Vlog #2 - Why you'll never see this on official Microsoft Channels

[@TheAcronorod]

I've watched thousands of videos and you are the best by a long shot. Appreciate the videos! Your honesty and TLDR versions are brilliant.

[@JulieNgTech]

Thanks so much for this awesome feedback Aaron. It means a lot. No everyone likes brutal honesty. It's a fine line too. So your feedback helps me gauge where I am on that line. Thank you 😊

[@SanjayTyagi-rj9yr]

I wonder why you have such less number of subscribers... Most comprehensive and actionable devops videos you make. Thank you @julie. One small request, I don't see any check in to your azure governance repo for a long time. Do you have any plans to update that any time soon ? It will be great if you could please update that repo sometimes.

[@iasoto]

Thank you for your effort and the quality of your videos!

[@JulieNgTech]

Thank you for watching

[@onyekwumchiedozie4669]

thank you for sharing this real-time experience with me....I will continue to share the love and link

[@JulieNgTech]

thank you for the lovely feedback and for watching 🙌

[@Alphadeias08]

just found your channel,and i love it

[@JulieNgTech]

Thanks Simion!

[@kiranrajr457]

Thanks Julie ...for your time and effort,These videos of you really help me with my understanding and job...Love from India

[@JulieNgTech]

You're very welcome!

[@rohitradhakrishnan8317]

Very informative videos Julie. Always looking forward to your videos to learn more.

[@JulieNgTech]

Thanks Rohit! Are there any specific topics or areas you're particularly interested in?

[@rohitradhakrishnan8317]

Hi @@JulieNgTech . Currently wanted to learn on Adding new Custom Extension attribute filed ( e.g Employee number - Alphanumeric type ) directly on Azure internal /guest Ids on tenant and want this newly created custom attribute field to apply to any new Azure Ids created as well apart from the default attributes like Title,Phone,etc.

[@JulieNgTech]

@@rohitradhakrishnan8317 without knowing your use case and with my disclaimer that I am not an Azure AD expert, I would be very careful about using custom claims and my first question is always WHY? ;-) I come from a compliant financial industry and employee numbers would have been a no-go to have in the identity provider (IDP) for privacy reasons. Also, the IDP does not own that information, an HR system probably does. And the business logic for who can see the employee number probably also lies with HR. It would be a headache to build that logic into the IDP. That's my gut feeling anyway. It is common for apps to use Open ID Connect to make it easy for users to create accounts (I can re-use my Google account). But those apps and businesses often still have their own user database for user information specific to their business, e.g. purchase history. Does that help?

[@stefanstieber]

Hi, I really like your videos and your teaching style. I can transfer your lessons almost completely onto my day to day Job :-). You mentioned, that you've learned a lot from conference talks. Can you share some of these talks you found impressive? Thank you :-)

[@JulieNgTech]

Hey Stefan, sorry for really slow response. I only just realized there is a UI for comments in case I miss the notifications 🙈 Anyway, my favorite conference channel is the GOTO conference series. They have really high quality talks with speakers from reputable companies, i.e. real life requirements and scenarios I love. That's the first that comes to mind. Recently the Continuous Delivery Foundation just published their sessions. I attended a few live, but want to watch ones I missed later. Those are on KZbin as well. TL;DR; GOTO and CD CON.

[@ginloenlai6136]

Hi Julie, thank you for this channel! I have learned so much from your videos (I am just starting on my DevOps journey). Being a self-taught yourself, were you ever afflicted with the imposter syndrome in your journey? If so, could you share how you overcome it? Thank you.

[@JulieNgTech]

Hi Gin, yes, I'm regularly have imposter syndrome. It comes and goes in phases. What helps is knowing about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which suggests I might be feeling like an imposter because I am aware of how much I *don't* know, which literature says can be a sign of expertise. And also blogging helps. There's a great little book called "Show Your Work" by Austin Kleon that is also really worth reading. There's a part about blogging about your learning journey, sharing your experiences with others. Eventually you realize you know a lot more than you think you do.

[@sebastijanp3]

Julie...you (and your content) are amazing...just saying

[@JulieNgTech]

Thank you ❤️ SP. Your kind words inspire me to get back into making videos.

[@DaveOtteman]

Great content Julie, its been very helpful in my DevOps journey with Terraform,etc. Maybe you have covered this, but it would be useful to know how you deal with IAC drift or changes. Another issue I have is that I have inherited and Azure environment that is not fully terraformed(ized?) and I would love to know if you have any thoughts on getting everything under the Terraform unbrella. Thanks again and keep it up! :D

[@JulieNgTech]

Covering drift is definitely on my list. Be aware it's mostly you need to decide and take the risk ;-) at least when it's automated. You hybrid management question is more challenging… yes feature parity with ARM isn't always 1:1. Have you tried playing with the `lifecycle {}` meta-argument, esp. `ignore_changes[]`? www.terraform.io/docs/language/meta-arguments/lifecycle.html

[@DaveOtteman]

@@JulieNgTech I will check it out. Thanks!