About Me

From Passion to Profession: How My Content Creation Journey and YouTube Studio Evolution Shaped Compelling Publications and Documentation

In this blog post, I share my journey from working as a wedding steadicam operator to building YouTube recording studios at home and in the Microsoft Budapest office during the onset of COVID. I offer insights from my early filmmaking days, navigating professional equipment, to refining a minimalist setup for online events and presentations during the pandemic. I also explore the challenges of mastering public speaking and whiteboarding techniques for effective content creation. Moving forward, I’ll provide more details on my evolving video setup to help others streamline their own studios.

Attila Macskasy 2024.09.11.
AI

The keys to job satisfaction: balancing leadership, growth, space, and the role of AI

I often ask my peers, especially those from my generation, what makes them truly happy at work. What drives people to go beyond just fulfilling their duties? From my research and discussions, three key factors stand out: a growing market, a strong leader and team, and the “space” to operate freely. In today’s landscape, AI also plays a vital role in helping both junior and senior professionals excel. In this article, I’ll explore these factors and reflect on how they’ve shaped my own career, along with the impact of AI on the future of work.

Attila Macskasy 2024.09.11.
Blog

Attending AI Summit 2024 as Crayon Hungary

Yesterday and today, I had the pleasure of attending the AI Summit in Budapest, thanks to Crayon Hungary and my colleague Szabolcs Baranyi. It was a fantastic use of time, filled with insightful presentations and great networking opportunities. In this article, I highlight my top presentations, explain why they stood out to me, and share the key takeaways that I will remember.

Attila Macskasy 2024.09.10.
Blog

My first steps with Huawei Cloud Infrastructure

I’m eager to expand my multi-cloud expertise by exploring Huawei Cloud. A few years ago, I tested Alibaba Cloud but noticed their limited presence in my region. That’s not the case with Huawei, as they have established offices across several EU locations and are actively offering cloud services.

Attila Macskasy 2024.09.06.
AWS

Bulk-import based Azure and AWS price comparison

In recent months, I’ve worked with customers to quickly generate Azure and AWS pricing estimates, a critical step for securing vendor funding in lift-and-shift migration projects. However, moving assessment data between migration and pricing tools can be challenging.

Attila Macskasy 2024.07.01.
Multi-Cloud

Using ChatGPT to assist multi-cloud scenarios

I have generated Terraform codes for the same Ubuntu VM with OpenAI’s Chat GPT-4 and compared the VM prices per region in a fancy table. HCL code results are quite accurate, however, I would not trust price comparison due to outdated information. You can get adjustable results in minutes saving lots of human research time.

Attila Macskasy 2023.04.29.
Multi-Cloud

Comparison of VMware relocation options in public cloud

I keep researching this topic from several perspectives: regional availability, provided architecture, most popular use cases, VMware software versions, provided hardware configuration, and finally the price of a 3-node vSphere cluster in the Cloud.

Attila Macskasy 2023.04.29.
Migration Tools

AWS MiGratioN, GCP Migrate4Cloud, and Azure Migrate pros and cons

It’s been more than 5 years since I am testing and comparing 1st party migration tools. I have seen these tools getting better over the years, with major improvements by acquisitions, end-of-life products, continuous changes, and improvements not just the tools but the methodology around, well-architected, CaF, the concept of the landing zone, 5Rs become 7Rs. In this article, I am sharing my experiences with the most commonly used cloud migration tools.

Attila Macskasy 2022.11.04.
Multi-Cloud

Oracle Database service for Azure – connecting Azure VM and Power App

I have connected a Database Admin Azure VM running Oracle’s SQL Developer (Windows version) and a Microsoft Power Platform application displaying Oracle’s HR demo schema (via on-premises data gateway on Azure VM connecting with Power Platform’s Oracle Premium Connector) to the same Oracle Database hosted on OCI.

Attila Macskasy 2022.11.02.
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