Getting back at publishing or not!

It’s been a while since I have published on this blog. That happened for a series of reasons.

First of all, most of my articles got copied and pasted in other blogs where the owners of those blogs had the great idea of putting their names has the authors… Honestly got super bummed about it when someone in the community sent me the links… The other reason is a happy reason, we have a new family member, and I took some time to focus on the family. After reflecting if I would stop this project or keep it alive, I decided to re-start publishing articles here and even start to publish videos on my YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/tiagocostamct. If those “authors” want to copy-paste my articles be my guest, I write mainly for the pleasure of sharing my knowledge about Microsoft Azure with other members of the community. You can start and copy this one

Watch out this space and my YouTube channel, new content is getting ready!!! Microsoft Azure / Certifications / Tech gear / Training tips will be the topics.

Hope to see you on this space,
Tiago Costa

Speaking at ESPC 2020 Online


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

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

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

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!!!