Community Edition Talks: Serverless and Actor Model

This time we are back with 2 great talks from 2 of our community members.

FIRST TALK: 19:00 - 19:45 From Azure CloudServices to Azure Functions

Microservices architecture based on Event Driven Design and how to mix Microsoft Azure serverless features as CloudServices or azure functions based on different kind of triggers like queues, blobs or tables storage

Speaker:
Frédéric Cerdan [https://www.linkedin.com/in/fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric-cerdan-91848553/ ] is currently Availpro's R&D Director, dedicated to leading our exciting innovation programmes. His work includes working actively with customers, designers and high-level engineers.He brings more than 15 years’ experience in research and development across the hospitality, consulting and software publishing sectors.

SECOND TALK: 19:50 - 20:35 How to build scalable apps with Orleans

Orleans is a framework for building distributed apps created by Microsoft Research. Based on the virtual actor model paper [http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=210931 ]. It makes easier the building of distributed and scalable apps which can be deployed easily on the cloud or on premises. We will provide an introduction to the Virtual Actor Model and cover some of the features of Orleans. We will also show the changes of the 2.0 version which is about to be released and has integrated some of netcore 2.0 features.

Speaker:
Jokin Cuadrado [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jokin-cuadrado/ ]
Freelance software developer, He has a large experience building search systems for the online classified listing sites, having worked for the main real state and generalist listing sites in spain.

20:45 - 21:30 NETWORKING WITH FOOD AND DRINKS