Reading .Net Meetup - Azure in Action - 27th March

Our second meetup will be held and hosted by Altitude Angel in their offices in Central Reading on Wednesday, 27th March.

Agenda -

6:15pm -7:00pm - registration, networking and refreshments
7:00pm -7:45pm - lightning talks from Barney Cole & Alexander Dunn (Altitude Angel team)
7:45pm -8:00pm- Break/ networking
8:00pm- 9:00pm- Joel Hammond-Turner -Azure in Action

Talk 1# Altitude Angel team -

Barney Cole is one of Altitude Angel’s Software Developers, who will be discussing common misconceptions about asynchronous code in .NET, and how it differs from its alternatives

Our second lightening talk will be presented by Alexander Dunn (Altitude Angel's Head of Quality) who will do a quick dive on 'Using AssertionScope / Multiple assertions to dish all the dirt in one hit.

Talk 2 # - Joel Hammond-Turner will be speaking on Azure In Action - CosmosDB, Functions and ServiceBus in Perfect Harmony.

Details of the talk –

There's so many parts to Azure, it's sometimes hard to decide what to use and when. Do I use TableStore or CosmosDB? Would BlobStore be better? Should I host a full-fat .Net service in a VM, or stand up an ASP.Net Core WebApi? What about functions? The choices are myriad.

In this talk I describe how at Landmark we made these kind of decisions as we implemented some new features in our product. I talk about the questions you need to ask to make those decisions, where we went wrong, and how we succeeded in the end.

I describe in detail how we used CosmosDB, Azure Functions and Service Bus together to provide a Compliance Audit trail feature that would scale properly, work reliably, be trivial to use, and that wouldn't break the bank.

About Joel Hammond Turner –

Joel is a Technical Lead from Landmark Information Group and It's part of his job to help train and mentor development teams – and a big part of that is presenting technical sessions to his colleagues. In the last few years, Joel has been involved in number of community developer events and groups nationwide, as a guest speaker including DDD South West and DDD Reading.

Joel has over 15 years of broad experience of software development and a passion for both technology and elegance in his solutions that make him an extremely capable Team Lead/ Software Architect.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

Deepak