Topic

As more and more data and systems grow larger and more complex, designing massively-concurrent systemsbecomesboth more and more challenging and more and more common a problem facing developers. In this talk, we'll explore Azure Service Fabric -- the same platform Microsoft uses to run services like Skype for Business, Intune, Azure Event Hubs, Azure Data Factory, Azure DocumentDB, Azure SQL Database, and Cortana -- now also available to the broader development community to power your own solutions both on-premises and with any cloud provider you prefer (Azure, AWS, or otherwise).

Along thewaywe'll explore both micro-services architectures and Actor programming models, and discover how they can greatly simplify both the development of massively-parallel systems and our ability to reason about them as developers. We'll also understand how Azure Service Fabric (and other micro-services-inspired frameworks) might still have a role to play in your solutions even if you're not actively building the next multi-petabyte parallel processing system in your basement.

Speaker

Steve Bohlen

Currently a Principal Software Engineer for the Technology, Evangelism, and Development (TED) Team within Microsoft Corporation, Stephen brings his varied 20-plus-years of experience in software and technology to assist select Microsoft Partner organizations in their adoption of cutting-edge and pre-release Microsoft developer products and technologies.

Stephen is also an active contributor to several .NET Open-Source Software projects including NHibernate, Spring.NET, NDbUnit, Common.Logging, and others. Stephen is also a past Microsoft MVP award recipient, a member of the ASP Insiders and Visual C# Insiders, and formerly held the office of the Vice President of INETA, North America

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This meeting will be held at the Microsoft offices as usual. Check the Meetup site for details!