80K Ask Me Anything YouTube Live Stream

hey everyone so i i think we're live hopefully everyone can hear me okay if i can just maybe get a thumbs up or some signal uh everyone can hear that would be awesome um welcome to our 80 000 subscriber ask me anything session um really appreciate everyone joining today i really appreciate everyone's support um for the channel for the content to helping us reach this mark i feel super blessed to be able to create this content and have this community there was about a 10 second lag between what i say i think when you see it on the stream so i'm actually joined taking one of my awesome friends tim ronkey was helping me moderate um the questions so there will be a delay between me actually answering but it's only about uh 10 seconds um just a note to subscribe to the channel you only have to be subscribed for five minutes and it'll let you start typing questions it's just a way to kind of filter out some of the junk um so with that i've actually got a mix of questions some people kind of sent in advance obviously people are typing them live so i'm going to kind of mix them back and forth i'll start with the first one then so how did i move to america and did i get sponsored did i have family so i did actually have family in america and i would actually come and visit as a child with america every year and it's where i got my love of tootsie rolls and fruit loops but then it was about 18 years ago i actually just decided i actually wanted to relocate um to the states and i did that through a company so i was fortunate enough at the time i was doing my ntfaq website and i was writing my books and this company actually heard of me and so they sponsored my h-1b visa so that sort of got me over and let me work in america once i was over here going through the h-1b process i went for my green card and then i got my citizenship so it was all through work it wasn't any kind of family connections it was really all through kind of the work route um another question people asked me was how many pizzas did i go through to get that 80k pizzas it was three um originally i tried to get gramaldi's to do it but it really didn't go very well then another company cut it all up and then i finally kind of created my own and yes we did uh eat all of that pizza um question do i have skills on aws and google cloud and why don't i create content on that so i have some basic skills around some of the other clouds but i'm an azure specialist i've kind of talked before i don't believe you can be super deep in all three clouds um it's just there's too much content i think it's actually hard to be very deep in just all of azure alone and i wouldn't even say i am i focus on certain areas so i'm an azure specialist i have enough knowledge of aws and google cloud to understand how uh capabilities might map to understand how they might integrate with each other if you're multi-cloud but i'm an azure specialist i have zero intention or interest in trying to create content on aws and google cloud again i don't believe it will be of quality there's also so many hours in the day this is my hobby as many of you probably know this is not my job this is something i do in the evenings and weekends there's not enough hours in the day to create more content and i think there's so much azure content to create uh i really just uh focus on that that's kind of like the key thing i'm actually doing um so there was a question about so what is a cloud solution architect i've talked before about that's my day job i'm a cloud solution architect focusing on azure and it's really kind of what the name suggests companies have requirements they are looking to maybe move to the cloud or create a new solution in the cloud so my job is essentially to help understand those requirements the technical requirements the business requirements and then map that to well here are the building blocks i can use in azure how do we put those together in an optimal resilient fashion but still give them the flexibility to grow to meet those requirements so just like a building architect would take the requirements of the customer and design them a building and they have to consider things like well the plumbing and the brickwork all of those things my job is to understand the requirements of the customer for their solution remember that solution may not all be in the cloud sometimes that solution is there's elements they want to put in the cloud there's elements on premises and you still have to solve for all of those elements so i come up with that architecture i'm not the person that does the click click installs i architect the solution now there was kind of a follow-on to that well how do you become a cloud solution architect as i kind of just alluded to i think you're going to be deep in a particular technology i don't believe and i could be wrong you can't be deep in many clouds there's too much to them so most of the time you're going to focus on a particular cloud but i think you want to again an understanding of some of the other capabilities for those hybrid scenarios you're going to have to have obviously technical skill so most likely you might start as like kind of like a technical specialist focusing on maybe answering questions or giving support around a certain aspect of for example azure or whatever cloud you decide to focus on so you want to be deep in certain areas but understand all of the surrounding components as well because again the goal if we're architecting a solution ultimately i don't want to recreate the wheel i don't want to say hey we're going to use a vm for this and we're going to install this software when there's some other component that i just neglected to learn about so you have to at least understand what are the different offerings available but most likely you're going to be part of a team and you're going to rely on that team you're not going to be super deep in everything you're not going to be super deep in infrastructure and databases and ai machine learning it's probably not going to happen so we'll build on the team so we want to get that technical background is kind of a step but then a really big part is the ability to communicate if you're an architect a huge part of the job is actually getting the requirements often the customer is not 100 sure what the requirements are they might have an idea but your goal is to really be able