 afternoon afternoon afternoon afternoon here sorry it's morning here I'm enjoying my coffee I don't have coffee I have a migraine but I have the generic brand of migraine medication so I'm going to be okay nice well sounds like you've had a long week um it has been a long week but an amazing week an amazing week where were you I mean so this week if you haven't already heard um my twitter exploded my LinkedIn exploded my everything exploded this week um it was Microsoft build 2022 oh yeah that's right yeah a small event um so I know we always call this our developer event but really it's not I mean it is but it's not um we say the word developer but absolutely it's all about all this new tech that comes out of Microsoft I mean most of the new stuff comes out at build and then again at ignite and you know we brand as developer conference but there's a lot of it pro you know windows side and stuff that the infrastructure specialists and all these amazing people out in our community need to know about um so I do feel like it doesn't get all the correct press it needs but yeah um and we did something really new this year so um you know lockdown and COVID has been the biggest pain in all of our butts for so many reasons um we went for uh hybrid here in the UK so we invited about 500 people in attendance in uh our Thames Valley park office in Reading UK um and then we hosted online so the UK fun fact actually had the largest presence of build outside of the US oh wow so um awesome already they're doing well so we also have the most number of MV Microsoft MVPs in UK and Amia actually so um we have an amazing community so yeah so we did a hybrid event so we had about four plus hundred people in the building during the day um and then we streamed online so I was hosting with my colleague Chris Reddington who is um very rightly still sleeping since the event um which is what I should be doing right thanks again yeah go to bed after this I am uh but no it was amazing so we were in person and Chris I got to host and part of hosting meant you know there was stuff during the UK in the building that you could watch in session so we had featured partners that were UK based um F5 was there for Chose Vertusa and I'm trying to remember the third one Redgate um so they were our featured partners in the UK um and I met some other partners in the UK we have one called Gray Matter that does some awesome stuff and kind of more yes the developer side etc um but what was amazing about Build UK is that we specifically invited uh various MVPs from around the UK to join us I think there were 25 that I recognized there were probably more um so the MVPs were there we had a lot of them up on stage talking to them about what they do in the community what kind of stuff they're working on um we focused a lot on giving back um and for those of you that watch the event um Amy's gonna flash a little website you can go to I should have memorized it by now but my brain is literally mush uh we're donating for Girls Who Code uh Girls Who Code is an organization that Microsoft does a lot of work with and Microsoft Build every single year had Abel Wang who was the absolute pillar of Build uh it was his favorite event he was always there for those of you that know Abel he unfortunately passed away last July from cancer um it took his life and it sucks because uh he beat it once and it it you know he he chose to fight it he was gonna 14% chance to live and he goes screw this I'm gonna fight it he did and um unfortunately he left this way too soon so Abel was a pillar of Build every single year um if you've ever seen Build you see Scott Hanselman you know you might see Donovan Brown you're gonna see some great people Abel Abel was it though so um we're raising money for Girls Who Code so we're looking to raise 10,000 pounds but you can donate from any country please do all this 10,000 pounds Microsoft is going to match 100% of your donation so if you donate a hundred dollars Microsoft then gives another hundred so your hundred dollar donation turns into 200 dollars um as part of this as well we have I have officially two CVPs that have pledged money out of their own pocket Aaron Chapel who's the CVP of Azure Core I think I don't want to get that wrong I think yeah yeah I think she's Azure Core I should know her title but anyway she's amazing uh she's personally pledged 10,000 US dollars to Girls Who Code um so she'll do it and she'll send it in for matching so her 10,000 turns into 20,000 plus our 10,000 pounds we'll raise over 45,000 for Girls Who Code so we we're looking to hit our numbers um yeah so I think today I want to cover off there's some great announcements at build um the there's the book of news but that's a little boring because it's words um there's no pretty picture there isn't a pretty picture right amazing advocate named Nitya I'm I'm gonna go and try and pronounce her last name because I am I'm that tired I'm really that tired so we're gonna go to Nitya um and Amy if you want to flash that up Nitya did a drawing of every single announcement at build that you can follow um it's also publicly available for you to view in high res and there's a lot going on um she talked a lot about it's it's intense she talks about everything that was released um I and I think these are great these are the eight pillars that we talked about so developer flow how do we make it easier for developers to do things and we say this developer word and I know a lot of people there don't like it it's not a dirty word I mean I think we can all embrace that in some part where we develop you know even if we write we write we write line of code to automate something whether it's in PowerShell bash or your chosen language um but I think we want to enable people to