Getting Closer To Cloud Microsoft

In this episode of the 'Getting Closer To Cloud' podcast, we embrace the AI revolution. AI is eating software and is the next industrial revolution. Are you prepared for it?


Shane and Pete Introduce the concept of AI and discuss why it has recently become a topic of interest and discuss the history of AI and its development over time.
They then pivot to talk about the now, why is everyone talking about ChatGPT and how is it being used in various industries along with the future potential of AI to shape our lives before discussing the ethical implications and the potential for misuse.


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OpenAI : http://openai.com/
ChatGPT : http://chat.openai.com/


Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Chief Architect, ANZ, Microsoft
Dr. Peter Stanski - General Manager, Customer Success, ANZ, Microsoft

This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Dr Pete Stanski and Shane Baldacchino. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.

In this episode of the 'Getting Closer To Cloud' podcast, we welcome a new co-host, Developer Evangelist Lead at Microsoft, Michelle Sandford.

Are you a technologist that aspires to spend hone your stagecraft, or perhaps you have yet to deliver a presenation in front of your audience. In this unscripted, of the cuff episode of getting closer to the cloud Michelle and I riff over what it takes to delivery a cracking presentation. Be it in person or virtual we discuss what it takes to level up your game.
- How do you get in presenting?
- How do you preapre? Is your session relatable, is there a compelling story?
- How much time do you spend on building a presentation?
- You have delivered a session, now what? Can you scale it further?
- Dealing with the unexpected (demogods)
- Synopsis vs Content - Are you upholding that unwritten contact

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Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Chief Architect, ANZ, Microsoft
Michelle Sandford - Developer Evaneglist Lead, , ANZ, Microsoft

This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Dr Pete Stanski, Shane Baldacchino & Michelle Sandford. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.

In this episode of the 'Getting Closer To Cloud' podcast, we cover all things Open Source.

Open Source has changed the software development industry, and consequently many others, we’ve witnessed first-hand Microsoft’s transformation as a company. It fosters innovation and attracts developer talent.

We start the show talking about the why in Open source. The engineering economics it graces you with, so you can invest in high value tasks that are truly business differentiating.

We take a journey through history and time (and also to Mars) and explore how Microsoft has pivoted as a company; today how open Source is at the core of our business. What we are giving back, what projects we support and lift the lid on how we do Open Source at Microsoft (hint - see https://opensource.microsoft.com).

We speak in depth about VsCode, and Gatekeeper and discuss how Azure is enabling and making open source easier every day and meeting you on your terms.

From a public AKS roadmap through to new first party SDK's in GO and beyond, the story of open source and Azure, gets better every day.


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Microsoft Open Source : https://opensource.microsoft.com
Project Olympus: https://www.opencompute.org/wiki/Server/ProjectOlympus
DOS GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
Gatekeeper: https://github.com/open-policy-agent/gatekeeper
VsCode: http://vscode.dev

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Chief Architect, ANZ, Microsoft
Dr. Peter Stanski - General Manager, Customer Success, ANZ, Microsoft

This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Dr Pete Stanski and Shane Baldacchino. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.

In this episode of the 'Getting Closer To Cloud' podcast, we cover a round of handpicked announcements that occurred in the months of June and July of 2022

- Responsible AI and the changes we are making on platform by protecting the rights and safety of customers in line of our AI Principles. Specific Azure cognitive services will now be gated and others deprecated.

- Static Web Apps CLI has now gone GA. A simple command line interface for building static web apps locally with dynamic content in the form of API's, plus the ability to deploy into azure.

- CosmosDB, a staple of NoSQL and the ability to drive web-scale, cloud native technologies. Tell your friends and family, you can now get started without a credit card. All you need is a Microsoft or GitHub account.

- Synthetic Monitoring for Azure Monitor is now GA, meaning you can embed some really clever logic giving you more choice

- Azure private resolver, allowing you to provide simplified hybrid DNS resolution between on premises and cloud and vice versa.

