power of collaborative coding with our comprehensive curriculum on Mastering GitHub Copilot for Paired Programming. This cutting-edge program seam...
mslearn.link
In January 2022 I moved from Microsoft Netherlands to Microsoft Corp to work on Microsoft Learn. At the time our team started to run various programs to grow...
Global AI conference
Global AI Conference is an online conference organized by the community to share the latest and greatest about artificial intelligence. Join us for many pres...
WebAssembly with .NET
About 10 years ago, containers were the big change in application development and deployment. Since then, a lot has changed: technology has evolved, people h...
C# for beginners
Interested in learning c# (or how to create dev videos)? Watch the c# for beginners series.
Radius
Radius is a new project from the Azure incubations team. It helps devs and ops engineers to collaborate by defining an app’s cloud-native infrastructure as c...
Azure portal copilot
Hi copilot, can you please show me the steps and cli commands to host a nosql database and webapp in Azure? 😍
ASP chisel and trim
Excited about dotnetconf this week? How about this: ASPNET runs on Linux and containers (for 7+ years). By default 217MB 🤔 using Ubuntu for compatibility. Wa...
Applied skills challenges
I just earned a new Applied Skill credential on Microsoft Learn 🎉, and so can you 😍 (A 2-hour hands-on test in an interactive Azure lab environment) Read mor...
Bicep
Intro music myvideo outro links like/subscribe
Python day
todo
Microsoft Learn contributor home
Microsoft Learn is the authority for documentation and training content of Microsoft products and services. Our writers and product groups do their best to p...
AI challenge
todo
New year plans
This week is an interesting one for people working in a team with people in the United States, where the 4th of July is a public holiday, and many people tak...
Year in review
One year ago I restarted blogging. I was planning to experiment with content in various ways. This resulted in 40 (sometimes micro) blog posts, roughly one p...
Azure CNI with Cilium
As a devops engineer, I don’t want to worry about compute, storage, and networking :-) I learned this the hard way at a calico training in a previous life.
Generative AI
By now, you have heard about chatgpt, and probably also tried it yourself. Maybe you had it create a paragraph of text for a blog post, or create an image of...
Repos for beginners
Democratizing knowledge the pragmatic way Did you know about Microsoft repos for beginners?
My Build 2023
todo
Learning the big three
Technology trends come in waves. Sometimes they change something, and sometimes they just fade. Recently I have seen quite some discussion about various java...
Continuous validation
Recently I ran into an interesting project that deserves more attention: Mission critical online. And they made it to Azure Friday, so it is not exactly a se...
30 days of cloud-native and Learn Collections
The cloud-native new year is a great way to learn about on Azure Kubernetes Service, Container Apps and Functions. If you are interested in that, head over t...
Defender for DevOps
Earlier this year I studied GitHub learning paths to prepare for the GitHub advanced security exam. Recently there was a new reason to play with advanced sec...
Entra and Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Using Microsoft Graph’s APIs and the corr...
Azure Active Directory for developers
Azure Active Directory helps developers authenticate users in any app and any language. There are a few concepts you should know about.
Secure webassembly
At KubeCon in Detroit there was much attention for webassembly, a very interesting development although still in early stages. When you have followed the dev...
Azure developer cli
DevOps Starter is a service that can help you get started with Azure very quickly: with just a few clicks you can select a programming language, and a comput...
Accessing Microsoft Azure using powershell or command-line interface
In this video I use Windows Terminal to access Azure using powershell, command prompt, ubuntu bash through windows subsystem for linux and azure cloud shell.
Artificial intelligence
Sample prompts
While I was at the AI tour in Berlin last week, I noticed that hearing other people’s experience with copilots help me think out of the box and make me try m...
My RAG chat
As first step to experiment with the RAG chat sample, I adopted it to forget the sample data and learn about my own blog posts instead. The sample shows a qu...
Techorama 2024
This week I helped the organization of Techorama Netherlands. The event was held on tuesday and wednesday in Utrecht. It was a fantastic place to meet engine...
