Content:Many of the times IT Pro team gets confused while choosing between various Azure Networking services especially while the need is to redirect traffic. In this session Krunal is going to talk about various types of Azure Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Front Door etc. Join us to learn Best Practices, consideration and tips and tricks.
Azure Load Balancer
Azure Application Gateway with WAF
Azure Traffic Manager
Azure Front Door
Below are the questions and answers from the January 2022 Meetup Session.
Q. Tell us a bit about yourself? – City, family, hobbies, job title
A. I am Krunal Trivedi. I am Microsoft Certified Trainer, MCT India Regional Lead as well as Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure. I am delivering IT technical training as well as consultancy to IT MNCs in India as well as in the United States and UK for 14 years now. Apart form my day work, I am actively involved as a speaker in various tech conferences and user group around the globe.
Q. Tell us something about yourself that not many people know about you?
A. Well I am very introvert and I don’t like to talk much – which is totally opposite of my profession.
Q. What does a typical workday look like for you?
A. My workday starts early around 7:00 AM and full of training, technical consultancy, lot of emails reply, content creation, video scripting and recording and travelling.
Q. 1st job out of college
A. Coach in a local training institute
Q. Your 1st version of SharePoint that you experienced and what year
A. I started with MOSS 2077 in the year 2010. Now a days I am not working with SharePoint.
Q. Last challenging project and why? (this should relate to your demo)
A. My session is theoretical and I need minimum 30 mins to explain various Azure Networking marines. It is not demo.
Q. What is the biggest mistake that your feel holds back your clients from the results they want (this should relate to your demo)
A. Fear of Change in technology and upgradation
Q. Describe a SharePoint train wreck project, and what did you learn?
A. I have not worked with SharePoint a lot.
Q. Your favorite M365 feature/tool and why?
A. I use OneDrive a lot to share and store my content/materials/demos/pocs.
Q. Where do you think Microsoft is going with M365.. Be totally honest?
A. Well, its difficult for me to answer as I am not actively working with M365 and I work with Microsoft Azure in my daily life.
Q. What was your first job out of hire school?
A. Visiting faculty in local training institute.
Q. What’s your biggest nightmare project you have worked on … And what did you learn from this experience?
A. It was an ERP management system for publishing house where the technology stack was .NET Framework 3.5. You need a very strong team to succeed in the project.
Q. What’s the best and worst tech advice you’ve been given?
A. Best advice: knowledge of 10 new technologies are better than 10 years of experience.
Worst advice: knowledge of 10 new technologies are better than 10 years of experience.
Q. What are you working on to become a developer/consultant / CTO?
A. Microsoft Azure
Q. Where do you want to be in 5 years?
A. I am happy with what I am doing today and would like to gain expertise on Microsoft Azure slowly and gradually.
Q. Where do you source your knowledge? – Twitter- who do you follow, site urls
A. Microsoft Docs, Microsoft Learns, Linkedin Learnings, Pluralsight
Q. In your mind, if there was 1 song that could describe Sharepoint, what would it be? – David Bowie – Heroes
A. – I am not the one who can do justice to this question.
Q. Where can people find you?
A. Twitter – @TrainerKrunal, LinkedIn : Krunal Trivedi https://www.linkedin.com/in/trainerkrunaltrivedi/