Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

On February 13, 2018 we had the first ITCamp Community Winter Event in Cluj-Napoca. At this event we talked about containers and microservices, SOLID principles and blockchain (Coco Framework). Around 80 people joined the event and stayed with us until the end. There was a lot of interests from people that join the event about what future is preparing for us from blockchain and microservices perspective. Subjects like SOLID are like fairy tales, all the time captivating and interesting. You can find below slides and pictures from the event. See you next time! Container solutions in Azure (Florin Loghiade) Abstract Container solutions in Azure: You've probably heard of containers by now, and I'm pretty sure that you've already used one or two in some development scenarios or even production. As to why use containers it is pretty simple to answer. Instead of virtualizing the whole hardware stack as in the case of a virtual machine, you just virtualize the operating...

On November 2018, Endava organized in Targu-Mures a local event dedicated to local community. More than 70 people came to the event to find more about Block chain, coding quality, CD and data privacy inside cloud. It was a great community event where I meet smart and extraordinary people. I was impressed to find a strong IT community in Targu-Mures. At this community event I had the opportunity to talk about data privacy inside cloud. Below you can find my session details together with session slides. Title : WHO IS THE REAL OWNER OF DATA INSIDE THE CLOUD? Abstract : Once you upload content to a cloud provider you lose the physical control of your data. Who is the real owner of your data from that moment on? You, as the legal owner of the data, or the cloud provider as the guardian? Join this session to find more about the topic. Our main purpose is to understand who ends up having power over the data. Slides : Who owns data inside the cloud | Apollo 13, Endava, Targu-Mu...

An impressive way to finish the working week. How? Attending to CloudBrew , a conference dedicated to Azure and cloud platform. Every year it's a pleasure for me to take part of such an event. With only two tracks, it's give you the feeling that you are together with friends and you chat about Azure and beer (smile). I had the opportunity to deliver an one hour session about Azure Time Series Insights and PowerBI. If you want to find more about this subjects, you can check the abstract and slides, below. Title : Near-real time reporting in Azure Abstract : One of the most common requirement on a projects nowadays is real time monitoring and reporting. Easy to say, expensive to implement and complex to maintain. In this session we'll take a look on the Azure Services that enable us to fulfil this requirements with minimal effort and with maximum benefits. We have on our radar services like Azure Time Series Insights, Analysis Services and PowerBI. After this se...

This week I had the opportunity to participate at Endava Tech Flow . The main topic of this event was AI and Machine Learning. There were more than 100 people that participate to this free event.  Beside local speakers, we had the opportunity to meet J.M Bishop (Director of the Tungsten Centre for Intelligent Data Analytics and Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London) that talked about how dangerous artificial intelligence can be for us. I also had a short talk about Machine Learning, where I tried to explain what is behind a ML and how does a neural network works. More about my session can be found below.  Title : The science behind Machine Learning Abstract : Did you ever ask yourself how Machine Learning works as a system? In this session we will take a look at the science behind Machine Learning systems. We will decrypt the base mathematical concepts that make systems like these work. Once you attend this session you will disco...

Just finished my session at ISTAConf 2017 and I realize that we are not only talking about NoSQL and migration  strategy, but we even doing that. I just met some great guys from Sofia that started to migrate their relational database to MongoDB. What was awesome that they have in plan a migration from on-premises to Azure in the next 3-6 months for their system, so Azure Cosmos DB is the perfect suite for them. It is the 7 edition of ISTA Conference, that started in 2011. Last time when I was here was 2 years ago and in comparison with that times they grow a lot. Not only during the keynotes, but also during the sessions the rooms are full with people that are curious to find more about what are the current trends and what future is preparing for us. What I like at ISTA is the format of the conference. Even if there are more than 750 participants, they don't have more than 3 tracks. allowing them to keep the quality of session at a high level. At this conference I talk ...

Last I had the great opportunity to be invited by the local user group from Sofia (Bulgarian BI & .Net (BI & .Net Geeks) UG) to talk about Azure and Security at one of their meetups. It was such a great experience, meeting smart people that are full with energy and open to new technologies and ideas. You can find below slides and content related to my session. Title : "Azure Enterprise Security in Practice"  Abstract : "How does an enterprise looks like when you talk about security and cloud? Complicated, rigid and challenging to accept cloud based architectures. After working closely with security teams from different companies I identified different approaches and requirements that are standard for enterprises. In this session I want to discuss and share with you lessons learned on how we can map security requirements to Azure." Slides : Azure Enterprise Security in Practice Radu Vunvulea Codecamp Cluj Napoca Nov 2017 from Radu Vunvule...

