Large IoT applications can take many forms including smart buildings, digital agriculture or even smart cities and implementing them can be daunting. Join Jim and Sam as they demystify some of this by overengineering a ‘simple’ home IoT project in these live coding sessions.

Sam loves tea and wants to ensure he always has enough, and Jim has some ideas on how he could use IoT to monitor how much tea Sam has left in his pantry. Rather than just wire up a simple sensor, our two intrepid coders will build out a smart supply chain taking advantage of Jim’s IoT knowledge, and Sam’s experience with supply chain. They will look at gathering data from sensors, sending it to the cloud, then analyzing tea usage over time to see when to order some more based off lead times for Sam’s 2 favorite suppliers. All this data is no good without dashboards, so they will dig into reporting tools to chart just how much tea Sam drinks every day and show it on dashboards that can be mounted in Sam’s pantry.

Episode 6:
No app is complete without deployment. In this episode Jim and Sam look at how to manage and deploy services using DevOps practices, including using tools to define your infrastructure as code, and to deploy automatically from GitHub.

Tools/services used: VS Code, GitHub, Pulumi, GitHub actions

Who is this session targeted for:

• IoT developers who are interested in larger IoT applications
• Students, makers, and hobbyists who want to take projects further

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https://aka.ms/BicepFundamentals
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Speakers:
Jim Bennett, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Jim is a Regional Cloud Advocate focusing on building out and skilling communities in the Pacific North West, with a focus on the Microsoft Reactor in Redmond, Washington. He’s British, so sounds way smarter than he actually is, and is happy he moved to Redmond in time to be locked down at home and not see the office he came to work in, or the places he wanted to visit. In the past he’s lived in 4 continents working as a developer in the mobile, desktop, and scientific space. He's spoken at conferences and events all around the globe, organized meetup groups and communities, and written a book on mobile development.
He also hates and is allergic to cats, but has a 9-year-old daughter who loves cats, so he has 2 cats.

Sam Wronski, Regional Cloud Advocate, Microsoft
Sam Wronski is a Regional Cloud Advocate at Microsoft focused on empowering the San Francisco area to build awesome things with Azure.
Sam has spent years building applications and tooling powered by containers. He's run the World of Zero channel on YouTube for the past 5 years where he's taught software engineering and game development.