to communicate to the customer and hey understand yeah sure the technical requirements but then also what are the business requirements driving that what's important to them what's their strategic direction what's their tactical direction so i can consider all of those things in the architecture and then i have to be able to transfer knowledge it's no good just creating some architecture and dumping it on the door and then running out they'd have no clue of why they have what they have and they won't be able to carry it forward and evolve it so what you want to do is be able to yes architect but architect with the customer it's a bit harder than just doing it in isolation but by bringing them along with you they're you're transferring knowledge so they're growing they're understanding why you're architecting it a certain way so then they'll be able to carry that forward in the future you're not making them super reliant on you so it a cloud architect is more than just understanding technology i have to be able to communicate well i have to be able to communicate to the customer why we're doing things how we're creating things a certain way and making sure we're creating a solution that can evolve with the customer as they grow and i have to think about high availability and dr and governance and identity and optimizing cost and auto scale all of those things and just remember no one knows everything there's going to be times you're with a customer it's okay to say i do not know hey you know what i don't know let me make a note of that and i'm going to get back to you make sure you make a note of that make sure you get back you want to become a trusted advisor to your customer that's really kind of the most important thing so you're guiding them you're transferring knowledge you want to be that trusted advisor to get started maybe you can try and work with an existing architect start shadowing them and start getting some of that knowledge there's maybe a long-winded answer to that but that question came up quite a few times um how do i prioritize my videos each week so i used to have kind of a onenote file that i would put all my videos in then i would switch to tasks and then when i created my devops master class uh i created a board to show kind of workflows and kanban and i've actually now switched to that completely so i can actually show you that super super quick so this is my kanban board so you can see here this is kind of what i'm working on and i i kind of track it i have a few things going on at any one time you can see i've got a huge number obviously completed videos i've i've done in terms of prioritization um it's often what i'm interested in again this is my hobby so i will create the videos that i care about at the time there there is no thing else driving me it's hey this is what i'm interested in this is what i want to create content about i think this would interest other people as well i'll create a video on it there's no other driver for me so i create the content i want to create again this is my hobby i have to enjoy it uh as soon as it becomes saying i don't enjoy why would i do it this is my de-stress this is my bucket of me time creating this content so it's important that you still enjoy and do those things so that that's how i prioritize how much does my relatively sizable azure subscription cost monthly so i have a couple of different subscriptions i have kind of a work one which is a chunk of money i use the msdn1 a lot and again you save my sizable azure subscription remember azure is consumption based if you're smart about it like in my msdn i think it's 150 bucks a month you get i've got an aks cluster i've got virtual machines but those things you can stop so essentially you stop paying so i've got vm scale sets well those i stop and the discs get deleted so if you're smart with your bucket of money you can stretch it a long way you now get free cosmos db so i've got so i've got that activated my account i get a free cosmos db there's like a free uh postgres so there's three functions there's free azure static web apps so i use all of that in my msdn and i fit within my 150 bucks excuse me now there are some things that don't fit in that like when you see me doing something like an azure firewall maybe i spin it up for a short term and delete it or i run it in kind of one of these bigger subscriptions but a lot of what i do fits within my msdn i'm just super careful i start it i do the bit of work and then i stop it so i only maybe run it for a couple of hours to make sure i can really fit it within there a question that come up do i really make no money um yep right it's my hobby uh i don't make any money it's interesting people keep asking the same the same question on that remember i've kind of talked about before that i have kind of those five rules if i don't if you'll even see it this may not work from a scene view there you go so you can see i've got those five rules of success above me and you can't see the the top ones just kind of find your vision never think small ignore the naysayers give some works work your butt off and give something back so that bottom one you can see is give something back so this channel is me giving back i go out of my way to not make money from it i don't have patreon i don't have sponsors um again i knew this question was coming so if i go and look at my kind of channel analytics just if you're bored you can kind of see so there's my revenue last 90 days is zero um six months so i made 65 cents in june um i made half a cent in august there was some video i had to add an advert on it and i killed it off so i i make no money from this channel um just uh to clarify that this is my hobby i don't want to make money from it i don't want to have to think about that i want to create the content i want to enjoy it that's really all i care about uh i want to get into server administration what's the best route to go so that's an interesting topic these days server admin a lot of people are shifting away from server admin if i think about the old school managing servers more and more of what we try and do today is about automating tasks and we try and have less and less pets so a pet is a server we care about it has some unique snowflake quality about it it's a domain controller it's this sql server and i have to care and feed for it i have to patch it i have to worry about it if it's