James Lee

@GergelyOrosz We had this same experience too and moved our tech learning community to discord.

One more reminder that Slack is a terrible choice for communities, and extort even nonprofits. Even when it’s one teaching teens to code, for free. Hack Club is moving to Mattermost. They really have no choice. Just a poor taste how Slack demands $50K in a week, no real notice

My new AZ-700 course is out now. And everything is 25% off to celebrate. Use the code: OCTOISBACK. ☁️ Subnetting, routing, filtering  ☁️ Load-balancing (regionally/globally) ☁️ Hybrid routing and connectivity ☁️ Firewalls, NVAs, VWANs learn.cantrill.io/p/azure-networ…

☎ No one wants angry customers calling up for an offline app. So load balancers are a great technology to understand. If you’re interested in getting hands-on, I have courses at learn.cloudlee.io.

Azure has another product called Load Balancer also. It distributes traffic to healthy instances and is a central access point for your users like App Gateway. Unlike App Gateway, Load Balancer is not layer-7 aware.

More fundamentals you need? Load balancing. Because you want your solution to be highly available. Why load balancers? When hosting apps in the cloud, reduce risk of outages by hosting across duplicate infrastructure. But then you need a central entry point.

@andrewbrown Thanks mate!

@jamesdplee Killer slides

Networking knowledge helps with cloud. Here are some tips for Azure: Generally there are services: 🔗 Built for public access 🔗 Built for private access ☁ Public services like App Service have public endpoints to host public solutions. You can change this.

@cajun_cowboy23 That’s great to hear. Hope you enjoy the content! Feel free to reach out if you have any questions I can help with.

@jamesdplee Just started taking your Azure Security course. Really enjoy the content. May look into your networking course when it’s ready

🔜 Want to dive deeper into Azure networking? I'll be starting work on the AZ-700 Azure Network Engineer course with my syllabus coming out soon (amongst more projects!).

👀 You can learn more about networking features like this in many of my Azure courses (it's critical to several roles). Check out learn.cloudlee.io or learn.cantrill.io if you're interested.

🔐 What if you only want to allow private access from a VNet? For that, you can use Service Endpoints or Private Link to ensure that all network access is private via Microsoft’s backbone. There’s a lot of tools/features for different scenarios.

E.g. you have a web app, and you only want it available to users in your head office. Most Azure public services have built-in firewalls that allow you to configure network restrictions like this.

FYI Microsoft are changing exam pricing. You can grab more information here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-l…. Pricing changes November 1 2024. There are some decreases and increases.

E.g. for the Azure Architect cert, you must pass: ☁️ AZ-104 exam, and ☁️ AZ-305 exam For the Azure DevOps cert, you must pass: ☁️ AZ-104 or AZ-204, and ☁️ AZ-400 If you’re looking for more guidance, I have courses at learn.cloudlee.io

One thing these resources don’t make clear is the difference between MS exams and certs. For MS an exam and cert are two separate things. Sometimes passing one exam gives you a cert. Other times you need two exams to achieve one cert (like the expert certs).

Microsoft do exams and certs a bit different. Here’s some tips if you’re getting started. Not sure what role to aim for? MS have a neat roadmap: aka.ms/traincertposter. And if you are planning to get certified, they provide free practice tests: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/certific….

@smile4frank Hi Stanel - you can find me here: linkedin.com/in/james-lee-6…

@jamesdplee Your LinkedIn link please. Can’t find you yet on LinkedIn. Thank you

Updates incoming for AZ-500 and AZ-700. Scheduled for EOM April. 🧠 My AZ-500 course is in early access now for 25% off: learn.cloudlee.io/p/microsoft-az… MS study guides here: 📝 AZ-500 Azure Security: learn.microsoft.com/en-au/credenti… 📝 AZ-700 Azure Networking: learn.microsoft.com/en-au/credenti…

@ssikder21 Thanks that’s great to hear! I do have these courses in my course roadmap for consideration. You can vote here too: github.com/users/jamesdpl…. AZ-700 will be before SC-100 (which is still TBC).

@jamesdplee Any plan to release az-700, sc-100 course ? I find your content really helpful

@Alex_IT_83 Glad to hear it helped!

@jamesdplee Watching through your cloudguru lessons for az-500 exam prep. They are great! Thank you so much!