Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

I just released a new video where I talk about the Cloud Adoption Framework from the Governance point of view. If you want to find more about what are the tools that can support us during data migration and how to identify the Azure Services that best fit your needs you can check the video.

 I had the opportunity to be part of the Q&A team during the Azure Fundamental training that took place on 14th and 15th December 2020. As usually being part of Q&A team is useful to understand better what people are looking for and what areas are the highest interest for them. 

I just released a new video where I talk about Cloud Adoption Framework from Data point of view. If you want to find more about what are the tools that can support us during data migration and how to identify the Azure Services that best fit your needs you can check the video.

 In the first week of December, I had the amazing opportunity to deliver a session during DPS 2020 . The session that I delivered was about overengineering the cloud when serverless and microservices are used to build a line of business applications.  More information about the session can be found below. Title : THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED – OVERENGINEERING THE CLOUD Abstract : Nowdays, every new project that we start is around microservices. You cannot build anymore a simple solution that goes in production in 2 week time. Many times we grow the project complexity because of the current IT trends without thinking about what we need. The focus of the session is around microservices and what is the impact of it during development, automation and operation phase. The purpose is to identify the balance between the size, number and complexity of the services taking into account the delivery time and budget, especially during the first iterations. Slides :  THE MONSTER UNDER THE BED – OV

 At the end of November, I had the opportunity to be part of Q&A team for Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day: Modernizing Web Applications and Data event. It is all the time a pleasure to be part of a Q&A team because it is easier to understand what attendees are expecting to discover related to different topics. 

  Microsoft is offering an excellent framework to support cloud migration and adoption process – Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)   The framework defined an iterative process with the following phases: Define Strategy Plan Ready Adopt Govern Manage For each of them, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides us a list of templates, tools, and assessment mechanisms that can help us to improve the adoption and migration process. Let's take a look at the ones for  Manage. Azure Well-Architected Review Location:  https://docs.microsoft.com/ro-ro/assessments/?mode=pre-assessment&session=5808468b-ad86-4eeb-8332-04bb584d418f   It enables us to analyze and assess our current cloud architecture from Azure best practices point of view. For each area where there is space for improvements, the tool provides us a list of recommendations that can be used to improve our cloud solution.  The architecture dimensions that can be assessed are: Cost Optimization : An effective architecture ac

Microsoft is offering an excellent framework to support cloud migration and adoption process – Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)   The framework defined an iterative process with the following phases: Define Strategy Plan Ready Adopt Govern Manage For each of them, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides us a list of templates, tools, and assessment mechanisms that can help us to improve the adoption and migration process. Let's take a look at the ones for  Govern.     Governance benchmark assessment Location:  https://cafbaseline.com/ Governance, in general, is not an easy task to accomplish. The combination of process, business stakeholders makes it difficult to implement, measure, and prioritize. Inside CAF, cloud governance contains 6 different domains that need to be managed: Deployment Acceleration, Organization Readiness, Resource Consistency, Cost Management, Secure Baseline, Identity Baseline. In the first phases of a cloud adoption program, it is hard to decide on

 Last weekend I was invited to deliver a session during JSTalks() . The topic that I decided to cover was how we can modernize our application using current tools that are available on the market.  You can find below more about my session: Title : App modernization in 2020 and beyond Abstract : There are so many tech buzzwords around us and less and less best practices related to using them. In this session, we do an application modernization from zero to cloud-native, taking into account business constraints, technical and budget limitations. Are you ready for this journey? Join this session to discover the path for this journey. Slides : App modernization in 2020 and beyond. Radu Vunvulea from Radu Vunvulea

In November I had the opportunity to be invited as a speaker at Tech Days. The topic that I decided to cover was how we can modernization our application using the tools and features available on the market. You can find below more about my session: Title : App modernization in 2020 and beyond Abstract : There are so many tech buzzwords around us and less and less best practices related to using them. In this session, we do an application modernization from zero to cloud-native, taking into account business constraints, technical and budget limitations. Are you ready for this journey? Join this session to discover the path for this journey. Slides :  App modernization in 2020 and beyond. Radu Vunvulea from Radu Vunvulea

Microsoft is offering an excellent framework to support cloud migration and adoption process – Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)   The framework defined an iterative process with the following phases: Define Strategy Plan Ready Adopt Govern Manage For each of them, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides us a list of templates, tools, and assessment mechanisms that can help us to improve the adoption and migration process. Let's take a look at the ones for  Adopt.     Strategic Migration Assessment and Readiness Tool Location:  https://docs.microsoft.com/ro-ro/assessments/?mode=pre-assessment&session=1e9bea1e-6e2a-46f0-bf60-897e0424b5e2   When you want to adopt cloud you need to be aware of all the dimensions that are impacted by the migration. This tool allows you to do an assessment of where you are in under 10 minutes and identify the dimensions that need to be improved to be able to achieve the adoption in a SMART way. The covered dimensions are: Business strategy Pa

I just released a new video podcast where I talk about how you can use Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework to migrate workloads from on-premises to the cloud. You can check the podcast on YouTube -  https://youtu.be/5o1_H1rrseI  

 I had the great opportunity to be invited as a speaker at Softbinator Talk. I had a great time delivering a session about serverless and microservices, trying to identify what when we start a project using these two amazing technologies all things are great, but once we go on production things start to be ugly.  You can check the recording on YouTube -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upKYztrTW3g&feature=youtu.be  

 This week I had the opportunity to be involved in the Q&A and moderation session of Microsoft Azure Virtual Training Day training, which was delivered on 16-17 November 2020. The experience was interesting, especially because the questions received from the attendees was tricky. 

  Microsoft is offering an excellent framework to support cloud migration and adoption process –  Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)   The framework defined an iterative process with the following phases: Define Strategy Plan Ready Adopt Govern Manage For each of them, Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) provides us a list of templates, tools, and assessment mechanisms that can help us to improve the adoption and migration process. Let's take a look at the ones for  Ready.   Azure Setup Guide Location:  https://ms.portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_Azure_Resources/QuickstartPlaybookBlade/guideId/intro-azure-setup   The first thing you need to do when you start a project is to configure the environments. Ensuring that you have the right governance, security, monitoring in place.  The guide is providing best practice, with direct links to Azure Portal from where you can configure the recommendations. There are 5 different areas that are covered: Organize resources Manage access Manag

 I started a Home Automation project where I divided to replace the custom gateway with Home Assistance. Developing my current IoT platform involves much time and custom development for each device requires too much effort. Because of this, I plan to use Home Assistance  as the main hub, combined with Samsung Smartthings Hub for Zigbee and Z-wave integration and Azure Functions. But, this topic is for another article.  Let's talk now about the Google Developers platform and how to get access to your Nest devices. Google decided to retire the old Nest platform and integrate Nest devices inside Google Home, where Google Nest is now supported. In the long term, the decision is a smart one because under the same API we can get access to all current and future devices. In the meantime we need to move to the new API and getting access to it is not so easy as we think, even it is well documented.  To get access to the Google Developer platform you need to pay a small fee (~5$) and be rea