Callon Campbell
Cloud Mavericks Inc., Solution Architect and Developer
Oakville, Canada
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Callon Campbell is a Solutions Architect, Developer and Microsoft MVP in Azure. With over 20 years of experience, he's been developing enterprise applications for web, desktop, mobile, and cloud-native applications using Microsoft Azure, .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. Callon is also the co-creator of ReflectInsight .NET Logging framework and Live Log Viewer. He's passionate about learning new technologies and sharing his experience with fellow peers in the community. Callon can be reached on Twitter via @Flying_Maverick, and has a blog at https://TheFlyingMaverick.com.
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Getting started with Azure Functions' Durable Entities
In a serverless world, your applications get dynamically provisioned and destroyed at the discretion of the platform you're using. This makes relying on resources like local memory, local variables, or even local disk storage almost impossible. Of course, you always have the option of using a database or a 3rd party caching service, but that may start complicating the code you have to write.
In this session, I will explore how you can leverage Durable Entities in your applications.
Introduction to Azure Functions' Durable Entities
In a serverless world, your applications get dynamically provisioned and destroyed at the discretion of the platform you're using. This makes relying on resources like local memory, local variables, or even local disk storage almost impossible. Of course, you always have the option of using a database or a 3rd party caching service, but that may start complicating the code you have to write. In the latest release of Azure Functions, the team has added support for a new concept called Durable Entities, which lets you use similar patterns as you would see in an actor model style application. In this session, I will explore how you can leverage Durable Entities in your applications.
Empowering Resilient APIs: Azure API Management Strategies
In this session, we explore strategies to build robust and resilient APIs using Azure API Management. Discover how to handle failures, optimize performance, and ensure seamless operation even in challenging scenarios. Join us as we unlock the power of resilient APIs in the Azure ecosystem!
Discovering Insights: Azure Data Explorer Unleashed
In this high-level session, we embark on an exploration of Azure Data Explorer (ADX)—a fully-managed big data analytics cloud platform. Discover how ADX ingests structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, storing it for lightning-fast ad-hoc queries. From real-time analytics to uncovering hidden patterns, ADX empowers you to make sense of your data with seconds of latency. Join us as we unlock the potential of ADX and illuminate the path to meaningful insights!
Elevating AI Workflows: Integrating Azure API Management and Azure Functions with OpenAI
Explore the seamless integration of Azure API Management and Azure Functions with OpenAI to create intelligent, scalable, and secure applications. This presentation will delve into how API Management can enhance control, security, and monitoring of AI API calls, while Azure Functions provide event-driven processing and efficient handling of data flows. I will demonstrate practical scenarios where this combination optimizes AI-driven solutions, including chatbot development, data processing automation, and more. Attendees will gain insights into best practices for setting up API Management policies, writing Azure Functions, and leveraging OpenAI's powerful AI capabilities. Join me to unlock the full potential of Azure services in your AI projects.
Tags: Azure API Management, Azure Functions, Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI
Ho-Ho-Hold onto Your Hats! Real-Time Data Magic from Santa’s Sleigh with Azure Data Explorer
This holiday season, unwrap the gift of a jolly technical presentation on constructing a real-time medallion architecture tailored for telemetry data from Santa’s sleigh. This merry session will showcase how to leverage Azure Data Explorer and Microsoft Fabric Real-Time Intelligence to ingest, process, and visualize high-velocity data streams as Santa dashes through the night.
Callon will demonstrate how to derive real-time insights, visualize feedback from Santa’s helpers, compare performance metrics of reindeer, and ensure system reliability for the most magical night of the year. Through a live demo, attendees will gain practical knowledge on implementing robust data architectures that enhance decision-making and performance analysis in dynamic, festive environments.
From On-Premises to Azure Cloud: .NET Web App Journey
In this session, we embark on a transformative journey from traditional on-premises hosting to the dynamic Azure cloud. Focused specifically on .NET web applications, we’ll explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices for migrating your beloved web apps to the Azure ecosystem.
