Will Velida

Customer Engineer (Fast Track for Azure) for Microsoft focusing on App development.

New Zealand Joined on Sep 30, 2017 https://www.willvelida.com/

Education

University of Auckland

Work

Customer Engineer at Microsoft

Will Velida

Jul 11

Building our first Microsoft Orleans App

#csharp #beginners #programming #dotnet

7 min read

Building and Deploying C# Azure Functions using Multi-Stage Pipelines in Azure DevOps

Hi Kane! That's a great idea! I'll add it to my Blogging to-...

Jul 1 '21

Side Projects - how do you choose a tech stack?

I'm currently building a personal health application on Azure...

Jun 29 '21

June 25th, 2021: What did you learn this week?

I learnt about using Assertion Scope in C# with Fluent Assert...

Jun 27 '21

Creating a Web API with Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB API and C#

Hey brentminder! I'm not too sure to be honest, since I have...

Jun 8 '21

Understanding and Optimizing Throughput in Azure Cosmos DB

Hi Antonio, Hopefully this example can help answer your qu...

Feb 14 '20

What social links should devs include in their resumes?

Its more to do with your ability to answer questions. The hig...

Feb 5 '20

What was your win this week?

Surviving the week 😕 Sometimes it's like that. It's a new ...

Jan 31 '20

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Will Velida

Jul 7

Introduction to Microsoft Orleans

#csharp #beginners #programming #dotnet

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5 min read

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May 15

Introduction to Azure Container Apps

#azure #tutorial #kubernetes #cloud

1 min read

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Apr 26

Building an event streaming app with Azure Functions, Event Hubs and Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #dotnet #serverless #tutorial

18 min read

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Apr 26

Working with Queues and Topics in Azure Service Bus

#azure #csharp #tutorial #cloud

8 min read

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Mar 24

Using Managed Identities to authenticate with Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #serverless #csharp #tutorial

7 min read

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Mar 24

Deploying C# Azure Functions via GitHub Actions

#azure #csharp #serverless #github

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Mar 14

If/Else and Conditional Statements in Go

#go #beginners #tutorial #programming

3 min read

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Mar 12

Types in Go

#go #programming #beginners #tutorial

4 min read

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Mar 10

Setting up our Go Development Environment

#go #programming #tutorial #beginners

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Feb 28

Building and Deploying Container Images to Azure Container Apps with GitHub Actions

#azure #serverless #tutorial #docker

8 min read

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Feb 26

Implementing Blue/Green Deployments with Azure Web Apps for Containers

#azure #containers #tutorial #docker

14 min read

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Feb 19

Creating and Provisioning Azure Container Apps with Bicep

#azure #serverless #containers

9 min read

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Sep 9 '21

Sending Cosmos DB Diagnostic Logs to Log Analytics with Terraform

#azure #devops #tutorial #cloud

1 min read

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Sep 8 '21

Creating Database and Containers in Azure Cosmos DB with Terraform

#azure #tutorial #devops #cloud

1 min read

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Sep 8 '21

Creating an Azure Cosmos DB account with Terraform

#azure #tutorial #devops #cloud

1 min read

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Aug 11 '21

What are Deployments in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #devops #beginners

5 min read

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Aug 9 '21

Using Azure Functions Core Tools to fetch app settings for local development

#azure #csharp #serverless #dotnet

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4 min read

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Aug 7 '21

What are Pods in Kubernetes?

#kubernetes #devops #beginners

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6 min read

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Jul 18 '21

Introduction to Azure Kubernetes Service

#kubernetes #azure #tutorial #cloud

6 min read

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Jul 5 '21

Using the new C# Azure.Data.Tables SDK with Azure Cosmos DB

#dotnet #csharp #azure #database

5 min read

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Jul 1 '21

Building and Deploying C# Azure Functions using Multi-Stage Pipelines in Azure DevOps

#azure #csharp #devops #dotnet

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10 min read

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Jun 28 '21

Using Assertion Scopes to execute multiple Assertions in C#

#csharp #dotnet #tutorial #testing

3 min read

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Jun 27 '21

How do bindings work in Isolated Process .NET Azure Functions?