sick i have to fix it we like more and more the cattle mentality where there's nothing unique it's not a unique snowflake i care about if it's sick or dying we just replace it with something else and we move more and more into kind of automation and declarative configuration so we just create those things as they're needed if i think about the cloud remember it's that's consumption based i pay for what i use i want to be able to delete and create them as i go so i don't want unique snowflakes i can't have that and so more and more we're kind of shifting to kind of a devops mentality and these declarative configurations if you want to be a server admin there still are server admins um i think the the path to that would be sure you focus on is it linux is it windows i think there's great learning materials out there i would set one up maybe at home it could be a laptop it doesn't have to be anything big to start learning the fundamentals of networking networking is always important be it on premises in the cloud hybrid networking i think is the biggest thing if you understand networking um you can do a lot of stuff then hey storage hey hypervisors how i manage applications how i detect drift all of that stuff's important but again i think a lot of people um are starting to shift away from server admin and thinking more about kind of the automation and the devops when do i record videos i actually recorded about two days in advance most content creators do that so like the sunday weekly update i post on sunday i actually recalled friday evening so the sunday update i recalled friday evening the tuesday you'll probably notice tuesday is normally the big video sometimes it's like a four-hour az 104 study cram or it's a network study cram i recall those on sundays so i get up at 3am every day even saturdays and sundays um and i start working on sunday at 3 8 about 3 30 i do more planning i might start recording it until about 11 a.m then i take my kids we always go and dave and busters or something fun i might do a bit more work in the afternoon but sunday is my big recording day the video i post thursdays i normally recall tuesday morning so before work tuesday i record so it's about two days in advance and you want to do that because obviously life happens and so you want to make sure you're ahead so if something happens i'm delayed it doesn't delay me actually posting content so i'm normally about uh two days in advance of that and now answers another question do i really get up at three yes monday to saturday absolutely it's 3am because saturday's my big cardio day so i'm in the gym by 3 30 and i'm training sunday it varies sometimes i won't set an alarm but i'll always wake up by 4am just i'm awake all my dogs will come and wake me up at 3am so hey you're late get up um give us some green ears or a bit of turkey or something so i always get up how important is it to be really good in powershell before embarking on azure assets it's not you don't need to be good at powershelf i mean i like powershell and i'm very familiar with it but there's nothing really you have to know powershell to do azure certifications again powershell is one of the kind of scripting command line interfaces i can use but it's also things like the azure cli that might be more familiar to the more linux type people and it has the same capabilities if i can do it in powershell i can do it in the azure cli so i i don't think you do have to be good in powershell through the azure certifications it's good to have a basic knowledge of it in case there's a question about commandlets but it's not again nothing is trying to trick you and powershell commandlets are kind of at least cognitive distance what do i think the command should be that's probably the command they've always this verb noun so hey i want to create a new virtual machine well it's probably new dash vm so it's fairly obvious exactly what they would be what comics have i been reading what are some of my favorites that's an interesting one so um i like a lot of things like the watchmen i actually reread watchmen the other day i liked a lot of the art of jim lee a lot of the superman comics i liked walking dead when it was actually the comic uh i read that mark miller i read a lot of his stuff um it just varies honestly i don't get as much time as i used to these days but i do go back like v for vendetta the watchman um invincible uh irredeemable that's a good series i read that again recently so it varies depending on where i have the time uh how do you keep yourself motivated and learn always so i've talked about this before and it kind of goes back back to this kind of the five rules thing right so have a vision and when i think about have a vision it's what do i want most in life and i always come back to motivation will fail you motivation will never work if you rely on motivation to succeed you're gonna fail because motivation is fleeting motivation can be taken away from you very very easily you have some setback someone says some negative comment motivation goes discipline is about what do i want most and putting that above what i might want now so i always have a very clear vision so that hey have a vision don't think small so i have visions i have what i want to achieve what i want to be and that's always top of my mind and so i don't rely on motivation i rely on this it's discipline what do i want most this is what i want most well i need to do stuff to get what i want most um it's the rule rule four work your butt off so how i stay productive is not how do i stay motivated i don't care about motivation it's gonna fail you i stay disciplined because i always focus on what do i want most and um there's an element of practice but i can put that above what i want now what i want now is hey i want to go and sit and watch netflix what i want most is to succeed and be a leader and create this or whatever that might be that's how i get my stuff done um so hopefully that that kind of helps um it's difficult i mean no one and i have bad days i absolutely have bad days but don't beat yourself up if you have a bad day it was a bad day happens tomorrow will be a bad day never beat yourself up people are too willing to beat themselves up over failures and you like to replay in your mind oh i did this wrong i did this wrong why i always think if you're going to see a bad movie do you just go and see it again and again