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.
The Chicago Software Development Community (SDC) will be having their monthly meeting on Sunday March 5th. David Giard of Microsoft will be presenting on what tools are available in HD Insight and how to use them to store, process, and analyze large amounts of data.
Doors open @ 12:30pm and David’s presentation starts @ 1pm. Register here with the MeetUp site.
Microsoft Tech Summit Chicago
If you are in Chicago in January you have your first opportunity for a free Microsoft Tech Summit on January 19th & 20th. Held @ McCormick Place’s Lakeside Building, you have 70 tech sessions to chose from including:
- Reinventing IT infrastructure for business agility
- Building serverless applications with Azure Functions
- Deep dive into Operations Management Suite for applications and infrastructure
- Let your apps and services engage users through conversations
You can sign up for on demand labs that you can start with now. A few of the labs include:
- Build cross-platform mobile apps with Xamarin and Microsoft Visual Studio
- Build web sites with ASP.NET Core
- Create and explore a Microsoft Power BI dashboard
- Deploy Microsoft Azure IaaS resources using ARM templates
- Deploy services using Azure Resource Manager templates
- Get hands-on with Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and learn to failover an enterprise application to Azure
Top Eagle Scout Project Transformations of 2015-2016
As an Eagle Scout myself, I’m wanted to share Scouting Magazine’s post highlighting Eagle Scout transformation projects in the last year.
AWS Chicago Suburbs Meetup: The Power of Cloud Foundry
Register for the upcoming AWS Chicago Suburb event The Power of Cloud Foundry. In this event, the attendees will obtain an understanding of how Cloud Foundry works including:
• Introduction to Cloud Foundry
• Main features
• Advantages and disadvantages of Cloud Foundry
• Brief overview of how to implement Cloud Foundry in your organization
• Demo and review of how Cloud Foundry could complement existing frameworks
• Q&A session
Chicago GOTO Scala Holiday Party
The GOTO Chicago and Scala Days teams will be having a holiday party celebrating the GOTO Chicago and Scala Days. Learn more about these two conference that will be held in Chicago 2017 by attending the party on December 1st.
Join the Angular Chicago Meetup
Live in the Chicagoland area and interested in Angular? A new Meetup group for likeminded people is for you. If you have a passion, or even a passing interest in Angular join them.
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Join Microsoft’s Annual Virtual Connect(); 2016 live stream to watch keynotes and deep dive technical sessions led by Executive Vice President Scott Guthrie, Principal Program Manager Scott Hanselman, and other industry innovators.
Analytics with Azure Machine Learning
Sign up for a free hands-on day of learning Microsoft Azure Machine Learning (ML) on Thursday November 17th. This data camp will teach you:
- Common machine learning algorithms
- Data sourcing options and model-building prep
- Selecting and setting up your first model
- Building predictive experiments
- Understanding and interpreting the output
