In today’s increasingly volatile geo-political landscape, where infrastructure and data sovereignty matter more than ever, cloud strategy has become a business-critical decision. Whether you’re designing a new SaaS product, launching a startup, or modernizing your enterprise architecture, being “multi-cloud-ready” is no longer a nice-to-have — it’s sometimes a requirement for compliance, sovereignty, and long-term resilience.

This session dives into how to build messaging-driven applications in Microsoft Azure while keeping your architecture flexible and cloud-agnostic. We’ll explore "Azure-first" practical design patterns, key architectural trade-offs, and real-world scenarios that help your systems stay portable, reliable, and resilient — even across cloud boundaries.

Expect insights on messaging technologies like Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, and Kafka, and how to integrate them with modern compute platforms such as Azure Functions, Container Apps, Kubernetes, and .NET Aspire. If you’re building distributed systems in an uncertain world, this session will equip you with the strategies and tools to do it right.