Webassembly and OCI
Distribute webassembly components using OCI registries! 🎉 See this blog post about creating a webassembly component in Rust and pushing it to GitHub Packages...
RAG Chat
The planned explaining posts of the RAG sample may have to wait, since other things are happening :-) First, Pamela Fox, who created the sample, presented a...
AI Samples
Starting from scratch can be daunting. I prefer to reuse a sample of some sort and then customize to my needs. This means you may have a bit of a learning cu...
RAG Hack
Retrieval Augmented Generation Hackathon starts on September 3. Repo with more info, stream schedule, samples, registration: https://aka.ms/raghack Large la...
GitHub Models
GitHub Models in public preview: Every developer can now become an AI developer with AI models in GitHub Marketplace integrated with Code 🎉 Blog post Video...
Build 2024
Microsoft Build in May and Ignite in November are the top events organized by Microsoft. To no one’s surprise, much of the news at Build this week was about ...
PyCon 2024
PyCon is happening this week. It is a great conference and we have lots of interesting content too, incl presentations on debugger, cpython, dev environments...
Phi3 SLM
By now you get the point that artificial intelligence gets a lot of attention. Large language models and generative ai provide new capabilities and opporunit...
Azure copilot journey
Earlier I shared my excitement about Azure copilot.
Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator
Are you using Kubernetes and wondering how to add AI to it? 🤔 Take a look at Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) to deploy an AI model to AKS 🎉
.NET 8 and AI quickstarts
If you’ve been thinking of infusing your existing .NET apps with generative AI & Large Language Models (LLMs), now is a great time to dive in and we have...
Azure AI cli
I just used Azure AI CLI, a cross-platform tool in preview that can connect your application to Azure AI services and perform operations without having to wr...
AI chat app hack
Build, innovate and hack together!
Azure AI studio
Dive into Azure AI Studio to learn how your customers can build generative AI applications such as an enterprise chat copilot. We’ll share how to use prebuil...
Mastering GitHub copilot
Unlock the power of collaborative coding with our comprehensive curriculum on Mastering GitHub Copilot for Paired Programming. This cutting-edge program seam...
Global AI conference
Global AI Conference is an online conference organized by the community to share the latest and greatest about artificial intelligence. Join us for many pres...
Azure portal copilot
Hi copilot, can you please show me the steps and cli commands to host a nosql database and webapp in Azure? 😍
Azure AI engineer
I just passed exam AI-102 and received the Azure AI Engineer certification 🎉 And so can you 🙂
30 days of Azure AI
It’s AI April!
Azure AI
Previously data science and artificial intelligence were areas only accessible for people who had studied it during their master or phd. While some parts are...
Open-source
PyCon 2024
PyCon is happening this week. It is a great conference and we have lots of interesting content too, incl presentations on debugger, cpython, dev environments...
Radius CNCF sandbox
At Ignite, project Radius was announced. This week Radius was accepted as CNCF sandbox project.
Web development for beginners
Get ready to build your next great web app with .NET! ASP.NET Core is a fully featured and high-performance web framework that ships as part of the .NET plat...
mslearn.link
In January 2022 I moved from Microsoft Netherlands to Microsoft Corp to work on Microsoft Learn. At the time our team started to run various programs to grow...
WebAssembly with .NET
About 10 years ago, containers were the big change in application development and deployment. Since then, a lot has changed: technology has evolved, people h...
C# for beginners
Interested in learning c# (or how to create dev videos)? Watch the c# for beginners series.
Radius
Radius is a new project from the Azure incubations team. It helps devs and ops engineers to collaborate by defining an app’s cloud-native infrastructure as c...
ASP chisel and trim
Excited about dotnetconf this week? How about this: ASPNET runs on Linux and containers (for 7+ years). By default 217MB 🤔 using Ubuntu for compatibility. Wa...
Python day
todo
Microsoft Learn contributor home
Microsoft Learn is the authority for documentation and training content of Microsoft products and services. Our writers and product groups do their best to p...
