Exploring Cloud concepts with Chris Reddington (Welsh Tech Geek, Cloud Advocate, Musical Theatre Enthusiast and Improving Improviser!). We will regularly invite guests to talk about their experiences with the cloud and hear about some of the lessons learned around their cloud journey.
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CGN8 - Cloud Gaming Notes Episode 8 - Azure for Game Developers
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In this session, Chris is joined by LaBrina Loving who leads Developer Advocacy for Game Developers at Microsoft who will share her journey as a .Net Developer working in enterprise into the world of gaming. We will cover some of the key challenges that game developers of all sizes face and how cloud can help.…
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Tales From the Real World - Shift Left Your Performance Tests
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Perf Testing has traditionally been a higher environment activity. This leads to issues such as performance issues being identified late in the cycle, high MTTR for such issues, unplanned work, etc. However applying “Shift Left” to Performance Testing is a hard problem to solve. In this episode, Chris is joined by HariKrishnan as they talk through …
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Ten years and more passed since Patrick Debois coined the term DevOps, in 2009. In the IT world, nothing is definitive. All the technologies and techniques continue to evolve following an innovation trend that we cannot stop. We cannot merely say: ‘I’m tired of changing; please give me a rest.’ The only option is to be ready for the change. In DevO…
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Listen in to this session as Chris is joined by Thomas Thornton, as they talk about DevOps in real-world scenarios.By Chris Reddington and Thomas Thornton
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V037 - Weekly Technology Vlog #37 (GitHub Issues Beta Special!)
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In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what’s coming soon and Azure related news! We’ll also be walking through the new GitHub Issues Beta!By Chris Reddington
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Tales From the Real World - Architecting the Transformation
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Most organizations engaged in transformation today are moving from left to right in digitally-driven maturity models. The objectives are well known: increase agility, boost productivity, and provide seamless digital experiences for consumers. Architects play a pivotal role as the curators of this transformation. In this session, Asanka will share h…
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In this episode, Chris is joined by Susanne Tedrick. Susanne is an Azure Infrastructure Specialist for Microsoft and the award-winning author of “Women of Color in Tech”. They will discuss the basic technical and business considerations to be made when migrating applications and workloads to the cloud, based on the Cloud Adoption Framework.…
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V036 - Talking Cloud and Playing Among Us With the Community
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.By Chris Reddington
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Tales From the Real World - Leveraging Azure as a Telco Provider
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In this session Chris is joined by Ivo who will explain how Telco providers are leveraging Azure to offer services to their customers. He will explain how they transform and what the future will be. He will also cover the benefits and struggles that they faced on the way.By Chris Reddington and Ivo Haagen
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CGN7 - Cloud Gaming Notes Episode 7 - Game Streaming and Cloud-Powered Gaming
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In this session, Chris is once again joined by Lee Williams. Chris and Lee talk through industry trends around Game Streaming (i.e. streaming games to your device, rather than livestreaming what you’re playing to others), and the opportunities this brings to game creators and consumers.By Chris Reddington and Lee Williams
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In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what’s coming soon and Azure related news!By Chris Reddington
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In this session, Chris is joined by Martin Woodward - Director of Developer Relations at GitHub to talk about building communities, building experience talking and leading communities and then of Developer Relations, what it means and how to get into that role as your job.By Chris Reddington and Martin Woodward
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Why Closed Captions in Your Public Speaking May Make a Difference
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People with hearing impairments are often overlooked, yet they are actually in greater numbers most people believe. In this talk, I’ll give insight to those people. I know this of my own experience since I am deaf user with Cochlear Implants which gives me a hearing back, but it is not a full hearing as you might hope for. I also can give some insi…
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V034 - Sailing the Sea of Thieves While Talking Cloud
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.By Chris Reddington
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43 - A Decentralized Reference Architecture for Cloud-Native Applications
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The number of microservices running in enterprises increases daily. As a result, service composition, governance, security, and observability are becoming a challenge to implement and incorporate. A “cell-based” architecture is an approach that can be applied to current or desired development and technologies to address these issues. This technolog…
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Discussing the Cloud With Chris Integration Platform
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In this session, Chris is joined by Karl Cooke, Blogger at https://irishtechie.com. Chris and Karl talk all about the CloudWithChris.com integration platform, and the numerous automation/integration activities that Chris has in place to save time and focus on building content!By Chris Reddington and Karl Cooke