work in the cloud easily so um I talk about GitHub code spaces a lot we've come out with um dev box which is like a whole basically a whole compute machine in the cloud that can spin up it's secure and you can get working right away and I think we all know this whether you're an infrastructure or you write code all day for living it takes well to get started on a project you got to get access to everything and forget setting up your machine and all that stuff so um the new dev box that's out there is amazing um so there's some great features coming out for enablement yeah on the right yeah so go and get up code spaces and and being able to do the dev box piece oh Pierre said he's not a developer no Pierre you're not a developer because come at me I'll take your bat and I will come at you I'll take a coffee stick Pierre likes coffee he does so you know more GitHub than I do Pierre doesn't really really probably does I doubt that I put money on that one right I put a hundred US dollars on that one um but yeah I think this is I think for everyone the link I think Amy you can share the link to the drawing as well yes um she goes over the eight pillars and she draws out everything so there's a lot about cloud native which is amazing um and hybrid cloud and that's crucial and there's a lot about uh server sorry sips server sequel server 2022 which I think is great um there's a lot about AI in there as well we we're focusing a lot on intelligence to to help us do things differently and better not only how we write our code and things like intelligence and GitHub co-pilot but then also going into better AI in the cloud to help us do things how to recognize things better and to leverage that even further so um there's a lot of focus on that one of the big things that came GA was Azure Container Apps um which again as as someone who works on infrastructure I don't want to stand up and feed and water a server all the time so being able to containerize my application and have a managed service underlying it as your container apps has gone GA which I think is awesome um I brought up sequel server 2022 um we did announce a new product called Azure accelerators I don't I don't come up with a naming so I'm sorry it's kind of like Azure terrify I don't come up with naming I'm not a man yeah yeah I'm terrified of terrify right right um yeah Azure accelerators enables you to go from GitHub and deploy directly into Azure without having to set things up or to do much um it is currently based on your language of code and they're looking to expand on that and the application so you could literally stand up everything you need with bicep strained to the cloud and your developers can start working right away um it's still early doors still in preview so they have put up a link in the session that I did so you can sign up for that preview but then giving that feedback to that team is crucial and I would say for everyone out there when new features come out and new products give that feedback because that product group is listening doesn't matter what the product is at Microsoft give that feedback even if you don't think they're listening they are they see it it goes on to their work items um and then I I gave a little session about GitHub OIDC with Azure AD workload identity federation um this is huge so when we're trying to authenticate into Azure we use service principles and manage identity um and service principles expire we get levers we have all sorts of issues using service principles so um this is a cool one where we can identity I excuse me connect your identity from GitHub directly into Azure securely and remove the requirement to have expiring expiring credentials or someone leaving a project or our credentials leaking um so this is a step in the right direction we did have someone ask during the ask the experts if this is coming to Azure DevOps um and not just GitHub it is um but I don't know when this was specific because Azure DevOps uses active Azure Active Directory on the back end it's less of an issue um because GitHub is still technically a you can call it a third party it starts to bridge that gap between the two products to allow that seamless development and secure development to um from GitHub to Azure so that's pretty cool um let's say oh cloud skills challenges they kicked off cloud skills challenges for anyone out there that want to learn skills and things uh finish that up and you can give a free exam voucher uh ends on June 21st so yeah get it done a little less than a month now um and there's great ones to do so there's uh AI and native applications there's a lot of power platform power bi security uh identity administrator yeah actually I was thinking about doing that one the identity and access administrator yeah we said security some rats here oh god it's like clapping your heels twice and saying security three times I know it's pretty fun but yeah there's some great stuff in here um for certifications and exams so if you're looking to take an exam do the cloud skills and the cloud skills challenge is based off Microsoft learn it gives you all the resources for free gives you a great little sandbox to play with and um yeah you got a month to do it so that's pretty cool um and also since Rod's here there is as part of our learn module for today we'll just skip to that um there's it's pretty cool there's cloud games now so you can you take the Microsoft learn module and then you register and you can like solve something with other people so um this one is who hacked so it's like a small company um like organic foods and stuff and then uh oh who got hacked and what tools you're gonna use how are you gonna like drill down and um use set all and oh I thought I thought you said so yeah it's pretty cool kind