Google SRE NYC proudly announces our last Google SRE NYC Tech Talk for 2025.

This event is co-sponsored by sentry.io. Thank you Sentry for your partnership!

Let's farewell 2025 with three amazing interactive short talks on Site Reliability and DevOps topics! As always the event will include an opportunity to mingle with the speakers and attendees over some light snacks and beverages after the talks.

The Meetup will take place on Tuesday, 16th of December 2025 at 6:00 PM at our Chelsea Markets office in NYC. The doors will open at 5:30 pm. Pls RSVP only if you're able to attend in-person, there will be no live streaming.

When RSVP'ing to this event, please enter your full name exactly as it appears on your government issued ID. You will be required to present your ID at check in.

Agenda: Paul Jaffre - Senior Developer Experience Engineer\, sentry.io One Trace to Rule Them All: Unifying Sentry Errors with OpenTelemetry tracing SREs face the challenge of operating reliable observability infrastructure while avoiding vendor lock-in from proprietary APM (Application Performance Monitoring) solutions. OpenTelemetry has become the standard for instrumenting applications, allowing teams to collect traces, metrics, and logs. But raw telemetry data isn't enough. SREs need tools to visualize, debug, and respond to production incidents quickly. Sentry now supports OTLP, enabling teams to send OpenTelemetry data directly to Sentry for analysis. This talk covers how Sentry's OTLP support works in practice: connecting frontend and backend traces across services, correlating logs with distributed traces, and using tools to identify slow queries and performance bottlenecks. We'll discuss the practical benefits for SREs, like faster incident resolution, better cross-team debugging, and the flexibility to change observability backends without re-instrumenting code. Paul’s background spans engineering, product management, UX design, and open source. He has a soft spot for dev tools and loses sleep over making things easy to understand and use. Paul has a dynamic professional background, from strategy to stability. His time at Krossover Intelligence established a strong foundation by blending Product Management with hands-on development, and he later focused on core reliability at MakerBot, where he implemented automated end-to-end testing and drove performance improvements. He then extended this expertise in stability and scale at Cypress.io, where he served as a Developer Experience Engineer, focusing on improving workflow, contribution, and usability for their widely adopted open-source community.

Thiara Ortiz - Cloud Gaming SRE Manager\, Netflix Managing Black Box Systems SREs often face ambiguity when managing black box systems (LLMs, Games, Poorly Understood Dependencies). We will discuss how Netflix monitors service health as black boxes using multiple measurement techniques to understand system behavior, aligning with the need for robust observability tools. These strategies are crucial for system reliability and user experience. By proactively identifying and resolving issues, we ensure smoother playback experience and maintain user trust, even as the platform continues to evolve and gain maturity. The principles shared within this talk can be expanded to other applications such as AI reliability in data quality and model deployments.

Thiara has worked at some of the largest internet companies in the world, Meta and Netflix. During her time at Meta, Thiara found a passion for distributed systems and bringing new hardware into production. Always curious to explore new solutions to complex problems, Thiara developed Fleet Scanner, internally known as Lemonaid, to perform memory, compute, and storage benchmarks on each Meta server in production. This service runs on over 5 million servers and continues to be utilized at Meta. Since Meta, Thiara has been working at Netflix as a Senior CDN Reliability engineer, and now, Cloud Gaming SRE Manager. When incidents occur and Netflix's systems do not behave as expected, Thiara can be found working and engaging the necessary teams to remediate these issues.

Andrew Espira - Platform and Site Reliability Engineer\, Founding Engineer kustode ML-Powered Predictive SRE: Using Behavioral Signals to Prevent Cluster Inefficiencies Before They Impact Production SREs managing ML clusters often discover resource inefficiencies and queue bottlenecks only after they've impacted production services. This talk presents a machine learning approach to predict these issues before they occur, transforming SRE from reactive firefighting to proactive system optimization. We demonstrate how to build predictive models using production cluster traces that identify two critical failure modes: (1) GPU under-utilization relative to requested resources, and (2) abnormal queue wait times that indicate impending service degradation. The SRE practitioners will learn how to extract early warning indicators from standard cluster logs, build ML models that provide actionable confidence scores for operational decisions, and take practical steps to integrate predictive analytics into existing SRE toolchains to achieve 50%+ reduction in resource waste and queue-related incidents This talk bridges the gap between traditional SRE observability and modern predictive analytics, showing how teams can evolve from reactive monitoring to intelligent, forward-looking reliability engineering" Andrew has over 8 years of experience architecting and maintaining large-scale distributed systems. He is the Founding Engineer of Kustode (kustode.com), where he develops cutting-edge reliability and observability solutions for modern infrastructure in the Insurance and health care solutions space. Currently pursuing graduate studies in Data Science at Saint Peter's University, he specializes in the intersection of reliability engineering and artificial intelligence. His research focuses on applying machine learning to operational challenges, with publications in peer-reviewed venues including ScienceDirect. He's passionate about making complex systems more predictable and maintainable through data-driven approaches. When not optimizing cluster performance or building the next generation of observability tools, Andrew enjoys contributing to open-source projects and mentoring early-career engineers in the SRE community.

