Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

 On the 14th of January, I was invited by the Xamarin community from Latin America to deliver a session about Azure Form Recognizer. It was a pleasure to be part of such a great event. The presentation deck is available below: Title : Airplane buddy matching using Azure Form Recognizer and ML Deck: Build your own airplane ticket processing system using azure cognitive services global ai bootcamp 2022 from Radu Vunvulea

Quality metrics are important and need to be measured when we build and deploy a new system version. Resilience, response time, scalability, and application performance are not easy to test when creating a cloud solution.  Today's post talks about how you can run a performance test on top of Azure using Azure Load Testing. This service provided by Microsoft gives us the possibility to run large performance, scalability or application quality tests in a controlled and easy manner.  With the Azure Load Testing service, a developer or tester can configure and run a load test in just a few minutes, collect the output, and identify the system's bottleneck. Azure Load test components 4 main components are built around Azure load and performance capability: (1) Azure Monitor – used to collect information from Azure services (2) Azure Application Insights – used to collect application data and to provide an easy way to display and track application metrics (3) Azure Container In...

Almost two years ago, we had to accept that the world as we know it had changed. Most of the companies migrated their workforce to remote working. Nowadays hybrid work model is part of the normality. Companies started to invest more in their digitalisation and cloud adoption programs. In this article, we talk about the current state of security and the top 10 security things that we need to invest in when we do a cloud adoption (cloud migration).  Cloud adoption and remote working changed how we build IT Solutions and how we tackle security. From my point of view, COVID-19 was and is a security incentive, exposing us to new digital risks and making us more aware of IT and cloud security.  Security Impact To understand the real impact of the current situations, let's take a look at some statistics :  Global adoption of digitalisation has increased to 55% in the last seven years 48% of the companies had to accelerate the cloud migration programs during the pandemic 60% of t...

I am excited to be part of the team that delivered sessions at TECH DAY 2021 , organized by Microsoft.  On the 25th of November, I talked about secure development and what a cloud developer needs to consider. It was a session where the main focus was on hands-on experience. I had 10 slides and the rest of the time was only hands-on experience inside Azure Portal and other cloud tools. I hope that you enjoyed my session! You can find below the slide deck Title :  Secure Application Development Abstract :  This session aims to identify the tools that help us build secure applications and environments for Azure during the development journey. The focus is on the developers and the tools we can use to ensure that our code is secure and aligned with all the available best practices and recommendations. It’s a hands-on session, limited to 10 slides and a lot of demos. Deck :  Secure Application Development from Radu Vunvulea

 The high level of cloud adoption brings closer and closer to us the day to day problems that were easily solved using on-premises solutions. The data regulations related to data sovereignty and specific region and country regulations like GDPR add an extra complexity layer to the application we are building inside the cloud. We have an imaginary organization called Osotnoc that is active in Australia, the US, UK and the EU. Each country has strict data regulations that require Osotnoc to store customers data inside each region.  Microsoft Azure has a strong presence in each region, so the team is building a solution on Azure SQL and App Service. The solution is deployed in all 4 regions, fully compliant with all local requirements but pretty expensive. Except for the database and computation layer, 4 different instances of Azure Application Gateways are deployed with WAF on top of them.  Besides this, more than 30% of active users requires access data from other regions....

Working in the IT industry can be fun and challenging at the same time. Each day can bring a new challenge that you need to conquer. We all know that technology is changing fast, but the ways of working, concepts and the SDP (Software Development Processes) are evolving at a slower speed. I see certifications as a way how we can increase productivity and ensure that the pillars of a specific topic are well known by the teams . Yes, sometimes the certification process and content might not be perfect for all of us. Nevertheless, most of the time there is a good match between specific roles and the certification curricula.  Top Certifications Global Knowledge publishes what are the most trending certifications at this moment in time. As we expect the cloud ones (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security and DevOps are in high demand. Except for technology, we should ensure that are also keep an eye on ITIL, TOGAF or similar certifications and knowledge.  Biggest challenge One of the biggest ch...

  On the 22nd of November, I was invited by Transylvania Cloud Community to deliver a session about cloud migration. During the event, I discovered a community that is active, full of energy and vibe. More details about my session can be found below: Title : Everything you need to know about cloud migration Abstract : It is not easy to migrate to the cloud. It sounds simple initially, but during the migration, you realize that you forgot about things like governance, landing zone, and after a while, running costs are out of control. Join this session if you want to find how Cloud Adoption Framework can help us migrate our solutions to Microsoft Azure. The session is full of real-life examples and hands-on materials. Deck :  Everything you need to know about cloud migration(Build Stuff 2021) from Radu Vunvulea