Azure Functions and SignalR with Anthony Chu | Web Wednesday

Whether it’s chat, collaborative whiteboards, or live-updating maps and dashboards, real-time information delivered with technologies like WebSockets can bring web, mobile, and other modern apps to life. Using Azure Functions and Azure SignalR Service, you can serverlessly broadcast real-time messages to thousands of clients by writing just a few lines of code.

This week we’re joined by Anthony Chu who will show us how to get started building serverless real-time applications in Azure using JavaScript and Python.

Presenter:
Christopher Harrison, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Christopher is a longtime web dev who turned a coding hobby into a career. Currently a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, he never lost the joy he felt in writing code and having the computer do what he asked and sharing that passion with others. These days he can be found at a keyboard writing TypeScript and Python. When not at a keyboard he can be found running long distances or relaxing with his wife and their four-legged child (an adorable dog) in Seattle.

Anthony Chu, Senior Program Manager, Microsoft
Anthony Chu is a program manager at Microsoft working on Azure Functions and Azure Static Web Apps.