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Microsoft Hackathon 2024

I had the opportunity to join a great group of people from my organization (ISE) during the Microsoft Hackathon 2024, where I learned a lot about using GraphDBs for RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) purposes with AI. Combining knowledge about relationships between multiple elements and LLMs resulted in informative outputs from our own data that we had…

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Microsoft Azure Readiness Kit for DevCamps February 2016 update

Content for the Microsoft Azure Readiness Kit DevCamps has been recently updated to reflect the latest announcements, including PaaS, App Services, IaaS, Machine Learning, Data platform and storage, Media, Integration and Identity. Great resource for beginners that want to understand the Azure platform or for experts who need a quick refresh on the multiple Azure…

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PowerPoint presentations for the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp in Denver, CO April 2013

PowerPoint presentations used last April, during the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp in Denver, CO USA, can now be downloaded from this Skydrive location. The following files are included: – GWAB Denver Intro. – Windows Azure Platform overview. – Windows Azure Compute overview. – Windows Azure Storage overview. – Windows Azure Messaging overview. – Windows Azure…

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Global Windows Azure Bootcamp 2013 – Denver, CO USA

This Saturday, April 27th 2013, Microsoft will be hosting the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp at our office in Denver, Colorado. Brendon McCarthy, Joe Mayo, Bill Wegerson and I will be presenting on different topics, including hybrid cloud architectures, messaging and storage strategies. This one day deep dive class was created with developers in mind, wanting…

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PowerPoint presentations from the Azure OSS Summit in Argentina (Spanish)

We have published the PowerPoint slides from the Azure OSS Summit in Argentina, presented last week. They include the following topics (in Spanish, unless otherwise stated): 1. Introducción a Windows Azure. 1a. Microsoft GFS Datacenter tour (English only). 2. Arquitecturas Híbridas de Nube. 3. Desarrollo OSS en Windows Azure (PHP, Java, Python) 4. Motores de…

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PowerPoint presentations for the Windows Azure OSS summits in India

For those who attended the Windows Azure OSS Summits (Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore) in India, we just uploaded the PowerPoint presentations used during the different sessions, including: 1. Windows Azure Overview. 2. Building Hybrid Cloud Architectures 3. The OSS Developers Story 4. The OSS Data Story 5. Windows Azure and node.js They can be found here:…

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Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in Argentina, March 2013

Now is the turn for Buenos Aires, Argentina, where we will be talking about the integration between Windows Azure and Open Source technologies. Don’t miss the Python, PHP, Java and node.js sessions, while we show you how to take advantage of multiple database engines – including Azure table storage, MongoDB, neo4j and Cassandra – for…

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Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in India, February 2013

Following the successful Windows Azure OSS Summit that I presented in Paris with David Makogon, Bhushan Nene, and Karandeep Anand; we are now flying around the world to meet with Windows Azure developers in India, where we will be visiting three different cities: Mumbai, Pune and Bangalore. We will talk about the latest features incorporated…

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Mark your calendars! Windows Azure OSS Summit in Paris, France; December 4th, 2012

One of the biggest myths about Windows Azure is that it was created with only .NET developers in mind. The reality is that my team has helped multiple companies around the world implement cloud solutions using a variety of programming languages, including Java, PHP, Node.js and Python, among others. Also, it’s not difficult to find…

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Save the Date! June 7th, 2012 “Meet Windows Azure” event – Scott Guthrie live from San Francisco.

Save the Date! Get ready to Meet Windows Azure and hear from Scott Guthrie and other senior technologists from Microsoft, who will introduce you to the latest in Microsoft’s cloud-based development technology. You can register here: http://register.meetwindowsazure.com/