Joey D'Antoni

LLMs are changing how we write code, manage infrastructure, and ship software, making source code management and DevOps skills more valuable than ever. If DevOps has always seemed confusing or mysterious, you're not alone. In this session, you will:

With over 200 services in Azure, trying to learn the platform can feel overwhelming. You've probably built a virtual machine or deployed an Azure SQL Database, but have you thought about your network design, tagging strategies, or how AI services fit into your architecture? In this all-day...

SQL database in Fabric can be an excellent solution for your datamart or to support your dashboard. However, to keep those dashboards and reports running smoothly, you must optimize your database design and indexing strategies.

Have you ever tried to schedule jobs against an Azure SQL Database? Or wanted to turn VMs on and off to save money? In this session you will learn about the ins and outs of the Azure Automation service. You will learn about how Automation works, how it can integrate with other applications like Logic Apps, and how you can execute code with VMs. In this demo heavy session, you will take home real-world code examples showing patterns for various patterns and problems.

Azure offers many options for data platform services, and it can be confusing to choose the right platform for you application. In this session you will learn about all of the different Azure SQL and non-SQL data offerings and how they fit into you data ecosystem.

Data breaches and hacks are everywhere. In this session, you will learn about the fundamentals of modern hacking and how threat actors operate at scale to try to breach your systems and data.

Master the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in this engaging one-day workshop for newcomers. This journey demystifies AI's utility in analytics, demonstrates tools like ChatGPT, and navigates through practical use cases.

This session started with a question on Reddit—“How Do a I get a list of VMs in Azure?”. I started down the path of building a PowerShell script, and it eventually became a small application. In this demo-full session you will learn about the following technologies: • Azure Automation • Azure Blob Storage • Azure Active Directory Managed Identities • Azure Logic Apps • Azure SQL Database • Azure Web Apps You will learn how to take the basic idea of how to take a PowerShell script, persist its output, and then operalizationalize and secure the application. You will also learn about the challenges encountered while building the app, and how I worked to resolve those challenges.

Identifying and fixing problematic query plans got a lot easier in SQL Server 2016, with the introduction of the Query Store. SQL Server 2017 takes that power a few steps further.

There are a lot of options in Azure for your data. In this session you will learn about the various options for how to store data fro your app, and a decision tree for how to make the best choices for your application.

Security is more important than ever in our interconnected world. As workloads move into Azure, our security model shifts from on-premises Active Directory to Azure Active Directory (AAD), which uses a different authentication model called OAuth. You will learn about how AAD interacts with SQL resources and other resources in Azure, and how to design authentication models for complex cloud applications and databases.

Azure offers many options for data platform services, and it can be confusing to choose the right platform for you application. In this session you will learn about all of the different Azure SQL and non-SQL data offerings and how they fit into you data ecosystem.

There are over 200 services in Azure, which can make it overwhelming for many IT professionals. In this session, you will learn about the specifics of using Azure for data platform solutions. Starting with virtual machines and they should be configured, and then diving deeper into Platform as a Service solutions like Azure SQL Database, Managed Instance, CosmosDB, and Synapse Analytics you will learn how to make decisions about the best option for your workloads and how to integrate that with the broader Azure ecosystem. You will learn about how security with Azure Active Directory works, and how to implement it in your applications. You will also learn about additional services, like Azure Key Vault, Azure Functions, Logic Apps and Automation, which help you to bring make different components interact with each other.

In this daylong session, we’ll review all the various infrastructure components that make up the Microsoft Azure platform. When it comes to moving SQL Server systems into the Azure platform having a solid understanding of the Azure infrastructure will make migrations successful and making support solutions much easier. Designing your Azure infrastructure properly from the beginning is extremely important. An improperly designed and configured infrastructure will provide performance problems, manageability problems, and can be difficult to resolve without downtime. As Azure scales around the world many more companies, no matter where they are located, will be begin moving services from on-premises data centers into the Azure Cloud, and a solid foundation is key to successful migrations.

Many organizations would like to take advantage of the benefits of using a platform as a service database like Azure SQL Database. Automated backups, patching, and costs are just some of the benefits.

Containers have quietly been taking over the world of infrastructure, especially amongst developers and CI/CD practitioners. However, in the database space, container adoption has been lower.

Identifying and fixing problematic query plans got a lot easier in SQL Server 2016, with the introduction of the Query Store. SQL Server 2017 takes that power a few steps further.

Containers have quietly been taking over the world of infrastructure, especially amongst developers and CI/CD practitioners. However, in the database space, container adoption has been lower.