To The Cloud! How We Moved our SaaS to Azure (and it made us better!)

*** PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION. ALL FUTURE MEETINGS WILL BE HELD AT ISSUETRAK ***

Sponsor

Marathon Consulting

Schedule

6:00pm - Welcome Time + great food provided by our awesome sponsor

6:30pm - Announcements + Sponsor Time

6:45pm - Lightning Talk - Xeon Phi by Kurt Strosahl

7:00pm - Main Presentation

8:00pm - Wrap up and Raffle

8:30pm - Post meeting networking and PIE at Village Inn

Main Presentation: Kendall Miller

Two years ago we had to make a decision whether to double down with new hardware in our Colo or go another way to grow our SaaS. We moved into Azure and haven't looked back.

In this talk we'll walk through the challenges we've faced moving from our own hardware to Azure including:

· Taking advantage of auto-scaling to reduce costs.

· Growing 100x without controlling the hardware.

· When it all goes wrong and Azure falls over.

· How Azure has improved the performance of our on-premises installs too

Far from a theoretical conversation about how you could use the cloud, we'll share real data from our production implementation, both the good and the bad. Finally, we'll talk about where we're going with what we've learned.

Kendall Miller

Kendall Miller is one of the founding partners of Gibraltar Software, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) that develops & markets commercial applications for .NET developers. Introduced commercially in 2009, Loupe is an application logging & monitoring platform that is currently used by customers around the world from individual consultants through Fortune 100 companies and governments.

Before starting Gibraltar Software, Kendall worked for multiple startups leading their technology development from beginning through profitability. In each case he's focused on translating enterprise-level performance and capabilities down to smaller companies. Kendall has a B.S in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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