Boston Azure Podcast

Zach Gardner: Digitally Transforming a Call Center with Cosmos and SignalR

Questions:

• Can you introduce yourself?
• Where are you located?
• Do you get to code these days?
• How do you learn and stay up-to-date on the new stuff?
• What's the inspiration behind your "60 Second Architecture" videos on LinkedIn?
• Do you remember what your first technical presentation was?
• When did you start to get into Azure?
• What is the background story for the presentation you gave?
• What would you like to add or remove from your presentation?
• Do you have any tips for people learning Azure, SignalR or Cosmos?

Links:

• Presentation Recording: https://youtu.be/0b6nK4S0mOg
• Blog: https://keyholesoftware.com/blog/
• Twitter/X: @KeyholeSoftware
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zach-gardner-keyhole/

Deepthi Goguri: Azure SQL Security Concepts

Questions

• Can you introduce yourself?
• How do you like blogging (and inspiration behind it)?
• How hard was it to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer?
• How long have you been a Database Administrator?
• What do you think about all the software job opportunities in the US vs. India?
• Do you have any hobbies outside of technology?
• Any favorite podcasts?
• What was the first presentation you gave?
• When did you start your Azure journey?
• What's the background behind your presentation?
• Was there anything you wanted to add to the presentation that you didn't get to?
• Where there any questions you were expecting to be asked that weren't asked?
• What tools do you use?
• Any final tips or advice for people learning Azure Security or SQL Azure?

Links

• Presentation recording: https://youtu.be/HgmpvP6Z68E
• Blog: https://dbanuggets.com/
• Twitter: @dbanuggets
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepthigoguri/

Intro of podcast

Arindam Mitra: Map Azure DevOps Runtime Variables to Terraform Input Variables

Questions

• Can you introduce yourself?
• Where was your favorite place you've traveled and what was the favorite thing you did there?
• When did you start blogging?
• How do you seek out your presentation opportunities?
• Do you feel like you get better by presenting?
• What drove you to start using Azure?
• Do you have any advice for people who are getting into Azure?
• What's the background behind your presentation?
• Was there anything you wanted to add to the presentation that you didn't get to?
• Where there any questions you were expecting to be asked that weren't asked?
• Any final tips or advice for people learning DevOps and Terraform?

Links

• Presentation recording: https://youtu.be/-ssTKjHVP_Q
• Blog: https://dev.to/arindam0310018/
• GitHub: https://github.com/arindam0310018
• Twitter: @arindam0310018
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/arindam-mitra-28981095/

Intro of podcast

Carlos Lopez: Working with Azure SQL for Azure DevOps

Questions

• How did you first get involved with user groups?
• What was your first presentation?
• How did you start presenting all over the world?
• How big are the SQL Saturdays in Guatemala?
• Besides community events, what do you like to do for fun?
• Do you remember when you first got started with Azure?
• What was your experience and what drove you to it?
• How did you get into working with databases?
• Is there a backstory behind the presentation you gave the other night?
• Was there anything you didn't get to include in your talk that you wanted to?
• Were there any questions that weren't asked that you were hoping would be?
• Do you have any final tips or advice?

Links:

• Presentation recording: https://youtu.be/drm7kWsVRxw
• Website: https://www.muppity.net/
• Twitter: @carloslopezsql

Intro of podcast experiment

Vaibhav Gujral: Running Kubernetes in Azure using AKS

Questions

• How did you get involved with the Azure User Group there? Was is easy to get involved in the local Azure community?
• What do you like most about your community work? And is it worth it?
• Besides work and Azure community events (and certifications), what do you like to do for fun?
• When did you get into learning Azure?
• What's your thoughts on the differences between AWS and Azure?
• What's the story behind your presentation on AKS? Is there a backstory?
• Was there anything you wanted have in the presentation that you didn't get to add?
• Do you prefer presenting in person or virtual?
• Where there any questions you were expecting to be asked that weren't asked?
• Any final thoughts or tips about AKS?

Links

• Presentation recording: https://youtu.be/eNwBCKvco9Y
• Blog: https://vaibhavgujral.com
• Email: vaibhav@vaibhavgujral.com
• Twitter: @vaibhavgujral_
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vaibhavgujral/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/VaibhavGujral