Global Azure Bootcamp 2017

Theme: Introduction Azure for Web Developers

Level: .NET developer wanting to take his first steps with Azure. (If you have already attended an Azure BootCamp or if you are familiar with Azure, this day is not for you.)

Hands-on

This day will be focused on practice. You must bring your laptop. Throughout the day, you will build a Web application running on Azure and using a multitude of Azure services all in "live coding" following the speakers.

Prerequisite (be ready before you arrive)

• Azure subscription (here for a free trial: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/free/ )

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 ( https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2015-update3-vs )

• Latest Azure SDK ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54289 )

Food & Drink

• Light breakfast bagel, coffee

• Lunch Freshii wraps

• Dinner: Pizza

Agenda

8h30-9h00 Greeting

9h00-9h30 Intro + Portal Azure

Introduction of the day and introduction to the portal

Speaker: Eric Leonard, Frank Boucher

9h30-10h15 Web Apps

Creating and deploying a website with Visual Studio. Overview of settings and options in Visual Studio and in the Azure portal.

Speaker: Chris Hardie

10h15-11h00 Azure Storage

Exploring Azure Storage and saving a message in the Storage Queue. Using the Visual Studio tooling.

Speaker: Marc Dugas

11h00-11h15 Break

11h15-12h00 Azure Functions

Serverless computing is popular these days, and you'll see how to create an Azure function whose trigger will be adding the message to a Storage Queue.

Speaker: Frank Boucher

12h00-12h45 LUNCH

12h45-13h15 Microsoft Cognitive Services

You will see how to evaluate a text using the Sentiment Analysis API in order to extract its feeling (positive or negative).

Speaker: Vincent Lerouvillois

13h15-14h15 DocumentDB

You know relational databases like SQL Server but do you know the NoSQL? You will see how to save the data collected in the DocumentDB database.

Speaker: Joel Hebert

14h15-14h30 Break

14h30-15h15 Monitoring with App Insights

Once deployed, it is important to monitor our application. Application Insights is the perfect service for this task. Let's monitor the performance and usage of our web application.

Speaker: Joel Hebert

15h15-16h00 DevOps

You will see how to script your environment to easily recreate it using an ARM script.

Speaker: Edwin M Sarmiento, John K

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Azure Link: http://global.azurebootcamp.net/