Bill Wilder    Boston Azure held a virtual event to review highlights from Microsoft Build .

Bill Wilder    Boston Azure held a virtual event to review highlights from Microsoft Build .

Bill Wilder    I wrote some code demonstrating how to use Azure OpenAI to support the AI mini workshop we ran for Virtual Boston Azure. I created versions in Python and C . This weekend I create a web front end for it and deployed as an Azure Static Web App with an Azure Function supporting the refactored C ...

Bill Wilder    We ran a successful AI mini workshop at Virtual Boston Azure. There was coding and learning about AI and the programmatically interacting with the Azure OpenAI services.

Bill Wilder    Mar Always great to hang out with the greater Boston tech community. Today I attended and contributed a talk to Boston Code Camp the th edition of this event . I made the trip with Maura she gave a talk on blockchain . and we met a lot of cool people and had a great time. I spoke on ...

Bill Wilder    Feb Had a great time hanging out with the Orlando tech community at their annual Code Camp. I made the trip with Maura she gave a talk on blockchain and we met a lot of cool people and had a great time. I spoke on GitHub Copilot. Much of my talk was demo and discussion

Bill Wilder    My talk description: According to legend, programmers back in the stone age would write code without IntelliSense and refactoring tools. The next generation of developers will wonder how our generation got anything done without AI powered assistants. If you don’t know what GitHub Copilot is all...

Bill Wilder    I gave two talks at this event the other one was on GitHub Copilot. Always great to engage with the OG Code Camp crew at Boston Code Camp. My talk description: Haven’t heard about DORA yet You will. The annual DevOps Research and Assessment Report affectionately known as the DORA Report ...

Bill Wilder    I gave two talks at this event the other one was on DORA. Always great to engage with the OG Code Camp crew at Boston Code Camp. My talk description: According to legend, programmers back in the stone age would write code without IntelliSense and refactoring tools. The next generation of...

Bill Wilder    Aug I gave an extended demo of GitHub Copilot at the Boston Azure AI event tonight. Most of the session was a demo, but I did also walk through some slides. Those slides are attached. I also showed these links or services:

Bill Wilder    On June at our first back from the pandemic in person regularly scheduled Boston Azure monthly meeting, the main event featured Juan Pablo Garcia Gonzalez from Microsoft talking about Azure OpenAI ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers. Juan Pablo was kind enough to share his slides and...

Bill Wilder    May Veronika Kolesnikova, Jason Haley, and myself jointly hosted the Boston Azure edition of Global Azure Bootcamp. It was a sold out show excellent turnout around participants . I presented a couple of segments, one of which was to inspire use of AI tools. For that I gave a demo of...

Bill Wilder    Today at the th edition of Boston Code Camp boscc I presented in person yahoo my talk Exploring DORA Using data to drive better outcomes which introduced the DORA project. DORA is short for the DevOps Report Assessment and provides a research backed assessment of how your technical,...

Bill Wilder    I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp in Manchester, NH. The last couple of years I was more focused on Security and Compliance enablement in Microsoft Azure. This year I focused on Robustness. When running in Azure like other distributed system environments ...

Bill Wilder    Today I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp GSCC in Manchester, NH. This was the first time I’ve given an in person talk since the start of COVID and it was great to see so many smiling facing even when partially obscured by a mask . Last year my focus was a more

Bill Wilder    Tonight I had the opportunity to speak at VirtualBostonAzure to talk about raising the visibility of security signals in your environment by turning on your WAF. In demos the WAF available in Azure Front Door was used. Slides: YouTube: https: www.youtube.com watch v OWXTtCUNmes feature youtu.be

Bill Wilder    Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak at the Granite State Code Camp gscc in Burlington, MA. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today was around defense in depth and was called Running Azure Securely which of these Azure security features are for me . The...

Bill Wilder    On Oct I spoke at Boston Azure about network security and focused on some of the edges of using Azure DNS, and included some DNS subdomain hijacking awareness. The command dig CNAME bostonazuredemo.azuresecurely.com short will check public DNS records for a CNAME, returning whatever it is...

Bill Wilder    Today I had the opportunity to speak at VT Code Camp in Burlington, VT. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today was around defense in depth and was called Running Azure Securely which of these Azure security features are for me . The session was interactive,...

