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Congratulations to Michelle Samson for winning the book raffle at the February GDG Cloud Southlake Social Event! Windows Server 2025 Administration Fundamentals: A beginner's guide to managing and administering Windows Server Environments, Fourth Edition written by Bekim Dauti, Microsoft Certified Trainer >> https://lnkd.in/gnDcSQXD Thanks, Marylou De Mello, Packt for sponsoring the book raffle of five books. Michelle Samson, have you read it yet? How do you like it? I would like to hear about it. James Anderson, did anybody take a photo of all the winners? Please come to GDG Cloud Southlake March Social Event for another book raffle ?? ?? Thursday, March 13, 2025 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (CDT) ?? Flying Saucer Draught Emporium >>https://lnkd.in/gJu3hmR6 3111 Olympus Boulevard Coppell, 75019 About this event Let's get together and connect!?The GDG Cloud Southlake?DFW Social Club will be held at Flying Saucer Cypress Waters Coppell. We have space inside. Just come inside to get a name tag and something to eat and drink. If you don't drink, there will be plenty of Non-Alcoholic options. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian appetizers will be served. Thank you, Justine Fontaine, Silk for sponsoring drinks and food. Thank you!? ? ? ? ? Thank you, Preet Ahuja, Packt for sponsoring the book raffle >> https://lnkd.in/g8bst8Us I build communities for people to thrive in their lives and careers. Sign up >> https://lnkd.in/gnnjWfKQ __________________________________________________ Follow me! I am flying on the New Way to Cloud! Crawl. Walk. Run. A Journey. >> https://lnkd.in/gSSsFwKC ?? #3 Google Cloud Next '23 session >> https://lnkd.in/gJ5sxuYu Google for Developers?>>?https://lnkd.in/gP_8cEqY Why follow?Yujun Liang ??????>>?https://lnkd.in/eSzAgUu? ???????????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ???????????????????????????? ?????? ??????????-??????????? #PublicSpeaking #Toastmasters #ToastmastersInternational #CloudComputing?#CloudCertification?#GoogleCloud? #CloudJourney?#CloudArchitecture?#CloudArchitect #GoogleCloud #Kubernetes #Kubestronaut #CloudExpedition #TechJourney #Kubernetes #Kubestronaut #CloudNative #LearningJourney #GDGCloud #LinuxFoundation #Gratitude #WinWin #Leadership #PersonalGrowth #The7Habits #NewBeginnings

GDG Cloud Southlake #40: Brandon Stokes: How to Build a Great Product >> https://lnkd.in/g8XA-mmz Please check back for the recording.

Are you joining The Best Meetup In DFW by James Anderson and Team GDG Cloud Southlake? ??https://lnkd.in/gv88hYsg ?? Thursday, February 20, 2025 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM (CST) ?? Flying Saucer Draught Emporium 3111 Olympus Boulevard Coppell, TX 75019 ??https://lnkd.in/gp5aaexr In addition to free food and drinks—including non-alcoholic options—the?GDG Cloud Southlake?February Meetup will feature a raffle for five books! District 50 Toastmasters International Speech Contest Champion, Yujun Liang, will give a Toastmasters Tall Tales speech. Thank you, Marylou De Mello, Nimisha Dua, Anamika Singh, Vinishka Kalra, Sanjana Gupta, Maran Fernandes, Nivedita Singh, Rahul Nair, and Packt. Thuy Nguyen, Alyson Vo, Alyssa Hamulak, Nitin Raut, Santosh Kumar Chennuri, Kenny Kon, Mike Shirk, Diwakar Pandrangi, James Anderson, Mallikarjun Dontula, Ramji Bala, Eric Smalling, Jason Gass, Weidong Zhou, Wing Fu please share with your networks! __________________________________________________ Follow me! I am flying on the New Way to Cloud! Crawl. Walk. Run. A Journey. >> https://lnkd.in/gSSsFwKC ?? #3 Google Cloud Next '23 session >> https://lnkd.in/gJ5sxuYu Google for Developers?>>?https://lnkd.in/gP_8cEqY Why follow?Yujun Liang ??????>>?https://lnkd.in/eSzAgUu? ???????????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ???????????????????????????? ?????? ??????????-??????????? #PublicSpeaking #Toastmasters #ToastmastersInternational #CloudComputing?#CloudCertification?#GoogleCloud? #CloudJourney?#CloudArchitecture?#CloudArchitect