no if you did saying if you had a bad day move on go and focus on a good movie focus on a good day and focus on that again beating yourself up does nothing it doesn't do any good uh tell us about this whiteboard i have a video on the whiteboard uh if you go look at my channel i have a playlist of my setup and this is obviously the new whiteboard app they just released if you saw my az104 video it struggled with the amount of content so there i did talk to the product group they are working on some fixes for their performance but yeah this is the new whiteboard app on my board um so um who do you follow on social media i don't i don't like social media um it's fake i mean it's uh everyone puts forward their best side there's nothing genuine about it i i use social media only to say have created this content that's really what i do with it i don't follow anyone on twitter i don't look at it i'll look at linkedin linkedin i'll i'll connect with certain maybe people the product group so i can track certain features maybe but i think social media for the most time is just people putting out fake information that sadly other people think is reality and try and compete with it or beat themselves up they're not doing that thing so i i don't um yeah how tall are you i'm six foot i'm six foot uh right now about 190 pounds so that came up um given your strict routine how do you handle family or ad hoc events do you ever go to sleep after midnight i mean things happen right so there's buckets of time yeah so i try and be pretty regimented about my buckets of time i get up in the morning it's training time then after training it's kind of my youtube channel time then it's work time then it's family time then maybe a little bit of work time and then i go to bed but things happen family is more important if need be hey i'll sacrifice youtube time for family time but again that's why i record a couple of days in advance and often i can plan ahead so if i know maybe there's a vacation coming i'll try and pre-create the content in advance that's the priority family is first i mean no one's ever been on their death beds saying i wish i'd spent more time at work so i mean family is more important but at the same time you have to earn a living and provide so there's not this absolute oh family needs saying job can wait you don't want to lose your job because you need to provide your family roof over their heads and food so there's always a balancing act to that but yeah it's family it's my job um my training probably youtube channel and personal those sorts of times so you have to balance it but yes it happens do i ever stay up past midnight i don't know if i could um eight o'clock in the evening my eyes are drooping i'm scratching and i get irritable i cannot remember the last time i stayed up past midnight i'm sure it's happened but i cannot remember the last time i stayed up past midnight how often do you study so i'm constantly studying and learning i mean i'm in a very fortunate position my job is azure like my job is to work with customers on azure so i'm constantly learning and studying and i use the youtube as my projects so hey i i want to learn something really well the best way to learn something really well is to try and explain it to someone else so the youtube channel a bit of ask me why do i do this channel so it's the whole give something back and that's why i don't want to earn money from it it's give something back help others help others learn help others get their credentials get better their job but it helps me as well by creating content to teach to someone else you have to learn it and understanding it at a much deeper level to be able to explain it so they can consume it and so by creating the videos it helps me learn it well there are exceptions when i do like the study crams i'm not learning anything in those in fact they're probably the most miserable content i create but i know how useful they are to other people but that's why i don't create a huge number of them because they're they're a fairly massive amount of prep work and it's a very miserable thing to actually create but i get it i get how important they are to other people which is why i do create them but i'm constantly learning like i'm constantly learning i'm privileged i get to work with people way smarter than i am and i can kind of pick their brains and study from them would you recommend to pass az 700 along with 104 admin before trying to go for solution architect um i mean admin definitely yes i mean if you look at the new ad architecture path well the new one is actually you get admin first and then you take another exam to get architects so admin is now part of the path to get architect and i think networking is key to everything if you understand networking there is so much it helps you with so i would actually say yes i would if it was me if i was thinking about john i want to learn azure what path should i take yeah i would say do admin i would say do ad700 and then start and it's actually probably an interesting um i'll use this actually as a jump point i was going to actually share something today anyway so people do keep asking me about hey how do i learn azure what's a good path on my channel i have a ton of content i do have playlists i have the master class but if i'm starting from zero what's a good way to actually think about learning azure from kind of start to finish so i have actually created and again this is with my awesome friend timoronki who did all the heavyweight work on this so i've created this learn dot on board to azure.com and all this is um it's just there's no advertising on it it's just again something that i can help other people learn and it's a curated set of content so if i was gonna people ask me how do i learn azure what i've done is essentially layout okay this is the order i would do things and i link to things like hey go and get an azure account the microsoft ms learn materials my study crams when to go and take certain exams how to start tracking then the master class and then after that i'll say okay there's the study cram go and get the sc900 then i'm going to say okay now we're going to go and get the azure administrator after doing the cram then we're going to go and do the networking funny enough your questions follows the order i've got here then i'm going to say go and learn devops and i'm going to keep expanding this