Brian McKeiver
Microsoft Azure MVP; Co-Owner at BizStream
Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
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Brian McKeiver is Co-Owner at BizStream, digital agency in Allendale, MI. At BizStream he is a solution architect, visionary, Microsoft Azure MVP, Kentico Xperience MVP, and Kontent.ai MVP. He has over 20 years of experience leading his agency of more than 35 employees, about a hundred clients spread out across North America, and one heck of an interesting story of how it all started from a two-person team. In addition to his expertise in web development, cloud, integration, and digital marketing, Brian is active with the tech community via his blog at Mcbeev.com.
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Configurable cloud-native applications with .NET Aspire
Building apps for the cloud has always been hard. Developers are typically pulled away from writing their business logic and what matters most to deal with the complexity of the cloud.
To help simplify cloud app complexity, Microsoft has introduced .NET Aspire. It includes a curated set of components that make sense to use in your C# projects.
.NET Aspire makes it easy to discover, acquire, and configure essential dependencies for cloud-native apps from the very beginning of your project.
Join me to walk through the set-up and usage of this new, powerful tool that can make any .NET developer more efficient in delivering cloud-native applications.
Azure OpenAI in Action
Azure’s OpenAI service allows developers to apply large language models and generative AI to a variety of use cases. It represents a transformative approach to AI development. By leveraging Microsoft's powerful cloud infrastructure, it demystifies complex AI processes. Most importantly it allows you to bring your own data to the party.
Join the session to see how this service, along with tools like Azure OpenAI Studio and Azure ML Studio, makes AI development accessible and manageable for us all. See how it is a platform designed to bridge the gap between theoretical AI and practical implementation. Leave knowing how to ground AI with your own data and add it into your own applications.
High Availability with Azure PaaS for Websites
Let's review how to accomplish highly available architecture for modern websites in Azure. We will see how to leverage PaaS based resources like Azure Front Door, Azure App Services, Azure SQL Databases, and other Azure resource types that allow sites to scale, be more fault tolerant, and ultimately provide more uptime.
This session is for developers and end clients who want to leverage Azure to host their sites in a modern way.
Headless CMS Architecture Patterns
Using a Headless and API-First approach comes with a problem. With only an API (or multiple) to start with, how do you know you are building your project codebase ("head") to account for best practices such as caching, security, and best performance. How do you know what path offers to allow for the most flexibility with the least amount of headaches? It isn't the same as just having a database and template engine on the backend.
SaaS based Headless solutions are a powerful way to build modern enterprise class websites. They are also becoming more popular by the day.
Luckily, multiple solutions have now been built around these "API first" platforms. Some best practice architecture patterns have emerged as a result, and this session aims to share them. Attendees will see and learn these patterns for designing, building, and deploying Headless based solutions.
Leave the session with proven architecture patterns and how to apply them when working with a Headless CMS and API first stack.
Supercharged Static Sites in .NET with Statiq + Azure
In this session we will walk through how to build a static site using Statiq, Github, and Azure that is much more than just delivering simple HTML.
Need an API? editable content? authorization? CI/CD? Check check and check. I'll show you to make that static site dynamic with Azure functions, Headless CMS, modern tooling, and Azure Static Web Apps.
Leave this session knowing how you can use your .NET / C# skills to build a blazing fast site that costs almost nothing to run and is a joy to work with.
State-of-the-art Search with Azure AI Search
We all know that providing a good search experience for website visitors is hard. Everyone expects it to “just” work like Bing or Google. Maybe there is a better way, maybe we fix this with help from AI.
Join the session to see how you can leverage Cognitive Services with Azure Cognitive Search in your apps. With AI based semantic search abilities, this technology can provide results that are closer to the intent of the original query. You will also learn how to enhance and enrich search through Cognitive Service Skills like natural language processing, image analysis, entity recognition capabilities.
Don't know what those are? Well that's not a problem because you will find out. You can expect to walk away knowing how to generate your own enrichment pipeline that leverages the power of AI to solve your search woes.
