>> The Azure Tips and Tricks Series is
the easiest way to stay as productive as possible in Azure.
With nearly 200 Tips and Tricks so far,
even Azure Experts to learn something new.
Michael Crump is here to give us a tour of
the Tips and Tricks universe today on Azure Friday.
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>> Hey everyone, Donovan Brown here with
another episode of Azure Friday.
I'm here with Michael, and we're going to learn
about Azure Tips and Tricks.
Now, I've found your Tips and Tricks recently,
tell me about the origin and how that actually started happening.
>> Sure. So Azure Tips and Tricks,
it primarily started when I was working with Azure
and I comes across
different things that I felt that I needed to document.
>> Got you.
>> So I may find something in
Azure App Service and I was like, "Oh okay."
Well, what if I actually started collecting
all these Tips because
sometimes I don't have that great of a memory,
and I can documented,
not only for myself but I could document it from the community.
What has happened since then,
is that Tips and Tricks Series has grown until about
a 192 as of this time,
and also 40-plus videos that have had like
700,000 views on the official Azure YouTube channel,
to a couple of books,
two books and even conference talks,
like I did some stuff at Build and Ignite and even
some of the other third-party top of conferences.
>> That's fantastic to take something
that you did just to make sure that you would
remember how cool this stuff is and then be able to
have it reach so many different people
and so many different platforms.
I mean to have eBooks, to have video series,
to have the blog posts which is what I found,
I forget what I was searching for,
but it's like I know Michael like, "Holy crap,
this is like a lot of good stuff and I started tweeting it out,
and this is just neat to see how that stuff works."
So is this just you doing this or can
other people get involved
and where can they go and find that information?
>> Yeah. So it's actually not just me.
So it originally started with just myself,
but since then with some of the written blog posts,
I brought in a couple of MVPs that helped me out,
not only just like MVPs but some of our CDA such as
the Cecil Phillips who has done
quite a bit of amazing work for me,
and especially in the video space.
>> Nice.
>> So the content that I've been producing.
I've been making sure that there's others this out there
that may know a certain section of
the universe a lot better than I do.
>> Got it.
>> Then I can't accept
their pull request because it is an open-source project.
>> Cool. So where do I go to like listing,
searching, and viewing all these Tips and Tricks?
>> Yeah. So you actually go to azuredev.tips.
>> Azuredev.tips.
>> I made it really, really easy.
It's actually hosted on GitHub,
and it's a GitHub page.
So what's really nice about that is,
we are able to accept the pull requests.
If folks have different types of questions,
they can go into the the issue tracker, select a question.
I've already pre-filled out the template,
where we're exactly what
I'm trying to look for or how I can help them?
One other aspect to that is that by open-sourcing,
all of the tips is that,
now I can allow people like
our program managers inside of
Microsoft to help out and say, "Okay.
Hey Crump, you missed something here."
Let me help you out or even just
again the developer community can go in and take a look
and help me make sure that if I
have a problem with
the services or maybe there's something that's not broken,
they can help me out in and what's really great about this,
is that I actually I hate to admit
this but I broke the build myself,
it's not very smart,
and it did not take but really
a couple of minutes before a member of the community was like,
"Hey Crump, like go over here. You did something wrong."
>> Gotcha. So show me the website,
so I can see how because I've
190 some odd Tips and Tricks that
has to be interesting to navigate through that.
>> Yeah absolutely. So this is the site,
I've made it intentionally very clean and to the point,
a lot of the times folks they don't like to load
like a whole bunch of graphics and animations.
With this, it's super lightweight.
The only time you'll see an image is actually in that actual tip.
>> Okay.
>> So inside of this, obviously,
we've got things like search of functionality.
So if you're looking for something like with Azure Logic Apps,
which is one of my near and dear services
that we provide because I use it for a lot.
You can obviously just type that in,
hit a button, and an even here's a program manager,
Stephan Wick who had helped me out with making sure
that this was a very good solid blog post.
Not only can you do those things,
but while you're inside of this,
if you want to get these quick links over to like videos.
I filmed some folks they really like just videos,
and they can navigate with this button over to the Azure playlist.
So we've created a huge playlist is like
the Netflix style where we put one video and the next video,
and I found that most people once they start
watching the videos, they will continue.
Again, those videos are completely based off of the blog posts.
>> Got it.
>> So if you've seen it in a blog post,
and you don't prefer to read, you can go video.
>> Got it. That's just a YouTube playlist
that people can then go and use, right?
>> Yeah, absolutely.
Anyway, I'll just bring this up super quick.
You can see this is some of the videos that we have.
Outside of that, obviously,
there's the eBooks, where you can add questions.
The RSS feed was one of the first things folks were asking me,
"Hey, I went to RSS feed to keep up with the latest and greatest.
I didn't know if RSS was
still like a big thing but apparently it is.
Then from the previous site that I had,
and I'm too embarrassed to actually show that right now.
But the previous site that I had,
you had to really go to like a master page and you had to
like look for the category
that you were interested in and then select,
but you had to go through a lot of
different tips like every tip was listed,
and I've tried to make that a lot easier by breaking it out into.
Okay, if you don't want to use this search and
maybe the current thing that
your boss has you working on is like authentication,
you can click on authentication.
You can read every single post that's been created so far.
>> Got you. Very cool, and show me again.
I know this is actually being run out of GitHub,
but this is also where if I wanted to contribute a tip or trick,
I would come here as well right?
>> Exactly. So one thing you'll notice so this is the actual repo.
This repo was created about a month and a
half ago was when I went back on this side of it.
But on each one of the pages,
the absolute best way that you can
contribute is go to a page and at the bottom,
there is this, "Edit this page on GitHub."
So you'll see here brought it up.
You can edit the file.
Obviously, you'll make a,
will have like a Git workflow,
and what you'd want to do, but you can edit
the file and then you can submit that to me.
I'll make sure it, you have full request.
I'll take a look, and then if everything is grading golden,
then I will give you some credit up at the very top on the repo.
>> Awesome. Well, this is really, really cool stuff.
Yeah, like said I forget what I was searching for that day,
but I started just like you said,
"I read one of them and I just kept reading,
and kept breeding because there's such byte size, right?
There's not like you're reading this
big long arduous documentation.
You're like, "Wow, that's awesome,"
and then you go and try it and you come back.
That's awesome, you just keep
going back and forth which is really cool.
>> I learn that completely through like my own light patterns
with like web browsing like an Medium.com.
Has the two minutes to read?
>> Sure.
>> I found that with myself,
I looked for two to three minutes to read
before get bored and want to go to something else.
There's always like a YouTube screaming in the background.
>> Showing like.
>> Hey, there's a funny cat video. Check it out.
>> Exactly. Well, Michael this is awesome.
I really, like I said,
it's really cool to have this show because
I've benefited from these Tips and Tricks,
and I hope other people will do as well.
So we're learning all about
Azure Tips and Tricks here on Azure Friday.
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