i'm going to add things to it this is very much an early v1 type thing but right i mean that created this to try and help people who are wondering how i should go about starting to learn so that's what that is i'll actually release a video on that tomorrow and i'll kind of make it more widely available but again it's not any new content it's not it's stuff for my youtube channel but i am going to try and continue to evolve that to build other certs and other learnings to help people and do that stuff i see those questions about will i do content on x y or z i don't discuss future content so just again this is my hobby anytime i've ever shared before about content i plan to do people then start bugging me and pestering about where is it where is it you said you was gonna do this again my hobby i don't wanna deal with that so i will no longer share any plans for future content because it's just it's miserable uh someone who has worked with on-premises infra for the last 10 years how hard is it to switch to azure do you know is it there's a t-shirt i've seen uh there's no such thing as the cloud it's just someone else's data center someone else's pc and there's another truth to that like if i understand on premises if i understand the ideas of networking and storage and compute and hypervisors and databases and connectivity between them and making things available and high availability and dr that all translates now there's base levels of networking and storage and compute in the cloud and instead of data centers we have these regions but even within those we get concepts like availability zones we have the concept of fault domains which are racks so our knowledge transfers now at certain points responsibilities shift on premises we're responsible for everything in the cloud depending on am i using infrastructure as a service like a vm am i using past things like aks or app services i'm responsible for less and less but if you have a good grounding in on premises absolutely it's going to help you in the cloud i came from that path i was a vax vms systems administrator then i designed applications on oracle and sun solaris but that helped me hugely with the cloud because again a lot of the same concepts actually apply um how many t-shirts do you own joe it's got out hand it really has got out of hand i tried to tidy up my wardrobe the other day and i made like a pile of t-shirts i don't wear that often it became a joke that hey i'd wear a funny t-shirt on my weekly update and now if i see a funny t-shirt i have to buy it so i can wear it on the next weekly update but yes it's got out of hand i don't even it's basically my entire closet if you think like a 10 foot wall it's full of t-shirts hanging up on hangers so it has got out of hand i acknowledge it completely it's a problem i'm gonna seek help but uh yeah there's a lot i don't know how many it's a lot uh do you have a favorite premier league team that's that's very controversial if i answer that people are going to boo me or something so i was never a huge football person but my best friend in england was a huge manchester united supporter so when i did see soccer it was always manchester united when i was a kid it was liverpool but then as i got older it was kind of manchester united um the people want to know about john's comic book collection his favorite reads so i have a lot of comic books um i've got i'm trying to think my office it's three shelves just a graphic novel maybe it's four shelves um again i was a huge superman superman batman thor were like really my big um characters i liked a lot but galactus i was like galactus um but again a lot like the mark miller some of the sort of things like the watchmen dave gibbons art um v for vendetta there's a whole bunch of them i really enjoy but again i get less and less time these days to review it but sometimes i'll sit back and look at one of those what would be top of your azure wish list in terms of capabilities that don't exist do you know i think the thing that would be really useful would be the virtual network boundaries the the tying it down to a subscription i mean there's some interesting things that would open up if it wasn't bound to a subscription cross region i think gets messy and i could see it being abused and confused people if suddenly azure allowed a virtual network to cross regions if people weren't careful they would just stick things in different regions in the same v-net and wonder why performance is just terrible and they're not considering latency so i think there's some dangers we've given too much flexibility but crossing subscriptions i think would be would be really nice can you also develop i used to be a developer so my first job was a vax vms systems administrator but i moved into the dev team so i helped write some called fastwire it was a swift networking financial network system and i wrote in macro 32 and assembler and then when i got my other role i wrote a financial middleware system in c plus plus uh it spoke to oracle using oci i wrote a java applet based web front end that talked to java servlets um i wrote a whole bunch of stores that i was a developer now um i can work my way around if i'm pushed to but i don't maintain knowledge of the latest frameworks like dot nair and i don't play in that world really which my game i heard timarongi my good friend he created the javascript i i had an attempt at doing it and he kind of looked and laughed at my code and created saying a tent for the size and a hundred times about um so i used to develop today uh not so much are you still using your own garage gym yes um i i spent quite a bit of money getting that gym out and i think my wife would beat me if i then said okay i'm going to go and rejoin a gym now so i am fully invested in that home gym and i've got everything i need i actually got a new wahoo kicker yesterday so i swapped out my kicker for a new one for my bike i've got my elliptical in there i've got my bike in there i've got from a 10 to 100 pound dumbbells now in 10 pound increments i've got um actual plates now so i can actually bench press and i've got everything i need i really don't need anything else and it's super convenient to get up and then just go straight and i save a bunch of time so i have no intention of going back back to the gym how do you train for an iron man badly i again i've kind of got very opposite goals so i wanted to