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Find Vulns in Your Code Before They Find You
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In this session, Chris is joined by DeveloperSteve Coochin, a Developer Advocate at Snyk. In this episode, Chris and Steve talk about vulns in the wild for a bit (well and to geek out in general), especially on the back of some research that Steve did recently on the likes of PHP. Steve has recently been looking into the security vulns that get let…
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In this video, Chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what’s coming soon and Azure related news!By Chris Reddington
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44 - AKS, AGIC and Kubenet - Tips and Tricks to Make It Work
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When using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), there’s a chance that kubenet might be the only possible choice due to your requirements. If so, you may still want to use Application Gateway Ingress Controller (AGIC) to leverage Azure Application Gateway’s Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. In this session, we will make the journey together to…
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Tales From the Real World - Azure AD B2C: A Real Silver Bullet
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Due to COVID-19, vOpen.Tech had to move so quickly from being a physical event to a virtual one. That meant that collecting registrations and user info as well as registering users had to be done online. Azure AD B2C was the silver bullet that allowed us to overcome and succeed, with almost no code and in less that 15 days! In this session we will …
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How to Be Successful With Monitoring in Azure
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In this session, Chris is joined by Vanessa Bruwer - Senior Engineer on the FastTrack for Azure team. Vanessa talks how the FastTrack for Azure team deliver monitoring sessions; teaching customers to fish, taking them from knowing nothing about Azure Monitor to being able to configure monitoring for any service in a few focussed sessions. Ready to …
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In this video, chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what’s coming soon and Azure related news!By Chris Reddington
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Tales From the Real World – Helping Veterans Transition Into IT and Learn Azure
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In this session, Chris is joined by Dr. Keith McNally. Dr. Keith teaches Azure Cloud to help transitioning military members gain employment in the IT industry. By using a project-based learning structure, he helps adult learners the features and functionality of Microsoft Azure. In this session, Chris and Keith talk through how this work came toget…
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V030 - Sailing the Sea of Thieves While Talking Cloud
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.By Chris Reddington
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Lessons Learned From Cultivating Open Source Projects and Communities
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In this episode, Chris is joined by JJ Asghar as they talk through lessons learned from cultivating open source projects and communities. Over the last decade, JJ has had the privilege professionally of building and cultivating some Open Source projects and communities.This isn’t a tools talk. This is a talk about the soft skills you have to have t…
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Cloud Drops - What Is Continuous Integration (CI)?
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Are you now working with source code? Whether that’s Application Code, Infrastructure as Code, Database Schemas or Data Science workbooks as code, you may have heard of a term ‘Continuous Integration’ (CI). This is the process of regularly merging code, and running a series of automated builds/tests/checks to ensure that quality remains high in you…
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V029 - Sailing the Sea of Thieves While Talking Cloud
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With ChrisBy Chris Reddington
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IoT Simulation, Azure IoT and Real World Learnings
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In this episode, Chris is joined by Peter Gallagher, Freelance Programmer for PJG Creations, Microsoft Azure MVP, Pluralsight Author… IoT Expert, proud dad, gadget addict and Meetup organiser. Peter talks about the various IoT simulators available, Azure IoT and his experiences IoT across his career. If you’re a maker or interested in IoT, then thi…
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris, while gaming with the Cloud Family Community.By Chris Reddington
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42 - How to Choose the 'Right' Datastore for Your Scenario
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There are so many types of data stores out there these days. You have relational, non-relational, documents, blob, tables, files and more. There’s also a growing awareness of ‘Polyglot Persistence’ where you use different data stores depending on the task. But how do you know which is the ‘right’ one? Chris is joined once again by Steph Martin as w…
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CGN6 - Cloud Gaming Notes Episode 6 - Gaming as Entertainment - Esports and Streaming
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Playing games has always been a social experience. Whether it’s board games, sports or video games - a multiplayer component is common. We see these experiences becoming forms of entertainment (e.g. watching our favourite sports teams compete). This trend continues into the Gaming Industry, as we see the growth of Esports in Gaming, as well as stre…
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Why a Diverse Team Is Crucial to Startup Success
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Team diversity refers to differences between members of startup team. Those differences can include demographic differences (like age, race, sex, ethnicity), personality (extrovert, introvert, and differing Myers-Briggs types) and functional (as in skill sets, like engineering, design, copywriting, and marketing). How does team diversity impact you…
