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Global Azure ANZ 2026

lukemurraynz — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:54:18 GMT

Global Azure ANZ 2026

Join us for online sessions where we'll dive into Azure and explore topics like AI, security, identity, developer technologies, DevOps, and more.

This is also a fantastic opportunity to connect with MVPs and industry experts in the Azure space.

https://globalazure.net/events/8df745e6-59dd-4d5b-ad32-41c3c7cfb37b

Feature Flags & Configuration Management using Azure App Configuration for .NET Apps

lukemurraynz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:54:36 GMT

Modern .NET applications need to adapt quickly without redeployments, downtime, or security risks. In this session, we’ll explore how Azure App Configuration works to provide a robust, secure, and scalable approach to managing feature flags and application configuration in .NET applications.

We’ll walk through real-world scenarios showing how to:

* Use feature flags to enable safe rollouts, canary releases, and experimentation

* Centralize configuration across environments without hardcoding values

* Integrate App Configuration seamlessly with ASP.NET Core and the Options pattern

* Dynamically refresh configuration at runtime without restarting the application

Through live demos and practical examples, you’ll see how these Azure services help teams move faster, reduce risk, and improve security, all while keeping .NET applications clean, maintainable, and cloud-ready.

Speaker:

Timothy Ogunwemimo

The AI Trilemma: Navigating Hype, Hope, and Horror

lukemurraynz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:51:24 GMT

Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm, inspiring a mix of excitement, optimism, and profound concern. Is the current explosion of AI just hype, a beacon of hope for humanity's greatest challenges, or a potential horror story in the making?
Join AI Safety expert Harshavardhan Bajoria for a comprehensive overview of this critical field. This workshop delves into the essential questions surrounding the safe and beneficial development of advanced AI, moving from current issues to future possibilities.
You will explore:
- The Risks (Horror): Understand the real-world dangers already present, from AI-powered scams and deep fakes to future concerns like societal destabilization and the "misalignment problem," where AI goals diverge catastrophically from human values.
- The Potential (Hope): Discover the incredible promise AI holds, with the potential to solve complex problems like climate change, prevent diseases through breakthroughs like protein folding, and unleash human potential.
- The Approaches: Learn about the core concepts and research areas designed to steer AI in a positive direction, including Value Alignment, Robustness, Scalable Oversight, Interpretability, and Governance.
This session provides a foundational look at the challenges and solutions in AI safety, equipping you to engage more deeply with one of the most important conversations of our time.

Speaker:

Harshavardhan Bajoria

Bridging Classic Logging and Azure Monitor Using Azure DCEs and DCRs

lukemurraynz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:46:47 GMT

Many organizations rely on long-standing, embedded logging frameworks that span multiple applications, making modernization challenging. This session demonstrates how teams can continue using their existing application logging while unlocking the advanced capabilities of Azure Log Analytics through Azure Data Collection Rules (DCRs) and Data Collection Endpoints (DCEs).

Attendees will learn how to ingest log data directly from server-based log files using DCRs, map and transform data for Log Analytics, and incrementally transition log pipelines from third-party tools, such as Datadog, to Azure Data Collection Endpoints. The session provides practical guidance for modernizing logging architectures without rewriting applications, enabling greater observability, scalability, and integration within the Azure monitoring ecosystem.

Speaker:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-ogunwemimo-9a2586a1/

AI Innovation With Azure: From Concept to Creation

lukemurraynz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:02:36 GMT

The session will explore the transformative power of Azure AI and its services, demonstrating how they can drive innovation and propel individuals and organisations to new heights. Attendees will gain insights into cloud computing concepts through real-world examples and learn how to leverage Azure AI, GitHub Codespaces, and GitHub Copilot to develop cutting-edge applications. The focus will be on building applications that redefine the future with enhanced accuracy and efficiency, while also addressing security concerns and streamlining the development process.

Presented by:

Harshavardhan Bajoria

Telemetry at Scale: Lessons from Building Observability for Distributed Systems

lukemurraynz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:34:56 GMT

Modern distributed systems fail in complex, unpredictable ways and traditional logging often can’t keep up. As engineers, we need more than dashboards; we need deep, connected telemetry that explains why things break, not just what broke. In this session, I’ll share real-world lessons from building the telemetry and observability platform behind Azure Container Apps and the Aspire Dashboard used by thousands of customer environments.

We’ll walk through the practical challenges of capturing end-to-end visibility across microservices, containers, proxies, and control planes. I’ll demonstrate how OpenTelemetry (OTEL) unified our traces, metrics, and logs across heterogeneous workloads; how distributed context propagation reveals root causes hidden behind multiple hops; and why cardinality explosions, sampling decisions, and inconsistent instrumentation are some of the most expensive mistakes teams make.

