Tuesday, March 21st the Chicago Suburban SQL User Group March meeting will be on ELT Cloud Architecture in Azure. Patrick Lendrum & Greg Marsh will be focusing on utilizing Microsoft Azure to create a robust architecture capable of handling data from a variety of sources (structured and semi-structured/unstructured ) to combine them in the cloud to create a data repository that becomes accessible to your reporting tool(s) of choice.
AGENDA:
5:30PM – Doors Open
6:00PM – Meeting Start with Dinner, Networking, & Open Q&A
6:30PM – Announcements, Sponsor Presentation, & Main Presentation
RSVP:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chisub-ssug-march-meeting-tickets-32824915205
Global Azure Bootcamp in Chicago on April 22nd
This will be the fifth year for the Global Azure Bootcamp. If you haven’t heard about Global Azure Bootcamp, it’s a one day event that spans the entire world. Last year almost 200 locations around the world met to learn about Azure, all in their own time zone and all with their own speakers. Many of the organizers and speakers are Microsoft MVPs and Regional Directors (RDs).
At its heart this is a community event and Microsoft is providing great new content built by them and the community in the form of the Technical Community Content repo on GitHub. It’s a great resource with all sorts of slide decks, code and labs.
Register on the website for updates. The Chicago website where information will be found is here.
Interested in learning how to integrate Power BI reports into Web & Mobile applications? Come to the March Chicago .NET User Group (CNUG) meeting @ the Microsoft Downers Grove office for a demo on Power BI Embedded to see how to integrate Power BI reports into your web or mobile applications.
The session will include:
• Introduction on Power BI Embedded discussing row level security
• Walk-through on deploying Power BI embedded solution using an Azure web app.
Agenda:
6:15 PM: Refreshments and networking hour
7:00 PM: Integrating Power BI reports into Web & Mobile applications
8:30 PM: Q&A and wrap-up.
Event sponsors: SPR Consulting
Raffle giveaway: JetBrains software
Register here to be on the building security list.
GOTO Nights Chicago Meetup – March 22nd
Check out the GOTO Nights in Chicago on March 22d.
GOTO Chicago 2017
May 1st and 2nd the GOTO Conference will be in Chicago for the fifth year in a row. GOTO is a software development conference designed for developers, team leads, architects and project managers. GOTO wanted to create a great social and learning experience and it’s been quite successful.
Make a week of it by considering going to the two days of conference and two days of workshops. Register here.
Microsoft will be having its first Chicago Global Integration Bootcamp on Saturday March 25th.
This event will be a full day of presentations and hands-on labs all focused on Microsoft integration technologies, including:
•BizTalk Server 2016
•Logic Apps
•Azure Service Bus
•Microsoft Flow
•API Management
•Enterprise Integration Pack
•EDI using Microsoft Cloud
Chicago will be joining locations all over the globe holding this event on the same day. Check out the global website for information about the global organizers and other locations, or follow the Twitter hashtag #integrationbootcamp.
Agenda
08:30 – 09:00 Welcome & Introduction to Azure (Microsoft)
09:00 – 09:45 Logic Apps + Flow + BizTalk 2016
09:45 – 10:30 Lab 1
10:30 – 11:15 Azure Enterprise Integration Pack + EDI
11:15 – 12:00 Lab 2
12:00 – 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 13:30 Logic Apps (cloud adapters) + Azure Functions + Azure Storage
13:30 – 14:15 Lab 3
14:15 – 15:00 API Management + API Apps
15:00 – 15:45 Lab 4
15:45 – 16:30 IoT Hub + Stream Analytics + PowerBI
You will need to bring your own laptop computer and Azure subscription to participate in the hands-on labs.
REGISTER! The 360 on Application Innovation
Microsoft’s Cloud Application Development team is hosting a new event “The 360 on Innovative Applications” in 12 cities across the USA (including Chicago on March 16th). The goal is to walk away with a 360 degree view of how you can architect and maintain applications with DevOps processes. Register here for Chicago and check out the different cities sites from here.
Dev in the Heart of Texas with VSLive
Check out the lineup for the VSLive Conference in Austin Texas May 15th to the 18th.
Chicago DevOps in the Burbs Inaugural Meetup
Chicago’s (more specifically Naperville located) DevOps in the Burbs will be having their inaugural meeting on Thursday April 6th. Register here.
The Chicago Azure and Chicago Microsoft Tech Meetup groups will be having a meeting on architecting Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates on Thursday March 16th @ 6pm in the Civic Opera Building.
Discover how ARM templates can transform the way the deploy your infrastructure, including pro tips learned in the field. Join 10th Magnitude Consulting Director Craig Rayome and Infrastructure Engineer Jennifer Morris for an evening of learning ARM templating basics and deployment methods, as well as how to deploy your infrastructure in a reliable and predictable way.
Register here.
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