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Toggle navigation Home About Code of Conduct Events Feedback Bytecast Archive Contact Log in NEBytes North East Bytes - Microsoft Technology Usergroup in the North East of England NE Bytes - 19th September 2018 - Late Summer Lightnin' 8. September 2018 Derek Graham (0) Late Summer Lightnin' We said we'd re-run a night of lightning talks like we did back in early 2017 so this month's meeting is it. It's lightning talk time! We're looking for short, 5-15 minute talks on a technology-related topic. Slides or demo or live coding? A pet project you've been tinkering with, a new programming language, platform or framework? Email events@nebytes.net or tweet us @NEBytes with your ideas. Please register as usual at eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ne-bytes-19th-september-late-summer-lightnin-tickets-49992307337 An Evening Of Tech Talks at Scott Logic 7. September 2018 Derek Graham (0) The talks will cover Technical Architecture, UX Design, and Web Development. Doors will be open at 6pm with a chance to grab a drink and some pizza before the talks begin at 6.30pm. Before and after the talks there will be an opportunity to network, meet some of the Scott Logic team and discuss all things tech. What You Ask and What You Want: Journeying Architecture Through Requirements Gordon Govan Gordon will talk about a prototype project for an energy company looking to integrate with the central communications platform of the next generation of smart meters. We will look at the proposed architecture, implemented architecture, and the journey between the two, responding to the client’s needs and capabilities. Gordon is a Senior Developer at Scott Logic, helping clients achieve their tech dreams across the full stack. He enjoys squeezing the best possible performance out of web-apps and throwing data around through reactive systems. Designing for Complex Applications Courtney Yule Courtney will talk us through a project which focused on allowing users to easily and efficiently place FX transactions, send payments and deal in long and short-term investments. She will briefly describe the various stages of the project from a User Experience perspective, including requirements elicitation and user research, ideation and final solutions. She will also discuss how the business and user needs were balanced, along with highlighting any challenges faced during the project. Courtney is a User Experience Designer at Scott Logic. She has worked on a variety of projects ranging from FX Trading Applications, IOT solutions, Conversational Commerce and consumer banking applications From the Bottom of the Mariana Trench to the Top of Everest in JavaScript Chris Price WebAssembly is the lowest-level primitive ever to come to JavaScript. It can now be found in every major browser and is expected to unlock the performance required for the next generation of web experiences. Async Iteration is the culmination of two of the highest-level primitives ever added to JavaScript. As it is rolled out across the browsers, it is expected to do for streams, what Promises did for callbacks. A recent client project involved developing an API for streaming huge-volumes of low-latency market data directly into the browser without compromising on its ergonomics. In this talk, we'll discuss both of these extremes in the context of that project and where we think these technologies will lead us. Chris is a Technical Architect at Scott Logic. He spends his days developing desktop/tablet/mobile web apps for financial services companies. Unfortunately most of those are hidden behind paywalls but he does like to blog about it when he can. Tickets for this event are available from eventbrite NE Bytes - January 2018: It's Our Birthday 6. January 2018 Derek Graham (0) It's our 8th Birthday this month and in celebration we've lined up a double session with one of our original co-founders Andrew Westgarth! Looking forward to seeing you on the 17th! Andrew Westgarth Andrew Westgarth is a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft Azure App Service dealing with public cloud offering, Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack, Microsoft Azure Functions Runtime preview, and the on-premises Microsoft Windows Azure Pack Websites product. Andrew is a familiar face to UK Community events as the founder of the DDD North events, Co-Founder of NEBytes, former VBUG Chairman, and a former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional. Session 1 - Deploy and Run Container Based Applications at Scale with App Service on Linux Hosting more than 1 million cloud applications, Azure App Service helps developers quickly build, deploy and scale applications without having to maintain the underlying web servers or operating systems. Now we are excited to bring these proven capabilities to Linux developers lowering the barriers to entry for building container based web applications. Come to learn how to use App Service on Linux to deploy your container-based web applications to the cloud in seconds. We will also share how you can use the open source tools that you are already familiar with while leveraging the built-in CI/CD, auto scaling and Web SSH features from App Service on Linux. Bring your code or bring your container, we have a solution for you to increase your productivity and run your applications at scale easily. Session 2 - Azure Stack and Azure App Service, an overview for IT Professionals and Developers What is Azure Stack? How does it offer customers and organizations a true Hybrid cloud? Add in Azure services such as Azure App Service and Azure Functions and using consistent tools and processes across public and hybrid cloud and developers suddenly have a highly productive platform on which to deliver applications and experiences. In this session I'll give an introduction and overview of Azure Stack and dive into how Azure App Service provides a consistent experience for developers wishing to deploy to the hybrid cloud, and I'll also show how an Azure Stack Cloud Admin can manage their Azure App Service Resource Provider deployment. Please register at eventbrite Food is sponsored by sage : NE Bytes - 6th December 2017: Building and Deploying Azure Serverless Functions 29. November 2017 Derek Graham (0) We're back for a Christmas special with Christos Matskas from Microsoft. Note the date as it's not on our usual monthly schedule - but it is at the same venue! Building and Deploying Azure Serverless Functions Join Christos to learn what Azure Functions are and how to write them and deploy them using the Portal, CLI tools, VS Code, Github and VSTS for proper CI/CD. Azure Functions are the young and cool cousin to our battle tested and much loved WebJobs. Azure Functions introduces an event driven, compute-on-demand experience that provides a radical new approach on how you set up and run tasks. Where they truly shine is in the great interoperability they provide with various services on and off the cloud, such as SaaS products and on-premises systems. About Christos Christos Matskas is a software developer, blogger, speaker and all around geek. He currently works at Microsoft as an Azure Engineer (PFE) helping developers and teams leverage the power of the cloud. Before joining Microsoft, he was a successful entrepreneur and has successfully collaborated with companies such as MarkIT, Lockheed Martin and Barclays. He's been building software for over 13 years and he's a passionate Open Source advocate. He contributes regularly to numerous OSS projects and works closely with the community to make the software development space bigger and better. Please register at eventbrite Food is sponsored by: An Evening Of Tech Talks at Scott Logic 21. November 2017 Derek Graham (0) On Wednesday the 29th of November Scott Logic invites you to join us for an evening of tech talks at our Newcastle HQ. Three of our technical speakers will share their thoughts on current technology trends, ranging from data engineering to web technology. It’l...