Time and Eternity - Cousins, But Not Brothers

Time and time everlasting are connected ideas however unique. They are not, the same number of accept, inverse sides of a similar coin, as it were. So we normally ask ourselves: how might we characterize these ideas?

In the event that you have ever considered it, you understand all that we comprehend is on the grounds that we comprehend its inverse. What is frosty? Chilly is the turn around, or inverse of hot. Also, high? It is what isn't low. Wide? Consider limit. Troublesome? Simple.

Thus it goes.

In reasoning, this is known as the by means of negativa - the comprehension of something by what it isn't. Normally scholars consolidate this approach when talking about God, as He can't be contrasted with anything since He is well beyond all things. So they talk about what He isn't, to touch base at what He is.

Time and time everlasting are like God in that there is nothing by which we can contrast them with.

Indeed, even Sir Isaac Newton, the renowned researcher, depicted time only as: "That which streams on consistently." What? Doesn't seem like a lot of a definition to me. Maybe this is on account of time can't generally be characterized.

Einstein made it a stride assist when he depicted the properties of time in his Theory of Relativity. Yet, he was taking a gander at time from the stance of logical clarification, not philosophical clarification.

How about we see what the most astute man who at any point lived needed to say in regards to time:

"He has made everything fitting in now is the right time. He has likewise set endlessness in their heart, yet so man won't discover the work which God has done from the earliest starting point even to the end." Ecclesiastes 3:11

In astuteness, Solomon introduced into His exchange of time, perceiving God as the creator. He comprehended God's power over the requesting of occasions. In the initial 8 verses of Ecclesiastes Chapter 3, he records a progression of occasions time was intended to clarify. Time, in this sense, is a method for estimating life.

Be that as it may, Solomon likewise talks about time everlasting, just in an unexpected way.

In the lexicon, endlessness is characterized as "unending time", in any case this is a pitiful definition. Endlessness isn't clarified by time; it is inside and out something unique. This is a wide discourse for some other time (joke expected), however for the present, let me simply say that endlessness isn't an amount of anything. Endlessness can't be an amount of time, for forever is interminable, vast, and outside the ability to understand. Time, then again, is quantifiable, and quantifiable.

In a word, time and forever don't characterize each other. Time has all the earmarks of being a piece of endlessness, yet not the slightest bit is forever deciphered by time.

Give me a chance to call attention to here an essential certainty: the main reason I or any other person considerations to talk about the idea of time or time everlasting is that God gave us a capacity to mind. We have time everlasting in our heart. It waits in our psyche, in our deepest being, goading us as we attempt to grasp all that which isn't clear through exact examination.

We as people are everlastingly looking for the past. There is an extreme, and we know it, and we need it. In any case, in our constrained day by day involvement, we understand there is no accomplishing it. It is gotten to in some other way, and what is that way?

THIS IS THE GREAT QUEST! From the earliest starting point of time, man has looked to comprehend the endless, the extraordinary. A huge number of years of seeking and still he looks.

People are restricted in the confinements of time while navigating this life on earth. We measure things by it, we recognize things by it. However, we are unceasing, so nothing in the confinements of time will ever be agreeable to us!

So in the event that you ever ask why the progression of time and the shortness of time brings torment, and there is always a strain on our souls, an aching for a definitive, the extraordinary, simply know it resembles the insightful sage stated:

God has set forever in our souls, and we will never discover rest until the point that we discover rest in the One who is endlessness itself: the Lord God Almighty.

RS Kniep is a solid adherent to the energy of shrewdness to influence constructive outcomes in individuals' lives. He trusts all bona fide astuteness, in its different structures, originates from God, as found in His Word, the Holy Bible.

As a searcher of insight from God, RS Kniep has contemplated both the Bible and contending sees for almost 25 years. His work centers around the Biblical books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes.


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Introducing Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

[Update on June 16, 2018: AKS is now GA!]



Docker has been getting popular in recent years. It makes application deployment so efficient, we could easily build, ship, and run the application containers everywhere. With the trend of microservices, many people built a lot of services wrapped and deployed by containers, so container management and orchestration became a problem. Kubernetes solves this.

Kubernetes is an open source container management tool. It is a Go-Lang based, lightweight, and portable application. You can set up a Kubernetes cluster to deploy, manage, and scale the Docker container applications on multiple hosts.
However, building Kubernetes can be complex. Setting up Kubernetes nodes and control planes can be cumbersome. Furthermore, many people want leverage and integrate it with their own Continuous Delivery pipeline but getting to know the whole story and making it work well can be time-consuming.
Kubernetes comes from the Greek word κυβερνήτης:, which means helmsman or ship pilot. With this analogy in mind, we can think of Kubernetes as the manager for shipping containers.
Kubernetes is also referred to as k8s, as there are 8 characters between k and s.
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) reduces the complexity and operational overhead of managing a Kubernetes cluster by offloading much of that responsibility to Azure. As a hosted Kubernetes service, Azure handles critical tasks like health monitoring and maintenance for you. In addition, you pay only for the agent nodes within your clusters, not for the masters. As a managed Kubernetes service, AKS provides:
  • Automated Kubernetes version upgrades and patching
  • Easy cluster scaling
  • Self-healing hosted control plane (masters)
  • Cost savings - pay only for running agent pool nodes
Whereas AKS is still in Public Preview as we speak, during the Microsoft //build 2018 conference (May 7-9, 2018) we made some great announcements with this service like the deployment into an existing VNET, the integration with Azure Monitor and even the private preview of Windows containers! Check out the details of these updates.