Our Tech Talks series are for professional development and networking: no recruiters, sales or press please! Google is committed to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone, and all participants must follow our Event Community Guidelines. The event will be photographed and video recorded.

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How does a one-millimetre worm help win four Nobel Prizes? In this episode, we explore how C. elegans became one of the most influential organisms in modern biology — not because of its size, but because of its community.

Researchers, beginning with Sydney Brenner’s vision, built an ecosystem of radical openness: shared strains, shared annotations, shared tools, shared knowledge. This culture powered breakthroughs in apoptosis, GFP, RNA interference, and microRNAs, each recognised with a Nobel Prize.

We discuss how the CGC, WormBase, WormAtlas, open imaging libraries, and collaborative genetics transformed a tiny worm into a global scientific powerhouse. It’s the story of a field that chose to share — and in doing so, changed biology.

Key themes: • The collaborative backbone behind worm research • Why sharing strains and data accelerated Nobel-winning discoveries • How open tools shaped genetics, neuroscience, and ageing research • The social and scientific architecture of a uniquely supportive community • Why C. elegans is still leading modern multi-omics and connectomics

Based on the research article:🎧 Subscribe to the WOrM Podcast “From nematode to Nobel: How community-shared resources fueled the rise of Caenorhabditis elegans as a research organism” Victor R. Ambros, Martin Chalfie, Aric L. Daul, Andrew Z. Fire, David H. Hall, H. Robert Horvitz, Craig C. Mello, Gary Ruvkun, Nathan E. Schroeder, Paul W. Sternberg & Ann E. Rougvie. PNAS (2025) 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2522808122

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MeetUp Agenda

18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Buffet. Networking 20:30 - Event Close

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An Engineers Guide To Realtime Data Handling And Analytics

The velocity of data is getting faster across many industries, fuelled by the business demand to gain insights and value from sources in near real-time. This necessity is then allowing decision makers to pivot and ultimately stay ahead of the competition. Furthermore, the growth of the internet of things and ‘smart’ devices now means the volume of that high velocity data has exploded. Meeting this demand requires new concepts and new designs for data/solution architects, with high throughput ingestion endpoints and query stream tools that can perform aggregations ‘on the fly’. In this course, we will address the above head on. Discussing and designing architectures that can scale and burst for high throughput events. Querying using both SQL and KQL to blend stream and batch data feeds for downstream reporting.

As a platform, we’ll use Azure Event Hub and Azure Stream Analytics to ingest and handle that initial data stream. Before applying the same patterns to other resources in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Explorer. Understanding the patterns to apply as an architect vs the tooling available for delivery.

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This October the Birmingham Microsoft Data Platform User Group is launching a FREE brand new in-person event!

Introducing, FabFest 2024!!🎉

It will take place at Millennium Point in Birmingham on October 3rd.

• 1 day
• 7+ sessions
• Non-stop learning

A full day’s learning and networking, and some free refreshment thrown in to boot.

Join us and delve into the world of Microsoft Fabric and AI, featuring seven dynamic sessions. Attendees will start with an introduction plus the latest news from Fabric and AI, then progress to more advanced, practical sessions designed to provide a comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience.

Agenda:

09:20 - Alex Whittles – CEO of Purple Frog Understanding Microsoft Fabric Get a deep dive into Microsoft Fabric and how it’s shaping the future of data platforms.

10:25 - Lewis Prince – AI Engineer at Purple Frog Systems Introduction to AI; What, Why and How? In this session Lewis will break down the stigmas on AI and talk about how AI solutions can help any business in any sector.

11:20 - Barney Lawrence – Specialist Microsoft Data Platform Analytics and Engineering Consultant. What's What and Who's Who? Cross System Record Linkage in Fabric Barney will cover the basics of what deterministic, fuzzy, and probabilistic matching are and then dive into creating and applying a model to example data and look at how to analyse the results.

12:40 - James Dales - CEO at Tekantis Realtime streaming data with Microsoft Fabric James will use the Real-Time Intelligence capabilities of Microsoft Fabric to ingest live aircraft flight data as they are flying right now!

