At the beginning of 2024, Jukka was approached with an opportunity to take on a project that would bring him across the pond to Pacific Northwest in the United States. As he learned more about the project he started to get more and more interested. Project was about getting to know a production-ready data platform running on Azure, learning the ins and outs of it, documenting it and as an end goal moving it to managed cloud. A multinational team was gathered, and the project started.

In this session, we will explore how to approach large-scale projects with tight timeframes. We will walk through real-life challenges, solutions, and key takeaways from this experience. Key topics include overcoming unexpected challenges, working in a foreign environment, and the importance of a strong team.

This session is not overly technical, aside from some Azure resource names and some really high-level pictures of cloud environments and data flows. The main focus of this session is to reflect on the project and share the key lessons learned along the way.

Session length: 35-45 minutes, presented at Azure & Friends meetup in June 2024