As you are moving forward with Kubernetes and AKS you will need tools for more automation and simplifying your experience with it, here are some tools you should look at:
  • Azure Container Registry (ACR)
    • Azure Container Registry allows you to build, store, and manage images for all types of container deployments.
  • Helm
  • Draft
  • Brigade
    • Brigade is a tool for running scriptable, automated tasks as part of your Kubernetes cluster.
    • Checkout this introduction on Azure Friday - Channel9.
  • OSBA
    • Open Service Broker for Azure (OSBA) is an easy way to connect applications running in platforms like Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry to some of the most popular Azure services, using a standard, multi-cloud API.
    • Checkout this introduction on Azure Friday - Channel9.
  • VSTS
    • Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is Microsoft's DevOps solutions for Azure. Whether you are developing a .NET, Java, Node, PHP, or a Python app, or whether you are targeting app services, virtual machines, or containers in Azure, VSTS helps you set up a highly customizable continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipeline.
    • Get started with DevOps Project with AKS to generate your CI/CD pipeline with VSTS, Git, Docker, ACR, Helm and Kubernetes/AKS.
  • VS Code
  • Azure Dev Spaces for Kubernetes
    • In Private Preview, you could sign up and see how this platform could help you deploying and debugging applications within Kubernetes clusters.
    • Checkout this demonstration at Microsoft //build 2018 - Channel9

Have you heard about Serverless Containers? Serverless Containers is becoming more and more popular. Azure Container Instances (ACI) which has just been announced General Available (GA) recently is a great choice for this concept.
Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes working at Microsoft, in his recent article “The Future of Kubernetes is Serverless” is talking about the evolution and the vision of Kubernetes regarding the Serverless Containers concept. He highlights one of the open source project initiative named Virtual Kubelet which allows you for example to have ACI as nodes rather than just Virtual Machine (VM). At the conference KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU recently (May 2-5, 2018), Serverless Containers was a really popular topic as well.
An other new experimental project leveraging the Virtual Kubelet project has been made by the Azure IoT Edge team, check out the story.

Hope you have learned about Azure Kubernetes Service with this blog article. Now if you would like to get started, here are some resources you could leverage:
Enjoy!
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Spotlight on God's Word and Not Your Problems

For whatever length of time that somebody stays in this world, issues, difficulties and issues will emerge.

For a Christian, it will come and the reason is basic: the fallen angel or satan's primary goal is to get the Christian to question reality of God's Word, the adequacy of God's Word and the energy of God's Word to determine all difficulties. So satan will toss all way of hindrances at a Christian to influence him or her to create unbelief.

In the event that the Christian shockingly acknowledges the obstructions as his destiny and inquiries God's capacity to take care of his issues, satan turns out to be exceptionally glad since that is the thing that he needs to accomplish.

Since we realize that satan is the reason for the world's inconveniences, what are we to do as Christians? We are to center exclusively around reality of God's Word in the Holy Bible.

You should acknowledge today that the more terrible thing that can happen to any person is passing. For whatever length of time that the individual is alive, there is trust and that expectation lies in Christ Jesus alone.

I have an uncle who once revealed to me that numerous years prior he took a choice, which was that any issue he couldn't take care of was not an issue and he would simply neglect it.

This man is more than 70 years old today and he is as yet sound and generous on the grounds that he never troubles himself about the issues of this life.

Dear companion, this is the manner by which it should be among us Christians. Stressing over your concern will never take it away. On the off chance that anything, stress would just exasperate the circumstance and cause you genuine medical issues.

Actually, what stress does is to open the way to satan to have a honest to goodness ideal to beset a Christian with malevolence, infection and malady.

Truly, I concur, the issue is genuine and it is there and obvious.

Nonetheless, please know today that when you focus on reality of God's Word concerning your circumstance, in addition to the fact that it would close the entryway against satan's profound assaults however it would move God to follow up on your faith in His Word, with the end goal of God keeping up the uprightness of His Word's adequacy and to celebrate His Holy Name.

The Holy Bible lets us know in Philippians 4:6-7, "Don't fuss or have any uneasiness about anything, however in each condition and in everything, by supplication and appeal (unequivocal solicitations), with thanksgiving, keep on making your needs known to God.

Furthermore, God's tranquility [shall be yours, that serene condition of a spirit guaranteed of its salvation through Christ, thus dreading nothing from God and being content with its natural parcel of whatever sort that will be, that peace] which rises above all comprehension should army and mount watch over your souls and psyches in Christ Jesus."

In the event that this is the thing that God has instructed us to do in His Word concerning each circumstance that goes up against us, at that point by all methods do what God has said as a proof that you trust Him.

At that point the tranquility of God that rises above all comprehension might be yours as expressed in His Word in Jesus' Name, Amen.

Dear companion, God made you and He cherishes you more than you can ever figure it out. It is just in Christ Jesus you can appreciate genuine peace and joy here on earth and be guaranteed of unceasing salvation in the great beyond.

You just can't go anyplace else.

If it's not too much trouble accept what God has let us know in His Word and you will get precisely the same God has guaranteed as long as you keep up your confidence in your soul and admit it verbally to initiate it profoundly for it to show physically.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life. You can't achieve God aside from through Jesus Christ - John 14:6. It would be ideal if you swing to Him genuinely today before it is past the point of no return.

May the great Lord favor you as you regard His Word today, follow up on it and offer with others in Jesus' Mighty Name, Amen.


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3 Proven Tips to Instantly Lower Stress

April is Stress Awareness Month. Dazzling. I believe you're most likely very much aware of the pressure you feel! What about a few hints to bring down it at this moment? Look at my best three beneath. I've figured out how to utilize these the most difficult way possible by being somebody who frequently feels focused and overpowered and is enthusiastic about genuine feelings of serenity.

Before you "pooh-pooh" them as excessively basic or irrelevant, look at the science behind why they work. At that point, try them out. It won't take long-and you'll be amazed at how much better you feel!

1. Erase!

We feel pressure when we think what we need to do or what will happen is excessively to deal with. The errands and occasions ahead appear as though they'll take a bigger number of assets than we have. Regardless of whether those assets are time, cash, vitality, or connections, we simply don't feel like we have enough to deal with what we're confronting.

The remedy?

Cut something out. Hit erase. Lessen your heap. Make the undertaking or occasion less demanding.

You truly don't need to do everything on your rundown. I know it feels like you need to do every one of these things, yet you don't. A few things you're intending to do aren't a best need. Along these lines, remove them out-right! On the off chance that something is extremely critical, it will return on your rundown. Something else, let it go until further notice.

Get out your rundown, or influence one, of all that you to think you need to do. At that point begin check things off. You can think of some on another rundown or in your date-book to do later. Keep just TOP PRIORITY RIGHT NOW things on your To Dos for now and sort out them in the request that bodes well.

I can see your shoulders dropped a couple of inches. Your weight is lighter. You don't need to hold up the entire world. It will continue turning. Simply do the couple of things that are top need for you today.

For what reason does this work? In the first place, it changes your impression of the amount you need to do-and, with regards to pressure, discernment is everything. Second, this sort of basic leadership enacts the official capacity in the prefrontal cortex of your mind. This hoses your dread reaction and encourages you feel more responsible for your life.

2. Close your eyes and feel your relaxing.

Since you've cleared a little space on your rundown, pause for a moment to deliberately unwind. It will sincerely take one moment. I know you need to get on to the following tip (at any rate that is the manner by which I am the point at which I'm perusing), however believe me, this will just pause for a moment and it will be justified, despite all the trouble.

Close your eyes and take a couple of moderate, profound, delicate breaths in and out through your nose just, feeling the impressions of breathing inside your body.

For what reason does this work? Shutting your eyes, breathing gradually, and feeling quieting inward sensations actuate your body's characteristic unwinding reaction. What's more, taking in and out through your nose adjusts the carbon dioxide levels in your body and increments nitric oxide creation. These gases unwind and widen your veins and bronchial sections conveying more oxygen to your cells. This revives your vitality and encourages you feel more calm.

Simply ahead and attempt this now. For only one moment, let go of everything else, close your eyes, and turn out to be totally caught up in the vibes of moderate, profound, delicate relaxing. That is around 5-8 breaths, contingent upon your pace. Do this, at that point return for tip number three.

3. Plan to complete one thing that makes you upbeat.

What do you jump at the chance to do that is simply agreeable, influences you to grin when you consider it, and makes you cheerful when you know you will do it?

What is that for you? It can be anything by any stretch of the imagination, regardless of whether it just pauses for a moment aside from it can't be business related. (As a Capricorn, I now and then attempt to fudge this one by picking a work assignment I appreciate. Rather, pick something only for satisfaction. For instance, I jump at the chance to play pool and take strolls in nature.)

Imagine a scenario where you did this for even a couple of minutes at the present time, at some point today, or set a firm intend to do it this week. How does this influence you to feel?

For what reason does this work? When you do things you appreciate, you discharge biochemicals, for example, dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, and endorphins in your cerebrum that influence you to feel casual and cheerful.

Set a suggestion to hone these three hints as regularly as you require.

You could compose every one of the three on a sticky note, send yourself an email (with the SUBJECT: Delete, Breath, Enjoy!) and keep it at the highest point of your INBOX, set each of the three as "rehash occasions" in your calendar, or remind yourself in any capacity that works best for you.

On the off chance that you hone each of the three consistently, you'll discharge developed pressure and collect less pressure. You'll be more in contact with what is extremely imperative to you, more casual regardless of what you're doing, and anticipate getting a charge out of something uncommon. Would you be able to envision your life being more joyful and less distressing in the event that you made these tips a propensity?

Figure out how to develop a casual condition of being and an unmistakable centered personality in the book, "Clear Quiet Mind." Available on Amazon: Click Here For More Information

Kevin Schoeninger is an author and educator of Mind-Body preparing, including Mindfulness, Meditation, Qigong, and Reiki. He is the writer of the book "Clear Quiet Mind" and various guided reflections and projects in the field of individual strengthening and profound development.


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Step by step instructions to Use Procrastination As Practice for Success

You may trust that achievement is tied in with thinking of extraordinary thoughts or doing the outlandish, however most achievement is the consequence of doing the commonplace. It's doing the things that nobody needs to do. Regardless of whether it's shedding pounds, showing signs of improvement work, doing admirably in school, or sparing a million dollars, the procedure is for the most part unenjoyable.

Much of the time, you realize what should be finished. The test is inspiring you to do it.

Managing viably with hesitation is motivating yourself to do things you would prefer not to do. It's great practice for figuring out how to wind up effective! On the off chance that you can crush your lingering, you can achieve pretty much anything.

Think about the typical procedure of hesitation:

1. You consider accomplishing something. Isn't that how you begin an assignment? You consider doing it.

2. You see how it feels. Each idea produces an inclination or feeling. When it feels right, we do the errand. That is the reason it's so natural to get off the lounge chair to get a sack of chips. It's not as simple to leave the lounge chair to go outside and paint the drains.

3. On the off chance that it feels wrong, you stay away from it. You have your own, reliable methods for diverting the assignment. Do you know what you do when you're stalling? Influence a rundown of the things you to do to maintain a strategic distance from obligation.

4. At the point when the sentiment putting it off feels more regrettable than the feeling of doing it, you at last make a move. You will in the end pay your charges, take out the waste, apply for a vocation, or work on your research project.

This is a complete procedure. Lamentably, it doesn't function admirably in case you're endeavoring to excel or to keep your life from slipping into tumult.

Attempt an elective technique for managing obnoxious undertakings:

1. When you feel frustrated about an occupation, get energized that you're being given a chance to learn achievement aptitudes. This is the minute that isolates the men from the young men and the ladies from the young ladies. The slightest effective individuals are the most noticeably awful slowpokes. Fruitful individuals do the hard things.

2. Pause for a moment. Simply sit with your sentiments and notice them. Sit with your distress. Close your eyes and inhale gradually. Notice where you feel the aggravation. Is it in your mind? Your chest? Stomach? Endeavor to unwind that territory of your body and discharge the strain.

3. Burn through five minutes doing the errand you need to maintain a strategic distance from. Anybody can deal with only five minutes. Beginning is the hardest part, to end up a specialist on beginning! You'll regularly find that you'll proceed past your five-minute objective. Salute yourself for enduring no less than five minutes.

4. Excuse yourself for coming up short. Some days you win, others you lose. Working through inconvenience and vanquishing dawdling is a testing expertise to learn. Simply get back on the stallion and promise to continue attempting.

Stalling is an exceptionally human propensity. Little uncertainty its starting points were useful. Poor choices could be deplorable 100,000 years back. Our brains must be completely persuaded that a thought was deserving of execution before it would enable us to act.

Accomplishing something today that is unenjoyable doesn't bode well on the off chance that it can be postponed until some other time.

Choose for yourself that correct now is that time. Utilize your desire to delay as fuel for figuring out how to be effective.
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Microsoft //build 2018, my Cloud Application Development highlights

Every year I'm really excited about 2 main public Microsoft conferences we have: Microsoft Connect() in November and Microsoft //build in May. It's always a lot of exciting announcements and important time for getting the fresh and future vision of Microsoft. Here is an example of the updates and announcements which happened during the Microsoft Connect() 2017 edition.
This week was the Microsoft //build 2018 in Seattle on May 7-9. Did you attend it in person or did you watch the keynotes and sessions remotely? Being there in person is such a great experience to receive information live but also meeting with people: customers, partners and product teams. I highly encourage you to attend in person at least once in your life! ;)

I won't cover everything announced but as an introduction here are some resources you should check out for the general vision and key points of this edition:
This year I watched remotely live and on-demand sessions. I would like to share my Cloud Application Development highlights with you through this blog article.
For a more complete list of announcements in details, feel free to check out my associated monthly blog article at the end of May 2018 or start playing yet with the associated chat Bot.

Cheers!
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Give the First-fruits to God: An Amazingly Important Lesson for the Young ©

This morning I encountered one of the great lessons I have learned in life.  It comes just weeks before my seventy-fifth birthday. Given the lesson, my age makes it all the more poignant. I have been studying the prayers in the Old Testament and this morning I came to Deuteronomy 26.  It is a bit complicated, but let me see if I can simplify it for you, to make the lesson apparent.

The Lord delivered Israel from Egyptian bondage and brought them, after forty years of wandering to kill off the old disbelievers and unfaithful, to the Promised Land. Now he instructed Israel that on the day after the festival of the Passover a sheaf of the  “first-fruits” of the harvest should be offered to God as a thanksgiving offering on behalf of the people generally. (See Lev. 23:10-ff.) In the early verses of Deuteronomy 26 the Lord instructs individuals to gather a basket of the first-fruits at the end of the harvest season as a thank offering. They are to bring it to the designated spot, probably the tabernacle or later the temple.  Certain prayers of thanksgiving are to be offered.  Tithing is to be paid on the harvest and additional prayers to be offered. The question arises, “Why does the Lord want us to give him the first-fruits?”

As I read some commentary on this chapter the point was made that the first-fruit offering was intended to be the best. It was young, tender, tasty, and nourishing. It was the best of the harvest and the best was for God. We have heard this often–that the best is for God. And there are good reasons that the first-fruits are given as a thanksgiving offering. First, it acknowledges that God is the giver of all the good things which support and sustain life. Second, we are to learn to give the best to God, even of those very things which we have anticipated and looked forward to all season. We glorify God and serve him first. This requires discipline and self-denial. These are wonderful and powerful ideas when it comes to worshiping God and thanking him for his blessings.

But there is a third lesson–and this is the lesson that was new and powerful to me. It comes from a commentary by a man named Matthew Henry. He was a believer–a real believer, and he had an extraordinary sensitivity to the Gospel and its teachings. I have learned to love him and his writings. They always instruct and edify me. And significantly, they are always attended by a special tender and sweet spirit, something I have found to be unusual in many commentaries. Here is what he said:
To give God the first and best we have .... Those that consecrate the days of their youth, and the prime of their time, to the service and honour of God, bring him their first-fruits, and with such offerings he is well pleased.(1)
Note please the application this has for the young–teenagers, young adults, young marrieds. To “consecrate the days of their youth”–the first-fruits–to God. And to consecrate the” prime of their time”--the first-fruits of time to God. Such actions by the young are noble and righteous acts of gratitude, consecration and worship. They acknowledge that all they have, including youth, energy, gifts and talents, come from God and they are only returning to him what is rightfully his.(1 Chron. 29:14; Ps. 24:1; D&C 104:17) The truth of this idea struck me as both self-evident and powerful. Unlike ninety-three-year-old Russell M. Nelson, as a seventy-five year old man my contributions are minimal. Recently I was released from serving as a sealer in the Logan Temple. Health issues were one of the main reasons.  From such a perspective I have a greater sense of the necessity of consecrating one’s youth to God, his church and kingdom.  

It would be a great blessing for the young of the Church to have this perspective. In late evening talks with the missionaries of my office staff in the California Roseville Mission we often discussed the “wasted youth” syndrome. Young men often spent great amounts of time practicing sports–I used to tell of boys in the parking lot of our church behind our house practicing skate boarding moves hours on end. Contrast that with the amount of time any of them spent preparing for a mission by reading and memorizing scripture. The comparison is stark and scary. Today similar problems arise with young men and some young women who are addicted to their personal devices and waste huge amounts of time surfing, socializing, and playing games on the Net.

I have also noticed in most wards I have lived in the past fifty years that the older High Priests do the family history and attend the temple. Many young couples argue that they are “too busy” to do those things–that will have to come later. So, when we have “ward temple days” the younger set are often conspicuously absent. But they can get to the basketball and football games, the latest movies, put prodigious amounts of time into careers, and make time for regular vacations. Remember the “Rich young ruler”? He had lots of money and authority and wanted to know what “good thing” he needed to do to be saved? (Mt. 19:16) His question was nearly perfect–except there is not just one thing one can do. The Lord took him seriously, in fact Mark says that Jesus “beholding him loved him.” (Mk. 10:21) The young man was told to sell all that he had, give it to the poor and follow Jesus. He had the opportunity to give the first-fruits–the best he had in resources, leadership, influence, time, energy, dedication, thought, and commitment, but he went away sorrowing because “he had great possessions.” Because of other priorities he squandered the opportunity to give the first-fruits.

Think about the energy, enthusiasm, strength, and quick minds of the young. No wonder the Lord want’s the first-fruits. Many have given them. Jesus is the prime and divine example. The most important life and act in the cosmos was completed by age thirty-three! Joseph Smith finished his mission at age thirty-eight. Remember young David, Samuel, and Mormon. All givers of the first-fruits par excellence. Alma taught his son Helaman to “learn wisdom in thy youth.”(Al. 37:35.) What greater wisdom can one learn than to give God the best and do it when you are young, healthy, energetic, and all your brain cells hitting on all six? What greater wisdom than to give God the first-fruits?

I urge the youth–most of my grand children fit here–high school and college age kids, young adults, returned missionaries and young marrieds (especially those from the CRM), to get a testimony that the Lord wants your “first-fruits” offering and then redouble your commitment to see that he gets it.

Let’s think together again, soon.

Notes:  

1.  Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry’s Commentary on the Whole Bible, new modern edition in six volumes, (n. p.: Hendrickson’s Publishers, Inc., 1991), 1:647, emphasis added.

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Microsoft Azure - News & Updates - April 2018




Microsoft Azure news, updates and announcements (207 entries) for April 2018:

Application Development:

27 - VSTS Public Projects Limited Preview
27 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.27
26 - Get the Azure Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers
26 - Monitoring Service Fabric clusters with Dynatrace
26 - Second update on the Service Fabric 6.2 release
25 - General availability: Azure Container Instances
25 - Azure Container Instances now generally available
25 - Azure DevTest Labs: Redeploy a lab virtual machine
25 - Update on the Service Fabric 6.2 Release Roll-out
25 - What’s brewing in Visual Studio Team Services: April 2018 Digest
23 - 5 reasons you should be doing container native development
20 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.20
19 - Azure Service Fabric – announcing Reliable Services on Linux and RHEL support
19 - Release Flow: How We Do Branching on the VSTS Team
19 - Service Fabric 6.2 Release
18 - Azure API Management Release notes – April 18, 2018
17 - Configuration of TLS versions in App Service and Functions apps now available
17 - App Service and Functions hosted apps can now update TLS versions!
17 - TFS 2018 Update 2 RC2
17 - What’s new in VSTS Sprint 132 Update
16 - HTTP/2 support for Azure App Service is now available
16 - Deployment for Azure Database for MySQL, Kubernetes with Helm, and Ruby on Rails – VSTS Sprint 133 Update
16 - Deployment for Azure MySQL, Kubernetes Helm, and Ruby - VSTS Sprint 133 Update
16 - Power BI and VSTS – Integration made easy
16 - GUID migration: Azure Redis Cache
16 - GUID migration: Azure Redis Cache, US Government regions
13 - Announcing HTTP/2 support in Azure App Service
13 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.13
12 - Using EV SSL with Azure Web App
12 - Egress to Azure Functions from Azure Stream Analytics
12 - JavaScript user-defined aggregates in Azure Stream Analytics
12 - Public preview: Stream Analytics tools for Visual Studio
11 - App Service Environment is now available in US Government regions
11 - JavaScript UDFs in Azure Stream Analytics
10 - March 2018 App Service update
10 - Azure DevTest Labs available in Azure Government
09 - PHP minor version update for May 2018 in App Service
07 - PHP Minor Version Update for May 2018
06 - Announcing General Availability for the Microsoft Intune App SDK Xamarin Bindings
06 - Top stories from the VSTS community – 2018.04.06
05 - Intelligent routing on Service Fabric with Træfik
03 - Deployment Groups and build completion trigger – VSTS Sprint 132 Update
02 - Service Fabric Customer Profile: SiriusIQ

Data Platform & AI:

