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Up and Running with Progressive Web Apps
Nik Molnar presents the fundamentals of Progressive Web Apps, and how to turn a standard web app into something that's installable, works offline and engages users via push notifications.
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Architecting IoT Data Ingestion with Azure Data Services
Mike Benkovich explore the Azure Data Services, explaining the differences between them and showing how to architect an IoT ingestion system in the cloud.
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Adding AI Smarts with Cognitive Services
Stephen Bohlen discusses Microsoft’s Cognitive Services, how to use them, exploring services for Facial Recognition, object detection, NLP, as well as Topic Extraction and Sentiment Analysis.
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I Have ADD and So Can - Ooh, Shiny!
Heidi Waterhouse discusses the statistics and theory of neurodiversity, and how a team can avoid the mono-culture mentally, as well as working to diversify.
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Continuous Delivery in Azure
Jimmy Bogard discusses continuous delivery in Azure, covering automated builds, packaging, deployments, CD pipelines, Azure Resource Manager, infrastructure-as-code, blue-green deployments, etc..
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Data Science for Developers: The Big Picture
Matthew Renze discusses what data science is, why it’s important, and how to prepare for it. He covers IoT, Big Data, ML, and how they are converging to create fully-autonomous intelligent systems.
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Hacking for Fun and Profit
Heather Wilde discusses what motivates people to hack, what it takes to become a Certified Ethical Hacker, and who is hiring hackers today.
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Evolve with Genetic Algorithms
Charlie Koster introduces genetic algorithms, what they are, what they are useful for, and demonstrates code that shows how to create and use them.
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Bot Chat: Creating Your First Slack Bot
Brice McIver explains how to create a Slack bot, developing a JavaScript-based bot and showing how to integrate it into a Slack team.
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Handling Billions of Edges in a Graph Database
Michael Hackstein discusses graph databases, the current scalability problems and their solutions.
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Cognitive Services, Next Step in Creating Our Robot Overlords
Harold Pulcher discusses Cognitive Services, how to get started using them, and how to incorporate speech, image, and facial recognition into an application.
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Write Code for the Future You
Paul Gower discusses what it means to improve the quality of the code and offers practical advice towards improving it every day.