Azure Container Apps - App hosting made easy

Speaker: Mark Allan
Talk: Azure Container Apps - App hosting made easy

K8s without the h8s!

Kubernetes is powerful and flexible, but it's not famously easy to look after. Serverless functions have a low barrier of entry, but you do have to work within the constraints of your chosen platform.

So what if there was a fully managed application-centric platform that's easy to configure yet can host any code regardless of runtime or programming model and comes with baked-in features for running modern serverless and distributed services? And doesn't even lock you in?

Join us to learn about Azure Container Apps, bringing Kubernetes and serverless computing to the masses. Then watch as we discover how easy it is to deploy a modern serverless event-based application with a distributed state store. Written in Fortran.

Speaker Bio: Mark is a freelancer and Microsoft MVP who's learnt his trade from 35 years of mistakes. He's been a professional developer since the 1980s and freelance since 2000, working on a myriad of projects for everything from local startups and councils to multinational corporations and federal government departments. More recently he's also moved into cloud solution architecture.

In the day job he helps businesses to build better software by making the most of the cloud. He's also a big advocate of a DevOps mindset.

In his spare time he's a STEM Ambassador, Barefoot volunteer and organiser of the Northern Ireland Developer Conference. He finds happiness in walking around new places and eating strange things.