In this post, I want to share my review of Azure for Developers (Third Edition) by Kamil MrzygĆ āĆĀ³d, published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms.
This definitive guide focuses on creating secure, scalable Azure apps with GenAI, serverless, and DevOps pipelines, making it an essential resource for developers looking to build modern cloud-native applications on Azure with the latest technologies.
The InsiderĆ¢ā¬ā¢s Guide to Innovation at Microsoft, written by Dean Carignan and JoAnn Garbin, and published by PostHillPress publishers, explores the innovation strategies and practices at Microsoft over the past 50 years.
When I heard about this book, I ordered myself a copy during pre-order, and got excited from the day I got it in the mail. This was honestly one of the few books I read cover to finish in just a weekend.
In this post, I want to share my review of my next technical book I read recently, Data Science in .NET with Polyglot Notebooks this time from Matt Eland, (https://bsky.app/profile/matteland.dev) published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms.
If you have been following me for a while, you know Iām gradually learning more about coding and developing applications, especially using the .NET framework. More recently, I also started using Jupyter Notebooks to animate my Azure AI workshops - specifically Semantic Kernel demos - a bit more, by running .NET Interactive mode, which allows me to show snippets of .NET code running from the Notebook, instead of the (boring) Terminal window.
In this post, I want to share my review of another Azure book I read recently, Azure Architecture Explained this time from Brett Hargreaves and David Rendon published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms.
Apart from the great content, it was nice to see one of my own Microsoft Technical Trainer Team colleagues, Sarah Kong, providing the foreword.
In this post, I want to share my review of another Azure book I read recently, Azure for Decision Makers this time from Jack Lee, Jason Milgram and David Rendon published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms.
About the book Azure for Decision Makers provides a comprehensive overview of the latest updates in cloud security, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud solutions, and cloud migration in Azure. This book is a must-have introduction to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, demonstrating the substantial scope of digital transformation and innovation that can be achieved with Azureās capabilities.
In this post, I want to share my review of another Blazor book I read recently, Building Blazor WebAssembly Applications with gRPC this time from Vaclav Perakek, published by Packt Publishing and available on Amazon as well as other e-book subscription platforms.
If you have been following me for a while, you know Iām gradually learning more about coding and developing applications, especially using the Blazor .NET framework.
Hey readers,
This is actually a less technical post, although it can lead to a lot of technical resources. I honestly wrote this blog for myself this time, as I struggled in finding a way to get free books in my Packt Publishing subscription. I had credits, but I always forget how to claim them :). So I guess Iām not the only one having that problem.
What are Packt Credits, and how to get them Packt allows for one-time paying for a book, getting a monthly paid subscription, a 12-month or 18-month one. Itās with these last 2 you get a Credit added to your account once per month, as well as earning an additional credit each month, upon completing 40 sections of learning. So easy said, the more sections (chapter units) you read monthly, the more credits you get as a bonus.
As most of you know already, I enjoy writing technical (Azure related) books. So if you are wondering why itās been quiet lately, there is a good reason for it.
Actually, I was writing on my 9th book, making it 9 books in 9 years straight, but something got in-between the writing process and publishing. Itās called US Visa regulations :). Beginning this year, January 5th actually, I relocated from Belgium to Redmond, WA for Microsoft Corp. The work Visa Iām on allows me to only work for Microsoft, which obviously makes sense. But that meant I had to stop my side-activity as a book author with Apress.
As most of you know, I enjoy writing technical (Azure related) books, but over the last year, I didnāt focus that much on writing myself, but supporting other authors in their writing-journey as well as performing technical reviewing of the book they are writing.
The one I want to highlight in this post, has an interesting back-story. Mid 2019, I got approached by Packt, to write an update to their best-seller title āAzure Strategy and Implementation Guideā, in sponsorship with Microsoft. That was the third edition, which got released Oct 2019. About a year later, I got asked to write another update. As I was a Microsoft employee in meantime, and the book got sponsored by Microsoft, it could be a bit tricky :), so I decided to pull out of the writing process, avoiding conflicts of interest.
As most of you know, I enjoy writing technical (Azure related) books, but every now and then I am not writing myself, but rather do technical reviewing. A few weeks ago, I was approached by Packt, asking me to review their Azure for Architects - third edition
Donāt let the reference to āthird editionā fool you, there has been a massive rewrite of several chapters, with fresh new content, more technical information and new chapters were added as well.
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