Southampton Data Platform and Cloud Meeting - 5th June 2019

Welcome to Southampton Data Platform and Cloud Group, this event is hosted at the Axis Conference Centre at 2 Venture Road, Southampton Science Park near Chilworth. When entering the Science Park, turn off the A27 onto University Parkway. Not Manor Road.

Please be aware that in order to attend we need you to register in advance as there is limited space and we need to know how many people to order pizza for, thanks :-)

Agenda

18:15 - Doors Open

18:30 - Introductions

18:45 - José Miguel Mendes - Learn how to build a real-time analytics solution

Real time is fundamental for the life of an organization and to the decision making process, therefore, building a real-time analytical model becomes a business need.

In this session we will learn which processes are required to build a real-time analytical model along with batch-based workloads, which are the foundation of a Lambda architecture.

At the end of the session, you will have learned how to ingest, store, prepare and serve the data with Apache Kafka for HDInsight, Azure Data Lake Store Gen 2, Azure Databricks, SQL Data Warehouse and Power BI

19:45 - Break and Pizza

20:15 - Ben Jarvis - Azure Functions and Cosmos DB – A Match Made In Heaven

This session will talk about how you can combine the serverless power of Azure Functions with the flexibility of Azure Cosmos DB to process large amounts of data and gain real-time insights.

We will taking real-time position reports from aircraft across the world, ingesting them into Azure and using Azure Functions to process the ingested data in real-time to output the data in a format suitable for users to visualise. We will make use of a number of Azure services including Event Hubs, Cosmos DB and Azure Functions and show how we can combine a bit of C# with the power of Azure to do great things; while keeping our Azure resource costs at an acceptable level. We’ll also look at how easy it is to monitor the solution using Application Insights to give us a full picture of how our application is running.

21:15 - Prize Draw & Close

Sponsors

A massive thanks to our Spectrum IT. Without them we would not be able to host this event for free. SpectrumIT kindly provide funding for the room, pizza and a £20 Amazon Voucher.