Global Azure Bootcamp 2018

Welcome to Global Azure Bootcamp 2018 ! All around the world user groups and communities want to learn about Azure and Cloud Computing! On April 21, 2018, all communities will come together once again in the fifth great Global Azure Bootcamp event! Each user group will organize their own one day deep dive class on Azure the way they see fit and how it works for their members. The result is that thousands of people get to learn about Azure and join together online under the social hashtag #GlobalAzure!

Speakers and Schedule

10.00 Registration – Welcome – What is new in Azure - Constantinos Ziazios

11.00 Make a DNS failover with Azure DNS and Azure Automation - Nikos Tzelventzis
Learn how to build a custom failover between two internet ISPs for incoming connections to serve an on-premise services. This is the starting point for high availability services and give a good base to understand how a company can start to think with terms like HA (high availability) without big cost like BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) etc

12.00 Using Azure Functions and Microsoft Cognitive Services for near real time earthquake notifications - George Spyrou
Learn how to combine azure functions and congitive services.

13.00 Food and networking

14.00 Availability-Performance testing to any website all over the world. - John Pourdanis
Learn how to set up web tests to different regions all over the world using Application Insights. Discouver how to set alerts if a website becomes unavailable or responds slowly.

15.00 SQL or NoSQL, is this the question? - George Grammatikos
A short talk for SQL and NoSQL services on Azure.
Learn WHAT it is, WHEN and HOW to use each...

16.00 Learn BaaS (Blockchain-as-a-Service) - Constantinos Ziazios
Understand what is BaaS exactly, how it can help you building decentralized apps faster. We will also talk about different types of servers available in Azure for launching the Blockchain.