Featured Advanced Serverless Workshop
An immersive full-day hands-on workshop exploring advanced serverless architectures across leading cloud platforms: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.
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Featured One Day, Four Architectures: Hands-On with Monolith, N-Tier, Modular Monolith, and Microservices
An immersive hands-on workshop where you'll build the same application four different ways—monolith, n-tier, modular monolith, and microservices—to understand the trade-offs, patterns, and practical implications of each architectural style.
Architect Like a Boss: Mastering Serverless Design Patterns
Ready to advance your serverless architecture skills? Join this session, where you will master serverless design patterns and learn to architect like a boss!
Automation Using Azure Event Grid
Learn how to quickly build an automated image thumbnail generator with little code using the Azure Functions Event Grid trigger.
Building a .NET Application Using Azure Cosmos DB
Learn what Azure Cosmos DB is, how to access data using .NET, and pitfalls to avoid when building applications that need guaranteed single-digit millisecond response times.
Building Event-Driven Microservices
Explore how Azure Functions can be used to build resilient microservice-based solutions with serverless technology and minimal operational management.
Azure: Unleashing the Power of Cloud Computing
Unlock the power of Microsoft Azure by exploring its virtues and diverse services to drive digital transformation, scalability, and innovation.
Building Great Libraries
Learn best practices for building class libraries that developers will enjoy using, covering coding standards, documentation, versioning, and publishing.
Building Microservice REST APIs Using Azure Functions
Explore how Azure Functions can be used to build microservice-based REST API solutions with serverless technology and minimal operational overhead.
Building Resilient and Scalable APIs in Azure
Explore how Azure API Management, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Apps work together to create reliable, high-performing API architectures that withstand failures and scale dynamically.
Building Serverless Solutions with Azure and .NET
A comprehensive full-day workshop on serverless computing with Azure and .NET—design, build, and deploy real-world serverless solutions using Azure Functions, Event Grid, Service Bus, and Cosmos DB.
Ch-ch-ch-changes: Tracing Changes in Azure Cosmos DB
Learn how the Azure Cosmos DB change feed listens to a container for any changes and outputs sorted lists of changed documents to build more robust applications.
Code, Connect, Conquer: Mastering Serverless and API-Centric Designs
A story‑driven exploration of serverless computing and API‑centric design that reveals how modern cloud architectures achieve agility, scalability, and efficiency.
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!!! Documenting Architecture with ADRs!!!
A lightning talk on Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) that shows how to make your architectural decision-making process transparent and traceable in just 10 minutes.
Embracing Azure Container Apps for Effortless, Sustainable Containerization
Discover how Azure Container Apps deliver enterprise-grade containerization with effortless operations, built-in sustainability, and real-world strategies that eliminate Kubernetes complexity and unlock long-term operational success.
Essential Software Design Patterns for Optimal Development
Unlock the power of design patterns for maintainable, scalable, and robust software. Covers vital patterns with real-world examples, focusing on code maintainability, extensibility, and team collaboration.
Event-Driven Architecture in the Cloud
Learn how to create a loosely coupled event-driven architecture for your business using Azure services, transforming complex systems into responsive, scalable solutions.
File New: Build a Fully-Managed and Documented API
Starting from scratch, create an Azure API Management instance, configure endpoints, set up rate-limiting, transform data, provide a developer portal, and add security and performance.
File New: Build a Event-Driven Architected Microservice from Scratch
Starting with an empty Visual Studio solution, build an event-driven microservice architecture to solve a real-world problem from the ground up.
Beyond Hello World: Getting Deeper into Azure Functions
Explores Azure Functions triggers and bindings beyond the HTTP trigger with real-world examples of how they solve customer needs.
Generative AI for .NET Developers
Learn to create intelligent .NET applications with Azure OpenAI and ChatGPT. Discover generative AI concepts, best practices, and see a live demo of AI building AI apps.
Graphing Your Way Through the Cosmos
Discover how graph databases and Azure Cosmos DB's Gremlin API can model naturally connected data more effectively than traditional relational approaches.