Why not use the same integrated Microsoft natural language stack that Bing and Office have used for more than a decade into your site? Maybe AI can make it "just" work.
How to Win Friends and Influence...Better Developer Estimates
Let's face it, creating estimates for tasks is not an exact science. Whether it is points, hours, level of effort, or whatever else the next fad is, it all mostly boils down to what feels like a shot in the dark.
Join my session to find out a few lessons learned, tips, tricks, and strategies for creating accurate and timely estimates on your developer tasks. I'll share my experiences for creating the majority of estimates at my company for the past 18 years. I'd estimate that the amount of estimates I have created is more than 500 or so...see what I did there?
At the end of the day, if you can create better estimates, than maybe your project managers will end up becoming another one of your long time friends.
CodeMash 2025 Sessionize Event Upcoming
dev up 2024 Sessionize Event
Beer City Code 2024 Sessionize Event
THAT Conf 2024
MACH based Website Development in Minutes
International JavaScript Conference
Headless CMS Architecture Patterns
Stir Trek 2024 Sessionize Event
Michigan Technology Conference 2024 Sessionize Event
Digital Summit Dallas
Embracing AI Best Practices in CMS
Michigan DevFest 2023
State-of-the-art Search with Azure AI Search
Beer City Code 2023 Sessionize Event
KCDC 2023 Sessionize Event
SciFiDevConMayTheFourthEvent 2023 Sessionize Event
Kontent Horizons
Delivering on the Promise of AI
Microsoft Ignite 2022
State-of-the-art Search with Azure Cognitive Search
Atlanta Developers' Conference 2022 Sessionize Event
Beer City Code 2022 Sessionize Event
Nebraska.Code() 2022
Supercharged Static Sites in .NET with Statiq + Azure
dev up 2022 Sessionize Event
THAT Conference 2022
State-of-the-art Search with Azure Cognitive Search
Global Azure 2022 Sessionize Event
SciFiDevConMayTheFourthEvent Sessionize Event
Granite State Code Camp 2021 Sessionize Event
Code PaLOUsa 2021 Sessionize Event
Global Azure 2021 Sessionize Event
philly.NET Code Camp 2021 Sessionize Event
Code PaLOUsa 2020 Sessionize Event
philly.NET Code Camp 2020.1 Sessionize Event
Orlando Codecamp & Tech Conference 2020 Sessionize Event
Code PaLOUsa 2019 Sessionize Event
Beer City Code 2019 Sessionize Event
philly.NET Code Camp 2019.1 Sessionize Event
Philly.Net Code Camp 2019.1
Let's Take a Tour of .NET Core: CLI,
THAT Conference 2019
How to Win Friends and Influence Better Developer Estimates
Prairie.Code() 2019
How to Win Friends and Influence Better Developer Estimates
Kentico Connection Denver
The Best of Both Worlds
Great Lakes Area .Net UG
Optimizing Azure App Services
Code PaLOUsa 2018
How to Build an E-commerce Chatbot
Little Rock Tech Fest
Build an Open Data .Net MVC site in 30 mins
Chicago .Net Users Group
Build an E-commerce Chatbot
Code on the Beach 2018
Build an E-commerce Chatbot (MS BotFramework)
CodeMash
Slaying the Headless CMS Jabberwocky,
Chicago Coder Conference
Search Bogging you Down? Move it to the Cloud
404 Conference
Good, Better, Best Website Performance Optimization
South Florida Code Camp
AMP up your Site with Accelerated Mobile Pages
GR Dev Day
Search Bogging You Down? Move it to the Cloud!
Kentico Partner Summit
To RFP or not to RFP
Kentico Connection Orlando
Growth Hacking with Kentico
Kentico Connection Brno
How To Wield Kentico 9 in the Real World
DogFoodCon 2015
Integrate & Automate Enterprise CMS Deployments
Kentico Connection Prague
Harness the Power of Marketing Automation
Kentico Connection Boston
- Upgrade like a Pro, Boston, MA
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