This talk is not theoretical — it’s a behind-the-scenes look at what worked, what didn’t, and what we learned while building an observability system for real production-scale traffic. I’ll show common anti-patterns from the field, patterns that consistently improve developer velocity, and how to design telemetry that accelerates debugging rather than creating noise.

Live examples will walk through trace visualizations, anomaly detection patterns, and debugging scenarios that surfaced unexpected bottlenecks. Attendees will leave with a clear blueprint for building reliable, debuggable distributed systems with observability as a first-class concern.

If your team is scaling microservices, struggling with opaque failures, or trying to modernize your observability stack, this session will give you the mental model, patterns, and practices needed to move from "reactive firefighting" to "proactive insight-driven engineering."

Join us as Sneha Parthasarathy talks to us about telemetry.

Season of AI - MCP

lukemurraynz — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:37:11 GMT

Join us for Season of AI – MCP, a global, community-driven initiative by Microsoft developers, created for developers. This event is all about hands-on learning, collaboration, and innovation with Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Register here: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

This session is your chance to:

🤝 Connect with like-minded innovators in your local community
💡 Learn how MCP works and how to build smarter AI-powered experiences
🛠 Work through guided labs and exercises
🚀 Exchange ideas, share challenges, and inspire new projects

Why attend?
You'll not only gain practical AI skills but also become part of a supportive, global network of developers contributing to the future of AI interoperability.

🎯 Skill Level: All levels welcome. Basic C# knowledge and familiarity with GitHub is helpful.

💻 What's needed: A laptop with VStudio Code is required if you want to make some cool demo. This is going to be a guided hands-on session!

💬 Agenda

Welcome & Introductions
Overview of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Hands-on Lab Session
Community Discussions & Q&A
Closing Remarks

This event is happening in partnership with Coding Night ANZ.

Hub & spokes variations with Azure Virtual WAN

lukemurraynz — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:50:20 GMT

The most seen Azure network topology relies on Hub & Spokes, peering all vnets to the same central one, called the hub.

While this scenario works well, as witnessed by its wide adoption, there are now other options for using Azure Virtual WAN.

In this session, we'll go back to what VWAN is and what it brings to the table.
Then we'll explore different topology variations using it instead of the "classic" hub & spokes.

Speaker: David Frappart

AI Innovation With Azure: From Concept to Creation

lukemurraynz — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:05:15 GMT

We have the amazing Harshavardhan Bajoria here to speak to us about AI Innovation!

The Integrated World of Microsoft Cloud Frameworks

lukemurraynz — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:15:28 GMT

If you’ve ever found yourself lost in a labyrinth of acronyms and documentation describing today’s cloud, this session is for you. We will deep dive on Microsoft’s master strategy for its cloud environments, connecting the dots between seemingly disparate frameworks, and revealing how they come together to form a unified, practical approach to the cloud. And yes, artificial intelligence is woven through every layer, shaping the present and future of cloud operations. This is your guide through the intricate—and let’s be honest, sometimes tangled—universe of cloud management, security, and optimization. Settle in—this is a full-length journey, not a highlight reel.

Speaker is: Saul Patino (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saulpatino/)

Security Best Practices for Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS)

lukemurraynz — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:17:13 GMT

Learn about the best practices for securing your AKS cluster using Microsoft Defender for Cloud and other strategies in the Azure cloud. In this session, you'll discover how to implement security configurations for AKS environments, leading to enhanced security, improved compliance, and a more secure cloud environment. This session covers key topics such as Defender for Containers, securing ingress and egress traffic, networking security, pod and container security, workload identity, and role-based access control (RBAC).

The Speaker is: Santhoshkumar Anandakrishnan

ASO(cial) Superpowers: Streamlined App Deployments with Azure Service Operator

lukemurraynz — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:40:49 GMT

When every dev team rolls out its own infrastructure dependencies, you know what is coming: chaos. In one of my recent projects, I ended up with hundreds of Terraform solutions, sometimes even split across different teams working on the same app. It worked, but it was not pretty.

That is when I gave the teams some ASO powers. With the Azure Service Operator, they could deploy their application dependencies in the same way they already deploy their containers. Suddenly, things looked a lot cleaner, more consistent, and easier to manage.

In this session, I will share what that looked like in practice, the lessons learned, the benefits, and of course a demo. You will walk away with concrete ideas on how to cut down Terraform sprawl, make life easier for your developers, and bring some order back into your deployments.

Join Daniel Paulus as he shows us how to use the power of Azure Service Operator!

Mastering Full Stack with Azure: Effortless Infrastructure and Well-Architected Framework

lukemurraynz — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:49:11 GMT

Is your cloud architecture haunted by inefficiencies, security gaps, or spiraling costs? Don't panic; call in the Well-Architected Framework! In this session, we'll explore the most common cloud challenges by diving into Microsoft's Well-Architected Framework, providing you with the tools, tips, and Terraform magic to eliminate those issues.

