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User Journey Mapping with Bryden Oliver and Jayden Alchin

A customer journey map is a visual story about the process by which a customer interacts with a business and their experience in using a product or service.

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Azure Resource Naming Conventions with Luke Cook

Having inconsistent resource names across projects creates all sorts of pain:
– Struggling to identify resources
– Unsure what to label new resources.
– Risk of duplicating resources

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Developing Flexible Authorization Capabilities in ASP.NET Core with Jason Taylor

In this talk, Jason Taylor will demonstrate an approach using permission-based authorization to overcome these limitations by building a flexible approach to managing roles and permissions from within your system. This will improve the maintainability and visibility of access control across your system. Putting the power into the hands of application users and administrators, rather than developers.

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From Prototype in Production to Verifiably Stable Application with Luke Parker

SSW solutions Architect Luke Parker demonstrates how to measure tech debt, recognize anti-patterns, and slowly recover. You will learn how to tackle the seemingly impossible task of refactoring a prototype now in production into a Verifiably Stable Application (VSA).

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Microservice Solutions with Ocelot on Azure with Patrick Zhao

Learn from Patrick how valuable Ocelot is and see the ins and outs of building an API gateway and protect the services using Azure VNet.

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Searching Outlook Effectively with Ulysses Maclaren

Some people are really good at using Outlook search to find the emails they need, while others have a hard time. Searching for emails can be a real struggle, sometimes you want to find emails from months ago but you aren’t sure exactly what to search for.

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Superfast transactions in low milli-seconds using Cosmos DB and Redis with Bryden Oliver

Need a way to make your code behave like Cosmos has transactions? Let Bryden Oliver show you how.

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SSW SophieBot: Introduction to Adaptive Cards Designer the best UI tool for Microsoft bots

Join SSW Software Architect Luke Mao as he demonstrates how to build a profile card with Adaptive Cards Designer, using SSW SophieBot.

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Introduction to LUIS Natural language for bots (using SSW SophieBot)

Join Software Architect Jim Zheng as he gives us a look into the SSW SophieBot, an AI chatbot that leverages the power of the Microsoft bot framework and Language Understanding (LUIS) to search for data with natural language search terms.