Goodbye 2020 Hello 2021

by Jan 3, 2021

Goodbye 2020 

Started to work for InSpark

Last year was certainly an eventful year. Started with a new job at InSpark and after 10 weeks we all know what happened, the first intelligent lockdown. The Netherlands was partially locked, but our office was immediately closed. Fortunately, all our applications run in the cloud and we were able to switch easily. But building a team in these times is not easy. I am really very proud of all my colleagues in the Data and AI team and of course all my other colleagues  from InSpark, we made a great year together. 

Goodbye 2020.jpg

Managed Oxygen

With Managed Oyxgen, our Data Platform as a Service, we’ve made such great improvements that I wouldn’t have thought that it was possible at the beginning of this year. Really cool and compliments to ones who worked so hard on it. On top of our Managed Oxyen we have worked with the whole team on our Sparkhouse Data Accelerator, a Metadata Framework which we can use to automatically extract data from different sources, building history with Delta Lake and load data into an Azure SQL Database/Pool for further transformations of the data.

Cool and innovative projects

We worked closely with Microsoft NL and Corp, but also with our mother company KPN. We’re now seeing the effect of this, we’ve done such great projects and we’re on our way for 2021, Projects using the latest Azure Data Services, image and photo recognition, IOT, Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI. And for the first quarter we will
In any case, enough to look forward to. We are still looking for reinforcements for our team, so if you want to be part of these super cool projects let me know for sure.
I’m happy with the step I made a year ago and can definitely recommend it to anyone.

And when I look at myself.

Blog

My intention was to write more blogs and articles this year, in the end this only succeeded partly. It turned out to be 24, which is an average of 2 per month. Sometimes I just lacked inspiration, hopefully this inspiration will come back in 2021.
My top post on my website still remains Azure Data Factory Naming Conventions . Nice to see that more and more people are implementing the right standards within their organization.

Certifications

This year I wanted to get my DP-200 and DP-201, it finally became AZ-900 and DP-200. It’s been far too long since I’ve done a certification. Of all the questions everyone really knows the right answer, but still when you see it on a screen and you have to give the correct answer, it is secretly quite difficult.
In any case, the DP-201 is on my agenda this year.

Events

My last personal event this year was SQL Konferenz in Darmstadt, Germany, in early March. Wow, how I miss these personal events. In addition to exchanging knowledge, the personal contacts that you build with everyone, it is also very valuable. With the virtual events this is a lot more difficult.
I was quite proud to be selected for SQL Bits, it remains one of the biggest events in Europe. However, it was a disappointment that it ended up becoming virtual instead of physical. Obviously the correct decision of the organization. You had to record the session yourself beforehand. During the event itself it was broadcast and you had to moderate your own session. Very strange to do that, but in the end I was happy with the result. The platform they used was really good. Compliments to the organization and the volunteers who made it a success for a while.
In addition to SQL Bits, I have spoken on a number of Virtual SQL Saturdays, I only started speaking virtual at the end of the year, but finally there aren’t that many. I didn’t like virtual speaking in the first time, but eventually I started to like it anyway. Before 2021, I have registered for a number of DataSaturdays and will be speaking at the Scottish Summit. Nice things to look forward to.

Whatever a year looks like, the most important thing is that everyone is healthy and safe. I look forward to a great collaboration with everyone.

Feel free to leave a comment

0 Comments

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

two × 3 =

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Yeah My website is Finally Live

Yeah, my first built website is LIVEThe last couple of weeks I've been working hard to design my website and finally the moment is there. My website live and I'm really proud.  Building my own website The last couple of weeks/months I've been working hard... to...

Parameterize Linked Services in ADF

Parameterize Linked Services For my Azure Data Factory solution I wanted to Parameterize properties in my Linked Services. Not all properties are Parameterized by default through the UI. But there's another way to achieve this.    Linked Service Open your existing...

Restore a accidentally deleted Azure SQL Database

Help I deleted my Logical Server​OOPS Have you ever experienced that you accidentally deleted your Logical Server in Azure?  Because, for example, you made your Pipeline wrong. Surely. And of course you didn't have a backup in your storage either.Well I must confess...

Custom comments in Azure Synapse Analytics

Add custom comments to your Azure DevOps and Github commitsFinally ​Finally and secretly hidden, we can now add a Comment to our commits in Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory to Azure Dev Ops. How do you activate this custom comment option in your existing...

LEAP 2018

Lead Enterprise Architect ProgramFrom the 4th of December until the 6th of December I've joined the LEAP (Lead Enterprise Architect Program) 2018 Data/AI from Microsoft NL. Three  days on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond joining business and technical sessions from a...

Working from Home: How do I get my energy and focus back on track?

Working from home It has now been exactly 7 weeks since I started working from home. In the beginning this went with full energy, but now gradually the energy and the focus on the work is starting to drain.I'm the only one in here? I'm sure, I'm not. I regularly hear...

Service Health Alerts in Azure

Maintenance and Service Healths in AzureI get often questions, is there no maintenance in Azure. Like every data center, the Azure data center also needs maintenance. You can even be notified when a specific service, in a specific data center, has scheduled...

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics  Insights for all Azure Synapse provides a breathtaking view of your data across data warehouses and big data analytics systems. Bringing these two worlds together into a single service is challenging as it requires unifying similar...

My First Blog Post SQLSatHolland 790

Yeah, my first blog is LIVEAfter a good talk with Reza Rad from RADACAD during SQLSatHolland, I decided to start my first blog!Knowledge sharing is very important, it gives me a lot of energy. But it also gives others people in the community energies to pick up new...

Microsoft Build 2022 Book of News

Microsoft Build 2022MSBuild 2022 has just started. A lot of new Announcement will be released or demonstrated the upcoming days. Like every year or event most of these announcement are added to the Book of News.The book of news can be downloaded from the link below...