Help! As a .NET developer, I'm afraid of drowning in that big lake of data stuff

In today's data-driven world, .NET developers are increasingly required to collaborate with data engineers and analysts to build robust and efficient data-driven solutions. Having no data affinity, I wanted to break out of my comfort zone and explore this data thing. However, things got pretty confusing, pretty soon.

Should I focus on data warehouses, lakes, swamps, or lakehouses? Is ELT a typo? Should I learn Greek first to understand these delta, kappa, and lambda architectures? And what should I do to get a bronze, silver, or gold data medal?

This session will be packed with information I wish I had when starting my data journey. You will also get practical guidance on how to implement your data solutions using Azure PaaS and Data components.

By the end of this session, you will be able to engage in meaningful discussions with other data professionals without feeling like an imposter.

Session duration: 60 mins

Creating the Spider in a Web of Azure PaaS Integrations

In the world of globally distributed data and API platforms, the broker takes on the role of a capeless hero, serving as the spider in a web of integrations. With its superpowers of intelligent routing, data transformation logic, and orchestration capabilities, the broker enables seamless communication and central management.
 
However, Uncle Ben said that with great power comes great responsibility. As the single point of failure, the broker must be performant, robust, and resilient. Unfortunately, these crucial concepts are often overlooked, allowing the bad guys to prevail.
 
Join Ruben as he shares key findings and concepts for building a resilient data and API platform on Azure PaaS services, derived from a real-life use case. We will dive into the technical details and explore the essential Azure services necessary for any successful platform.
 
By the end of this session, whether you're a beginner or an experienced professional, you will be stuffed with practical guidelines and insights to build and tweak your next 'superhero' cloud integration platform. Webs up!

Session duration: 60 mins

API Management in a hybrid world - A secure story from the field

API Management is the cornerstone of modern application integration. The key business driver for introducing API Management is the need to provide secure and scalable access to internal APIs. This access can be granted to internal, but often also to 3rd-party applications and users. Moreover, these internal APIs are likely to still be hosted on an on-premises or private cloud infrastructure.
In this session we will take a closer look at how you can securely expose your business critical, internal APIs to the outside world via a hybrid cloud setup. Azure API Management will obviously be our key component, but we will need to introduce other Azure PaaS components to cover both network related and application related security needs.

Jumping straight into code when building your Azure PaaS product… will it fizz or will it bang?

About a year ago we felt the urge to build a product to make our Zure booth at the CloudBrew conference stand out. Not much later, we came up with the idea of building Zpeedy, our own IoT-powered racetrack. We dove right into different technical scenarios as Azure PaaS fans, but it soon became clear that we needed some business context to keep us on track during our journey…
This session will sum up how we went through the various product development stages. You'll get some tips and tricks on how to do just-enough-analysis, and we'll look at which Azure PaaS components we used, why we chose them, and what lessons we learned along the way.
Come join us if you want to find out what's under the hood of Zpeedy or if you just want to race your heart out!