- Lastly, we are a company of builders and as a company of builders we have added the Azure Go SDK to our first party SDK's

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Responsible AI : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/facelimitedaccess/
AI Principles : https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai?SilentAuth=1&wa=wsignin1.0&rtc=1&activetab=pivot1%3aprimaryr6
Cognitive Services Limited Access : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/cognitive-services-limited-access
Azure Go SDK : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/general-availability-azure-sdk-for-go/
Azure Go SDK Github : https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-sdk-for-go-samples/
Cosmos DB : Try for Free : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/updates/generally-available-improved-try-azure-cosmos-db-for-free-experience/ | https://cosmos.azure.com/try/
Azure DNS Private Resolver : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-azure-dns-private-resolver-now-in-preview/

Synthetic Monitoring GA: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-application-insights-standard-test-for-synthetic-monitoring/
Static Web Apps CLI : https://azure.github.io/static-web-apps-cli/

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Chief Architect, ANZ, Microsoft
Dr. Peter Stanski - General Manager, Customer Success, ANZ, Microsoft

This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Dr Pete Stanski and Shane Baldacchino. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.

In this episode of the 'Getting Closer To Cloud' podcast, we cover our major annual developer conference, Microsoft Build (https://mybuild.microsoft.com/)

Microsoft Build, aimed at software engineers and web developers using Windows, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies.

With 301 sessions, we dissect Build and give you the low down on the major announcements.

- Azure Container Apps (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/container-apps/#overview) | Is now GA (Generally Available). Allowing developers and builders the world over to run containers without worrying about servers. Serverless. Throw us your containers and we will run these for you. Greatly reducing the effort to operationalise containers at scale.

- DevBox (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/introducing-microsoft-dev-box/ba-p/3412063) | it is all in the name, your development box in the cloud.
A new cloud service that provides developers with secure, ready-to-code developer workstations for hybrid teams of any size. Microsoft Dev Box empowers developers to focus on the code only they can write, making it easy for them to access the tools and resources they need without worrying about workstation configuration and maintenance.

At the same time, Dev Box ensures unified management, security, and compliance stay in the hands of IT by leveraging Windows 365 to integrate Dev Boxes with Intune and Microsoft Endpoint Manager.

- .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-maui-one-codebase-many-platforms/) | is also GA, it is a new framework for building modern multi platform natively compiled apps for iOS, Android, macOS and Windows using C# and XAML in a single codebase. The framework solves the challenges developers face when building native apps across many operating systems. Instead of having to learn multiple technology stacks, .NET MAUI abstracts them into one common framework built on .NET 6.

- GitHub Co Pilot (https://copilot.github.com/) | Your AI pair programmer they will give you suggestions for whole lines or entire functions right inside your editor. Currently in technical preview it will help you not only help increase the speed of development but may also teach you a new trick or two.

If you missed parts of Microsoft Build, remember sessions are available on demand, so I would encourage you to find some time and sharpen your saw and consume a session or 3.

We value your feedback as it helps drive the direction of this show. Send us a message at gctc@microsoft.com

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Chief Architect, ANZ, Microsoft
Dr. Peter Stanski - General Manager, Customer Success, ANZ, Microsoft

This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Dr Pete Stanski and Shane Baldacchino. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.

In this genesis episode of the 'Think Customer Podcast', we introduce you to our hosts, Shane & Dr Pete and set the tenants for what is the 'Think Customer Podcast'.

It's about Azure, but it also not just about Azure, we’re about your success so we will also jump around to the wide and deep within Microsoft and non-Microsoft technology with you.

- What are common industry trends that you need to be aware of? Can you, or should you implement them into your tech stack?
- After setting the direction of the show we talked about what is modern cloud architecture. The game has changed, where are you on your journey? Can we help you climb this curve?
- The best way to get started on your journey is the Azure Free Tier! A great way to jump in and experiment in a low friction way.
- Tagging, if there is one thing we can both say with confidence is when you are building on cloud, spend the time and derive a tagging strategy. This rich meta data can aid your organisation in so many ways, so before you get to deep on your journey, think about tagging.
- How could we not touch on Well Architected, it’s a design methodology to help advance the maturity of your workloads. Whenever you build on Azure, think Well Architected
- Finally, we discussed a few updates on platform. Azure welcomes ARM, now giving you more choice than just x86 and a way to run your workloads and what's more up to 50% cheaper for the same levels of performance.

We value your feedback as it helps drive the direction of this show. Send us a message at thinkcustomer@microsoft.com

Speakers:
Shane Baldacchino - Chief Architect, ANZ, Microsoft
Dr. Peter Stanski - General Manager, Customer Success, ANZ, Microsoft


This podcast is produced by Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employees, Dr Pete Stanski and Shane Baldacchino. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.”