Hacking with Microsoft Azure

What is Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a flexible, scalable, and full-featured cloud platform. If you can imagine it, you can build it on Azure, using the tools, languages and frameworks you’re already familiar with. Python, JavaScript, Java, .NET - you can run them all on Azure!

Using Azure you can run serverless code using Azure Functions, host web applications and databases, take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) through Cognitive Services, and create your own machine learning models through Azure Notebooks or powerful Data Science Virtual Machines (DSVM).

Getting Started with Azure ☁️

1. Claim your Azure Pass aka.ms/HN/passes

👉 Note: Follow the redemption process guide for reference

1. Deep dive through Azure Fundamentals: aka.ms/HN/learnaz

Explore Azure Services to build a Hack 📑

https://docs.microsoft.com is the home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Check out our quickstarts, tutorials, API reference, and code examples.

Developer Guide: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/guides/developer/azure-developer-guide

Explore Azure Services here

AI + Machine Learning ⌛

The AI Services in Azure bring the best of AI to Azure and the best of Azure to AI. It is about bringing the state of the art technology as easy to use cloud services for developers. It’s also about taking advantage of the best capabilities that the cloud has to offer, such as hardware and microservice clusters to make AI scalable.

There are 3 sets of AI services in Azure.

1. Pre-built AI capabilities, such as Cognitive Service APIs for speech, language understanding, OCR, vision and Search are simple cloud hosted functions.
2. Conversational AI is now easy with the Azure Bot Service. It allows you to build and deploy chat and conversational applications with ease.
3. When you have to build a deeply custom AI model with your own data, Azure Machine Learning - aka.ms/HN/AIonAzure provides all you need for cloud scale algorithm and model development.

👉 Sample 1: How to Translate Speech in realtime on your browser

👉 Sample 2: Wine-not-build a Bot

👉 Sample 3: Use Azure Cognitive Services to build a translator app hosted on Azure App Service

🖥️ Tutorial: Introduction to Machine Learning

🐍 Azure for Python Developers

Explore some MS Learn Content on AI & ML

Compute 💻

Azure App Service

Azure App Service enables you to build and host web apps, mobile back ends, and RESTful APIs in the programming language of your choice without managing infrastructure. It offers auto-scaling and high availability, supports both Windows and Linux, and enables automated deployments from GitHub, Azure DevOps, or any Git repo. Learn how to use Azure App Service with our quickstarts, tutorials, and samples.

👉 Sample 1: aka.ms/HN/AZWebApps

👉 Sample 2: Learn to build a Blog using App Service aka.ms/HN/BlogApp

Learn more about Azure App Service: aka.ms/HN/appservice

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

The fully managed Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) makes deploying and managing containerised applications easy. It offers serverless Kubernetes, an integrated continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) experience and enterprise-grade security and governance. Unite your development and operations teams on a single platform to rapidly build, deliver and scale applications with confidence. aka.ms/HN/learnk8s

👉 Sample 1: Deploying .NET Web Apps to Azure

👉 Sample 2: Azure Kubernetes Service - A Beginner’s Guide.

Step-wise series to learn Kubernetes

Database 💾

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database service for operational and analytics workloads. It offers multi-mastering feature by automatically scaling throughput, compute, and storage. Cosmod DB - Docs

Getting Started with Cosmos DB on Azure

👉 Sample 1: Build an Attendee Detector

👉 Explore Cosmos DB with Serverless

👉 Check out other Azure Services here**

Explore Azure Code Samples 🎛

Microsoft Docs 📄

docs.microsoft.com is the home for Microsoft documentation for end users, developers, and IT professionals. Check out our quickstarts, tutorials, API reference, and code examples.

Ask the developer 😎

Have a question while hacking on Azure, ask here aka.ms/HN/QnA

AWS to Azure services comparison ☁️☁️

This section will help you understand how Microsoft Azure services compare to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether you are planning a multicloud solution with Azure and AWS, or migrating to Azure, you can compare the IT capabilities of Azure and AWS services in all categories. Learn more here

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Explore Microsoft Certifications 💯

1. Exam AZ-900: Microsoft Azure Fundamentals 🎓
2. Exam AZ-203: Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure 🎓