This episode was recorded live from The Microsoft Build Conference 2016. In this episode we chatted with Olivier Bloch of the Microsoft Azure IoT team about the Internet of Things and the Azure IoT Suite.

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01:47 - Josh Earl Introduction

02:23 - Creating Email Courses

03:57 - Marketing vs Email Courses

15:26 - Length

18:49 - Opt-in Forms

21:48 - Single vs Double Opt-in

26:28 - Keeping People Engaged

29:26 - Offering Discount Codes

33:35 - Content

41:32 - Tips for Telling Better Stories

44:45 - Agitation

47:22 - Competition and What Comes Next?

51:02 - Asking People to Share

54:39 - Selling Services

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01:58 - Ahmed ElSayed Introduction

02:09 - Chris Anderson Introduction

02:19 - Microsoft Azure Functions

02:28 - Building the Azure Functions Portal on Angular 2

09:37 - The Backend

11:18 - Approaching Leadership for Approval to Build in Angular 2/Beta; Deciding Factors

15:18 - App Organization and Architectural Pattern

18:38 - Ease and Hardships of Starting the App

22:33 - Use Cases

24:13 - Browser Issues

25:39 - Debugging

26:52 - Angular CLI

28:59 - Workflow

40:08 - Observables & Streaming

41:36 - Upgrading

42:15 - Would you recommend Angular 2?

44:35 - Testing

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02:33 - Frank McSherry Introduction

03:06 - Computation

03:48 - When are more computers needed?

04:28 - Scalability! But at what COST?

08:03 - Data Format and Pipelines

14:06 - Code That Could Grow

20:38 - Languages and Performance

23:14 - “For Loops Unrolled”

28:01 - Scaling

35:42 - Functional vs Procedural Language

37:47 - Dataflow (Timely; Differential)

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02:24 - Guillermo Rauch Introduction

03:07 - Now: Realtime Node.js Deployments

04:28 - Key Concepts

10:22 - Deployment Process

14:55 - Getting Started Experience

17:22 - Technology vs Design

20:36 - Running Now vs npm-install

27:17 - Simplicity; SSH and Metrics

35:33 - Debugging and Performance

37:34 - Security

41:44 - What’s Next?

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We discuss integrating Meteor as a back end with React Native. We also discuss a few React Native Meteor packages available on npm.

We discuss consulting, freelancing, and taking side projects and our expereiences doing so full time and also while holding down a full time position at a company.

01:05 - Matthew Henderson Introduction

03:04 - Azure App Services

04:27 - Cross-platform Options

05:05 - Getting Started

07:13 - APIs

09:34 - Azure Mobile App Engagement

11:51 - HockeyApp and Xamarin

12:52 - Data

16:49 - Writing Your Own Backend Using Azure

19:22 - Security

29:37 - Use Cases

33:01 - Testing

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01:51 - Gavin Ballard Introduction

02:29 - Going From Solo to Agency

04:23 - Realistic Expectations; End Goal

12:47 - Niches

15:00 - Marketing for Flexibility and Working With Other Team Members

17:12 - Changing Roles

26:38 - Finding People

29:32 - Financial Changes

34:10 - Managing Your Pipeline

38:52 - Choosing a Niche in a Larger Ecosystem

43:00 - What if it’s a mistake?

44:49 - Starting an Agency

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02:13 - Pascal Precht Introduction

04:29 - ng-conf

06:42 - Dependency Injection; @Injectable

12:51 - Component Interaction and Communication

21:35 - ContentChildren and ContentChild

23:34 - ViewChildren and ViewChild

24:31 - Change Detection

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