This week it was the 5th edition of ITDays in Cluj-Napoca. This is a conference started small and become of the most important conferences in Cluj-napoca that take place in the second part of the year. During the 2 days of the event there were more than 40 sessions delivered by around 40 speakers. Additional to this there were a lot of products and startups presentations that make us believe that there is something more than just code (smile). I had the opportunity to be invited as speaker at this conference where I talked about near-real time solutions that can be developed using Microsoft and Azure tools. More about my session can be found below: Title : Near-real time reporting in Azure Abstract : One of the most common requirement on a projects nowadays is real time monitoring and reporting. Easy to say, expensive to implement and complex to maintain. In this session we'll take a look on the Azure Services that enable us to fulfil this requirements with minimal ...

This was the last Codecamp in Cluj-Napoca for 2017. With more than 1000 registered attendees and 50 speakers it was a great way to close the year. There were 10 tracks in parallel that made possible to have 70 sessions of 45 minutes in only one day. I had the opportunity to deliver two sessions at this event, where I talks about how you need to mitigate security when you migrate from on-premises to Azure and Azure CosmosDB. Below you can find my session details and slides. Title : "Azure Enterprise Security in Practice" Abstract : "How does an enterprise looks like when you talk about security and cloud? Complicated, rigid and challenging to accept cloud based architectures. After working closely with security teams from different companies I identified different approaches and requirements that are standard for enterprises. In this session I want to discuss and share with you lessons learned on how we can map security requirements to Azure." Slides : ...

First time when I took part at Microsoft TechEd in 2012 in Amsterdam. It was one of my first conferences with more than 5k attendees. It was a wow, from all perspective. From then I participate to each TechEd and Microsoft Ignite . At Microsoft Ignite, attendees have the opportunity not only to learn and discover new stuff, but also to meet people all around the globe. It is that week in the year when you can meet face to face Program Managers from Microsoft together with people that you talk over Twitter from Japan, Australia, UK and USA in only one place. This year things will be a little different. It will be the first time when I participate at Microsoft Ignite not as attendee, but also as speaker. It is a joy to be invited to speak at a conference with more than 23000 attendees. If this is not enough, I will have 3 sessions where I will share my knowledge and experience related to IoT, security and NoSQL. If you want to find more about this subjects feel free to join my sessio...

Today we had the first ITCamp Community Event during the lunch break. We decided to do this event at this time in day because it was the only available slot for our special guest Andrea Saltarello. The talk was about CQRS and Event Sourcing and even if it was only for one hour, the session contained a lot of takeaways, not only from technical perspective, but also from costs and architecture point of view. A great comparison between different NoSQL and ESB systems was presented from Event Sourcing point of view. There were almost 30 people that decided to transform their lunch to a geek lunch together with ITCamp Community. This event was possible with the support or our local sponsors, that made this event possible. Below you can find pictures from the event. See you next time!

At the end of this month (July 24) we will have a special guest in Cluj-Napoca: Andrea Saltarello. The format of the event will be different from the previous ones. The event will take place during the lunch break at The Office and is free. If you want to find more about the event you can check the following registration links. See you at the event. Meetup:  https://www.meetup.com/ITCamp-Community/events/241394189/ Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/event-sourcing-and-cqrs-itcamp-community-summer-lunch-event-in-cluj-tickets-35994003032 ITCamp Community blog:  https://community.itcamp.ro/2017/07/itcamp-community-summer-lunch-event-cluj-event-sourcing-cqrs/ Official announcement: Let's try a different kind of event this summer. I proposed to all of you to meet during the lunch break and have a talk about Event Sourcing and CQRS. There will be a special guest (Andrea Saltarello - Solution Architect at Managed Design) that will talk about his own experience o...

What a week! ITCamp Conference took place in Cluj-Napoca Speakers all around the globe joined forces with ITCamp  Community team and delivered high quality sessions. As in the last years, topics that are covered by ITCamp Conference were from all technologies - JavaScript to Containers, Azure to Raspberry, OOP to Machine Learning. The speaker list is pretty long and I invite you to check it out. ITCamp Conference had Google employee's, Principal Program Managers from Microsoft and of course a lot of architects and deep technical people from the field. Being part of such an event it is a delight. Having live high quality sessions in Cluj-Napoca it is a unique opportunity, offered by ITCamp Community each year. In figures, ITCamp Community looks very interesting - more than 40 speakers, that deliver 40+ sessions during the two days of the conference to more than 500 attendees. What a great conference! What a week! Great sessions, great speakers, wonderful people - all of the...

