Azure App Modernization & Innovation Day: Remote April 15

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We are excited to announce Keyhole Software’s partnership with Microsoft to sponsor Azure App Modernization and Innovation Day on April 15th.

During this free educational event, attendees will have the opportunity to learn about Azure developer services and the latest on industry trends from Azure application development experts.

About Azure App Modernization and Innovation Day

Azure Dev Day is a free educational event hosted by Microsoft, partnered with Keyhole Software.

The agenda for the day will include three presentations with topics such as Azure App Services, Serverless Computing, Microservices & Containers, DevOps on Azure, AI for Developers and more!

This half-day educational event will occur remotely through live video on April 15, 2020.

Space is limited for each event, so reserve your seat to this free educational event today!

Azure Presentations

Application Modernization, Presentation #1

Presentation #1: Application Modernization – Dallas Monson, Keyhole Software

Applications power business, but there comes a time that even the most mission-critical applications must be modernized. The built-in, isolated applications of legacy are rapidly giving way to the multi-channel applications of the future.

By leveraging Azure’s serverless and managed services you can modernize and future-proof your applications. We will review how to perform the strategic activity of Application Portfolio Development as well as review several tactical modernization activities.

This presentation covers the challenges of modernization, the process of developing your application portfolio, modernizing using Azure, and utilizing strategies such as containers, microservices, serverless, and DevOps. For each piece, Azure technologies offer time and cost-saving benefits.

Topics Reviewed:

Cloud Readiness
Application Portfolio Development And Modernization
Modernization With Managed Services
Modernization With Containers
Modernization With Microservices
Modernization With Serverless
The Role Of Devops In Modernization

AI / Cognitive Services, Presentation #2

Presentation #2: AI / Cognitive Services – Derek Andre, Keyhole Software

This presentation will demonstrate Azure’s Vision and Content Moderator Cognitive Services on a fictitious social media application. It will show how to recognize items in uploaded images and to check for “inappropriate” material in images and text.

Topics Reviewed:

Tagging Visual Features
Detecting Objects
Categorizing Images
Machine-created Descriptions Of Images
Detect Faces
Text Moderation

App Services for Enterprise Applications, Presentation #3

Presentation #3: App Services for Enterprise Applications – Zach Gardner, Keyhole Software

In this presentation, Senior Consultant Zach Gardner discusses the following question: “How can App Services be used to deploy enterprise greenfield or legacy applications to production?”

This is the kind of presentation any architect or development manager looking toward the cloud will find beneficial. Common App Service resources that members of an enterprise need to understand will be introduced and explained.

Topics Reviewed:

Tenant, Subscription, Resource Groups
App Service Plan
Application Gateway With Web Application Firewall (Waf)
Web Apps
Web Jobs
App Insights
Sla (Budget And Performance) Alerts
Pros And Cons Of App Service

Schedule – April 15, 2020

8:30 AM: Event Start, Introduction
9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Presentation #1 – Application Modernization
10:00- 11:00 PM: Presentation #2 – AI / Cognitive Services
11:00 – 12:00 PM: Presentation #3 – App Services for Enterprise Applications