Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

  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