of like comic book style like you know so we've been game playing a lot of the learning stuff at Microsoft um and not just for kids um as I had a manager once tell me that learning should be fun and when you're learning to code we're learning to do something new it should be fun so we need to find things that are fun so um and think of it when you're a kid like kids learn through play and we encourage kids to play because I learned we buy them all these toys where they can learn about shapes and colors and then expands right um I see people don't grow up so we're kids that is true exactly but we need to make sure when we're learning we're having fun so I'm really excited to see this yeah cloud games um we've we've gamified a few things um Jen Luber and her team they had some announcements that build as well they put out a new module for learning AI but they have gamified a bunch of like learning python and stuff so for those of you that work in like VMware heavy environments and need to start going down the python route um there is some great resources out there um is this the AI you're talking about that yeah this is the new AI for beginners um this is mostly math so if you like math which I do because I studied applied mathematics in university um and I never use my degree anymore so I actually might take this course but it's yeah it's all about teaching and learning um so uh yeah oh and we need to make sure we tag um Rod's book release ooh do you have that handy no I don't Rod can you put it I'll let you get that and I'll talk about this stuff okay my fingers are my brain can't do the like things that's okay the build hangover top game hangover uh my manager said I'll see you in two weeks I'm like what are you talking about I'm just I'm just busy with build next week he's like no you're gonna need a week to recover he wasn't lying he really wasn't lying um there were some very long days so um yeah so um yeah so the the AI for beginners course is awesome that same repo has um learning like web development um other stuff and I can't remember I had I hosted Jen on an interstitial but my brain has literally lost the plot um a lot of pie torch yeah but a lot of really good stuff really good stuff but yeah this this AI one's definitely very mathematics heavy so if you love math um yeah genetic algorithm yeah I yeah I might you know pass on that one but no it looks really cool um I did see that um Microsoft power pages the new announcement or it's like the fifth addition to the power platform so yeah looks pretty cool something more like for me a low coder there was a lot of sessions on low code no code and pro code and there's a lot of sessions especially in the uk about like citizen developers pro developers versus low no code um and working together and what the power platform has done is enabled literally anyone to make something automated right um we see a lot with teachers with schools what they've done with power pages is amazing you can literally spin up a website um in the demo at the keynote they were literally drawing boxes and had like a little list and some boxes and set out we're gonna upload the star website now and it's gonna be good to go um I saw that it was really cool and it could be it's like it could be enterprise scaled too so now it's not just like oh upload my resume or my one little web you know my one page website but you can do a full on enterprise scale website yeah there's some really cool stuff there so the power platform team have done a lot and this was just one of the things they announced but doing things with low code is amazing because you can build out something really in depth if you're an amazing developer or if you're just like I need to stand up a web page really simple um you know we have options we have azure static web apps but then you got to get the code into the the website you've got a hosting platform then you got to get html in there or right c sharp whatever language you prefer to you know write your yeah but doing something like power pages it's like oh sample website release it I can draw it out get my ideas literally pen to paper and upload it and I have a website so yeah it's pretty cool there's a lot of good stuff in there yeah and you already went over container apps that was a good one I like container apps a lot um yeah I was reading on you know now that's GA because it was in preview and then they took in a lot of customer feedback so they um incorporated that to make sure it was a great release so hopefully it makes everyone happy um the was that dapper integration am I saying that right and it's dapper I like it it's dapper dapper is the sidecar it's cute it is yeah so there's there's just some really good stuff what else was on your list Amy um that was mostly it also you can now email the email API is released for communication from of course now I don't have it up um bring up my blog post here of us and there we are um yeah as your communication services email support is in preview which is a big deal so now you can um send there's an email API to use to send alerts to send the heads up within your um organization so I talked to one of the csa's here and he thought that was a pretty good um update so this azure communication service with the email API and public preview so obviously that means don't use it in production but you can now and you don't have an slx oh yeah exactly you don't have an slx you're gonna use it you just I will say this we've had a lot of customers when I was in engineering where we deployed so that wasn't OHGA but it meant they didn't have an sla and the customer just has to agree yep that's okay if they're if they're delivering something that didn't need an sla wrapped around it it was fine but if you need an sla um saying