Nick Westbrook

Cloud Solution Architect @MicrosoftNZ / Tech Geek / Dad / Foodie

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@kpatton @sykesdotcom Yeah I agree the georep setup for App Service could be way simpler. GRS for storage is "auto failover" in that if a data center outage occurs, Microsoft will initiate the fail over. Self-initiated fail over is in preview now and RA-GRS allows access in 2nd region w/o failover.

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@kpatton @sykesdotcom For many services its already possible to deploy in a primary region and have auto fail over with geo redundancy. ASR does this for VMs, storage has this in GRS tier, SQL DB has georep, CosmosDB too, etc. You still need to plan for each service in your solution though.

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@msimpsonnz @DanielLarsenNZ Yup. Flights into Seattle cancelled. Stuck in vancouver at the moment

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

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[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@SleepySecNinja Yeah but it seems the use case is for the face recognition to replace your ATM card. You still need a pin/password/second factor for access.

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

This is pretty cool.

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@SleepySecNinja Yeah definitely not the best picture!

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

Woohoo! My badge has finally arrived!

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

Kiwi kids learning coding in te reo Maori - how awesome is this? #Minecraft https://t.co/OiZYfcxhJt #MSFTAdvocate

[Wagner Silveira @WSilveiraNZ]

Come join us at the last @ACSUG_NZ meetup of this year, on Tue 11/Dec. I will be presenting "A Lap around API Management" https://t.co/DwHILcdNpj Register now!

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@DarrellaaS So true - put in the effort and opportunities begin to present themselves.

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

@thenewnumber2 I'm still rocking my vintage 2014 Teched NZ messenger bag... Love it.

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

I'm super excited to announce that as of Monday, I'll be starting a role at @MicrosoftNZ as a Cloud Solution Architect helping the NZ partner community achieve more with #Azure. Cannot wait! #bluebadge #careergoals #win

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

Pretty sweet license plate for a @Tesla

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

Hosting the last Auckland Microsoft Cloud and Infrastructure user group for the year tonight with @neop26 and @dscottraynsford covering the goodness of #Azure #DevOps

[Leon Welicki @lwelicki]

We have just released an update to the Azure portal that allows you to switch between multiple accounts in the same browser instance. Enjoy!

[Microsoft Tech Community @MSTCommunity]

Would you like to learn about Windows Virtual Desktop? These resources in the Tech Community will help! https://t.co/UWexHy7AHr

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

#HeyFuNo! Data and AI technical track at #FutureNow what's this DataBricks stuff about?

[Nick Westbrook @nickwestbrook]

Learning from @msimpsonnz how to bring intelligence to apps at #FutureNow #Azure #CognitiveServices