#csharp #azure #dotnet #serverless

4 min read

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Jun 22 '21

Developing .NET Isolated Process Azure Functions

#dotnet #azure #serverless #csharp

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6 min read

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Jun 16 '21

Creating a Azure API Management Instance using Bicep Lang via Azure DevOps

#azure #devops #tutorial #cloud

7 min read

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Jun 10 '21

Working with the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed using Azure Functions and C#

#azure #dotnet #tutorial #serverless

1 min read

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Jun 5 '21

Deploying Azure Data Factory using Bicep

#azure #devops #tutorial #database

1 min read

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May 15 '21

Building a Token Refresh service for the Fitbit API with Azure Functions and C#

#showdev #azure #csharp #tutorial

5 min read

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May 2 '21

Publishing NuGet packages to a private Azure Artifacts feed with YAML Build files

#azure #devops #dotnet

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Feb 28 '21

Creating a Web API with Azure Functions, Azure Cosmos DB MongoDB API and C#

#azure #csharp #tutorial #database

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11 min read

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Feb 5 '21

Continuous Backups with Point-in-Time restores in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #database #tutorial

7 min read

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Feb 2 '21

Understanding Autoscale Throughput in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #database #tutorial #cloud

7 min read

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Jan 3 '21

Subject filtering on blob events in Azure Event Grid

#azure #tutorial #serverless #cloud

4 min read

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Dec 29 '20

Introduction to Azure Cache for Redis with .NET Core

#azure #csharp #tutorial #beginners

8 min read

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Dec 11 '20

Unit Testing the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed in xUnit and C#

#csharp #azure #tutorial #serverless

4 min read

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Dec 7 '20

Building near Real-Time Analytics with Azure Synapse Link for Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #database #dataweek #datascience

12 min read

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Aug 20 '20

Exploring Azure Cosmos DB Serverless!

#azure #database #tutorial #cosmosdb

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4 min read

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Aug 4 '20

Developing with Azure Blob Storage

#azure #dotnet #tutorial #csharp

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6 min read

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Aug 1 '20

Exploring Azure Service Bus and Azure Queue Storage Queues

#dotnet #azure #tutorial #cloud

9 min read

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Jul 8 '20

New Video! What is Throughput in Azure Cosmos DB?

#azure #dotnet #database #tutorial

1 min read

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Jun 29 '20

What is Partitioning in Azure Cosmos DB?

#azure #dotnet #database #tutorial

2 min read

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Jun 26 '20

Data Modelling in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #nosql #database #tutorial

1 min read

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Jun 26 '20

Starting something new: My own YouTube Channel

#discuss #azure #help #youtube

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Apr 15 '20

Understanding Indexing in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #database #cosmosdb #tutorial

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5 min read

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Apr 3 '20

Getting Started with the Table API in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #dotnet #tutorial #database

8 min read

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Mar 27 '20

Performing Backups in Azure Cosmos DB

#cosmosdb #database #azure #tutorial

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6 min read

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Mar 21 '20

Building a simple streaming app with Azure Cosmos DB, Event Hubs and Azure Functions

#azure #cosmosdb #dotnet #tutorial

8 min read

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Mar 17 '20

Exploring built-in Jupyter Notebooks in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #datascience #tutorial #cosmosdb

4 min read

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Mar 15 '20

Working with the Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed Processor in C#

#dotnet #azure #tutorial #cosmosdb

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5 min read

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Mar 5 '20

Provisioning Azure Cosmos DB resources with Terraform

#tutorial #azure #cosmosdb #devops

9 min read

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Mar 1 '20

Diving into Gremlin queries in Azure Cosmos DB

#database #azure #tutorial #nosql

7 min read

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Feb 11 '20

Working with Azure Cosmos DB in your Azure Functions

#azure #tutorial #csharp #cosmosdb

7 min read

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Jan 31 '20

Understanding Autopilot Mode in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #database #cosmosdb #tutorial

6 min read

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Jan 28 '20

What's your worst on-call story?

#discuss

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Jan 27 '20

Creating a Serverless API with Azure Functions and MongoDB

#tutorial #csharp #mongodb #azure

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12 min read

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Jan 18 '20

Building a Serverless Machine Learning API using ML.NET and Azure Functions

#machinelearning #tutorial #azure #csharp

9 min read

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Jan 8 '20

Getting Started with Graph Databases in Azure Cosmos DB

#database #azure #tutorial #cloud

6 min read

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Jan 6 '20

Understanding Consistency Levels in Azure Cosmos DB

#azure #nosql #distributedsystems #database

4 min read

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Jan 1 '20

Got Content? A guide for taking your first steps into speaking at Technical Conferences.

#techtalks #speaking #beginners #career

11 min read

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