From securing your stack to optimizing performance, we'll cover all the essential pillars: Cost Optimization, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Operational Excellence. With Terraform in your toolkit, you'll automate your way to a more resilient and efficient cloud, reducing technical debt and making your Azure solutions both ghost-proof and future-proof.

Packed with real-world examples and practical tips, this session is perfect for anyone looking to build smarter, faster, and more securely in Azure. Get ready to bust those cloud problems- because when it comes to Well-Architected, who you gonna call?

Join Simone Bennett, Principal Consultant, Microsoft MVP, and all-around great person, as she discusses the practicality of the Well-Architected Framework with Azure!

Cash Strapped but Cloud Ready with Michaël Hompus

lukemurraynz — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:07:28 GMT

Starting your journey into the cloud? Don’t let your Azure credits disappear by day two!

As a student, it’s exciting to experiment with Azure, but managing your credits wisely is key. In this session, you’ll learn practical tips and tricks to get the most out of Azure’s cheapest (and often free!) services.

Discover how to stretch your credits, avoid common mistakes, and make the most of Azure while building your cloud skills, without running out of resources too soon!

🎯 REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Event: Cash Strapped but Cloud Ready with Michaël Hompus

Make sure you click the Event Link to register for the Teams webinar!

Creative Blogger Multi-Agent with Azure with David Lorenzo

lukemurraynz — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:51:06 GMT

In this session, we will explore how to create a multi-agent system to help you write articles for your blog. We will use various agents to perform different tasks such as researching and gathering information on the topic, conceptually summarizing the information, and drafting a post that provides a solid foundation for our blog post, with David Lorenzo López.

🎯 REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Event: Creative Blogger Multi-Agent with Azure with David Lorenzo

Navigating Cloud Sustainability: Insights and Strategies with Michiel Hamers

lukemurraynz — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:47:33 GMT

Explore the latest developments in cloud sustainability with Michiel Hamers and how they impact environmental responsibility and cost efficiency. This session delves into the broader landscape of cloud optimization, emphasizing the role of carbon footprint insights in guiding eco-friendly cloud operations.

🎯 REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Event: Navigating Cloud Sustainability: Insights and Strategies with Michiel Hamers

DNS Disasters: A Hybrid Story with Leo Visser

lukemurraynz — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 02:48:06 GMT

The latest priority 1 incident has been resolved and the root cause analysis again points towards DNS. This protocol which enables so many possibilities also causes so many problems.
Let's look at the hybrid environment of our latest victim and analyze where things went wrong during their journey to the cloud. We'll look at what caused them to end up with a DNS environment nobody understands anymore.

🎯 Register Now!

🎯 REGISTRATION REQUIRED

Event: Microsoft Virtual Events Powered by Teams

I (Leo Visser) will show you how to get out of this DNS disaster by utilizing Azure DNS features. Get ready to dive into the advanced DNS features of Azure and find out how to utilize these while keeping an eye on the customer's business case.

Let's get rid of these DNS environments, which nobody dares to touch! Join me and learn how to transform them into beautiful, modern, native environments!

How you got hacked before the code hit production
With the rise of AI coding assistants a new attack vector has opened up for hackers! Let's dive into the world of typosquatting and other techniques that hackers have been using. Does AI protect you against these attacks or is it maybe even more vulnerable?

In this talk you will learn how hackers can use the software supply chain and target dependencies in different ways to eventually get to your code. To remedy this you can set up artifact systems which allow you to check dependencies before they hit your code.

If you want to learn how to make your coding environment safer and prevent hackers from tricking you or your AI assistant, join this talk and find out!

CosmosDB and Azure Functions with Johan Smarius

lukemurraynz — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 22:04:35 GMT

CosmosDB is a great storage solution and Azure Functions are a great way to build serverless functions. But how can they use each other? In this talk, we will investigate the possibilities of integrating Azure Functions written in C# and CosmosDB and of course cover the pros and cons of each option. At the end of the talk, you will have a good understanding of the available options and when to use each option.

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a9dd3597-3acb-4971-acc4-f0dfac064dc5@b4c9f32e-da17-4ded-9c95-ce9da38f25d9

Blazor WASM and Azure Static Web Apps are a great combination with Johan Smarius

lukemurraynz — Mon, 26 May 2025 00:49:46 GMT

Blazor keeps getting better and better. But where will you host the great new app we have built with it? You could use an Azure App Service for this, but there is another great option in Azure: Static web apps. In this session, I will show you what Azure Static Web Apps are all about and how to combine these with Blazor WebAssembly. The better part of this talk will be spent in Azure and code, so don't expect a lot of slides.

https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/44f38f88-afd4-43c0-ba0b-7b69f460400c@b4c9f32e-da17-4ded-9c95-ce9da38f25d9