Build 2017 is over. A three-day conference, where a lot of great stuff was announced. Apart from the keynotes of every day, there are many technical sessions to watch and learn from. The whole list of sessions is available at Channel 9.
Here you may find my picks from the categories I am interested in.
Azure Related
Azure IoT Edge in #MSBUILD Day 1 Keynote
Sam George, demos Sandvik Coromant’s edge solution in Satya’s Day 1 BUILD keynote.
360° monitoring for your Microsoft Azure apps
How to monitor resource utilization using Azure Monitor metrics, and monitor changes to your Azure resources using the Azure Monitor activity log.
Track the health of Azure platform using resource health, and get alerts from Azure service notifications and integrate Azure Monitor with your insights, APM, and alerting products.
What’s new in the Azure Portal
Learn about newly-added services and the roadmap for user experiences in Microsoft Azure.
Azure Cloud Shell - Discussion
Brendan Burns discusses some of the latest Azure in regards to Azure Cloud Shell.
How to run massively scaling mobile games on Microsoft Azure
Learn how to run games (or any service) as a service, and hear about the experiences, mistakes and lessons learned along their journey.
Agile app development with Azure API Management
In this fast-paced, hands-on presentation we demonstrate how API Management can be used to accelerate your app development. We show how you can decouple front-end and back-end development and allow both sides to work at their own speed.
Introducing Azure Network Watcher
Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure.
Visual Studio & Tooling
What's new in Visual Studio Code
Demo the latest and greatest features as we build a node app using the editor’s IntelliSense and debugging tools.
Visual Studio Code: Conquer the cloud with an editor and a CLI
In less than 60 minutes learn how to configure Code for great editing, navigation, linting, and debugging experiences building modern Node.js based (MEAN, MERN, etc.) applications. Learn how to use a rich set of (new!) extensions to build, deploy, and diagnose (containerized!) cloud apps that run on Azure PaaS services (App Service, DocDB, and more).
Also, set up Team System for continuous deployment. Throughout it all, leverage the new Azure cross platform CLI, enhanced with VS Code’s signature rich editing experiences. Conquer the cloud with VS Code!
Supercharge your JavaScript debugging workflow with Visual Studio Code
This session shows how to supercharge your JavaScript debugging workflow when working with React, AngularJS, and Node in Visual Studio Code. We talk about debugging principles, workflows, and how to be more productive by staying inside your editor.
Build a CI/CD pipeline from Visual Studio
Donovan Brown shows you how to use the new Continuous Delivery Extension for Visual Studio to build a complete CI/CD pipeline in Visual Studio Team Service and deploy to Azure.
The future of Visual Studio
In this session we take you on a rollercoaster ride through a number of features we’re working on. We show you investments we’re making to increase development productivity, how we’re bringing testing and code analysis even more deeply into the development “inner loop”, and highlight new areas that we’re working on to extend Visual Studio to new platforms and application categories. Expect a demo-heavy, so-new-the-paint-hasn’t-dried session!
Agile app development with Azure API Management
In this fast-paced, hands-on presentation we demonstrate how API Management can be used to accelerate your app development. We show how you can decouple front-end and back-end development and allow both sides to work at their own speed.
Introducing Azure Network Watcher
Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure.
Data Related
Azure Cosmos DB: Build planet scale mobile apps in minutes
Build planet scale mobile apps in minutes
Machine Learning for developers, how to build even more intelligent apps and services
In this session we explain some of the different machine learning offerings such as Azure Machine Learning, SQL Server R Services, Data Science Virtual Machine, Cognitive Services and Cognitive Toolkit, and Azure Data Lake Analytics from Microsoft through a few comprehensive end-to-end examples that encompass as applicable: problem detection, algorithm selection, machine learning model creation and deployment and consumption of the machine learning model.
Design Patterns for SaaS applications on Azure SQL Database
xperience the power of building multi-tenant SaaS applications on Azure SQL Database, Microsoft’s fully managed database as a service platform: Using a sample SaaS application, we walk through a series of SaaS-focused design and management patterns that have been distilled from work with a multitude of customers.
How to build globally-distributed, fast, billion-user applications with Azure Cosmos DB
Join this session to learn about the NEW Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s globally distributed database service designed to enable you to build planet-scale applications.
