November Azure meetup

We will be joined by Analben Mehta, a Senior software engineer at Royal London, with a deep dive into developing serverless REST API on Azure functions with a real-time example, explore tooling options, testing and deploying alongside a discussion on different ways of securing the APIs.

We'll then welcome Christos Asaridis, DevOps manager at Craneware who will talk about how Craneware manage their release pipeline and how they use MS stack to deliver and overcome common release issues.

We'll conclude the evening with an Open Q&A session with Andrew Westgarth, a Senior Program Manager on Microsoft Azure App Service dealing with public cloud offerings. Principally bringing Windows Container support to the product, Azure App Service and Azure Functions on Azure Stack, Microsoft Azure Functions Runtime preview, and the on-premises Microsoft Windows Azure Pack Websites product.

Agenda
• 18:00 - Registration
• 18:15 - Analben Mehta - Serverless API using Azure functions
• 19:00 - Break – Pizza & Beer
• 19:15 - Christos Asaridis - Release pipeline in Craneware
• 20:00 - Andrew Westgarth - Open Q&A session on App Service, Functions and Azure Stack
• 20:40 - Networking
• 21:00 - Close