13:35 - Joe Billingham – Senior Data Engineer at Purple Frog Systems Harnessing the Power of the DAX Engine: Storage vs Formula Joe will be breaking down the DAX engine, explaining the difference between the storage and formula engines and how understanding this can help optimisation.

14:40 - Abhinav Jayanty – Data Engineer at Quorum Moneyball: How Data has Revolutionised Analytics in Sports Dive into how data analytics has transformed the world of sports, enhancing strategies and driving performance.

15:35 - Paul Andrew – Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations Administering Microsoft Fabric: Capacities, Workspaces, and Domains In this session, Paul will explore the administration of Microsoft Fabric, with a focus on the organisation and management of data storage/compute through the configuration of capacities, domains, data products, environments and workspaces.

For the full agenda and timing, please visit Agenda – FabFestConf

Please let us know if you have registered and can no longer attend as this frees up space for another attendee.

Sponsors: Purple Frog Systems Power BI Sentinel RP Analytics

PBIBRUM - October meetup with Paul Andrews and Nicholas Lea-Trengrouse

Join us in person for the #PBIBRUM October meetup!

Agenda:

17:45 - Doors open

18:00 - Intros

18:05 - Paul Andrew: How can Microsoft Fabric have an impact on your business?

All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!

18:50 - Break - Networking with free pizza and drinks!

19:10 - Nicholas Lea-Trengrouse: Applying UX/UI design principles in Power BI

Nicholas will be demonstrating how the Laws of UX can elevate your Power BI dashboards by improving usability, visual clarity, and user engagement. He’ll walk through key UX principles such as the Law of Proximity, Hick’s Law, and the Von Restorff Effect, and show practical ways to apply them within Power BI. Whether you’re designing for data-driven decision-making or enhancing user interactions, Nicholas will guide you through creating intuitive, user-friendly dashboards that deliver meaningful insights.

20:00 - Finish

📍Location: Eleven Brindley Place, 9th Floor 11, 2 Brunswick Square, Birmingham B1 2LP

Please join us on June 5th to listen to the topic: An Engineers Guide To Realtime Data Handling And Analytics

What \~ Toronto Data Professionals Community (Virtual) When \~ Wednesday, 5th June, 2024

Agenda:

• 12:00 PM Networking and Introduction
• 12:15 PM Topic: An Engineers Guide To Realtime Data Handling And Analytics with Paul Andrew
• 1:30 PM End

Where: Online via Microsoft team

Session Details: The velocity of data is getting faster across many industries, fueled by the business demand to gain insights and value from sources in near real-time. This necessity is then allowing decision makers to pivot and ultimately stay ahead of the competition. Furthermore, the growth of the internet of things and ‘smart’ devices now means the volume of that high velocity data has exploded. Meeting this demand requires new concepts and new designs for data/solution architects, with high throughput ingestion endpoints and query stream tools that can perform aggregations ‘on the fly’.

In this session, we will address the above head on. Discussing and designing architectures that can scale and burst for high throughput events. Querying using both SQL and KQL to blend stream and batch data feeds for downstream reporting.

As a platform, we’ll use Azure Event Hub and Azure Stream Analytics to ingest and handle that initial data stream. Before applying the same patterns to other resources in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Explorer. Understanding the patterns to apply as an architect vs the tooling available for delivery.

Speaker’s Bio: Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Co-Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.

Please register at the official page here: https://events.databricks.com/FY250522-EV-MosaicSpotlightMeetup-NYC

MosaicX Spotlight is a technical meetup series that focuses on applying the latest GenAI research to business use cases. MosaicX Spotlight NYC will be held at The Times Center, and feature researchers and engineers from Databricks, Databricks Mosaic Research, AI Squared, Patronus AI, Osmo AI, and more! For those who would like to discuss the business around GenAI, we will also be joined by Inspired Capital. Join us as we discuss the research, technologies, and techniques behind how we built DBRX, a leading open-source LLM built completely on Databricks. In addition to discussing how we built it, we've invited key GenAI leaders from the NYC area so we can discuss various aspects of GenAI from performance to reliability. Note that the formalized agenda will be available on May 6th.

Lightning Talks

• Cody Blakeney, Mansheej Paul, Brett Larsen: The importance of high-quality data to build your LLMs
• Mihir Patel: Performance optimization and parallelism for MoE training
• Andrew Drozdov: How to evaluate RAG systems

Panel Discussions

We will have panel discussions around the research and business of Generative AI featuring:

• Jonathan Frankle - Chief Scientist\, Neural Networks\, Databricks
• Benjamin Harvey - Founder & CEO\, AI Squared
• Rebecca Qian - Co-founder & CTO\, Patronus AI
• Alex Wiltschko - Founder & CEO\, Osmo AI
• Claire Pan - Investor\, Inspired Capital
• Ofir Press - Post-doc Princeton

This is a first come, first serve catered event with a capacity for 300 people so please sign up before tickets run out.

