Prompting your platform: Building AI Powered infrastructure templates

More organizations are adopting infrastructure templates to streamline the creation of secure, compliant applications. In this session, you’ll discover how to build MCP (model context protocol) servers and design AI agents that interact with these templates, helping your developer teams with picking the right infrastructure components. See how GitHub and Kubernetes MCP servers can work together to drive GitOps-powered automation in Azure.

This talk is for platform engineers and developers building cloud infrastructure. Expect hands-on demos to help you use AI to automate.

Building Cloud Native Applications with WebAssembly System Interface

The WebAssembly System Interface (WASI) is revolutionizing the world of cloud computing as we know it. You might have heard that it has the potential to replace containers, but how does it work? How do you get started? And how do you build a real application with WASI?

In this talk, we will dive into what WebAssembly and WASI are and how to develop applications that use this new technology. Additionally, you will learn about several projects in the WASI ecosystem that can help accelerate your WASI development journey.

By the end of this talk, you will not only have a strong understanding of WASI and its capabilities, but also the knowledge and tools to begin solving real-world problems with this cutting-edge technology. If you are curious about WASI and what it can do for your applications, this is the talk for you!

target audience: beginning WASI developers

Abstraction, Complexity, and the Art of Overengineering

Ever worked on a fancy system that looked perfect but fell apart when things changed? We've all been there. Sometimes, we create these big, complicated solutions that only make sense to the person who built them. I've done it too. Figuring out how much complexity is acceptable for a given problem can be tricky. So, how do we get it right?

In this session, we'll talk about how to solve programming problems in general. We'll look at how using abstract ideas can make projects complicated over time. Plus, we'll discuss two simple strategies to figure out the right level of complexity for your projects.

If you've ever felt stuck dealing with a super complicated system, this session is for you! Let's make things simpler and better together.

target audience: software developers

GitOps in Action: Managing Azure Infrastructure with ArgoCD & Azure Service Operator

In this session, explore the world of GitOps and learn how to automate and manage your Azure infrastructure using kubernetes, ArgoCD, and the Azure Service Operator. We'll walk you through syncing your cloud resources directly from declarative configuration stored in a Git repository, combining the power of infrastructure-as-code with the simplicity and familiarity of Git workflows.

This talk is perfect for developers, DevOps engineers, and platform engineers looking to expand their horizons past ci/cd pipelines. Expect hands-on demos and practical guidance to get started with deploying and managing Azure infrastructure like a pro.