Bill Wilder    Today I had the opportunity to speak at SQL Saturday in Burlington, MA. As part of my series of talks on Running Azure Securely, my talk today was Running Azure SQL Database Securely and applied to Azure SQL DB and Azure SQL DB Managed Instances. Some Resources Mentioned Azure is in regions...

Bill Wilder    On Tuesday July, , I had the opportunity to speak at North Boston Azure. The talk was part of a series on Running Azure Securely and was called Are all these Azure security features for me and was not really a talk in that it was highly interactive. For those who attended, you will

Bill Wilder    We had a great event at MIT on Saturday April the Boston Azure edition of the Global Azure Bootcamp hosted at MIT. There were lots of great session contributions making this a true community effort. ORGANIZERS Big thank you to local organizers Olimpia olimpiaestela , Veronika ...

Bill Wilder    Ever try to figure out how to track who logged into your Azure SQL database You checked all the usual ways you might handle that with a SQL Server database, but one by one find out they just don’t work. Here’s one way to do it. To track who is logging into your Azure SQL database, enable

Bill Wilder    At most recent Boston Azure meeting I give what turns out to be the first part of a multi part talk on Running Azure Securely. Even though I did not cover all this content, I’ve attached the whole powerpoint deck below. BostonAzure RunningAzureSecurely BillWilder Oct Please watch for a...

Bill Wilder    At the th Boston Code Camp, I spoke about Running Securely on Azure. Thanks to all of you who waited patiently for the A V hookup challenges to be overcome. Slides are here: BostonCodeCamp RunningAzureSecurely BillWilder Apr

Bill Wilder    On Tuesday evening Mar I had the pleasure of speaking to the Nashville Azure group about keeping workloads safe in the Azure cloud. Was a great group with a lot of interesting questions and dialog. They even helped to answer each others’ questions when I didn’t have answers, which is the...

Bill Wilder    Spoke today to a small crowd of hardy soles who braved the snow to make it to SQL Saturday Providence held at nearby Bryant University in Smithfield. My slides are included below. Azure SQL DB Not Just A Cloud Version of SQL Server SQL Saturday RI Dec

Bill Wilder    We first looked at how we might solve a random StackOverflow question using Azure Logic Apps, Azure Function Apps, the nifty PhantomJsCloud.com service, and a look at how a little Cognitive Service action could be woven in. A random walk around other Azure features followed. Some reactions were...

Bill Wilder    This past weekend I participated in SQL Saturday BI Boston in Burlington, MA. I spoke about Azure SQL Database, explaining why Azure SQL Database is much more than just a hosted version of SQL Server. The slides I presented are here: Azure SQL DB Not Just A Cloud Version of SQL Server SQL

Bill Wilder    Tonight I spoke at the North Boston Azure group and covering serverless concepts by looking at Logic Apps, Function Apps, and a couple of powerful easy features of Web Apps authentication via AAD Twitter CD via Github . Before I posted the slides see below , I needed to clean up the ...

Bill Wilder    Tonight I was pleased to have the opportunity to demystify Azure Logic Apps Functions for the Granite State SharePoint Users Group. Here is the slide deck I used to present: Serverless Azure Logic Apps and Functions Granite State SharePoint Users Group Sep By the time I turned off...

Bill Wilder    Last night’s Boston Azure meetup featured two talks No App Left Behind by Kevin Brown of SoftNAS after an opening talk on Logic Apps by me. My slides are below. Serverless Azure Logic Apps Boston Azure Sep I did not have time to show it, but the Slack Email process did

Bill Wilder    Last night’s Boston Azure meeting featured Marija Strazdas from AlertLogic who spoke about the Shared Security Model for security in the cloud. I also showed in more detail some of the tools that Azure provides to help customers with their side of the responsibility model including some with Azure...

Bill Wilder    Today at PowerShell in Action I spoke twice about not going TOO far in your PowerShell when managing Azure resources. The point of the talks wasn’t really that using PowerShell is bad wrong, more that it might not be the best tool for the job in certain scenarios. In particular, an ARM template is...

