Philly Azure March Meeting

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First Topic: "SQL Azure" - Eric Furry
Have you ever wanted to take an Azure SQL Database that is mostly used from 9-5 PM and automatically scale it up to meet business day demands and scale it down to save money overnight? In this talk we’ll use Postman and also write some code that uses the Azure APIs to do just that, in a technique known as dynamic vertical scaling. We’ll then work with the Azure Elastic Database libraries to “scale-out” and build a more sophisticated sharded database structure that would be suitable to run a large-scale SaaS application.

Don’t worry if you’ve never used Azure SQL Database before—we will introduce Azure SQL Database and work through the key similarities and differences from a typical Microsoft SQL Server installation. For those with experience with SQL Server, it will look and feel very familiar except with some dramatic new capabilities.

Second Topic: "Overview of Serverless and How to Implement Azure Functions" - Rufus Harvey
We will introduce serverless computing and why you would want to employ serverless in your cloud application architecture specifically using Azure Functions. We will take a high-level view of various Azure Function implementation scenarios and understand the considerations required to select an approach. When we wrap up you should have an understanding of the breadth of what Azure Functions can offer and where you want to take a deeper dive in order to integrate Azure Functions with your architecture strategy.