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. I'm not scared to take up big challenges and to dive into development mode.
As a managing partner of Noest, my focus is to create a vibrant, local community of Microsoft enthusiasts with a "getting-things-done" mentality. I'm a quite active member of the Microsoft Azure community and was speaker on several community and company events. I love to share my experiences and learn from others during workshops, presentations and blogs. Being an Azure MVP, I'm actively collaborating with various Microsoft / Azure product teams.
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Belgium's 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! After the success of the "My 10 biggest Azure mistakes I want you to learn from" session, I took it to the next level, by interviewing 100+ Azure professionals from Belgium.
In this session, I want to share the biggest Azure mistakes that I've captured during these interviews and most importantly: how you can avoid to make the same mistakes yourself! We'll cover a broad range of Azure services and areas.
Join me in this session if you want to learn from real stories from the field!
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: stories from the trenches!
This is the session that I wanted to have seen, before we introduced GraphQL on a large-scale Azure IoT platform! GraphQL is an emerging and powerful API standard, but it comes with some dangerous pitfalls that I want you to be aware of.
In this demo-packed session, we will go through the roadblocks that we've encountered while implementing GraphQL at scale, by using the great Hot Chocolate .NET library and Azure API Management. Learn how we overcame scalability problems across multiple teams, reliability and performance issues, security challenges, monitoring difficulties and adoption complexity.
Join me if you want to learn from real-world experiences!
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!
Lessons learned from analyzing enormous real-time data streams with Azure Data Explorer
If I had seen this session two years ago, it would have saved me a ton of headaches! After several challenging IoT projects, I have some interesting learnings to share on using Azure Data Explorer (ADX) for ingesting and querying high volume data streams.
Join me in this demo-intense session in which I show how to easily ingest real-time timeseries data, how to optimize query speed by leveraging ADX-specific features and the powerful Kusto Query Language and how to interact with external systems. Real-life learnings from the trenches!
To MQTT or not to MQTT on Azure?
Finally! Since recently, our beloved Azure cloud has native support for MQTT, the emerging messaging standard that gains a lot of traction in IoT and manufacturing scenarios (e.g. Unified Namespace).
With the introduction of MQTT support within Azure Event Grid and the MQTT edge broker that is part of Azure IoT Operations, we now have a full end-to-end MQTT coverage from edge to cloud. This session gives you an in-depth tour of the key features, the different security options, the routing capabilities and how it easily integrates into the Azure eco-system. Expect lots of demos!
Toon Vanhoutte
Azure MVP | CTO @ Noest | Founder @ Your Azure Coach
Kuurne, Belgium