that when azure front door was released um not the national health service in the UK but one of their vendors that is huge over here they write the websites for the national health service um when azure front door got released they immediately put it in it was still in preview but they were running on their production environment because they needed to scale for the national health service in the UK because it services all of england and all the health services and all the massive stuff you're free here you're free healthcare taxes yes i pay taxes i know i tease pure i gotta tease you i don't know it's not free it's so hard but it's it's but also it's cheap that's a whole other conversation we have on another day but yeah we don't get price gouged so like i went to get an MRI out of pocket because i didn't want to wait for the nhs because it was like eight weeks i went to get one like the following week uh it was about 400 us dollars for an MRI so yeah it's just the cost of things are cheaper here because they're all moderated but anyways let's not go down that path um yeah so if you guys want to check out the book of news check out the book of news um i want to touch a little bit more build-in-person i think uh what happened on um come on he was a highlight oh titan was there uh i don't have the video you don't have the is the dog there i mean is the horse he's not he's a dog of daycare today um i booked this like weeks ago um because i'm trying to just get him out with the other dogs you know so be social have a drink change each other around share some treats let me get with him um maybe i'll be back here in a couple hours no so sir titan um came on to campus to do some like preemptive videos the week before and security's like we cannot have a dog in the building i'm like well hold on microsoft's working on and bring your dog to work policy here in england and he's like you know and then when he sold the dog the god this this giant big security guard just melted and he goes oh oh he's cute so i was in the building on monday he's like well is the dog coming i'm like i don't know you're gonna let him in the building and so we got approval the day before so wednesday morning before build kicked off titan got my car he had a bath got my car with me went to the office and um we got full video of him romping around the build set up and we played it at build here in the uk i will get a copy of that video and don't worry it will be on twitter yeah i saw he has a little badge and yeah he has his own badge and uh he did really well there's a lot it started getting really busy we did it early in the morning at like seven in the morning um but it started getting busy and then they brought out the breakfast food and he was like sausages and we literally couldn't get the dog to do anything except go sausages right cannot bring food around yeah the woman that was in control was like let me feed him a sausage and i'm like please don't please don't feed him a sausage i have to deal with him up on the sofa like interview style and oh yep there he is at microsoft with his little sort of titan badge yeah he was actually eyeballing the sausages in that in that photo if i sit here nice will you give me a sausage he's like there's sausages over there i can smell them a mile away like sausage cart went rolling through um but yeah so no he was he was on site and uh we had yeah like i said before i think we had about 25 well with 25 mvps that i recognize and there are probably more um it was amazing so i got to interview a few mvps and when you're prepping for bill like you we talked about like the month prior like you know we want to have certain people in to talk about these technical topics and the the interviews were kind of agreed upon beforehand and i wasn't always involved in that aspect like i literally was there to ask the question so on the day i'm going oh these are the questions i'm asking um but we know these people we know technically like what they do in their day-to-day jobs so we kind of guided it a little bit um but there were points in time in the show we have to like fill space because like something went shorter something went longer so you had to like modify your timings um and i got to interview someone who's pretty amazing her name is loose carter she worked for uh cosmos db here in the uk she's an avid uh evangelist i think is her official title um but what was amazing about that was i'm doing this interview and you know you have to kind of like keep your composure and i was asking her how she got involved in really the inclusivity part of her job and the diversity part because she is she's a female in tech um and she's she's wicked smart and she goes you know i was at my low point in my life and someone came up to me and said let's learn c sharp together and she was at the point where she was you know i don't want to speak for her and tell her story but she's like i was suicidal someone came to me and said let's learn this together they paired up and she learned c sharp and that's when her career took off she was about 19 years old and i'm sitting there doing this interview and i'm like i just wanted to give her a hug and cry i was very much inspired by that story and because that that's not scripted that was just like her comments like this is how i got involved i was just giving this set of questions not thinking anything of it um so that was amazing it was amazing to hear how tech has helped someone for the better and i love hearing how people got involved in tech and when there's stories like that where you're like oh wow you know like it's really had that positive impact so that's a good reason why we've all spent a lot of time raising money for girls who code um encourage that future generation get