In-person event @ Kolkata: Azure Intro & Cloud Architecture Patterns

This free event will take place in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

It will be a set of two talks given by Bill Wilder who is a world famous cloud computing expert and has been recognized as Windows Azure MVP numerous times (bio is below).

This is an in-person event only; it will not be broadcast or streamed.

Meetup Date , Time and Duration : 21st August 2015. The meetup will start at 4:00 PM IST. The event duration is about 3 hrs.

What to expect:
• Cost: free for registered attendees (register through this site)
• Food: food will be provided (details being worked out)

• Registration: required (please reply through this meetup site)

• Featured speaker: Bill Wilder, Chief Technology Officer, Finomial Corporation (bio is below)

• Target audience: software engineers, software architects, and others interested in understanding public cloud platforms and their impact on the design of modern software

Agenda:
4:00 – 4:15 PM: socialize

4:15 – 5:00 PM: intro talk – Overview of Microsoft Azure cloud platform

5:00 – 5:30 PM: snacks, networking break

5:30 – 6:15 PM: advanced topic – Cloud Architecture Patterns & Anti-Patterns

6:15 – 6:30 PM: wrap up, and give away some goodies

About:

About Finomial: Finomial is a financial services firm serving the global hedge fund industry through Software as a Service solution running globally in Microsoft Azure. Finomial has development centers in India (Kolkata) and the United States (Boston).

About Bill: Bill Wilder is CTO at Finomial. Over more than 25 years in the software field, Bill has been a hands-on architect, consultant, trainer, speaker, author, and community leader. Before joining Finomial, Bill was a consultant to startups and giant companies (including Microsoft), as well as a community leader focused on helping companies and individuals succeed with the cloud with the Azure cloud platform. Bill began working with Azure when it was unveiled at the Microsoft PDC in 2008 and subsequently founded Boston Azure, the first/oldest Azure-focused user group in the world in October 2009. Bill is recognized by Microsoft as an Azure MVP and an Azure Insider, and is the author of the book Cloud Architecture Patterns, published by O’Reilly in September 2012. Bill can be found blogging at blog.codingoutloud.com and on Twitter at@codingoutloud.