This is the link to register to attend online. To register to attend in person, please use How Can Fabric Impact Your Business \| SQL Managed Instances (In Person)

18:15- 18:30 - Networking 18:30: How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business? - Paul Andrew 19:30: Break 19:45: All about SQL Managed Instances - Richard Munn 20:45: Prize draw

Session details: 1. How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business? All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!

2. All about SQL Managed Instances Azure SQL Managed Instances have been available for a few years now, and the features they provide just keep getting bigger and better. In this session, we'll take a look at some of the benefits (and drawbacks) of using them, some obvious use-cases, and one that's *really* clever and might save your on-prem Availability Groups in the event of failure. Well, maybe not *all*, but there's definitely some key take-aways.

Bio: Paul Andrew Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Richard Munn Working with MS SQL Server since version 6.5, with the last 20 years in Financial Services. Passionate about doing the right thing the right way. Proud semi-Northerner. Currently spreading my time between work, parenting, Marmite, and the occasional SQL community event.

This is the link to register to attend in person. To register to attend online, please use How Can Fabric Impact Your Business \| SQL Managed Instances (OnLine)

18:15- 18:30 - Networking and Refreshments 18:30: How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business? - Paul Andrew 19:30: Break 19:45: All about SQL Managed Instances - Richard Munn 20:45: Prize draw

Session details: 1. How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business? All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!

2. All about SQL Managed Instances Azure SQL Managed Instances have been available for a few years now, and the features they provide just keep getting bigger and better. In this session, we'll take a look at some of the benefits (and drawbacks) of using them, some obvious use-cases, and one that's *really* clever and might save your on-prem Availability Groups in the event of failure. Well, maybe not *all*, but there's definitely some key take-aways.

Bio: Paul Andrew Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Richard Munn Working with MS SQL Server since version 6.5, with the last 20 years in Financial Services. Passionate about doing the right thing the right way. Proud semi-Northerner. Currently spreading my time between work, parenting, Marmite, and the occasional SQL community event.

Microsoft Data Platform Group Birmingham

Thursday 7th March at 13:00 (GMT - UK Time)

Speaker: Paul Andrew

Title: An Evolution of Data Architectures - Lambda, Kappa, Delta, Mesh & Fabric

Description: How has advancements in highly scalable cloud technology influenced the design principals we apply when building data platform solutions? Are we designing for just speed and batch layers or do we what more from our platforms, and who says these patterns must be delivered exclusively? Let’s disrupt the theory and consider the practical application of all things. Can we now utilise Azure technology to build architectures that cater for lambda, kappa and delta concepts in a complete stack of services? And should we be considering a solution that offers all these principals in a nirvana of data insight perfection? In this session we’ll explore the answer to all these questions and more in a thought provoking, argument generating look at the challenges every data platform architect faces.

Agenda:

12.45 - 13:00 : Setup and Join

13:00 - 13:05 : Open Lobby and Introductions

13:05 - 14:00 : An Evolution of Data Architectures - Lambda, Kappa, Delta, Mesh & Fabric

Venue:

Wherever you have access to a computer or smart device! This session will be online only!

Other Details:

*** Please note registration on MeetUp is required to gain access to the Teams link!***

Please contact us on Twitter or via email if you are having any issues joining and we'll do everything we can to help.

Event Organiser Contact Details:

If you need any further details or have any requests for this or future Data Platform Group events, please get in touch.

Email: [email protected]

Twitter: @MSDataGroupBrum

Sponsors:

Purple Frog Systems

Power BI Sentinel

Hosted by Amdaris, an Insight company - https://amdaris.com and sponsored by Cloud Formations - https://www.cloudformations.org

Amdaris is your trusted partner for high velocity extended delivery teams.

Cloud Formations provides No Nonsense Consulting on Data Strategy, Design, Delivery, and Training.

Location: Amdaris, Finzels Reach, Aurora, Bristol BS1 6BX

AGENDA

18.00 – 18:30 Meet & Greet

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18:30 - 19:15 From Theory to Practice - Building a Data Mesh Architecture in Azure by Paul Andrew

The principals of a data mesh architecture have been around for a while now, but we still don’t have a clear way to deliver such a platform in Azure. Are the concepts so abstract that it’s hard to translate the principals into real world requirements and maybe even harder to think about what technology you might need to deploy within your Azure tenant.

