Global Azure day 2024

Global Azure Day 2024 - Israel Edition
Join us for Global Azure Day 2024, specifically curated for our Israel Azure community
As a key part of the international Global Azure initiative, our local community event in Israel is set to bring together Azure enthusiasts to share knowledge, innovation, and the latest trends within the Azure ecosystem.

📅 April 16th, 2024
📍 Microsoft Reactor Tel Aviv, Menachem Begin 144

Event Agenda

• 17:30 - 18:00

Gathering and Socializing
Connect with fellow Azure enthusiasts over refreshments and insightful discussions.

• 18:00 - 18:15

Opening Remarks
An introduction to our event's goals and what attendees can expect throughout the evening.

• 18:15 - 19:15

Lecture 1: Mastering Microservices: Unleashing the Power of Dapr in Distributed Systems
Speaker: Tal Cohen, Project Technical Manager, Zionet
Explore Dapr's crucial role in simplifying microservices development, focusing on scalability and resilience within Azure.

• 19:15 - 20:15

Lecture 2: Orchestrating Resilience: A Saga of Distributed Systems on Azure**
Speaker: Alon Fliess, CTO at Zionet, Microsoft Azure MVP and Regional Director
Delve into distributed state management and consistency, highlighting the Saga pattern, Dapr Actor model, and Sagaway framework.

• 20:15 - 20:30

Closing Remarks
Summarizing the event's highlights and extending thanks to participants, speakers, and our sponsor.

• 20:30

Event Concludes

Detailed Session Abstracts

Mastering Microservices: Unleashing the Power of Dapr in Distributed Systems
Tal Cohen
The move towards Microservices Architecture (MSA) has highlighted the complexities of developing distributed systems, particularly communication, state management, and resilience. The Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) offers a crucial solution by simplifying microservices development, allowing developers to focus on building scalable, resilient applications without getting bogged down by the underlying complexities. This lecture aims to equip Azure developers with a solid understanding of Dapr, highlighting its design philosophy, key features, and how it enhances the scalability and resilience of microservices.
Dapr's approach prioritizes developer productivity and application robustness. It provides essential services such as state management, service-to-service invocation, event-driven architectures, and bindings to external systems. These capabilities reduce the need for boilerplate code and help developers concentrate on the application's business logic.
This lecture will explore practical Azure use cases to demonstrate how Dapr addresses the challenges of MSA. It will guide attendees through using Dapr to build advanced microservices on Azure. Designed for Azure developers, this session provides insights into effectively navigating MSA complexities and utilizing Dapr for enhanced application performance and resilience.

Orchestrating Resilience: A Saga of Distributed Systems on Azure
Alon Fliess
One of the main difficulties when crafting a microservice distributed system is managing the distributed state and ensuring consistency across services. Our Azure Global Day event session will help you overcome these difficulties, showing you the importance of the Saga pattern for achieving reliable and consistent operation in distributed systems. We'll start by clearly explaining the challenges of managing distributed states and the essential need for effective rollback and compensation mechanisms. You'll see how the Saga pattern can help you coordinate transactions across distributed services and guarantee system-wide consistency without wasting resources. We'll go further by showing you the Dapr Actor model, a key tool for developers who want to build scalable, resilient, distributed applications. We'll show you how Dapr Actors provides a solid framework for state management and message processing, forming a vital component for hosting the Saga pattern implementation. As we deal with the challenges of Saga orchestration, we present Dapr Workflow as a foundation for the manual implementation of Sagas. We will quickly move to the Sagaway framework, which makes Saga implementation easier and more approachable for developers. You'll learn how Sagaway and Dapr's features simplify the creation and execution of Sagas, offering a more user-friendly way to manage distributed transactions. Join this session at the Azure Global Day event, where you'll discover how to apply the Dapr Actor model and the Sagaway framework to excel at creating consistent, resilient, distributed applications. If you're a developer or architect, this session will equip you with the understanding and tools to deal with modern distributed application development challenges.