Session Title: Build a Business: Using Your Technical Skills To Build Your Own Business Speaker(s): Gethyn Ellis Abstract: Have you have wanted to run your own business? Work for yourself? Set your own agenda? Select the projects and even the clients that you work on? Then this session might be for you. In this session, [...]
Session Title: You know SQL? Then You’re set for real-time data processing with Azure Stream Analytics Speaker(s): Florian Eiden Abstract: You know SQL? You need to process data in real time? Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) is the service for you. But let’s dig a bit deeper and understand what makes a streaming query in ASA [...]
Session Title: Deadlocks – Analysing, Preventing and Mitigating Speaker(s): Erland Sommarskog Abstract: Deadlocks happens in the best of families, and an occasional deadlock is nothing to be alarmed of. But too many deadlocks can hamper throughput or be irritating for the users who encounter them, and in this case you need to investigate the deadlocks [...]
Session Title: My Favorite New T-SQL in SQL Server 2022 Speaker(s): Edward Pollack Abstract: SQL Server 2022 adds a variety of new T-SQL functions, as well as some excellent upgrades to existing functions. Want to generate a list on the fly without the need for a tally table? Tired of repeating window function syntax over [...]
Session Title: Effective Public Speaking in Tech Speaker(s): Edward Pollack Abstract: Public speaking is a critical life skill that benefits anyone in any field. The ability to effectively communicate ideas in meetings, presentations, or interviews is necessary to make the most of our technical skills. The greatest ideas in history would have been meaningless if [...]
Session Title: Managing Data Pipelines with Conductor Speaker(s): Doug Sillars Abstract: Data pipelines are a challenging part of working in data science. Netflix Conductor is a battle tested workflow orchestration tool invented at Netflix to automate millions of microservice workflows. Using a workflow tool like Conductor as a part of your data analysis pipeline can [...]
Session Title: Building AI/ML model effectively with Microsoft AI solutions Speaker(s): Eason Lai Abstract: The demand for AI/ML models and solutions keeps rising in the digital era. AI/ML models are infused into an entire digital transformation journey, from backend operation to front-end experience. But how do we effectively build AI/ML models to fulfill the demands? [...]
Session Title: What Git Metrics Can Tell You About Your Team Speaker(s): Dwayne McDaniel Abstract: As Lord Kelvin said: “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” It is vital to the success of every team that you have metrics and those metrics are simple to track. But what do you measure? For DevOps [...]
Session Title: Data Ingestion on Azure: Real-life Scenarios and Solutions Speaker(s): Dustin Vannoy Abstract: Data engineering involves more than just moving data around, but the data ingestion step is still critical to a successful data project. A foundation of the data lake or data warehouse is collecting and organizing the data. This typically involves a [...]
Session Title: Managing Data Pipelines with Conductor Speaker(s): Doug Sillars Abstract: Data pipelines are a challenging part of working in data science. Netflix Conductor is a battle tested workflow orchestration tool invented at Netflix to automate millions of microservice workflows. Using a workflow tool like Conductor as a part of your data analysis pipeline can [...]
