Speaker: Ashutosh Chickeruir The apps are shifting towards the cloud to give customers value, scenarios and experiences. You don’t have access to the hardware. You don’t have control if it keeps running, you have to prepare for the cases when it fails. As the need grows the scale becomes unpredictable. How to leverage all of … Continue reading Building Microservices and container solutions using Azure Service Fabric and Azure Container Service →

Speaker: Andrew Westgarth blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/appserviceteam Functions is a service event based experience to accelerate you development. Before cloud it was all up to you, your hardware, your VMs, etc. You have to pre-plan, procurement would take years. When you maxed out the capacity, what do you do? What happens when the server goes down? How often … Continue reading Building Serverless applications with Azure Functions →

Speaker: Andrew Salamatov Office Platform The Office add-ins platform is part of the Office developer ecosystem. It’s important to understand the full power of this ecosystem. The ecosystem consists of 3 pillars Add-ins and web parts: enabling devs to extend the Office UI, e.g. buttons Web and device apps: application that you can build on … Continue reading Make your apps a native part of Office with Office Add-ins →

Speaker: Richard Lander There are solutions for cloud, desktop and mobile. There are tools to developer for these platforms. There are commonalities packed into a library. .NET Core It is cross platform (Windows, Linux and macOS), fast (8x faster than Node), lightweight and open-source (50% of .NET community contributions). TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks - techempower.com/benchmarks Asp.NET … Continue reading Explore the new, cross-platform .NET Core 1.0 →