Speaker

Toon Vanhoutte

Toon Vanhoutte

Azure MVP | CTO @ Noest | Founder @ Your Azure Coach

Kuurne, Belgium

Hi! I'm Toon Vanhoutte, Azure Solution Architect and Microsoft Azure MVP. My duty is to design and deliver reliable, secure and scalable applications in the Azure cloud. As a solution architect, I'm not scared to take up big challenges and to dive into a development mode.

I'm a quite active member of the Microsoft Azure community and was speaker on several community and company events. Being a Microsoft Certified Trainer and the founder of Your Azure Coach, I love to share my experiences and learn from others during workshops, presentations and blogs. As an Azure MVP, I'm actively collaborating with various Microsoft / Azure product teams.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Azure
  • Azure PaaS
  • Serverless
  • devops
  • GitHub
  • Power Apps
  • Azure Api Management
  • Azure Integration Services
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure App Service

Automate your Azure infrastructure with Bicep and Azure DevOps!

The expectation of modern applications is that they are provisioned in a completely automated fashion. Easier said than done! In this demo-packed session, I will automate the provisioning of a web application by using Bicep and Azure DevOps. We will go together through the complete process. Throughout this session you will learn many tips and tricks and best practices to ensure that secrets are handled correctly, that the developer experience is optimized and that we have and end-to-end traceability.

Automate your Azure infrastructure with Bicep and GitHub Actions!

The expectation of modern applications is that they are provisioned in a completely automated fashion. Easier said than done! In this demo-packed session, I will automate the provisioning of a web application by using Bicep and GitHub Actions. We will go together through the complete process. Throughout this session you will learn many tips and tricks and best practices to ensure that secrets are handled correctly, that the developer experience is optimized and that we have and end-to-end traceability.

GraphQL at scale with Azure and .NET

GraphQL is an emerging API standard that has quite some goodies to offer. Join this session if you are interested in how we introduced GraphQL on a large-scale IoT platform.

The session mainly focuses on how to scale GraphQL on two levels: scaling across multiple developer teams and scaling from a performance perspective. I will share the issues that we've encountered along the way and how we were able to solve them thanks to the fantastic HotChocolate .NET library and Azure API Management, combined with Container Apps. As always: expect many good practices and lot's of exciting demos!

My 10 biggest Azure mistakes I want you to learn from!

We all mistakes, so do I! It’s what makes us human! Making a mistake is an opportunity to learn, so we can avoid these in the future! In this session, I want to share some of my biggest mistakes and most importantly: how this can help you to build better solutions on the Azure platform! We will take a tour through many Azure PaaS services and highlight the useful aspects that help you to avoid running into trouble. I will show you tips and tricks on security, scalability, governance, cost management, infrastructure as code, networking, etc… Join me in this session if you want to learn from real stories from the field!

My 10 favorite Azure API Management tips & tricks!

During many Azure API Management implementations, I've learned a lot. The aim of this session is to bundle that experience in a to-the-point talk, that covers many tips and tricks on monitoring, security, routing, governance and DevOps. I hope to see you there!?

Azure API Management from a developer perspective

As organizations are more and more adopting an API-first mindset, the need for a good management of your APIs grows. During many coaching sessions of developer teams, I've noticed that the concepts of (Azure) API Management are often unknown or misunderstood.

That's why I've crafted this session to explain the benefits of Azure API Management through the eyes of a developer. What's in it for the developer and how can Azure API Management help to maximize the potential and security of your APIs? Let's discover it together in this demo-packed talk!

Toon Vanhoutte

Azure MVP | CTO @ Noest | Founder @ Your Azure Coach

Kuurne, Belgium