Bill Wilder    Last night I spoke at the North Boston Azure cloud group, where the topic was Azure SQL Database not just a cloud version of SQL Server. So much of the talk was interactive a really high energy discussion big thanks to Jason for hosting me and to the group for a great conversation. Here’s the...

Bill Wilder    Today the amazing Boston technology community put on their th Boston Code Camp. As usual, there were tons of great talks. I presented twice. Materials are below. Talk : FA, MFA, SA, OTP, RFP, OMG, WTF How MFA works. Deck : BostonCodeCamp MFA BillWilder Mar Talk : Specific...

Bill Wilder    Spoke earlier today at SecureWorld Boston on Using Public Cloud Platforms to Increase Enterprise Security. Deck is below: SecureWorld Boston Bill Wilder Improving Enterprise Security with the Public Cloud PUBLISHED

Bill Wilder    Thanks Zoran for having me back again this year as a guest lecturer to help ensure your students don’t think AWS is the only cloud in the sky Here is the deck I went partially through: harvard oct At the end I attempted to show how I could use the CLI from my macbook to clean up

Bill Wilder    Boston Azure is years old At today’s October Boston Azure meeting, we celebrated turning years old, and had two talks. I presented one talk related to the Dyn DDoS outage from Friday Oct , which illustrated the dark side of IoT since it was used to power a huge DDoS attack on Dyn, taking

Bill Wilder    Earlier today I presented at the Get to know SQL Server Business Intelligence Azure event at cc. My talk was Azure SQL Database: Not just a cloud version of SQL Server to an inquisitive Cambridge audience. My deck is here: Azure SQL Database not just a cloud version of SQL Server ...

Bill Wilder    I spoke tonight at the New England SQL Server Group to a large audience of feisty SQL experts. Thanks for all the tough questions. And thanks to George for backing me up on questions I couldn’t answer. Abstract: The Microsoft Azure cloud platform offers a service called Azure SQL Database. How does...

Bill Wilder    At Boston Code Camp yes, this was the th Boston Code Camp I presented Specific Azure Security Tips and Tricks. The talk was pretty rapid fire, with a lot of information. For folks interested in following up, the deck included below includes lots of links to more information. Also, for...

Bill Wilder    On Mar , I gave two talks: one at SecureWorld Boston How Adopting the Public Cloud Can Improve Your Enterprise Security , and another at the ISSA NE breakfast meeting The Cloud: Headache or Aspirin An information security perspective. . Since the decks used in talks are so similar, I have...

Bill Wilder    On Friday Dec I was a guest lecturer at Zoran Djordjevic’s cloud computing class at Harvard. As usual, I battled furiously with the Blackboard recording software as it repeatedly turned itself off as I switched between slides and a demo, and battled its confusing UI. But in the end,...

Bill Wilder    On Thursday December, I spoke to an engaged crowed at Andy Novick’s New England Microsoft Developers’ Group. The topic was a high level look at the Microsoft Azure cloud platform with the perspective of a toolbox for developers. Here is the deck used: microsoft azure cloud...

Bill Wilder    This past Friday afternoon, I spoke to a highly engaged group in an event hosted at the Finomial office in Kolkata, W. Bengal, India. There were two topics: An overview of Azure as a toolbox for dev and ops teams Cloud Architecture Anti Patterns Patterns This started out being advertised as a ...

Bill Wilder    On May I presented Cloud Architecture Anti Patterns: A concise overview of some bad ideas to the .NET Architecture Group. Here is the deck: Cloud Architecture Anti Patterns .NET Architecture Group Bill Wilder Any feedback is welcome. Feel free to comment here or on the twitters...

Bill Wilder    Today I was pleased to present the talk Hidden Azure as part of the Global Azure Bootcamp, the rd such annual and globally coordinated event involving many sites spread all over the world There were tens of thousands of VM core hours in use even , at one point throughout the...

Bill Wilder    I was pleased to speak at the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference oreillysacon in Boston today. My talk was Cloud Architecture Anti Patterns: A concise overview of some bad ideas, delivered to an engaged, inquisitive audience. Here is the deck: Cloud Architecture Anti Patterns...

Bill Wilder    At this past Monday’s Boston Azure meeting, I spoke about using Azure Automation Runbooks to automate your automation. I have a short overview to define the need, then mostly gave demos. Here is the deck: automation with azure runbooks