Build Stuff 2018

Everything was prepared. The features were in place, the critical bugs were fixed, the environments were up and running and the test were green. We were finally about to go into production with the system we had been working so hard on for the past 18 months.

We had deployed in Azure with redundancy, fail-overs and slots using continuous delivery. The customers had been doing acceptance testing for weeks. We were ready!

Then it happened.

Three days before going into production, the pipeline started halting. The applications crashed one by one. First the development environment, following the test environment. Then the staging environment and last; the production environment. No exceptions or logs pointing us in the direction of the problem.

We had three days to pin down and fix it.

This is a war-story about how we turned our Azure environments upside down, logged, debugged and at last, found the nasty bug and fixed it.

We’ll dive into a real-world case on how A.I. can assist medical workers in the field. From eliminating time-consuming documentation to gaining valuable insights into their work. By letting A.I. take care of common tasks, medical workers can focus on delivering essential medical care.

In this session, I’ll take you along on a A.I.-First technical journey, from patient identification handled by Cognitive Services, efficiency improvement with natural language processing, handling data in Azure/CosmosDB and building & delivering the App with Xamarin and Visual Studio Team services.

We took the app to some remote places in Uganda and beta tested it. We will zoom into some challenges we faced running it in the field and discuss the tools and components used.

Join this session and bring back some real-world A.I. lessons to your organisation.

Astrata Europe is tracking telemetry from tens of thousands of vehicles throughout Europe. For many years all the back-end services were hosted on bare-metal self-managed hardware.

By the end of 2017, the decision was made to join the cloud era and move all business-critical workloads to Azure cloud. And on top of that, the applications were modernized to leverage higher level Platform-as-a-Service whenever feasible.

During this session Mikhail will guide you through this migration story from making the decision to lessons learned, looking from developer and operations points of view.

Pre-written code that, like tiny bricks of lego, can add features to your application or workflow?! Join Karl-Henrik Nilsson and learn how logic apps contribute to everything from keeping inbox zero to features for new apps and how he uses it to get away from helping friends and family!