Azure Community Enthusiasts User Group Episode 10

SAVE THE DATE! - February 5th 2024, 8:00 pm - 9:45

AGENDA

8:00 pm - Welcome and House Keeping

Speaker 1 - Marc Dulker

Marc is a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid with a strong focus on event-driven architectures. He loves helping developers to achieve more every day.

You might have seen Marc at a developer meetup or conference, since he's a regular speaker and event-organizer in the area of Dapr, Azure cloud, and serverless technologies. From 2019 to 2024 Marc received the Microsoft Azure MVP award for his community contributions.

In his spare time, Marc likes to give attention to the creative part of his brain. He likes to create pixel art (check out VSCode Pets), code visuals & music, and create an occasional retro game.

Session - Start building distributed applications with ease using building block APIs

Are you interested in building distributed applications or microservice architectures, but don't know where to start? Join this session and learn how the Dapr building block APIs can make your life easier!

This code heavy session covers the most popular building blocks of Dapr: service invocation, pub/sub messaging and state stores. In addition, the built-in cross-cutting concerns such as resiliency, observability, and security are covered. Code samples & live demos will be provided in .NET.

After this session, you'll have a good understanding how Dapr can help you build reliable distributed applications faster

Speaker 2 - Will Velida@Azenix

Will is a Lead Software Engineer at Azenix, where he helps customers build reliable and resilient applications using Microsoft Azure, and loves using serverless and container technologies.

Will has extensive experience in software development, building solutions in the financial, health and agricultural industries. Will has also been a Microsoft MVP and part of the Fast Track for Azure team during his time at Microsoft.

Will regularly speaks at conferences, user groups and developer events around the world. When he is away from his keyboard, you'll find him hiking around the countryside

Session: ** Introduction to Radius**

Radius is a cloud-native application platform that allows developers and IT Operators to collaborate on their applications. Engineers can have a greater understanding of how their apps are running on various environments, while ensuring that the infrastructure their applications are running on meets their operational requirements.

In this talk, I'll talk about the basic concepts of Radius, how it works and how we can use the Radius platform to build our applications.

9:15 pm - Approximate Close!