Azure Functions & CosmosDB

What's life like for a "full-stack" developer on the Microsoft stack these days? In this slide-light, code-and-questions-heavy session, Mark Allan will build an app from end to end to find out.

We'll set up a CosmosDB database to store our data, then use Azure Functions to process it and expose an API. Next we'll use modern reactive techniques with Reactive Extensions to connect everything up to our UI. For the demo we'll use Xamarin, but the same principles apply to any UI, whether web, mobile or desktop. Finally, just for fun, we'll instrument and deploy it using Visual Studio App Center.

Hopefully there’ll be something for everyone!

Speaker Bio
Mark is an Azure MVP and Xamarin Certified Developer based on the beautiful North Coast of Ireland. He's been a professional developer since the 1980s and freelance since 2000, working on a myriad of projects for everything from local startups and councils to multinational corporations and federal government departments. While something of a technology omnivore, particularly if it's new and shiny, he currently tends towards Xamarin and ReactJS front-ends sitting on top of scalable Azure services, using a functional and reactive approach. You can find him on Twitter, LinkedIn and most other places as MarkXA.

Agenda - Thursday 6th September 2018

1800 - 1825: Arrival and registration
1825 - 1830: Introduction
1830 - 1930: Azure Functions/CosmosDB
1930 - 2000: Q&A and Prize Draw