Events

Our Architecture Forum returns, celebrating its 10th anniversary, and Black Marble and Microsoft once again invite you to join us for a unique opportunity to learn about the latest technologies and best practices from luminaries in the field of computing.

Confirmed sessions include…

“Cloud Adoption: A Worked Example of on-premises to cloud architecture”

Rik Hepworth, Consulting Services Director, Black Marble.

“Moving to a serverless architecture; what, why, how?”

Giles Davies, Azure Application Development TSP, Microsoft.

Imagine being able to focus on just writing the absolute minimum of code that you need, and not having to even think about hardware, operating systems, throughput, capacity, scaling and more. Now add to that being able to deploy that code and only pay, in micro-billing, as and when it’s used. If that sounds interesting, or even just intriguing, then that’s what this session will explore. Specifically, we’ll take a look at:

Serverless event handling with Azure Event Grid

Serverless workflows with Azure Logic Apps

Serverless code with Azure Functions

Integrating with existing systems, including on-premise, including using API Management.

Visual Studio and DevOps support for serverless architectures.

“How to Count Your Chickens After They’ve Hatched”Â

Gary Short, Cloud Solution Architect (Advanced Analytics & AI), Microsoft. When one of the UK’s largest chicken farmers tells you he doesn’t know how many chickens he’s got, you know you’ve got problems. Come along to this session and I’ll talk you through the steps I took to write a machine learning and machine vision solution to this problem.

“Moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps in the public cloud with VSTS”

Martin Woodward, Microsoft.

How do you migrate over 65,000 of the most demanding software engineers from infrastructure built up over decades of high-intensity work into a common engineering system based on modern software development technologies and best practices? This is exactly the challenge faced by Microsoft as they moved to their One Engineering system. Come and hear from Martin Woodward about how they did it and the lessons they learned along the way.

“Breaking the Common Myths around Artificial Intelligence”

Galiya Warrier, Microsoft

In this presentation, we will be talking about 5 main common myths around Artificial Intelligence as well as what it can actually deliver at this moment of time. We will discuss and see a demo of interesting AI examples that span beyond chatbots and personal assistants, and that should leave you with some practical ideas on how you can get started in this space.