AI challenge
todo
New year plans
This week is an interesting one for people working in a team with people in the United States, where the 4th of July is a public holiday, and many people tak...
Year in review
One year ago I restarted blogging. I was planning to experiment with content in various ways. This resulted in 40 (sometimes micro) blog posts, roughly one p...
Azure CNI with Cilium
As a devops engineer, I don’t want to worry about compute, storage, and networking :-) I learned this the hard way at a calico training in a previous life.
Generative AI
By now, you have heard about chatgpt, and probably also tried it yourself. Maybe you had it create a paragraph of text for a blog post, or create an image of...
Repos for beginners
Democratizing knowledge the pragmatic way Did you know about Microsoft repos for beginners?
My Build 2023
todo
KubeCon EU 2023
Last week I attended KubeCon. Nowadays I don’t have much opportunity to travel to conferences, so when one of the biggest events shows up about 30 kilometers...
Azure. Cloud for all.
A couple of years ago Azure had the tagline: Cloud for all. I loved that because it made clear that you can run your solution on Azure, regardless of the ope...
Kubernetes
KubeCon EU 2024 Azure day
KubeCon EU happened in Paris from March 19 to 22. Before the main event, Microsoft organized a preday about Azure. The recorded presentations from that day a...
Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator
Are you using Kubernetes and wondering how to add AI to it? 🤔 Take a look at Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator (KAITO) to deploy an AI model to AKS 🎉
KubeCon EU 2023
Last week I attended KubeCon. Nowadays I don’t have much opportunity to travel to conferences, so when one of the biggest events shows up about 30 kilometers...
AKS start here
When you want to learn more about running Kubernetes on Azure, Microsoft Learn has you covered from training, reference implementations to operations best pr...
Azure Kubernetes Service 102
This post follows a previous article on creating an Azure Kubernetes Service cluster.
Azure Kubernetes Service introduction
In previous roles I used to work a lot with containers. Next month KubeCon is happening close to my home and I will be helping out at the booth and discussin...
AKS free tier
Last week the free tier for Azure Kubernetes Service was announced. Although it is correct, it also requires elaboration.
.NET and Linux and containers
Did you know DotNet runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows? It also runs in containers. .NET 6.0 is the long-term support (3 years) version released last year. .NE...
Azure. Cloud for all.
A couple of years ago Azure had the tagline: Cloud for all. I loved that because it made clear that you can run your solution on Azure, regardless of the ope...
Community
Most valuable professional
Once upon a time I was a Microsoft most valuable professional. At the time, I worked in a company that facilitated knowledge sharing and I worked with other ...
Microsoft Build cloud skills challenge
Microsoft Build is happening on May 23-24. Both Build and Ignite are big events at Microsoft; many product groups prepare to have something interesting to pr...
DotNet appreciation
As you know, I am a big fan of openness:
Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is an annual worldwide event held during the month of October. The event encourages open source developers to contribute to repositories throug...
Experimenting with content
I love to learn all the things in information technology. And I think sharing those learnings are a great way to learn them even better: To explain things, y...
Contributing
In this post I described a recent conference presentation about sharing knowledge and becoming a thought leader. There are lots of ways to share like social ...
Share your knowledge
On June 30 Sherry List and I presented at Azure Lowlands in Utrecht Netherlands. This was a great experience for many of reasons.
Security
Secure VM access using Azure Bastion
In previous episodes you may have witnessed me use a virtual machine in Azure. I always do that using Azure Bastion, which gives you secure access to Linux a...
Defender for DevOps
Earlier this year I studied GitHub learning paths to prepare for the GitHub advanced security exam. Recently there was a new reason to play with advanced sec...
Secure webassembly
At KubeCon in Detroit there was much attention for webassembly, a very interesting development although still in early stages. When you have followed the dev...
Ignite 2022
This week was about Ignite. Build, which happened earlier in the year, and Ignite are big Microsoft events where many product announcements are made.
Azure security on AWS
Did you know you can use Azure services to secure AWS?
