Jekyll2024-03-09T13:29:30+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/feed.xmlDragos MadarasanAn amazing website.Dragos MadarasanUBB Hacks for Good - 2020 edition!2020-07-22T11:37:22+00:002020-07-22T11:37:22+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/ubb-hacks-for-good<p><img src="/assets/images/ubb-hacks-for-good.png" alt="UBB Hacks 4 Good" class="full" /></p>
<p>I’m super excited to be participating in the panel jury for the 2020 edition of UBB Hacks for Good organized by <a target="blank" href="https://www.clujit.ro/">Cluj IT Cluster</a>!</p>
<p>Seven teams will be pitching their ideas, with the first place receiving 25k RON (~5000 euros) to continue working on their ideas. The project is done in collaboration with the <a target="blank" href="https://www.ubbcluj.ro">Babeș-Bolyai University</a> and Cluj IT Cluster, a cluster of Romanian IT companies centered around Cluj-Napoca.</p>
<p>The other members of the jury are <a target="blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabelabuhai//">Isabela Buhai</a> (Regional Manager @ Endava), <a target="blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/victor-alexandru-pop/">Victor Pop</a> (Project Manager @ Life is Hard) and prof. <a target="blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/stelian-brad-0162a862/">Stelian Brad</a>, who is the President of Cluj IT Cluster.</p>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comI'm super excited to be participating in the panel jury for the 2020 edition of UBB Hacks for GoodMigrating SQL Server to AWS webinar2020-04-04T10:03:44+00:002020-04-04T10:03:44+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/migrating-sql-webinar<p><img src="/assets/images/pass-cloud-vg.png" alt="PASS" class="full" /></p>
<p>I’m super excited to do my second webinar with PASS, the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.</p>
<p class="text-justify">I’ve already done a couple <a target="blank" href="/blog/sql-saturday-915/">SQLSaturdays’</a>, where I talked about running SQL Server on AWS, but in this webinar I’ll be talking about the <a target="blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/04/windows-to-linux-replatforming-assistant-sql-server-databases/">Windows to Linux Replatforming Assistant for Microsoft SQL Server</a> tool introduced by AWS.</p>
<p>Sign-up for the webinar at the <a target="blank" href="https://cloud.pass.org/MeetingDetails.aspx?EventID=15194">following</a> address. My slides covering the presentation will be online <a target="blank" href="https://aws-decks-dragos.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/20200423-migrating-sql-webinar.pdf">here</a>.</p>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comI'm super excited to do my second webinar with PASS, the global community for data professionals who use the Microsoft data platform.VMware vForum Romania 20192019-11-29T17:28:56+00:002019-11-29T17:28:56+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/vforum-romania-2019<p><img src="/assets/images/vforum-romania-2019.png" alt="vForum Romania 2019" class="full" /></p>
<p>On Wednesday I presented at VMware vForum Romania 2019 where I talked about Accelerating your cloud migration with VMware Cloud on AWS.</p>
<p>vForum Romania was the largest VMware themed event in 2019 in Romania and was held at the Athénée Palace Hilton in Bucharest. The keynote was presented by <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/ColinBann">Colin Bannister</a>, EMEA VP at VMware followed by <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/vali_frangu">Valentina Frangu</a> from Dell Technologies Romania and Alexandru Vilcu from HPE Romania.</p>
<p>Here is a picture with me on the stage, thanks Liviu Gherman for taking the snap!</p>
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<p>My slides covering the presentation can be found <a target="blank" href="https://aws-decks-dragos.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/20191127-vforum-bucharest.pdf">here</a>.</p>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comOn Wednesday I presented at VMware vForum Romania 2019 where I talked about Accelerating your cloud migrationAWS Container Hero - Vlad Ionescu2019-11-08T14:22:03+00:002019-11-08T14:22:03+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/aws-container-hero<p><img src="/assets/images/awsheroes2.jpg" alt="AWS Heroes" class="full" /></p>