In this session, we’ll explore options for building scalable data products in Azure, following Data Mesh architecture principals. Turning the theory into practice. What data storage technology should be used? Does it matter? What endpoints should be exposed for the products across the overall mesh? And what resource(s) should sit at the centre of the Data Mesh? Answers to all these questions are more as we turn the theory of a Data Mesh architecture into practice. Including, how to dissect the planes of the Data Mesh using Azure concepts.

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19:15 - 19:45 Pizza and Networking

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19:45 - 20:30 Migrating to Azure - Panel QnA with **Paul Andrew, Rob Sewell **and Dan Addy

Bring your questions and challenges about migrating to Azure Data Platform for an open question-and-answer session with an exceptionally skilled and experienced panel! This is a rare opportunity. Talk and connect with other data professionals considering or implementing migration projects.

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20:30 - Pub

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• Bicycle parking: We do not have arrangements with the venue for secure storage. There are public bicycle stands by Spicer and Cole/Premier Inn (to the left of Amdaris). Bicycles are left at your own risk

-------------- About Amdaris - https://amdaris.com/

We are Amdaris, an Insight company, and at our core we specialise in extending teams with highly skilled software experts. With bespoke Software Development, Product Design, Strategy and Consultation, Managed Services and Data Solutions, we seamlessly integrate into your business and culture, bringing passion, care, and technical proficiency directly to you.

About Cloud Formations - https://www.cloudformations.org/

We partner for the journey to achieve a common goal, from siloed data solutions to scalable, value driven data platforms. Ensuring foundations that support the strategic direction of the business. Our loyalty is to your success through innovation and excellence, informed by decades of experience in the industry.

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MeetUp Agenda

18:00 - Arrive. Networking 18:30 - Guest Speaker Talk 19:30 - Buffet. Networking 20:30 - Event Close

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How Can Microsoft Fabric Have an Impact on Your Business?

All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing! _________________

Speaker Details

Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, Paul has covered the breadth and depth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay community conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrpaulandrew Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrpaulandrew

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Microsoft Community Code of Conduct

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/page/codeofconduct

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Join our Microsoft Fabric - UK User Group for our webinar in association with Onyx Data (https://onyxdata.co.uk).

This session we are excited to announce our host Microsoft MVP Leon Gordon and co-host Microsoft MVP Pragati Jain will be introducing Microsoft MVP Paul Andrew.

Join the Microsoft Fabric UK - User Group on - Microsoft Community - https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Power-BI-UK-User-Group/gh-p/pbi_UK_usergroup LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8909321/ MeetUp - https://www.meetup.com/microsoft-power-bi-uk/

Session Abstract - All this talk about Data-Ware-Lake-Delta-Beach-House-Lakes (or some combination of that) and Data, Yarn, Fabric integration, everything has got a bit… Meshy! Yes, my friends. The beat of the technology drum is certainly relentless. And with no limits cloud scale and huge innovations from the biggest brains. Two years, it seems, has become the benchmark for tools to live and die by. Reach three years and you almost have a mature product. That said, Microsoft Fabric, the latest offering from global software giant is no exception. But what does this mean for the real world. For the data analysts, engineers and scientists that need to continue answering everyday problems to inform business decisions. In this session we will firmly ignore the hype and focus on the reality. With the pragmatic view of an experienced architect. The problem of gaining insights from our data hasn’t changed. So, what does this mean if implemented using Microsoft Fabric. What, why and how is the tooling going to change our daily deliverables in the short term, medium and long term. Join me for these answers and more as we explore the impact of Microsoft Fabric-Server, erm, Power. Resource. Thing!

Biography Paul (AKA @mrpaulandrew) is the Founder & CTO of Cloud Formations, a specialist data consultancy based in the UK. With nearly 20 years’ experience designing and delivering Microsoft data architectures, Paul leads a passionate team of engineers, supporting businesses small and large with scalable cloud platforms. Business value delivered through data insights. Over the years, covering a breadth of design patterns and industry leading concepts, including Lambda, Kappa, Delta Lake, Data Mesh and Data Fabric.

Paul is also a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, director for the Data Relay conference, East Midlands user group leader, book author and mentor. In addition to the day job(s), Paul is a father of three, husband, foodie, runner, blood donor, geek, Lego, and Star Wars fan! Lastly, Paul confesses to enjoying a Ramstein playlist when given half a chance to do some coding for a customer project.

Social Media / Website Links Website: https://www.cloudformations.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrpaulandrew LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrpaulandrew