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🚨 One week to go! 🚨 Don't forget to join us for the "Building Future Digital Products as an ISV on Azure" event with BlakYaks and Bytes Software Services, happening on 17th September!🚀 This is a must-attend if you're looking to use #Azure to create innovative digital products. We'll explore how to modernise your #appdevelopment and operating model, with a focus on #AI, #cloudnative architectures, and building secure, scalable solutions. 📅 Date: 17th September ⌚ Time: 9am-1pm 📍 Location: Shangri-La The Shard, London 🔗 Register: https://lnkd.in/eY4EErRB Make sure to save your spot now if you haven't already. You won't want to miss this opportunity to shape the future of your digital offerings 💡 #Azure #ISV #DigitalInnovation #CloudSolutions

🚀New partnership! 🚀   We are happy to announce that BlakYaks is teaming up with Altra in a strategic partnership to accelerate our customers' migrations with #DrMigrate.   By streamlining the process, #DrMigrate AI-driven tools reduces #transformation timelines by months, providing intelligent insights to maximise your ROI and boost your bottom line.   Ollie Gayton, our Professional Services Director, shares: "With Dr Migrate, BlakYaks can now offer faster, more efficient migrations with a crystal-clear understanding of your existing application estate and modernisation opportunities. We're excited to enhance our services and help our clients achieve seamless, cost-effective cloud transformations".   We’re looking forward to continuing our work with Dr Migrate and the Altra team throughout the rest of 2024, into 2025 and beyond   Stay tuned for more updates, and feel free to get in touch to discover how BlakYaks, armed with Dr Migrate, can streamline your cloud migration process. #Azure #Altrapartner #Cloudmigration #Transformation #Modernisation #Cloudnative #AI

Are you ready to embark on a journey to unlock a new era of growth with #Azure?  🚀   Join Bytes Software Services and BlakYaks at The Shangri-La, The Shard, London, on 17th September for an exclusive event that will transform your approach to app development and modernise your operating model. You'll learn how to build intelligent applications that harness the power of #AI and the latest architectural patterns for cloud native, secure and scalable solutions. What to expect:   🟠 Accelerating developer velocity with modern tooling 🟠 The importance of #DevSecOps in modern app development 🟠 Modern architecture patterns 🟠 A “ready for production at scale" operating model 🟠 Leading with intelligent apps in the #AI era – features, case studies 🟠 Best practices in monetising features / Getting Marketplace Ready 🟠 Complimentary lunch – network and connect with industry peers   Register to secure your place now  👉 https://lnkd.in/eY4EErRB   #Azure #AppDevelopment #AI #CloudNative #DevSecOps #Networking #TechEvent  #ISV #Innovation #LondonTech

Our August ‘Have you…Herd?’ Newsletter is here! 📰   We’re excited to share our August newsletter, packed with valuable insights from our Operations Director, Neil Allgood, on the importance of operational resilience in cloud computing and how to achieve it effectively. From ensuring continuous availability to managing costs and security, this edition covers it all.   Don’t miss out—take a read now and discover strategies to keep your operations resilient and ready for anything.   Plus, check out our new blog by Craig Hurt on #Terraform testing and learn more about our exclusive ISV event with Bytes Software Services at The Shard on 17th September.

The entire first season of our ‘YakChat’ podcast is now available on our website 🎙️🎧   Take some time this summer to dive into #Azure insights with our expert-led episodes. Whether you're just starting out with Azure or looking to deepen your knowledge, tune in for in-depth discussions on the latest Azure trends and hear some real-world use cases that can help you stay ahead of the curve and make the most of Azure⤵️ 👉https://lnkd.in/ef2vacCW   #BlakYaks #Podcast #MicrosoftAzure #MicrosoftPartner

Meet our newest Yak 👋🐃 We are excited to introduce Sofiane Hacini, who is joining us today as our newest Junior Cloud Engineer!   Sofiane is a dedicated IT engineer and Computer Science graduate with a major in Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps from the University of Grenoble Alps. After gaining valuable experience abroad as a Network and Systems Administrator in France, he’s now back in London and ready to tackle new challenges with us.   He will be joining our expanding SpecOps team to support our customers' platform operations, ensuring seamless performance and exceptional service delivery.   Welcome to the herd Sofiane🎉

Contributions at BlakYaks: Infrastructure as Code and DevOps Excellence In the case of large businesses, we are steadfast in our belief that the full business benefits of public cloud can only be realised by putting mature DevOps and IaC at the kernel of you cloud implementation and operations. This leads to lower costs, improved security and operational resilience long-term and gives development teams the self-service capabilities they need to deliver digital services to market faster. Deploying then managing all cloud services throughout their life cycle with code should be a strategic imperative within latest generation technology and business strategies where technology scale is part of the challenge. While its clearly easier to say than do, its important to start defining the principles, standards, best practices and disciplines that make the long term goal achievable. Craig Hurt’s latest blog article provides interesting insight into one small piece of one small tenet of the overall challenge (IaC) but an important one nonetheless. It gives a sense of just one of the benchmarks we set ourselves at BlakYaks and explores how the IaC landscape is evolving, particularly with leading IaC tools like those from HashiCorp. Craig’s insights not only reflect our commitment to excellence from the tech leadership but also provide valuable perspectives for others who view the IaC space through a similar lens. A big thank you to Craig for his effort in putting this together and sharing it with the community. If you’re interested in deepening your understanding of IaC and how it’s shaping the future of cloud infrastructure, I highly recommend checking out his article (link below). https://lnkd.in/eBaqe-4J #InfrastructureAsCode #DevOps #CloudComputing #IaC #HashiCorp #BlakYaks #Azure #CloudInfrastructure #TechCommunity #Terraform

A few Yaks got together recently for our first office party at Great Eastern Street, and with the sun shining and the city around us, it was the perfect day to hang out, so we made the most of it 🙌   We'll just say, there were some tequila shots involved and some interesting and unexpected dance moves were unveiled, but we'll keep those graphic images to ourselves 😏   Here's to more fun summer days! 🐃

Discover the incredible individuals of our Yaks herd 🐃   Check out our newest blog by Paul Jones in the "Meet the Herd" series 📙  👉https://lnkd.in/dZ535b5Q In this series, we take you behind the scenes to meet the incredible team that makes BlakYaks so great. Through interviews and spotlights, you'll get a closer look at the faces behind our business, learning about their passions and inspirations and showcasing the unique qualities that each Yak brings to our herd.   ⬇️Dive into Paul's interview by clicking the link below! https://lnkd.in/dZ535b5Q

Exciting new website content from BlakYaks! 💻   Explore our newly launched Azure Accelerator Packs pages, now live with comprehensive details about these new solutions.   What are BlakYaks' Azure Accelerator Packs?   Our Accelerator Packs are a range of pre-engineered solutions designed to expedite the deployment of enterprise-grade Azure platforms ⏩🧑💻   Whether you need an Azure Landing Zone, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, or Enterprise Container Platforms, our Accelerator Packs provide a fast, dependable route to achieving highly automated, enterprise-level platforms.   Each pack is built and managed with code, leveraging BlakYaks' proven methodologies.   Discover all our new Accelerator Packs here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dNM-E-Av   Contact us if you’d like to learn more!