Azure Real-World: A Journey to Containers

The year is 2020! A small engineering team at SaaS company Tethr find themselves running in Azure Cloud Services and Service Fabric.

This was BAD for these reasons:

1. Cloud Services: deprecated technology, slow deployments, inefficient Windows VMs
2. Service Fabric: an inferior, Windows-based version of Kubernetes - harder to develop against, manage, deploy, scale, had a tiny ecosystem, meanwhile had all the costs and burden maintaining a Kubernetes cluster.

The team needed to move to Containers in Azure - and it was an eventful journey but they have since MADE IT!!

Come to this session for an overview and deep dive on this real-world journey from old tech to new, presented by one of the software engineers that lived this experience: Principal Cloud Architect Peter Seale at Tethr, who is based in Houston. Peter will be in-person!

Agenda

• 5:30pm Food served, pre-Meetup chit-chat for those in-person
• 6:00pm Meetup Starts: Welcome, Introductions, Announcements
• 6:15pm Our Journey To Containers
• 7:30pm Q&A
• 8:00pm Conclude

Food and soft drinks will be served at ~5:30pm on the 10th floor - we will kick off the discussion there ~6pm after everyone has had a chance to eat, meet anyone else you'd like to and have a chat :-). Feel free to start arriving from 5pm on if you are nearby. PLEASE RSVP so we have an accurate food count.

PARKING: For free parking please park across the street on the third and fourth floors of the parking garage at 12711 Queensbury; parking in the Microsoft building is not free

In-person: 750 Town and Country Blvd #1000 · Houston, TX
Virtual Live-Stream: Click here to join the meeting
Recording: https://www.youtube.com/@HoustonAzureUserGroup