Techorama Belgium 2019

One of the key challenges in developing a system architecture is that our technical work doesn’t sit in a vacuum. We typically build software systems to serve specific needs for specific users, but often consider usability just a front-end concern or at best think that our impact on usability is to optimize performance.
In this session you will learn a mental framework for understanding how user needs and actions can be analyzed to have meaningful discussions with experience designers and for translating that understanding into architectural implications and decisions. This framework will also help you determine how your architecture can evolve over time to handle unknown needs of the future.

Many organizations are now building microservices based systems. But with the adoption of this architecture-style, the need arises for a good way to manage and monitor all the services and their traffic. To handle this, you can leverage what is called a service-mesh.

In this session attendees will learn introduce you to what a service-mesh is and how to implement one for a microservices based system using Kubernetes and Istio. Topics covered are: intelligent traffic-routing, canary releasing, testing resiliency using chaos-engineering and monitoring using several available telemetry dashboards.

It's a very practical session with lots of demos and deep-dives into code and configuration. All the code shown in de demos (including an elaborate description on how to run the application) is available for attendees on Github. So they can experiment with this technology after the session.

You’ve probably already seen that R icon in the Power BI GUI. It shows up when creating sources, transformations and reports. But the ugly textbox you got when you clicked upon those icons didn’t encourage you to proceed? In this session, you will learn just a few basic things about R that will greatly extend your Power BI data loading, transformation and reporting skills in Power BI Desktop and the Power BI service.

Deep dive into the Angular Router for client-side navigation, exploring Lazy Loading, Preloading Modules, Router events, Diagnostic with traces, Auxiliary routes, Routes Transitions (Animations), Guards, Resolver.

In today's online world cyberattacks are evolving faster than ever. Using sophisticated and ever evolving techniques attackers are targeting organizations in every industry and vertical. Every organization should assume breach. Is your organization ready to detect, respond and remediate in case of a security breach? This session gives an overview on Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics and Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection and shows how these solutions can help protecting your business and avoid harm.

In a real-world scenario your primary data center has just been hit with a ransomware attack and the only option is to failover to DR. Luckily you came to our session last year and opted to setup Azure Site Recovery (ASR). During this session, learn everything you need to know to recover using Azure Site Recovery. You also have a chance to ask questions from the expert MVPs presenting the session.

This session presents an overview of Azure Cosmos DB, a globally distributed, massively scalable, low (single-digit millisecond) latency, fully managed NoSQL database service that is designed specifically for modern web and mobile applications. Like other NoSQL platforms, Cosmos DB supports a schema-free data model, built-in partitioning for sustained heavy-write ingestion, and replication for high availability. But only Cosmos DB offers turnkey global distribution, automatic indexing, and SLAs for guarantees on 99.99% availability, throughput, latency, and consistency.

We begin by explaining NoSQL databases in general, and how they compare with traditional relational database platforms. Then we tour the many features of Cosmos DB, including its multi-model capabilities which allow you to store and query schema-free JSON documents (using either SQL or MongoDB APIs), graphs (Gremlin API), and key/value entities (table API). You’ll learn about global distribution, scale-out partitioning, tunable consistency, custom indexing, and more. We’ll also discuss client development using the many available SDKs. Attend this session, and get up to speed on Cosmos DB today!

In this intensive demo-packed session, you’ll learn how to write applications for Cosmos DB, and see how to work with the various Cosmos DB APIs. These APIs support a variety of data models, including the SQL API (for JSON documents), Table API for (key-value entities), Gremlin API (for graphs) and Cassandra (for columnar). Regardless what you choose as a data model of choice, you’ll learn how to provision throughput, and how to partition and globally distribute your data to deliver massive scale.

You’ll see how to migrate data from SQL Server to Cosmos DB, and how to write queries using Cosmos DB SQL. Then we’ll write data access code that creates and queries databases, collections, and documents, manages custom indexing policies, and defines users and permissions for resource-level access. We’ll also create, deploy, and execute server-side stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions, using the Cosmos DB server-side programming model. Attend this session, and prepare to build Cosmos DB applications today!

Are you a developer interested in learning more about developing apps for Microsoft Teams? If so, this session is for you! In this session, we will dive through the key concepts and guidance for building custom apps for Teams. As well as what's required in preparing your O365 tenant for developing Teams apps as well as demonstrate how to build an app using App Studio in Microsoft Teams.

You have started using Microsoft flow, you have attended a Flow presentation, but you feel that before doing real projects you need to know more. Much more. Specially if you want to create enterprise flows that compete with third party products.
After working with Microsoft Flow almost every day since the beginning of the product, we faced some situations and traps that require more advanced skills. 
And we have defined patterns and best practices that have been demonstrated at Ignite Orlando 2018 but have evolved since then. This is what this session is all about. We will illustrate different real problems and how we solved them.
This will be a demo-heavy session and its targets both developers and citizen developers should
You must have used Flow before attending this session.

A few years ago some Google employees did a study to learn what made their best employees successful. Surprisingly, the top skills were soft skills. In this session we'll talk about the top soft skills from that study, and how you can improve your own, and your team's soft skills. You'll walk away with concrete ideas and a plan moving forward as you work on really enhancing soft skills.

During this session we will dive a bit deeper into the role of IT operations in a cloud container world.
Who's role and responsibility is it to ensure container image integrity and how can we leverage existing Azure tooling to help 
us in keeping base images up to date.
Let's shift patching and security 'left' as it becomes a shared responsibility.