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris. He also explores GitHub Copilot using Ruby and Python, looking into the potential that it has!By Chris Reddington
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In this episode, Chris is joined by Mert Yeter, a software engineer with 16 years of experience in .NET and Microsoft technologies. We’ll be talking all things DevOps on Azure, including Azure Container Registry, Azure Container Instances and Azure Kubernetes Service. We’ll also get a chance to talk about Traefik and how it’s pluggable middleware c…
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The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) brought you such fan favourites like Kubernetes & Prometheus. In this talk Annie Talvasto will introduce you the most interesting and coolest upcoming CNCF tools and projects. This compact and demo-filled talk will give you ideas and inspiration that you can 1) discover new technologies and tools to use …
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V026 - Sailing the Sea of Thieves While Talking Cloud
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In this session, Chris provides a series of updates focused around Azure, DevOps, GitHub and Cloud With Chris while sailing the seas with friends from the #CloudFamily Community. Like this episode? Please like the video, subscribe to the channel and hit the notification bell so that you know as soon as there’s new content!…
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40 - Failed Lawyer Stumbles Into Tech - Agile From the Trenches
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In this session Erin and Chris reminisce, talking about how they met and Erin’s journey into Technology. Erin talks a little bit about what Agile is, how it works in the real world, and shares some stories and anecdotes she’s seen as an Agile Coach in the trenches.By Chris Reddington and Erin Davies
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In this episode, Chris is joined by John Lunn, aka jonnychipz! An organizer of the Welsh Azure User Group, Blogger and Vlogger, Chris and John talk around 100 days of Cloud, Learning Cloud and Exam Certifications, Cloud Adoption and getting involved in the community. Wanted to start learning cloud, or getting more involved in the community? Then th…
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Azure & VMWare - A Discussion With Shannon Kuehn
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In this session, Chris is joined by Shannon Kuehn, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft. In this Livestream, they talk all about, Azure and VMWare and what this combination means for your cloud deployments!By Chris Reddington and Shannon Kuehn
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38 - Hands-on With the Geode Pattern (Build Globally Distributed Applications!)
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We’ve previously covered the theory of the Geode pattern in episode 11. Now it’s time to see it unfold live and in action! Tune in to see Will demonstrate the concept of the Geode pattern and how it adds value to a globally distributed application.By Chris Reddington and Will Eastbury
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Hybrid Cloud Update and Life as a Cloud Advocate
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In this session, Chris is joined by Senior Cloud Advocate Sarah Lean. Chris and Sarah will talk about the latest and greatest in the world of Hybrid Cloud, and explore the day-to-day experience of being a Cloud Advocate, working in the DevRel space.By Chris Reddington and Sarah Lean
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Discussing the Cloud With Chris GitHub Actions Usage
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In this session, Chris is joined by Karl Cooke - Implementation Specialist at Action Point Technology Group, Blogger at https://irishtechie.com. Chris and Karl talk all about how CloudWithChris.com, diving deep into GitHub actions and some of the considerations that were made along the way.By Chris Reddington and Karl Cooke
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In this video, Chris provides another update on Cloud with Chris, updates on what’s coming soon and the Azure, Azure DevOps and GitHub news!By Chris Reddington
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People often talk about work life balance, how its not working for them, and how they feel pushed over the limit. Lets dig into it a little, look at how it can be managed, and address some difficult truths as well.By Chris Reddington and Glen Small
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CGN5 - Cloud Gaming Notes Episode 5 - Building a Game Remotely
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Over the last year, our world has changed. Many of us have had to work from home due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. In this session, we’ll focus on the Gaming Industry and some of the types of cloud tools/technologies that may have been used to continue their internal collaboration and ultimately deliver games to gamers!…
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Welcome to weekly Vlog #21! We’ll be covering all of the latest from Microsoft Build!By Chris Reddington
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Tales From the Real World With Matt Bradley
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In this episode, Chris is joined by Matt Bradley! Matt helped start the Public Cloud Division at UKFast. While UKFast works with both AWS and Azure, Matt’s focus is on the Azure side, dealing with architecting and building solutions. Matt has delivered several talks within the community, including ‘The Azure Storage Minefield’. Join Chris and Matt …
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36 - Application Insights: The Tool You Never Knew You Needed
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Understanding how our applications function in the wild is essential for developers when issues arise. With the power of knowledge, we can enable ourselves to provide the best experience to our fellow developers, and our stakeholders. One of the solutions that supplies this power is Application Insights. Application Insights is a service provided b…
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