Author: Tiago Costa

Speaking at ESPC 2020 Online

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The countdown is on to ESPC20 Online – only 4 weeks to go!

This year I could be at the ESPC schedule for Amsterdam. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic this was moved to an online experience. I would prefer to be on-site and interact will all of you, but these are uncertain times and it’s safer this way.

ESPC20 Online is a new virtual conference offering you affordable, world-class Microsoft 365 learning at your fingertips, from wherever you are in the world. Tune in live Oct 14th & 15th or catch up on-demand across 100+ sessions from SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure experts.

Join me for my ESPC20 Online session:

I Find your Lack of Azure Functions Disturbing

When designing and developing Azure solutions it’s common to need to run some background tasks. In Microsoft Azure we have several services and features capable of creating and managing background tasks. Usually these services are based on IaaS or PaaS cloud models, but in a serverless world we have Azure Functions. Azure Functions is the cornerstone of the new serverless paradigm. In this workshop we will learn how Azure Functions allows you to develop scalable and event-drive small services. We need to focus on the Azure Function service and not with the infrastructure and scaling rules. This is taken care for us by Microsoft Azure with a per-second billing pricing model.

Benefits of Attending this Session:

  1. Get to know the serverless paradigm
  2. Build background tasks with Azure Functions
  3. Integrate Azure Functions with Office 365

ESPC is always top quality and I am truly looking forward to this year’s virtual conference. Check out some of ESPC’s reasons why you don’t want to miss this event.

Reasons to Attend ESPC20 Online

Refresh – With so much change, keep up with the product developments and practices that matter most.

Revitalize – Find new and better ways of working, to bring new energy and effectiveness to your work.

Investment – Invest in your team, yourself and your career by learning new skills or mastering current ones.

Access – With no travel, watch live or on-demand at a time that suits you from the comfort of your workspace.

Experts – Hear from the best of the best – Microsoft Product Team members, RDs, MVPs, MCMs and independent experts.

Depth – With levels catering from Level 100-400 there is something for everyone.

Network – Build your professional network online, with like-minded people from across the globe.

Vendors – Find the best solutions from the best local, European and Global providers.

Independence – Information and advice you can trust, learn what’s trendy and what works.

Breadth – Attend a variety of session types across the biggest SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure topics.

Affordability – Enjoy the quality of ESPC with incredibly affordable prices and options.

I hope to see you at ESPC20 Online! Will you join me?

Keep safe friends!

Get a FREE exam during Microsoft Ignite 2020

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Microsoft Ignite 2020 week it’s just around the corner! Are you excited to join? I’d like to share a great news about this year Microsoft Ignite: Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge 2020: Free Certification Exam. You can read full details on the following Docs content: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/microsoft-ignite-cloud-skills-challenge-2020-free-certification-exam?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5001832

The article says “All participants of Microsoft Ignite who complete at least one collection in the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skills Challenge are eligible for a free certification exam,…”

If you’re looking to get certified, this is an awesome opportunity to get your cert for free! Check out my Study guides and get ready!

List of eligible exams: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/certifications/microsoft-ignite-cloud-skills-challenge-2020-free-certification-exam?WT.mc_id=AZ-MVP-5001832#eligible-exams

Also don’t forget to register for one of my four sessions. Looking forward to have you in the audience. You can check then out here.

I’m speaking at University of Lahore Azure Bootcamp

Tiago Costa / / Speaking

I got invited and it is an honor to speak at the University of Lahore Azure Bootcamp. This Azure event is organized by the Microsoft Student Partners Community of the University of Lahore. The Azure Cloud Computing Bootcamp series will be composed by 4 workshops.

My session will be about how to build Web Application ready to be hosted under the Azure App Service. I will also talk about all the cool feature we currently have in Azure App Service! It will be an amazing session! Hope to have YOU in the audience!

Why Azure?

Expand beyond the limits of your current computing platform with the freedom to build, manage, and deploy your applications anywhere with Azure. Use your preferred languages, frameworks, and infrastructure—even your own datacenter and other clouds.

With help from Azure, you have everything you need to build your next great solution.

Microsoft Azure has an increasing demand over the globe (including Pakistan). By learning Azure, you are getting Future – Ready.

What are you waiting for? Go ahead and register yourself.

Will you join me?

Got selected to the Microsoft Certifications Advisory Council

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Last Friday I got an email from Microsoft Learning (or WWL – Worldwide Learning has they are called now) welcoming me to the Microsoft Certifications Advisory Council. I have no words! Literally!!! This is a super-limited to around 30 persons from the community that have been chosen across MCTs and MVPs. I have been working in the technical training industry for more than 15 years, helping thousands of students to get certified and in the last years with a focus on Azure. I have tons of feedback to provide to Microsoft!

It’s an honor to be able to provide feedback directly from the field and help Microsoft FTEs (Full time employees). I will not make any decisions, but I can help then with data then it would be easier to make awesome decisions for the market! If you have feedback about Microsoft Certifications, I’m ready and eager to hear what you have to say. Reach out to me and I promised your feedback will be sent over to Microsoft!

Super excited! Let the game begin!!!

 

MVP Award 2020-2021

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Just got the message!

I got renewed as a Microsoft Azure MVP. That’s 5 years in a row! It’s indescribable the felling and honor to be among the elite of Microsoft Azure Professionals. My imposter syndrome comes to life when I get these emails. Still can’t believe that Microsoft recognizes me toghether with so many great professional out there.

I would like to thank for all the support that I got from several community members and specialy from my family that puts up with my absences when I choose to speak at events across the world, all the late conference calls with other events organizers, etc… Without this support all this wasn’t possible. My wife Sofia and my daughter are amazing and I’m very lucky to share my life with then!

A lot of people ask me what the Microsoft MVP program is, so here it goes: Microsoft MVP it’s a recognition from Microsoft for all the non-paid activity I do for the community. I share my knowledge on Microsoft Azure in conferences, online forums, videos, blog posts, … I also help organizing events for the Azure User Group Portugal – https://www.meetup.com/Azure-User-Group-Portugal/ and the local conference Global Azure – https://www.globalazure.pt/ – and SPS Lisbon, now Collabdays Lisbon – https://www.collabdays.org/2020-lisbon/. You can find more information about the MVP program at https://mvp.microsoft.com/ and a list of all the MVPs at https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/MvpSearch.

 

Plans for next year?

Oh yes!!! I have great plans lineup for this MVP year: Continuing to speak in amazing events across the world. In the next few months online-only, but Covid-19 will not stop me from sharing my knowledge and helping the cloud community, so in a nutshell:

  • Keep speaking at conferences and user groups.
  • Growing the Azure User Group Portugal – https://www.meetup.com/Azure-User-Group-Portugal/
  • Keep teaching Azure to IT professionals, Developers and Architects
  • Helping amazing customer in moving to the cloud by building and designing state of the art solutions
  • Writing and producing amazing content, both in this site and on other platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn Learning, …
  • Publishing tons of videos on my YouTube channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/tiagocostamct
  • and some more to TBA activities. Keep your eyes on this space.

A final thank you, to all the professionals that I have shared my space with. It’s been an honor and I hope to share more amazing conversations with all of you! Come and join me on my next engagements.