30 - Adaptive caching powers Azure SQL Data Warehouse performance gains
30 - Blazing fast data warehousing with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
30 - Region expansion for the next generation of SQL Data Warehouse
30 - Secure credential management for ETL workloads using Azure Key Vault and Data Factory
30 - Turbocharge cloud analytics with Azure SQL Data Warehouse
27 - Now available - Azure SQL Data Warehouse now offers transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys
26 - HDInsight tools for VS Code now supports argparse and Spark 2.2
26 - General availability: Replicated tables in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
26 - Train an IoT-equipped drone and compete to win at Microsoft Build
25 - Bing Custom Search: Build a customized search experience in minutes
25 - Accelerate real-time big data analytics with Spark connector for Microsoft SQL Databases
25 - Azure #CosmosDB: Secure, private, compliant
25 - Public preview: Event Hubs for Node.js
25 - Public preview: Event Hubs for Python
25 - Replicated Tables now generally available in Azure SQL Data Warehouse
24 - Azure Analysis Services integration with VNets via On-Premises Data Gateway
24 - Azure Toolkit for Eclipse integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark 2.2
24 - Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ integrates with HDInsight Ambari and supports Spark 2.2
24 - The edge of possibility: best practices for IoT-driven infrastructure transformation
23 - Azure IoT Hub SDK officially provides native iOS support
23 - Propel your IoT platform to the cloud with Azure Time Series Insights!
20 - Automating Industrial IoT Security
19 - General availability: Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys for Azure SQL
18 - Microsoft brings AI-powered translation to end users and developers, whether you’re online or offline
18 - General availability: Azure Database for MySQL
18 - General availability: Azure Database for PostgreSQL
18 - Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB: NoSQL data access on Azure
17 - Transparent Data Encryption with customer managed keys in Azure SQL Database generally available
16 - Iterative development and debugging using Data Factory
16 - Name changes: Azure Cosmos DB, US Government regions
16 - Name changes: Azure SQL Database long-term backup retention
16 - Name changes: Cosmos DB
13 - Azure Stream Analytics on IoT Edge
12 - Building bots with Redux
12 - Anomaly detection in Stream Analytics
12 - Stream Analytics offers streaming dashboards in Power BI
12 - CI/CD in Azure Stream Analytics
12 - Stream Analytics supports compression input format
12 - Enhanced capabilities to monitor, manage, and integrate SQL Data Warehouse in the Azure Portal
12 - Enhanced portal capabilities for Azure SQL Data Warehouse
12 - Public preview: Integration of Stream Analytics with Azure Monitor
12 - Rubikloud leverages Azure SQL Data Warehouse to disrupt retail market with accessible AI
12 - Stream Analytics available in new regions
12 - Substream support in Azure Stream Analytics
11 - Native support for geospatial functions in Stream Analytics
10 - Now available - Azure Cosmos DB Data Explorer now generally available
10 - Now available - Azure SQL Database—preview of read scale-out support in premium service
10 - In preview - New purchasing model for Azure SQL Database
10 - Three critical analytics use cases with Microsoft Azure Databricks
09 - Support for operationalizing Azure Databricks notebooks
09 - Continuous integration and deployment using Data Factory
09 - How to configure Azure SQL Database Geo-DR with Azure Key Vault
09 - Optimize performance by upgrading SQL Data Warehouse
09 - Seamlessly upgrade Azure SQL Data Warehouse for greater performance and scalability
06 - Fast and easy development with Azure Database for MySQL and PostgreSQL
04 - A flexible new way to purchase Azure SQL Database
04 - Preview: A flexible new way to purchase Azure SQL Database
04 - Improvements to SQL Elastic Pool configuration experience
04 - Public preview: Read scale-out support for Azure SQL Database
04 - SQL Database: Long-term backup retention preview includes major updates
03 - Accelerate Data Warehouse Modernization to Azure with Informatica’s AI-Driven Platform
03 - Azure IoT Hub is driving down the cost of IoT
03 - GUID migration: Azure Service Bus
03 - GUID migration: Azure Service Bus, US Government regions
03 - Name changes: Azure SQL Database long-term backup retention, US Government regions
02 - Ingest, prepare, and transform using Azure Databricks and Data Factory
02 - Power BI Embedded supports additional mobile gestures
02 - Reminder: The Bot Framework State service has been retired – what you need to know
02 - Power BI Embedded Bookmarks API
02 - Power BI Embedded: Get visual data
02 - Power BI Embedded Q&A added to Edit and Create modes for report authors
02 - Power BI Embedded: API to track your free embed token
02 - Unique identities are hard: How I learned to stop worrying and love the ID scope

Infrastructure:

30 - AzCopy on Linux now generally available
30 - Region expansion: Global VNet Peering
30 - Write Accelerator for M-Series virtual machines now generally available
27 - Deploying and using HashiCorp Terraform Enterprise on Azure
26 - Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics v1.9 released
26 - How to deploy a production-ready Node.js HA Stack on Azure
26 - OS Disk Swap for Managed Virtual Machines now available
26 - Per disk metrics for Managed & Unmanaged Disks now in public preview
25 - Get started with Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure for free
24 - Deprecating the Log Search API for Azure Log Analytics
24 - Feature update: Redeploy a Lab Virtual Machine
24 - Migrating your apps, data and infrastructure to Azure is easier than ever
24 - Start DevTest Lab machines in order using Azure Runbooks
24 - Storage scenarios for Cray in Azure
19 - Azure Backup now supports storage accounts secured with Azure Storage Firewalls and Virtual Networks
19 - Now available - Virtual network service endpoints for Azure Storage
18 - In preview - Azure DNS private zones
18 - Region expansion: Global VNet Peering
17 - Enhancing Threat Protection capabilities and Conditional Access App Controls in Microsoft Cloud App Security
17 - What's new in Azure DNS - Metrics and alerting
17 - What's new in Azure Log Analytics - April 2018
17 - Preview: programmatically create Azure enterprise subscriptions using ARM APIs
17 - Recovery Services vault limit increased to 500 vaults per subscription per region
16 - GUID migration: Linux support
16 - GUID migration: Zone Redundant Storage
13 - Alerts created in the Operations Management Suite portal can extend into Azure
12 - HashiCorp co-founder interview simplifying infrastructure management
10 - New Disaster Recovery tutorials for Wingtip Tickets sample SaaS application
10 - Offline media import for Azure
10 - Now available - Azure Backup now supports BEK encrypted Azure virtual machines
10 - Now available - Azure Service Health now generally available
10 - Now available - Azure DNS private zones now available
10 - In preview - Azure Virtual Machine's serial console feature now available
10 - In preview - Azure Virtual Machine's Serial Console
10 - Now available - Integration of Azure Backup into VM create experience
10 - Now available - Standard Load Balancer now generally available
09 - Automate more Azure resources with Ansible 2.5 and Galaxy
09 - Define a data volume cap in Log Analytics
03 - Microsoft peering on ExpressRoute Standard SKU now available
02 - General availability: Azure zone-redundant snapshots and images for managed disks
02 - New Microsoft Azure regions available for Australia and New Zealand
02 - General availability: New regions for Red Hat Update Infrastructure

