BirdOrNot.net was born as an answer to the XKCD that stated it would take a team of researchers 5 years to write software that would figure out whether or not an image contained a bird. The site solves this issue and was written within 5 hours.

This session presents how to build a modern website that scales to large audiences by utilizing things in Azure such as Front Door, Redis and Linux Containers. It also describes how Cognitive Services was used to identify the birds and how you can use similar technologies in your apps.