Azure Durable Functions: The Festive Magic of Scalable Serverless Workflows for the Holidays
This holiday season, unwrap the gift of Azure Durable Functions, a technology that brings the magic of serverless computing to life! Join us for a merry exploration of how Azure Durable Functions can help you build, orchestrate, and automate complex workflows in the cloud, all while spreading holiday cheer. In this presentation, we'll jingle all the way through key concepts, best practices, and real-world use cases, showcasing the scalability, reliability, and versatility that make Azure Durable Functions the perfect tech companion for the season. Whether you're a seasoned developer or new to Azure, this session will provide you with the knowledge and insights to make your cloud-based workflows sparkle. Don't miss out on this festive opportunity to embrace the holiday spirit with Azure Durable Functions and revolutionize your cloud computing experience!
Architecting and building multitenant solutions in Azure
In this session, I will walk through the architecture for building a multitenant sharded database solution in Azure using Azure SQL, Azure Functions and the Elastic Database Client Library.
Modernize your application configuration and feature management with Azure App Configuration
Help the elves modernize the North Pole application configuration to ensure a smooth holiday season.
Modern cloud-based applications are distributed in nature, often running on multiple servers in multiple regions and leveraging multiple services, and creating a robust and scalable application in a distributed environment presents a significant challenge. Managing application settings/configuration across these distributed instances is difficult, and when issues come up, it's even more difficult to troubleshoot. Having a centralized location to store your application configurations helps to solve these issues.
In this session, you will learn how to implement a centralized configuration for your application. This session focuses on software architects and developers intending to design and implement modern enterprise applications. In my demos, I'll be showing best practices and lessons learned from real-world enterprise customer projects.
Event Sourcing with Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed
The change feed in Azure Cosmos DB is one of the most overlooked features of Microsoft’s globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. Similar to the transaction log of a relational database, the change feed is a persistent record of changes to a container in the order they occurred. It therefore serves as an excellent event source for a wide range of cloud-based microservices targeting ecommerce, IoT, and other large-scale scenarios.
In this session, Callon will introduce Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed and how to leverage it as an event source and access using Azure Functions.
Architecting Modern Serverless APIs with Azure Functions and Azure API Management
In this session, Callon will show you how to build and host serverless APIs in Azure using Azure Functions and then secure and manage them with Azure API Management.
Event Sourcing with Azure Cosmos DB Change Feed and Azure Functions
Help the elves track every event that happens this holiday season.
The change feed in Azure Cosmos DB is one of the most overlooked features of Microsoft’s globally distributed, massively scalable, multi-model database service. Similar to the transaction log of a relational database, the change feed is a persistent record of changes to a container in the order they occurred. It therefore serves as an excellent event source for a wide range of cloud-based microservices targeting ecommerce, IoT, and other large-scale scenarios.
Centralize your configuration with Azure App Configuration and Azure Functions
Modern cloud applications are distributed in nature, almost every single application becomes part of a more complex distributed system. There are multiple applications running on different geographical locations and a single solution may have different services running on different platforms like App Services, Virtual Machines and Serverless functions etc. Managing application settings/configuration across these distributed instances is difficult, and when issues come up, it's even more difficult to troubleshoot. Having a centralized location to store your application configurations helps to solve these issues. In this session, you will learn how to implement a centralized configuration for your serverless Azure Functions as well as how you can leverage Feature Flags to modify a system's behaviour without changing any code. This session focuses on software architects and developers intending to design and implement modern enterprise applications. In my demos, I'll be showing best practices and lessons learned from real-world enterprise customer projects.
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Azure App Configuration
Azure Functions
Azure Storage
Azure Key Vault
Serverless
Centralized Configuration
Feature Flags
Configuration
.NET
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1. Creating Azure App Configuration
2. Caching and updating configuration without an app restart
3. Using Feature Management
4. Automatic configuration backup and resiliency
Bringing serverless into the Enterprise
Industry and customer needs push enterprises to innovate and modernize their applications at a faster rate than ever before. Serverless solutions are a clear and natural choice for such demand due to its proven developer productivity gains. However, enterprises also require using services that can respond to their critical needs around networking, security, performance, DevOps, ability to run on-premises and compatibility with industry standards (e.g. Kubernetes). In this session, I will explore how serverless development with the Azure platform helps satisfy all these requirements.
Serverless Orchestration with Durable Azure Function
Durable Functions are an extension of Azure Functions that lets you write stateful functions in a serverless environment that unlock powerful orchestration workflows. In this session, you will learn how to build and deploy reliable web functions which can transparently scale to handle massive workloads.
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Callon Campbell
Cloud Mavericks Inc., Solution Architect and Developer
Oakville, Canada
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