iron man events i did like the spartan ultra a few weeks ago i'm doing an ultra marathon in four weeks and i've not started training yet problem but i also like to weight lift and maintain a certain amount of muscle mass and that they don't go well together so my iron man training is mostly bike so i i'm strong on the bike i try and get up to a lot of hours on the bike so i have the cardio my knees are not that great so i can't run that often um swimming i hate swimming um but it's a lot of it's about the engine you are the engine i get my fitness up to a certain level and i do okay i'm never going to win them but i'm not trying to i just like the the challenge i like the uncomfort i like doing things that are difficult and challenge me and put me in my place a little bit but i am trying to get better i've got kona this year so i am wanting to try and make that my best time so i am stepping up my cardio training so come february i'll start up in there i'm doing ironman texas and george alaska and then kona so i'm doing four falls next year so i'm gonna try and really uh focus on those okay do you find doing these videos helps you remember things yes so again that's that's all about so the videos i create this channel to help people but it helps me as well i absolutely improve my knowledge by creating this content now i forget things my brain is terrible and because i do so many different types of technology i will forget details but the way i do these videos is i create like a onenote file with key facts then i kind of flesh it out with some story points then i go and draft a whiteboard and demos i want to do so when i forget things i can go back to my onenote which were the key points and i was like oh okay yeah i remember that so i can use that for kind of my benefit as well um what labs would i focus on if i'm trying to get my az104 so i'd actually go for ms learn and i link that in that learn onboard to azure.com so the ms learn has material but then it actually has okay do this go and create this and if you create the azure free subscription you can actually do a lot of stuff in there so i think that would um definitely help um are you aware about the spanish talkers following you um hey i know there's followers from all different countries um i'm not aware i don't this came up on a fireside chat i don't ever look at my analytics so i actually don't really pay any attention to what country people are watching my content from so no i do not have a good idea of where people are coming from um but i appreciate the support for sure um hopefully people can understand me for the most part and i just upgraded my microphone so hopefully the audio is it's as good as it's going to get i'm never going to wear a mic i don't want to wear a mic but this is basically like the best microphone i could get and so hopefully you can hear me uh it's helpful content um i'm from london so what part of england are you from i'm from south london greenwich so that's where i was born and kind of raised what is your approach to master a new technology so i to learn something i would try and think of a scenario where i'd want to use it so i don't learn by reading and very and again this come out i don't watch really other people i don't watch any other youtubers i'll watch things from the product group i don't want to create content based on knowledge i've gained from someone else's interpretation of the technology which is what other youtubers would do so i only try and get my information from the source so that when i create content for you it's not maybe got some level of abstraction or they've got something wrong that i pass on so i try and keep my sources very very pure but i will try and come up with a scenario i'll think of how would this be used okay what would be required to make it so like when i did the azure firewall deep dive i was like okay well i want to be able to filter and control this traffic for this type of scenario so i went through the entire how do i get mad in the middle what would the cert be how would i then inspect that so i'll think of a scenario and i'll implement it and try and think of all the questions i might have trying to implement it so that's how i learned things i really focus on that when do you think you benefit more from express route versus a site-to-site vpn so remember what what they are if you think for a second about okay i've got kind of my on-premises location and then let's let's just take a simple scenario and then there's azure when i'm doing a site-to-site vpn what i'm essentially doing is there's a virtual network there and i'm establishing a connection over the internet so if i think about the internet well i'm going to some isp is going over there and i get connected so latency is not going to be consistent it's encrypted it's secure but it's that path i don't know what the latency is going to be it's not going to be consistent i can get a high throughput and i'm just connecting that ip space to that ip space and it is going over the internet so sometimes you'll have problems with that so that's kind of my site-to-site vpn scenario if i think about express route well remember azure is actually connected to this great big microsoft backbone network that spans the world and then i think about microsoft expands that network into certain independent carrier neutral facilities and then what you can do is either via a service provider or maybe you're big enough it's going to be express right direct we get your own ports you extend your network since you're now connected privately to the microsoft network now at this point once you've got that connection i can do one of two things on the board's tongue see there you go let's come back to life um i can do private peering so private peering is this network connected to that network and i'm doing that over express route the latency is going to be consistent because it's it's always following the same path it's over a private connection so i'm not going over the internet and so that's going to be very very appealing to a lot of customers that it's basically as low as the latency is possibly going to get i control all of those directions it's redundant connections i get like a nice sla on top of that and then when you think about things like private endpoints hey now i've got some pass service could be a storage account a database well now there's an ip address within that