GitHub learning paths
Recently I learned about three GitHub learning paths and certifications. Since one of them is on security, I decided to explore that one.
Zero trust learning path
intro
Identity
Microsoft Entra
Intro
Entra and Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph is the gateway to data in Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility + Security. Using Microsoft Graph’s APIs and the corr...
Azure Active Directory for developers
Azure Active Directory helps developers authenticate users in any app and any language. There are a few concepts you should know about.
30 days of Microsoft Graph
Everyday millions of people spend their precious time on productivity tools. What if you use data and intelligence behind the Microsoft applications (Microso...
Identity summit
On September 22 I attended Cloud Identity Summit in Bonn, Germany. Stefan van der Wiele informed me of the event, where he was going to run a workshop on Azu...
Identity videos
Check out these six videos by April Edwards and Christos Matskas on Getting started with Microsoft Identity.
Learn
30 days of cloud-native and Learn Collections
The cloud-native new year is a great way to learn about on Azure Kubernetes Service, Container Apps and Functions. If you are interested in that, head over t...
Microsoft Q&A update
There are many things we don’t know but others may: Sometimes you seach for answers, ask a colleague or a friend, or post on a forum. For that last option th...
Learn rebrand
Microsoft Learn is the new home for all technical content, learning tools and resources. Documentation is still there https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/?wt.m...
GitHub learning paths
Recently I learned about three GitHub learning paths and certifications. Since one of them is on security, I decided to explore that one.
Cybersecurity architect
SC-100 Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert
Linux
Ubuntu on Surface laptop studio
Recently I received a new work laptop, a Surface Laptop Studio and previously a Surface Book. Obviously Surface devices run Windows by default. And I also wa...
Secure VM access using Azure Bastion
In previous episodes you may have witnessed me use a virtual machine in Azure. I always do that using Azure Bastion, which gives you secure access to Linux a...
.NET and Linux and containers
Did you know DotNet runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows? It also runs in containers. .NET 6.0 is the long-term support (3 years) version released last year. .NE...
Azure. Cloud for all.
A couple of years ago Azure had the tagline: Cloud for all. I loved that because it made clear that you can run your solution on Azure, regardless of the ope...
Architecture
What makes great architecture diagrams
Draw, reuse, tell stories, contribute
Azure Architecture Center
Me: “Write a blog post about #azure #architecture #center”
Cost management
There is a new cost optimization campaign, which reminded me I haven’t blogged about cost management yet.
Contributing
Hacktoberfest
Hacktoberfest is an annual worldwide event held during the month of October. The event encourages open source developers to contribute to repositories throug...
Contributing
In this post I described a recent conference presentation about sharing knowledge and becoming a thought leader. There are lots of ways to share like social ...
Conferences
Ignite 2022
This week was about Ignite. Build, which happened earlier in the year, and Ignite are big Microsoft events where many product announcements are made.
Identity summit
On September 22 I attended Cloud Identity Summit in Bonn, Germany. Stefan van der Wiele informed me of the event, where he was going to run a workshop on Azu...
Dotnet
DotNet appreciation
As you know, I am a big fan of openness:
.NET and Linux and containers
Did you know DotNet runs on Linux, MacOS and Windows? It also runs in containers. .NET 6.0 is the long-term support (3 years) version released last year. .NE...
DevOps
Resiliency
Quality in terms of reliability and resiliency is getting attention lately. For the past decade, I have worked with customers to create solutions in the publ...
Azure portal export to terraform and bicep
The Azure Portal has new functionality in preview to export resource templates in terraform and bicep, next to Azure resource manager. This is a great additi...
Code
VS Code day 2023
This week the VS Code day happened. If you missed it, you can catch up the recordings of 15 presentations ranging from VS Code essentials, GitHub integration...
LinkedIn learning paths
In LinkedIn Learning, I looked at career journey, which has career goals and role guides. For instance, I entered product manager as career goal, which has a...
Product management
LinkedIn learning paths
In LinkedIn Learning, I looked at career journey, which has career goals and role guides. For instance, I entered product manager as career goal, which has a...