Going Schema-less: How to migrate a relational database to a NoSQL database
Dive into migrating from a relational database to a NoSQL counterpart using Azure Cosmos DB—explore the benefits, challenges, and strategies for a successful schema-less transition.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Cosmos
Learn what you can do with Azure Cosmos DB, the benefits of each data model, and how to use its globally distributed, multi-model capabilities to make your applications rock solid.
In Defense of Microservices
Once hailed as the solution for modern applications, microservices are now criticized for complexity and operational bottlenecks. Here we will address critiques with practical solutions and showcase actual implementations. Discover why microservices still matter and how to adopt them effectively.
Intro to Azure Communication Services
Learn what Azure Communication Services has to offer and see use cases such as sending and receiving SMS messages and two-way video conversations.
Messaging Patterns to Transform Your Cloud Architecture
An immersive session revealing how modern messaging patterns can transform your cloud architecture into a scalable, resilient, and elegantly orchestrated system.
Navigating the Maze of Communicating Architecture Decisions
A guided tour of how ADRs bring structure, clarity, and long‑term value to architectural decision‑making by capturing context, rationale, and consequences with precision.
New Horizons for C# Developers
Comprehensive exploration of the latest C# 12, .NET 8, ASP.NET Core, and Entity Framework Core advancements for modern application development.
Other Duties as Assigned
How embracing 'other duties as assigned' can improve your professional skills and advance your career.
Secrets of Conflict Resolution
Practical strategies and secrets for effectively resolving team conflicts and preventing them from recurring.
Design and Develop a Serverless Event-Driven Microservice-Based Solution
A hands-on full-day workshop where you design, develop, and deploy a serverless event-driven microservice-based solution using .NET, Azure Functions, Azure Service Bus, and Azure Event Hubs.
Serverless in Action
Hands-on exploration of Azure Functions for building business-critical serverless solutions without managing infrastructure.
Serverless Microservices: Microservices without Containers
How to implement microservice architectures using serverless technologies like Azure Functions instead of containers.
Supercharge Your Architectures with Messaging Patterns
Hands-on workshop exploring messaging patterns like Publish-Subscribe, Message Queues, and Request-Reply using Azure Service Bus.
Software Craftsmanship for New Developers
Introduction to software craftsmanship concepts including SOLID principles, code smells, DRY, and TDD for new and experienced developers.
The Taming of the API
How API gateways, particularly Azure API Management, can make your APIs more usable and manageable for customers.
Technical Debt Is Not Free
Explores practical strategies for documenting, tracking, and addressing technical debt so software teams can keep projects on track and on schedule.
Terraform: The Developer's Swiss Army Knife for Infrastructure
Explores how developers can use Terraform as a versatile Infrastructure as Code tool for building, updating, and collaborating on scalable application infrastructure.
The Dark Side of Design Patterns: What They Don't Tell You
Dive into the paradox of software design patterns! Uncover hidden complexities and pitfalls. Learn which patterns create more burden than benefit and how to mitigate their negative impacts.
The Few, The Proud, The Leaders: Marine Corps Principles for Software Teams
Explores Marine Corps leadership principles and 14 time-tested leadership traits that can transform how software teams collaborate, innovate, and execute.
Transform Chaos into Order with Azure Durable Functions
Explores Azure Durable Functions for building stateful, long-running serverless workflows in .NET with step-by-step demos and best practices for enterprise scenarios.
Time Travelling Data: A Quick Overview of SQL Server Temporal Tables
A quick, practical overview of how temporal tables bring first‑class, system‑versioned history to SQL Server and simplify your data architecture.
Unleashing Extreme Scalability with Azure Functions
Explores building event-driven applications at extreme scale using Azure Functions, with best practices for design and an exclusive preview of upcoming scalability features.
What If Your AI Could Be a Team?
Learn how to orchestrate teams of AI agents using GitHub Squad. See a live demo where autonomous agents collaborate to build a working application from zero.
What's New for C# Developers
Overview of new features in C# 10 and .NET 6, including Entity Framework Core and ASP.NET Core enhancements.
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