Tom Kerkhove
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Brugge, Belgium
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Tom is a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on the data-plane for Azure API Management helping customers successfully scale their API landscapes.
He has been working in the cloud-native space for 7+ years. Autoscaling is in his DNA and is an alumni maintainer of Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA), a CNCF Graduation project that makes application autoscaling on Kubernetes dead simple.
Prior to joining Microsoft, Tom was recognized as a Microsoft Azure MVP & Advisor from 2014 to 2021, a CNCF Ambassador from 2020 to 2023 and was one of the first GitHub Stars.
He turns coffee into scalable & secure cloud systems and writes about his adventures on blog.tomkerkhove.be.
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Building environmental-aware API platforms to reduce impact with Azure API Management
As digital infrastructure grows, so does its environmental impact. With Microsoft’s carbon-negative goal for 2030 and new regulations like the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which require organizations to account for the environmental impact, , sustainability is becoming a key responsibility.
In this session, you’ll learn how to build API platforms that are not just resilient and scalable, but also environmentally sustainable.
Using Azure API Management, we’ll explore how to use practices, such as traffic shaping and shifting, to improve energy efficiency — all while maintaining performance and security. We’ll also look at how Azure Carbon Optimization features can help you better understand and minimize the emissions associated with your API workloads.
Whether you're driven by regulatory needs or a want to help improve our environment, this session will equip you with practical guidance how to optimize your API landscape to become greener.
Building a resilient API landscape with Azure API Management
In the digital age that we live in, we highly depend on cloud services being available that we build upon. However, failure is inevitable and will happen - The question is, will you notice it?
When building platforms it is crucial to ensure that you will seamlessly handle failure and by being resilient to them. Come learn how Azure API Management helps you mitigate and recover from failures by using built-in load balancing and circuit-breaking capabilities.
You will also learn how you can route traffic based on your needs and simulate outages in your API platform to verify your resiliency.
API management for microservices in a hybrid and multi-cloud world
Microservices are on the cusp of becoming the dominant style of software architecture in the enterprise. The benefits that are realized—increased developer velocity, improved organizational agility, and reduced time-to-market of new services—are a powerful catalyst that is driving this transformation. As practitioners, how do we successfully fit microservices into the models and processes we already have in place?
Join Tom Kerkhove, an Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft working on Azure API Management with many years of experience helping enterprises make this exact transition, for a hands-on experience demonstrating how he helps enterprises make the transition to API-first architectures and microservices in a hybrid, multi-cloud world.
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Tom Kerkhove
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Brugge, Belgium
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