them into events and and get them participating in things that can help them and better their lives um and then we had cliff ages and peter gallagher on stage to talk about they have this thing they've created called handy and it's a mechanical hand oh and um it came about they were using ai and both are like dot net developers or i believe cliff is i can't remember peter i think peter might be but um they they had a neighbor who was born without most of his arm so over here the health service gave him a prosthetic but it had two like hooks on it and he literally had to like pull a fishing line he he didn't have a use of a hand so they built him a prosthetic hand and using ai he can control with the that and this kid wanted to be a chef so like he is you make me crazy yeah so here i'm hearing like asking someone like why they're into the why they work so much in the specialties they do and hearing how likes you know c sharp saved their life and then i'm interviewing two other people like we created a hand for a boy and i'm like i have done nothing important in my life i know everything i've done is not so that was that was amazing um you can't write that you can't create that so the in person the human experience was was hands down great to see again uh i have a little jealousy there because in person yeah that human connection i did try to get you out here amy i know you did lie out um we did have a few women from corp um they were in the team i can't remember the the acronym from the team um and i literally pulled them in last minute during lunch time so they had told me to go downstairs to the to the people to the crowds and say interview people for lunch and i'm like nah i don't want to do that um i'm gonna do my own thing so i went and grabbed um they're about four people that came out from corp and i was like hey will you come and talk to me about how you got into stem and tech and they're like absolutely and i put them all in the spot and i thanked them immensely because i was just like i didn't want to go ask people what they were eating for lunch i'm like so how's the how's the sausage i mean they had trays of like burritos and salads and stuff going around and i was a starving so i didn't really want to talk about food so i was like hangar moment right i want to eat my lunch too i know i was like i want food getting a lunch break and i'm like so yeah so um i picked up some people they went along with it i think it was really cool um i the feedback was amazing from the event that i heard um and i told everyone to fill up feedback i think i do i can't make promises but if i had to bet large sums of money i think we'll go hybrid moving forward um it it sucks to do things online all the time but we reach more people we absolutely reach more people and that's the advantage of it but having that hybrid opportunity and follow the sun kind of ideal so like redmond's off doing their thing here in uk when it's 10 am our time we're kicking off which is perfect because redmond's going to bed right so i'm pretty sure we'll see more hybrid events i don't know what will happen with ignite or any of our other big events but we're starting to do some local stuff so i i hope knock on wood that ignite will be hybrid um yeah that'd be great to see across i'd be really good i would i mean i think it's the best of both worlds so the people who want to be in person you know and can get that interaction and then maybe people who are still a little they don't want to go out there or people that can't travel yeah um i actually had a couple messages because you could message people in the build app if you will um and because i'm local to the uk and i've worked in the uk for almost 10 years nine and a half years i people that i used to work with other companies go oh my gosh you're speaking of build you know and they're asking me questions and they're like but i can't i'm like oh come see me when you're in writing they're like i can't i'm vulnerable i can't travel and and and that's hard and i but it was great so i could send them some sessions but we could communicate which i think is awesome so i think yeah there's always things we can do better at these events but i think for an in-person event the feedback was massively pop positive um there was free coffee all day which everyone loves burritos at lunch burritos there was a dog in the office no but i think genuinely the salt yeah come on over coffee food and dogs i mean that's all i need well you can be like titan's best friend when you're here oh yeah i'll give him a big hug but we should wrap up um it's been amazing hearing your update uh thank you so much for toughening it out with you i could tell you're tired and i'm gonna go back to bed yeah go to bed it's 3 30 in the afternoon i'm going to sleep take a nap but it was great to hear about the human impact too not just the text so i really i think the human impact was the biggest part and and hosting was fun but to actually see people was amazing um also the one of the pillars over here in the uk and the mvp community's john lund aka johnny chips who does so much online um i literally ran and jumped into his lap over like three seats and i went i was like mid-air and i went shoot where am i gonna land and there's like a whole world of like other community folks there and i'm just like we'll make this work but it was awesome it was awesome to see these people we work with all the time so yeah um yeah so thank you everyone for joining today easy update um yeah easy slash won't sleep ill but we'll go back to your regularly scheduled program next week i'm sure with zippia yeah pia pia roman roman but yeah so thanks yeah thank you so much abril going to take that nap all right we'll see y'all later bye take care everyone