virtual network well over site site vpn or private peering i can now get to that so i'm now also having the ability to get to other path services through express route or site to vpn but again this gives me a much better latency i get better sla i get better redundancy and resiliency i can connect to other kind of locations then of course there's microsoft peering microsoft appearing is hey these services i can advertise their bgp communities over these connections so even things with a public endpoint i'm still going via my express route my private connection so i think most larger companies they're going to go express rail when i want that as good as it's going to get latency i want those better kind of slas i want to really make this an extension of my network um that's when people are typically going to switch to the express route i mean it makes sense kind of those apart from arnold who else has influenced your thinking and life um do you know there's random things that i'll watch that give me ideas like i'll when i'm training i'll watch youtube and obviously there's a lot of people that do a lot of motivational um like jocko and um actually joe rogan has some good thoughts i'll watch like motivational videos and again you say the word motivation but a lot of them like to talk about discipline so there's random other people's i might get ideas from but and honestly my dad when i was a kid he would always have kind of a way of thinking and it's him and arnie i guess a big part and then again there's these um random ideas and things i'll hear about discipline and how you think about things that just like oh i i like that and i'll kind of take it but there's no other particular i think of a person that i really oh hey they're their ways or anything no i like auntie's kind of five rules and i i was a huge arnie fan as a kid and i still am he was ah and so there's an element of kind of hero worship there i think but i just i focus on what do i want to be what is my mission statement what means most to me and just drive that do i think microsoft will eventually combine b to c and b to b so think about it if you look at what they've done recently if you start to look at and it's not b2b it's more about azure ad regular tenants and azure adb to c tenants because today they're separate but if you look at what's happening with azure ad regular well more and more now of a lot of the b2c capabilities are starting to creep in to regular azure ad tenants so do i think and i've got no knowledge of this do i think eventually they'll merge yes i think they probably will at some point i still think you might have a separate instance of azure id to put customers in i don't want them in my corporate azure id but i'm not convinced it will stay a different type of azure id i think you'll see a merging of like the types of social identities they support and the customize every pixel type things and the customized flows so i think eventually there'll be azure ad and i'll just create a different instance of azure id to put my customers in that's me guessing again no knowledge behind that but yes i think if you look at what's happening i think that that's going to happen do i do cheat days yes again i i'm not super strict with my diet so i like food if my friends who actually know me well i eat pizza i eat hot dogs i eat hamburgers i don't need a huge amount of candy or cakes um friday night and saturday night i allow myself a dessert so friday night is always pizza night and i'll have a candy bar or maybe cinnamon sticks or saying after pizza and saturday night i'll have a treat as well apart from that i don't i might have a few chocolate covered cashew nuts i like those during the week but i don't have a huge amount of sweets i don't really drink soda i don't drink tea or coffee i don't drink alcohol um none of those things but food i love pizza i love pasta i eat what i want to eat part the reason i train the way i do is so i can eat what i want to eat i don't super focus anymore i i'll i'll burn it off so yes my cheat days is most days i'll eat tasty tasty things sunday is my only day i don't train and sunday for lunch every sunday lunch is pancakes i always have pancakes on sunday um for lunch and that's my rest day but i enjoy myself um i i like my food i want to enjoy it and that's okay fact or myth more and more enterprises are bringing back resources from the clouds to on-prem i've not heard that i'm not saying that's not true again i have not super investigated that or looked at that i've not seen that it would seem unlikely to me that companies would do that simply because why if you look at generally the economics of it the cloud is cheaper by the aspects of scale and the cloud economics and the consumption basis if i'm using the cloud right and i am actually kind of scaling based on demand and my capacity matches the load coming in it's going to be cheaper and so there's cost economics there if you think about all of the regions throughout the world azure has i can get close to my customers and get fantastic dr and again only pay for it when the stuff's running i have seen hey i'm not moving things from the cloud to on-prem but i still have things on-prem i like this azure management model i like these azure services because if you think about services most of the time if i look at on-premises what do i have i have vms maybe if i'm sophisticated i have kubernetes that's really about the scope of it whereas in the cloud yeah you have vms and yeah you have kubernetes but then you have managed databases and machine learning and app services and all these other things you have this really rich management fabric with tagging and policy and security and identity management and managed identities you have all this stuff so what we are seeing is a lot of companies like well i got this stuff on prem i need to keep it on prayer maybe i've paid for it i like this i want this stuff on prem and so what we are seeing is a lot of all of that people want on-prem and that's azure arc that's that ability to bring the control plane and the management to on-prem so i get a single pane of glass on azure to manage all that stuff but then once i'm managing kubernetes with arc then you can have things like manage databases postgres and sql and machine learning and app services running on prem but i'm getting all that azure kind of goodness so i've not seen things moving from