We will talk about its multi-model (Key-Value, Document & Graph Database) capability and show you how easy it is to port over your existing code and data from popular open source NoSQL Databases.
The future of Visual Studio
In this session we take you on a rollercoaster ride through a number of features we’re working on. We show you investments we’re making to increase development productivity, how we’re bringing testing and code analysis even more deeply into the development “inner loop”, and highlight new areas that we’re working on to extend Visual Studio to new platforms and application categories. Expect a demo-heavy, so-new-the-paint-hasn’t-dried session!
Agile app development with Azure API Management
In this fast-paced, hands-on presentation we demonstrate how API Management can be used to accelerate your app development. We show how you can decouple front-end and back-end development and allow both sides to work at their own speed.
Introducing Azure Network Watcher
Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure.
Web Related
Node.js everywhere
his presentation is delivered by the Node.js Foundation community manager, who talks a bit about the history of Node.js; why it’s becoming the first choice for the full stack developer; and how Node.js functions everywhere from web frontend development to IoT to create a single platform for developers to create the herculean applications of today.
Angular and TypeScript - Part 1
In this session, learn why the Angular team uses Typescript to develop at scale inside Google, and how Typescript and Angular work together to provide a powerful platform for your developers and great experiences for your users.
Angular and TypeScript - Part 2
n this session, learn why the Angular team uses Typescript to develop at scale inside Google, and how Typescript and Angular work together to provide a powerful platform for developers and great experiences for their users.
How to build globally-distributed, fast, billion-user applications with Azure Cosmos DB
Join this session to learn about the NEW Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s globally distributed database service designed to enable you to build planet-scale applications.
We will talk about its multi-model (Key-Value, Document & Graph Database) capability and show you how easy it is to port over your existing code and data from popular open source NoSQL Databases.
The future of Visual Studio
In this session we take you on a rollercoaster ride through a number of features we’re working on. We show you investments we’re making to increase development productivity, how we’re bringing testing and code analysis even more deeply into the development “inner loop”, and highlight new areas that we’re working on to extend Visual Studio to new platforms and application categories. Expect a demo-heavy, so-new-the-paint-hasn’t-dried session!
Agile app development with Azure API Management
In this fast-paced, hands-on presentation we demonstrate how API Management can be used to accelerate your app development. We show how you can decouple front-end and back-end development and allow both sides to work at their own speed.
Introducing Azure Network Watcher
Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure.
Service Fabric Related
Managing secure, scalable Azure Service Fabric clusters and applications
Learn about the lifecycle management capabilities of Service Fabric for managing microservices at scale. Monitor, troubleshoot, and upgrade microservices on Service Fabric clusters with no downtime.
ASP.NET Core + Azure Service Fabric
Learn how to use ASP.NET Core in Azure Service Fabric to host scalable, highly-available web applications and HTTP services.
Azure Service Fabric, microservices, containers, and the road ahead
This session is a developer’s tour and roadmap and dives into the latest Service Fabric capabilities, including containerized services, container orchestration including using Docker Compose, ASP.NET Core service support, integration with other Azure services and the latest developments in Visual Studio 2017 tooling, all sprinkled with customers scenarios.
How to build globally-distributed, fast, billion-user applications with Azure Cosmos DB
Join this session to learn about the NEW Azure Cosmos DB, Microsoft’s globally distributed database service designed to enable you to build planet-scale applications.
We will talk about its multi-model (Key-Value, Document & Graph Database) capability and show you how easy it is to port over your existing code and data from popular open source NoSQL Databases.
The future of Visual Studio
In this session we take you on a rollercoaster ride through a number of features we’re working on. We show you investments we’re making to increase development productivity, how we’re bringing testing and code analysis even more deeply into the development “inner loop”, and highlight new areas that we’re working on to extend Visual Studio to new platforms and application categories. Expect a demo-heavy, so-new-the-paint-hasn’t-dried session!
Agile app development with Azure API Management
In this fast-paced, hands-on presentation we demonstrate how API Management can be used to accelerate your app development. We show how you can decouple front-end and back-end development and allow both sides to work at their own speed.
Introducing Azure Network Watcher
Explore solution, architectural, and programmatic experiences in building and enhancing network monitoring capabilities in Microsoft Azure.