Security:

27 - Secrets Management through Certificate Common Names
26 - Azure AD B2B Collaboration for Hybrid Organizations
25 - In preview - Microsoft Graph Security API now available
24 - How Azure Security Center helps detect attacks against your Linux machines
24 - 10 Ways to Improve Your B2B Email Marketing
23 - Azure Bot Service and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
18 - Azure DDoS Protection for virtual networks generally available
17 - Announcing new Azure Security Center capabilities at RSA 2018
17 - Announcing new Microsoft Azure Information Protection policy decision point capabilities with Ionic Security
17 - Password-less Sign-In to Windows 10 & Azure AD using FIDO2 is coming soon (plus other cool news)!
17 - The 3 ways Azure improves your security
16 - GUID migration: Azure Security Center
16 - GUID migration: Azure Security Center, US Government regions
16 - Streamlining GDPR requests with the Azure Portal
16 - Introducing Microsoft Azure Sphere: Secure and power the intelligent edge
12 - GDPR offers one more reason to focus on your disaster recovery strategy
10 - Achieving GDPR compliance in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
10 - HashiCorp Vault speaks Azure Active Directory
05 - Application Security Groups now generally available in all Azure regions
04 - Upcoming improvements to the Azure AD sign-in experience

General:

30 - Azure.Source - Volume 29
27 - Make the most of your time with the new Windows 10 update
26 - Countdown to KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU 2018
26 - Organizing subscriptions and resource groups within the Enterprise
25 - Join Microsoft Build Live for the ultimate digital experience
23 - Azure.Source - Volume 28
20 - Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader in enterprise integration
20 - Gartner recognizes Microsoft as a leader in enterprise integration
18 - Altair democratizes access to computer-aided engineering with Azure
17 - Azure Marketplace new offers in March 2018
17 - Meet Microsoft at Cloud Foundry Summit!
17 - Microsoft at PostgresConf US 2018
17 - Integration of Open Source in our platform
16 - Azure.Source - Volume 27
16 - Updates to global subscription filtering
12 - Upload/download Azure dashboards
11 - Modern IT Deployments using Windows AutoPilot
10 - Cloud data and AI services training roundup
10 - Top Training and Events for Partners in April
09 - A years’ worth of cloud, AI and partner innovation. Welcome to NAB 2018!
09 - Azure.Source - Volume 26
09 - From Microsoft Azure to everyone attending NAB Show 2018 — Welcome!
03 - Important changes to OpenAPI import and export
03 - Introducing a new way to purchase Azure monitoring services
03 - IMPACT Awards turn 15 this year!
03 - The CLOUD Act is an important step forward, but now more steps need to follow
02 - Azure.Source - Volume 25
02 - Recognizing Excellence in our Ecosystem and Finding Inspiration Together

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Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 in Quebec city - a real success, again!


On Saturday April, 21st 2018 was the 6th edition of the Global Azure Bootcamp: https://global.azurebootcamp.net/ all around the world hosted by 284 locations (in its first edition in 2013, it was just 90 locations).
In Quebec city it was our 4th edition and we got ~200 people. We were lucky despite the sunny day we got, actually the first spring day there, to have such interest from our attendees.

This year was my first year as co-organizer and speaker, I really appreciated the experience. I would like to share with you our recipe here in Quebec city regarding how we made this possible. It's basically a mix of:
The other recipe we have is having great contents delivered by great speakers! 3 Keynotes, 9 breakout sessions split in 3 rooms and 2 kiosks.
Here is the agenda we got:
You could download the presentations here: https://aka.ms/azurebootcampqbc

What was new this year was having at 12-1pm and 4-5pm two kiosks:



Regarding the opening Keynote I co-delivered with Adrian Todorov, we did an interesting exercise to show 2 demos (Azure DevOps project + AKS) within the 1h15min slot we had in front of ~200 people. Here are some photos followed by the document of our presentation:





Again, a really great GABC 2018 edition which couldn't be a success without all the people, customers, partners and local communities mentioned in this blog article.

See you next year for sure! ;)
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