In the ever-expanding universe of cloud innovation, developers may find themselves at a hard spot as to the different ways of building apps for the cloud and to making good use of the available tools. How do you design, implement and deploy websites in the cloud? What sort of strategies should you select at each case? How do you scale and monitor your cloud applications? This session aims at providing a comprehensive introduction of Azure, without getting into specifics. Get to know all the basics and how to make good use of them in your work as a developer.

Caching at different levels is a widely common technique for the enhancement of website speed. Together we will explore all relevant possibilities, tools and technologies out there.

Microservices is an approach to application development in which every part of the application is deployed as a fully self-contained component that can be individually scaled and updated. With a good microservice architecture, customers can solve the management, deployment, orchestration, and patching needs of a container-based service, with reduced risk of availability loss while maintaining high agility.

When should I write a Stored Procedure (SP)? Should I write one for every CRUD operation? When should I create Views? How may I include Business Rules in an SP? How may I avoid duplicate code? These are few of the questions that are going to receive an answer, through an in-depth analysis of Stored Procedures in Azure Elastic SQL Database.

Search as a Service hosted on the cloud, made possible with Azure Search. Azure Search is one of the most complete feature, fully managed professional search mechanisms available on the market. Within a micro-session, examples will be given of how developers and companies can benefit from adding search within their application and also how does Azure ease the addition of search capabilities within applications (web/mobile etc.). Search is more than a simple text search, facets to dynamically categorize search results, fuzzy searches that would deal with situations where users have misspelled words, or text suggestions are all available on Azure Search. Finally a quick comparison on how does Azure Search compete with Lucene based Solr, one of the leading enterprise search platforms.

ASP.NET Web API constitutes one of the best frameworks in the field for the creation of http-based services. We will have the chance to learn some tips and tricks, drawn upon the experience of Entersoft in demanding environments and situations.

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