Global Azure 2025 - Mumbai & May #mumtechup - DevOps

Join us for Global Azure Bootcamp 2025 - Mumbai edition and May #mumtechup - DevOps Special, two powerhouse events happening back-to-back on May 10th at Microsoft - Kalina, Santacruz East.
Expect deep-dives into AI, security, DevOps, and cloud-native app development, featuring top speakers from Microsoft, BookMyShow, Upstox, and more.
🔥 Key Highlights:
✅ Expert-led sessions on AI, Azure IaC, Kubernetes scaling, and security
✅ A bridge session that connects Azure & DevOps for cloud-ready apps
✅ Live demos, networking, & hands-on learning
✅ A power-packed finale on recovery planning & resilience
Don’t miss this tech-filled day that will supercharge your skills & connect you with fellow innovators!

Agenda:
​​Session #1: 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm [Global Azure]
​Talk: Hallucination by Design: How Embedding Models Misunderstand Language [Live Remote]
​Ever wondered why AI confidently gives the wrong answers? Join me to discover how embedding models—the backbone of modern AI systems—fundamentally misunderstand human language. I'll reveal shocking test results where models think "take medication" and "don't take medication" are nearly identical, confuse 5% with 95%, and can't tell the difference between "before" and "after" in critical instructions. These aren't minor glitches—they're design limitations causing real-world failures in healthcare, finance, and legal systems. Learn the patterns behind these hallucinations and practical techniques to make your AI systems more reliable. If you're building with embeddings, you can't afford to miss this
​Speaker: Ritesh Modi
​Bio: Principal AI Engineer at Microsoft

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​​Session #2: 3.00 pm - 3.45 pm [Global Azure]
​Talk: No More Overprivileged SPs: Automating Azure IaC Permissions with MPF
​In this session, we explore the capabilities of the Minimum Permissions Finder (github.com/Azure/mpf) utility. This open-source tool helps identify the least privilege permissions required for successful ARM, Bicep, or Terraform deployments, enabling secure and compliant infrastructure provisioning.

In this talk, we’ll cover:

* Why Least Privilege Matters: Understand the security and compliance implications of over-privileged service principals and how enforcing minimum permissions mitigates risks.
* MPF Overview: Get a high-level understanding of how the tool works, including the iterative permission discovery mechanism.
* Live Demo
* Integration and Best Practices: Learn how to embed MPF into your existing IaC deployment process

Whether you’re building secure deployment pipelines or tightening cloud governance, this talk will equip you with practical tools and insights to reduce your permission footprint without breaking your deployments.
​Speaker: Maninderjit Bindra
​Bio: Principal Software Engineer @ Microsoft

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​​Session #3: 4.10 pm - 4.55 pm [Bridge session Global Azure + Devops]
​Talk: A Developer’s Guide to Building Cloud-Native AI ready apps with .NET Aspire
​We increasingly build distributed backends powering our applications – involving multiple services, APIs, databases, and real-time communication. Managing this complexity, especially during the local development loop, can significantly impact productivity and time-to-market. Join me as I dive into .NET Aspire, a powerful framework for cloud-ready stack designed to tackle these challenges head-on, through the lens of Visage - an open-source event management platform designed for OSS communities. In this talk, I’ll break down how .NET Aspire streamlines development with features like service discovery, dependency injection, and Blazor Hybrid integration, making it a go-to for core developers tackling scalable projects. Drawing from my FOSSAsia 2025 talk in Bangkok on Identity and Access Management (IAM), I’ll also show how we implemented secure authentication and access control in Visage, ensuring robust security without compromising performance. Expect practical insights, code snippets, and lessons learned from building Visage, equipping you to leverage .NET Aspire in your own web and app development workflows." Also, I will demonstrate how it embraces and works seamlessly with apps written in node.js, Python. Forget abstract concepts; we'll focus on how Aspire delivers tangible benefits for Core Developers: 1. Accelerated Inner Loop: See how Aspire's application host and orchestration simplify running and debugging multi-service backends (like Visage's web, AI, and comms components) locally, letting you iterate faster. 2. Integrated Observability: Explore the Aspire Dashboard – a powerful tool providing unified logs, distributed traces, and metrics across all your backend services, drastically simplifying debugging of distributed behaviors. 3. Simplified Service Interaction: Learn how Aspire streamlines service discovery, handles transient faults with built-in resilience patterns, and standardizes communication between your backend services (e.g., a web frontend reliably calling a backend API service). 4. Effortless Dependency Management: Understand how Aspire helps manage essential backing services like databases, caches, or messaging queues directly within your local development environment. You'll walk away with practical knowledge on how .NET Aspire can help you reduce boilerplate, gain better insights into your running system, and ultimately ship complex, distributed applications more efficiently.
​Speaker: Augustine Correa
​Bio: Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies and AI Platform

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​​Session #3: 5.00 pm - 5.20 pm [DevOps]
​Talk: KEDA Custom Scalers: Bridging the Gap Between Kubernetes and Your Business Metrics
​Kubernetes excels at scaling based on system metrics like CPU and memory, but what about scaling on metrics that truly matter to your business? This session demonstrates how KEDA custom scalers enable you to autoscale Kubernetes workloads based on business-specific triggers.
​Speaker: Jeremy Henriques
​Bio: Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, Upstox

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​​Session #3: 5.20 pm - 5.45 pm [DevOps]
​Finale: The Calm After the Storm: Recovery Planning
​Speaker: Avani Singhal
​Bio: Principal Engineer @ BookMyShow

📅 Date: May 10th
📍 Location: Microsoft - Kalina, Santacruz East
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