Brandon Stokes ??? How to Build a Great Product Learn from his tech startup experience. GDG Cloud Southlake ONLINE Feb 26th 430p Central RSVP and JOIN ?? https://lnkd.in/gHrxkMFD __________________________________________________ Follow me! I am flying on the New Way to Cloud! Crawl. Walk. Run. A Journey. >> https://lnkd.in/gSSsFwKC ?? #3 Google Cloud Next '23 session >> https://lnkd.in/gJ5sxuYu Google for Developers?>>?https://lnkd.in/gP_8cEqY Why follow?Yujun Liang ??????>>?https://lnkd.in/eSzAgUu? ???????????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ???????????????????????????? ?????? ??????????-??????????? #PublicSpeaking #Toastmasters #ToastmastersInternational #CloudComputing?#CloudCertification?#GoogleCloud? #CloudJourney?#CloudArchitecture?#CloudArchitect Celebrating my new certification! Celebrating my new certification!

GDG Cloud Southlake #39 Jacek Ostrowski: Platform Engineering Useful Models >> https://lnkd.in/gViUDTeq Thank you for attending! If you missed it, please check back for the recording. You are invited to [IN-PERSON] GDG DFW Social Club #13:Flying Saucer Cypress Waters/Coppell/Dallas >> https://lnkd.in/gidg3k8g

From transformative AI to ethical innovation, this year’s #DevFest Nairobi brought together industry leaders to chart the future of technology ???? Highlights included: ?? Buchi Michelle Okonicha (Web GDE) on cutting-edge web technologies and the future of interactive web apps. ?? Femi Taiwo (Cloud GDE) showcasing AI-powered healthcare solutions with a live workshop on Google Cloud Run. ?? wes kambale (Machine Learning Engineer and Data Scientist) exploring responsible AI with generative models, emphasizing fairness and transparency. ?? Wayne Jotham Gakuo (Angular GDE) unraveling Angular's latest syntax updates for faster, scalable web development. ?? Seba Gnagnarella (Director of Engineering, Google Firebase) demonstrated building agentic apps using AI and Firebase, unlocking new potential in travel tech. The event also featured Rebecca Mirembe, Marvin Hosea, and Oscar Wahltinez, offering hands-on workshops on modular design, Terraform, and Google Gemini, inspiring the next wave of innovation. Together, we’re driving responsible, inclusive, and scalable tech. Join DevFest ??→ https://goo.gle/4dHLqH8

Yes! I did it! ?? I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve passed the Google Cloud Certified Professional Workspace Administrator exam—on the very last day before its retirement! ?? I caught it at the last minute before it was gone!? What does it mean? It means I’ll be the last man standing! ???? And with this, I’ve officially collected all 13 active Google Cloud Certifications! ???? It was released in 2019 as a Professional Collaboration Engineer, but I failed the beta exam. I passed it in 2021, the day before I joined? Accenture. Two months later,?Google?released another beta, and I passed it! Last year, I failed twice and it expired. This year, I passed the new Assicate level beta exam and decided to take this one on the last day of 2024. Now, I am glad I failed twice last year so I got this unique opportunity to pass it at the last minute. ?? Thank you, Shanshan Gong! ___________________________________ 2024—I bid you farewell with reflection: I came without expectation, lived with dedication, grew with exhilaration, spoke with appreciation, and left without hesitation. 2025—I embrace you with ambition! ??? I don’t need another New Year’s Resolution, But I do need more motivation. Thank you for being an awesome connection! ?? With more collaboration, We’ll create greater celebration! ?? ___________________________________________________ Follow me! I am flying on the New Way to Cloud! Crawl. Walk. Run. A Journey. >> https://lnkd.in/gSSsFwKC ?? #3 Google Cloud Next '23 session >> https://lnkd.in/gJ5sxuYu Google Cloud?Champion Innovator >>?https://g.dev/yujunliang Google for Developers?>>?https://lnkd.in/gP_8cEqY Why follow?Yujun Liang ??????>>?https://lnkd.in/eSzAgUu? ???????????? ?????????????? ???? ?????????? ???????????????????????????? ?????? ??????????-??????????? #PublicSpeaking #Toastmasters #ToastmastersInternational #CloudComputing?#CloudCertification?#GoogleCloud? #CloudJourney?#CloudArchitecture?#CloudArchitect

Celebrating GDG Cloud Southlake reaching 1800 members! Join us for monthly in-person and online meetups >> https://lnkd.in/gFtzKJ7g James Anderson, Kenny Kon, Ramji Bala, Diwakar Pandrangi, Yujun Liang, Mike Shirk, Mallikarjun Dontula, Alyssa Hamulak, Nitin Raut

I look forward meeting everyone and sharing wonderful insights I’ve leaned over my career and how product building is rapidly changing. See you in February!