This week I was invited at DevTalks to talk about cloud infrastructure and how we can isolated a cloud network from public internet. DevTalks, as a conference is at the 3rd edition. This year there were 6 track in parallel covering the megatrends of 2017.  It was a good conference, with great speakers and interesting sessions. Below you can find content related to my session. Title: Network isolated inside a cloud environment Abstract:  It is possible to create a private network inside a cloud environment that is fully isolated from the external world? If you want to find out the response to this question that you should join the session. Additional to this we will talk about how we can migrate existing infrastructure to cloud (partially or fully) persisting the same security level as you had before. Slides: Network isolated inside a cloud environment Radu Vunvulea DevTalks 2017 Cluj Romania from Radu Vunvulea Pictures:

For the 5th year in the row,   ITCamp community from Cluj-Napoca joined Global Azure Bootcamp event. In comparison with other communities events organized by in Cluj-Napoca, Global Azure Bootcamp is different because is purely hands-on lab. There were 3 different workshops of 90 minutes each where attendees had the opportunity to play and test Azure Functions, Machine Learning and Azure Resources Managers (ARM). We respected this year also the tradition to organize the event at Endava (ISDC) building, where the location is perfect for hands-on labs. Special thank you for our local sponsor - Endava . Agenda 09:00-09:30 - Sosirea participanților 09:30-11:00 - Azure Functions (Radu Vunvulea) 11:00-12:30 - Machine learning for mere mortals with Azure ML (Silviu Niculita) 12:30-14:00 - ARM Templates, how to create them, and use them in your CD pipeline (Florin Loghiade) Workshops descriptions Azure Functions (Radu Vunvulea)  What are Azure Functions? AWS Lambda from ...

Together with ITCamp community from Cluj-Napoca we joined our forces for 2 hours . We wanted to find more about how we can transform our business with our data -Microsoft Data Amp. A lot of new stuff were announced during the live streaming that can be viewed on  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/data-amp . If you ask me, the game changers are SQL Server 2017 that runs on Linux and the fully integration between SQL Server and other stacks like R. Nowadays you don't need to move your data outside the Database engine to execute ML. You have the ML full support direct in the database engine.

Acesta este al cincilea an când ITCamp community organizează  Global Azure Boot Camp . Acesta este un eveniment la nivel global care are loc în peste 159 de locații. Ca și anul trecut, Clujul nu se lasă mai prejos și apare pe harta Azure. Pe data de  22 Aprilie  vă invităm pe toți la acest eveniment din Cluj-Napoca, care va conține 3 workshop-uri. Link pentru înregistrare: https://itcamp-cj-2017-azurebootcamp.eventbrite.com Participarea la eveniment este  GRATUITĂ , așa cum a fost și până acum la orice eveniment organizat de comunitatea ITCamp. Pe data de 22 Aprilie ne propunem să avem 3 workshop-uri de câte 90 de minute fiecare, unde putem să învățăm împreună cum să folosim diferite servicii Azure. Fiecare workshop conține o parte teoretică și una practică. Din această cauză, o să aveți nevoie de un laptop. De ce aveți nevoie: Laptop +  Visual Studio  +  Microsoft Azure SDK  +  Un cont de Azure   Dacă doriți puteți să vă grupaț...

The best way to end an weekend is by a conference. So, this is what I've done. At the end of this weekend I joined Codecamp conference in Cluj-Napoca. As a free event, Codecamp gather IT speakers and attendees from all technologies and companies, being an opportunity to meet other people. In figures, there were around 900 people, 60 speakers and around 70 session - all of this in one day. At this conference I delivered a high-level session about Azure Data Lake. Being a new service, I decided that a high level session about it is the best approach. Below you can find more about my session. Title: Azure Data Lake for super-developers Abstract: Nowadays digital information is produced by each device that we touch. What we do after we receive this data can change the way how we do business, but to be able to store and process this data we need a powerful system like Azure Data Lake. This session we will discover the secrets that are behind Azure Data Lake and why this service...

The IT landscape is changing every day. Nowadays it is more usual than ever to talk about data collecting, processing and visualization. If a few years ago we use to talk in TB of data, now PB is a normal data unit. I remember than 10 years ago having a database that was bigger than 1GB it was acceptable, but not very common for small or medium company size. If we are looking now around us, a database of 20GB is a commodity. Anyone will think the database is to big or you need special hardware for it. Security became now the biggest concern, where you persist data, what data you persist, who access what data are the questions that you need to face up. 5 years ago if you would say that you want to run SQL Server on Linux... it would be a joke, but look where we are not. We have SQL Server on Linux, we have containers, Docker and we see how Microsoft embrace the open source word. We are exited to find out more about new features that SQL v.Next is preparing to us. It's not only a...

This week I had the opportunity to be invited by BucharestJS meetup to speak about Node.JS from Microsoft perspective. It was a challenge for me - speaking about Microsoft in a front of Node.JS people is not an easy task. I was happy to survive after one afternoon with around 80 people with no mercy to Microsoft and Azure. I'm sure that a part of them will give a try to Visual Studio Code and/or Azure Services. For me it was a pleasure to find people that were open to discover 'exotic' IDE and products. Thank you to all attendees that accepted for one hour to hear about Microsoft technologies. More information related to session, slides, demos can be find below. Title:  Building Node.js Together Abstract : JavaScript's simplicity, ubiquity, and event-driven paradigm, and its high performance runtimes like Microsoft's Chakra and Google's V8, have led it to spread beyond web pages and browsers to servers and clouds, IoT devices, mobile apps, and more via t...