<p>It is with great pleasure that I announce Vlad Ionescu to be the first AWS Container Hero from Romania! The <a target="blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/developer/community/heroes">AWS Heroes</a> program recognizes community leaders from around the world who have extensive AWS knowledge and a passion for sharing their expertise with others</p>
<p class="text-justify">Vlad is an independent DevOps consultant working in Bucharest, Romania, focused on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Vlad is active on <a target="blank" href="https://github.com/vlaaaaaaad/">GitHub</a>, in <a target="blank" href="https://kubernetes.slack.com/messages/C8SH2GSL9">#eks on the Kubernetes Slack</a> and has spoken at events such as KubeCon/CNCF and AWS Container Day Barcelona.</p>
<p>You can read the announcement and the full list of AWS heroes <a target="blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/meet-the-newest-aws-heroes-including-the-first-data-heroes/">here</a>.</p>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comIt is with great pleasure that I announce Vlad Ionescu to be the first AWS Container Hero from Romania.AWS Loft Bucharest 20192019-11-05T10:28:42+00:002019-11-05T10:28:42+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/aws-loft-bucharest<p><img src="/assets/images/aws-loft-bucharest.png" alt="AWS Loft Bucharest" class="full" /></p>
<p>November brings the AWS Loft Bucharest event to Romania! The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, work on their apps, attend educational sessions, and get in-person answers to AWS technical questions – all at no cost.
AWS Loft Bucharest will run between 11-15 November 2019 and will be hosted at Impact Hub Timpuri Noi.</p>
<p>We will have sessions, workshops, trainings and you’ll have the possibility to book 1-1 sessions to talk to our Solution Architects. You can check the full agenda <a target="blank" href="https://awsloft-bucharest.com/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Check out the teaser video below!</p>
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</div>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comNovember brings the AWS Loft Bucharest event to Romania! The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, attend educational..Well Architected @ Bucharest Loft2019-11-05T10:28:42+00:002019-11-05T10:28:42+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/are-you-well-architected<p><img src="/assets/images/well-architected-loft.png" alt="Well-Architected @ Loft Bucharest" class="full" /></p>
<p>I spoke about the AWS Loft Bucharest <a target="blank" href="/blog/aws-loft-bucharest/">here</a> and of course, I couldn’t help myself and signed up to deliver two sessions and did a repeat of my CDK workshop I did in <a target="blank" href="/blog/aws-loft-kiev/">Kiev</a>.</p>
<p>My first presentation was about the Well Architected Framework, a topic on which I speak frequently and enjoy <a target="blank" href="/blog/well-architected-meetup/">discussing</a>. The presentation starts off with a simple question - Are you Well-Architected?
I then talked about what the Well Architected frame work is (and isn’t!), gave examples for design principles and how to perform well-architected reviews (self-service, partner, using an AWS Solution Architect).</p>
<p>Below is the presentation which can also be downloaded <a target="blank" href="https://aws-decks-dragos.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/20191114-intro-wellarchitected.pdf">here</a>.</p>
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<p>After my first <a target="blank" href="/blog/pentabar-31-iasi/">PentaBAR meetup</a> in September,
I’m co-presenting again with <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/c_dumitras">Catalin Dumitras</a> from <a target="blank" href="https://www.pentalog.ro/">Pentalog</a>, this time in Brasov!</p>
<p>Everyone talks about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) but how can we use these services in meaningful applications? I’ll cover some of the AI/ML services that AWS offers such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Rekognition and Amazon Rekognition Video, cover some uses cases and present a demo or two.</p>
<p>Here is a cool collage with some pictures from the event.</p>
