Global Windows Azure Bootcamp

Where:   ONSITE ONLY - Cardinal Solutions 5440 Wade Park Blvd, Suite 101, Raleigh, NC 27607

When:    Saturday, April 21, 2018, from 9:30AM - 4:30PM with a 1 hour lunch break. Free food and drinks will be provided.

Sessions presented will include:

Machine Learning for Mere Mortals

Presenter: Jim Duffy / Director of Business Development, CODE Consulting

Machine learning is making headlines but do you really know what it is and how to use them effectively within your organization's software applications? Have you been meaning to learn more about machine learning but haven't had the time? This session will open your eyes (and maybe your boss's as well!) to how machine learning is being used in today's business applications and how you can begin to further your career by using it in your applications. We will explore the Azure Machine Learning Studio and demonstrate how to get started creating your own machine learning experiements.

AI and the Intelligent Application

Presenter: Rob Zelt / Principal Software Engineer, UNC Chapel Hill

Every day the expectations increase for applications to provide more insight and assistance to help the user complete tasks. In this session we will look at a number of building blocks Azure provides to help developers build more intelligent applications through the use of AI.

Infrastructure-As-Code : The ARM template

Presenter: David Green

In a world where infrastructure complexity abounds. One cloud. One template. One deployment... In this talk we'll examine what Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC) actually means and the implications of why & where to utilize such an approach. We can then look at Microsoft’s latest answer to delivering IAC solutions - the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) template. Finally, we will walk through some examples in increasing complexity behind how ARM templates work. Hopefully by the end of this talk I can convince you that ARM templates are not just another way to do IAC in Azure, but the very best way.

Developing .NET Core Microservices and hosting in Azure Container Services (AKS)

Presenter: Luis Apellaniz

Microservice architecture has become a very popular for building highly-available cloud-based applications. Each service can be deployed and maintained independently. Targeting .NET Core allows us to run these microservices as Docker containers in Kubernetes which provides a highly scalable and resilient environment. During this session, we will discuss and demonstrate the creation of a CI/CD pipeline for creating AKS infrastructure and the process of creating Docker images and deploying to the environment.

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