Azure
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HOW TO START CODING WHEN YOU DON’T KNOW WHERE TO START

As a Microsoft cloud advocate, I get to learn and share, and meet people from all over the world. Continue reading
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Azure DevOps and Jenkins in perfect harmony
I recently had the opportunity to present several talks at DevOps World | Jenkins World 2018 in San Francisco. It was a great experience as always, and I want to say thanks to those of you who visited our booth and checked out the talks from my myself and my fellow Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate… Continue reading
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Exxcited to be speaking at Voxxed Days Banff this weekend!
This is going to be ffun! It’s been years since I visited the Canadian Rockies, looking fforward to meeting some great folks and taking in a hot spring or two! Check out all the sessions from Microsoft on Saturday: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:30–12:30 — Perfecting reliable code delivery for the cloud with Microservices and OpenTracing Brian Benz… Continue reading
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Check out all the Microsoft recordings from SpringOne Platform 2018
Microsoft had a great presence at SpringOne Platform 2018 in Washington D.C. this year, including a booth with cool swag, demos, and giveaways, a keynote and several sessions! The recordings are up. Enjoy!: Bruno Borges Keynote: Watch Bruno Borges, Azure Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, present at SpringOne Platform 2018 about Microsoft in Open Source,… Continue reading
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Videos are (already) ready for the Java sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2018!
I’m amazed at how fast the Microsoft Ignite team turns around the session videos. We just finished last Friday and all the Java videos are ready today! Below are a listing of the talks, abstracts, speakers and the videos. Enjoy! BRK3207 — Build cloud-native applications using Java and open source tools Bruno Borges, Brian Benz Join us… Continue reading
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Check out the JAVA sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2018 this week in Orlando, Florida!
I’m at SpringOne Platform until Wednesday, (If you’re here, check out my talk 0on Tuesday @ 5:40 pm — 6:10 pm, Woodrow Wilson B-D — Beyond Windows — Hacking Cloud Apps on Linux and .NET for the Busy Java Developer with Maxime Rouiller). After taking in Bruno Borges’ main stage keynote @ 10AM Wednesday, I’ll be flying to Orlando for Microsoft Ignite.… Continue reading
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See you at DevOps World | Jenkins World in San Francisco!
Summer is over and the conference season is back! I had a great summer, and I hope everyone else did as well. Most of my time was spent at home building some cool demos and catching up on the latest technologies and offerings that Microsoft and our partners have developed for the cloud. Now it’s… Continue reading
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How-to videos — Microsoft Azure with Hashicorp Terraform, Packer, and Vault
I recently had some fun with my CDA colleague Zachary Deptawa and some folks from Hashicorp pulling together some demos and recording a few videos of our technologies working together. They results are now on YouTube! Related GitHub repos are in the comments where available: Introduction to using HashiCorp Terraform with Azure HashiCorp Terraform AzureRM… Continue reading
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Connecting Windows 10 to a fixed IP address outside of your network range
I’m working on a workshop for Scala days (Join us if you can! ) that includes setting up an Akka cluster on a set of three Raspberry Pis. The workshop organizers have very kindly shared a pre-built image with me, which will save me a TON of time, but also comes with a minor problem — the… Continue reading
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Build a Java and MySQL App on VMs and Containers in Azure
Today, Microsoft has announced the Generally Available (GA) release of our Azure Database for MySQL and Azure Database for PostgreSQL services on Azure. At Microsoft, a GA release has successfully passed through the preview release stage and is considered reliable, free of serious bugs, and suitable for use in production systems. In this post, I’ll… Continue reading