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Other pictures from the event can be found on the meetup page <a target="blank" href="https://www.meetup.com/PentaBAR-Tech-Meetup-by-Pentalog/events/265708636/">here</a>. My slides covering the webinar can be found <a target="blank" href="https://aws-decks-dragos.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/20191024-pentabar53-start-your-ai-journey-with-aws.pdf">here</a>.</p>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comAfter my first PentaBAR meetup in September, I’m co-presenting again with Catalin Dumitras from Pentalog, this time in Brasov!AWS Loft Kiev 20192019-10-18T06:14:32+00:002019-10-18T06:14:32+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/aws-loft-kiev<p><img src="/assets/images/aws-loft-kiev.jpg" alt="AWS Loft Kiev" class="full" /></p>
<p>In October I delivered a workshop on <a target="blank" href="https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/">AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)</a> at the AWS Loft Kiev. The AWS Lofts are a place where startups and developers can meet over coffee, work on their apps, attend educational sessions, and get in-person answers to AWS technical questions – all at no cost.</p>
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<p>You can check the full agenda <a target="blank" href="https://provectus.com/events/#event-14-October-2019-welcome-to-aws-loft-kyiv/">here</a>.</p>
<p>Check out the post event video below!</p>
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</div>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comIn October I delivered a workshop on AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) at the AWS Loft Kiev.Cloud Infrastructure for NGOs - TechSoup Webinar2019-10-05T17:22:16+00:002019-10-05T17:22:16+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/aws-techsoup-webinar<p><img src="/assets/images/techsoup.png" alt="ONG Online - TechSoup" class="full" /></p>
<p>On the 10th of October I am hosting a webinar at the invitation of <a target="blank" href="https://www.asociatiatechsoup.ro/">TechSoup Romania</a>. TechSoup Romania is a non-government organization founded in 2010 and part of the <a target="blank" href="https://www.asociatiatechsoup.ro/">TechSoup Global</a> initiative whose goal is to help other NGOs better use technology to meet their goals.
During the webinar I will be covering the following topics:</p>
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<li>advantages of the AWS Cloud platform</li>
<li>the AWS credits programme offered for NGOs by TechSoup</li>
<li>popular examples of AWS services</li>
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<p>To attend the webinar please sign up <a target="blank" href="https://ongonline.techsoup.ro/course/amazon-web-services-credits/">here</a>, I will update this post once the recording is live.</p>
<p>Later edit: My slides covering the webinar can be found <a target="blank" href="https://aws-decks-dragos.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/20191010-aws-techsoup-webinar.pdf">here</a>, and below is the YouTube recording of the webinar (in Romanian).</p>
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</div>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comOn October 10, I am hosting a webinar at the invitation of TechSoup Romania. TechSoup Romania is a non-government organization founded in 2010...SQLSaturday 915 - Bucharest 20192019-10-05T00:00:00+00:002019-10-05T00:00:00+00:00https://dragos.madarasan.com/blog/sql-saturday-915<p>Yesterday I had a presentation on Running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services at SQLSaturday 915 Bucharest. There was a big crowd at the event, held at Impact Hub in Bucharest.</p>
<p class="text-justify">From handling JSON in SQL to T-SQL performance tuning, there were a total of <a target="blank" href="https://www.sqlsaturday.com/915/Sessions/Schedule.aspx">10 sessions</a>, and I was glad to have the opportunity to talk about Amazon RDS to so many people.</p>
<p class="text-justify">Several international speakers presented such as André Melancia (Portugal), Andrey Nikolov (Bulgaria), Ilie Mugurel (Austria) together with local speakers like Alexandra Ciortea (Microsoft), Catalin Gheorghiu (I Computer Solutions) and Liviu Ieran (Microsoft).</p>
<p>Big congrats to <a target="blank" href="https://twitter.com/xmldeveloper">Cristian Lefter</a> for organizing the event!</p>
<p>Here is a picture with everyone at the end, I am somewhere on the right side!</p>
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<p>My slides covering the presentation can be found <a target="blank" href="https://aws-decks-dragos.s3-eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/20190608-running-sql-on-aws.pdf">here</a>.</p>Dragos Madarasanhttps://dragos.madarasan.comYesterday I had a presentation on Running Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon Web Services at SQLSaturday 915 Bucharest.