the cloud to on-prem not heard of that at all but i have seen hey i want to have a hybrid cloud but manage it all through essentially azure so if i'm a company i want to manage there whether that management is going up to cloud stuff or it's on prem stuff so that's what is this big push about arc and that's what i have seen that i'm seeing constantly again that's my view of the world i'm not saying that's right but you're asking me for my opinion and that that's what i have seen should i have worked as a software developer in order to become an azure architect so you know i think you should have some understanding of what's involved in being a developer i it's the same as understanding networks and storage and compute if you've never done those things if you've never written software you maybe lack a certain understanding of what's involved and what matters and where the complexities can be and what can trip you up and what you care about and what the interactions are because if you've written code and you've worked with other people you've interacted with a database you understand transactions and latencies and trying to replicate things across regions and it's going to make you a better architect do you have to probably not will it make you better yes i think if you have some development background it's going to make you a better architect if we have vms behind the load balancer the traffic from internet hits the public ip the load balancer and set to vms how does the return traffic from the vm go to the client on the internet i mean that's i've answered this so the question is how do load balancers work i have a video an azure load balancer deep dive so i'm not going to go into detail on that here but essentially you have the load balancer that's the logical manifestation and then you have kind of vms on the back end well there's no such real thing as a load balancer the load balancer is actually fronted by a whole bunch of muxes they receive the traffic the max then sends it to a certain host running a vm that has a virtual switch the virtual switch manipulates the traffic to send it to the vm the vm then returns it the virtual switch rewrites the packet to match what it was going into the marks and then it goes back to the originator it doesn't go via the muxes it goes back that's 30 second answer go and watch my azure load balancer deep dive video where i carve all of that it it doesn't make sense to spend a bunch of time on that most people are not going to be interested but i answer that in the actual load balancer video um you're an azure enthusiast are you also a linux enthusiast so i i'll be very transparent on this so i grew up on windows well it's not actually true i grew up on dos and amigo and zx spectrum um and then i was a vax vms person was my job then we got windows machines and and then again i did some development on sun solaris and oracle so i played around with some linux things but there was a developer rather than the system admin and then i moved straight back into windows and hyper-v so i appreciate linux i appreciate what it brings i have some basic knowledge of linux but am i linux enthusiast no i'm not gonna lie um again i'm trying to get better at some of the aspects of linux again i see the value in it it's just not saying i'm super focused on i can work my way around it at a basic level i would like to get better but it's not that high on my priority list but again i i appreciate the value of it biggest regret do you know i'm not sure i have a biggest i mean i'm sure there's things i've done that i've regretted obviously everyone does but you are the sum of your successes and your failures that that's what makes you who you are it's easy to say oh i regret this or i regret that um i try not to dwell i'm human i do there are absolutely things i will dwell on but try and learn from it there are things yes i regret and they make me cringe like i think back and it makes you cringe like oh i can't believe i did that but if it makes you cringe if it makes you like oh what did i do well you've you've grown as a person you're better than you were when you did that thing so that horrible thing about whatever it was that you regret if it now is like uh well you learned something from that you wouldn't do it again you're better than you were so it's made you where you are today so yes i've done things i regret um my biggest regrets bring not things i'm going to share on a youtube video but again it goes into who you are and it gets you to the position you're in today i love where i am today in my life and so that is a sum of the good decisions and the bad decisions uh they got me on this particular point of my journey and i'm all about the journey and so yes i've made mistakes i don't dwell on some huge regret it just is what it is what books or documentation do i recommend to be a system architect i i don't read books again it's going to sound funny so i can't recommend any i don't read books i know i've written some books um i don't really focus on that anymore i focus on the youtube i honestly i would say use the ms learn materials read the blogs again there's great content on youtube that's free you can kind of leverage that stuff um yeah i don't have a good recommendation books i just don't read them there's a question about azure vm scale sets and spots i released a video yesterday on spot vms and i've got videos on vmss so i would say go and look at that content i really cover all of that there and then i know we're kind of at time so with that i really appreciate everyone kind of joining um again i'm super privileged to be able to create this content and produce in my life that i have the time that i can spend creating this as my hobby and purchase all this equipment again this is not part of my job this all comes out of my pocket but it's my hobby i'm sure you have hobbies and you spend money on it i'm lucky to be able to do this and i appreciate that but i really appreciate you joining this today um please continue to support is appreciated go and look at that learn.onboard to azure.com and in the comments i'd love to see maybe features you think it should have or ways to improve it trying to want to make that great experience for people to go and learn and um no i i appreciate your support and as always until next time uh take care

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Published: Wed Nov 10 2021