Techorama 2016

For the past four years, the engineers behind Microsoft Bing search engine has been on a journey towards DevOps and Continuous Improvement. Join us for a fun session full of learnings and interesting facts.

DevOps has many facets. During this session we will take you through some of the key practices, that has enabled the 600 engineers at Bing to implement Continuous Delivery and push as much as 4000 individual changes per week.

It´s really about Agility and being able to get an idea as you are driving to work in the morning, and by that following afternoon, to see it in production, generating telemetry for the next iteration.

The introduction of Agile and Scrum for development teams meant a radical change in the way that software was developed. The bottleneck of delivering software on time and budget was no longer caused by the software development teams but shifted towards software delivery. Being able to ship the done increment on demand was the next big step. Many companies are still busy with implementing Continuous Delivery but in many cases it is only sub-optimization of the process and tools that are already in place. Continuous Delivery means a different look at your ALM process and software development. Re-inventing your software development process and using state-of-the-art tooling and technology to make this happen. This means the use of Distributed Version Control, Continuous Integration done right, Release pipelines, Automated Testing and the use of Container technology like Docker to enable this.

In this session we will talk about how you can create an application for the next generation. We will create an asp . Net application and will be using Docker and VSTS to deliver this application in a fully automated way

Get ready from some action !

With continuous delivery we strive for delivering features on demand any time we want. This is of course something that can be challenging if you run an operation that needs to be available 24x7. In this session we will have a look at different technologies that we have at hand to separate feature deployments from feature exposure, making it possible to make releasing a feature to the end user nothing more then the flip of a switch. We will have a look at how we can use the different technologies like feature toggles and traffic management to implement continuous delivery release techniques like A/B Testing, Canary releases and dark launching. 

The age old task of racking and stacking in a physical data centre is becoming more and more rare as more companies embrace the public cloud. Having the ability to chose between providers such as AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean and Google Cloud Platform makes creating infrastructure easy. It is better to spend time developing better services for our customers than managing infrastructure

During this talk, Paul will demonstrate how building a scalable infrastructure on AWS becomes easy with Terraform. The talk will demonstrate how using configuration management, pre-baked AMIs and auto-scaling groups it gives the ability for developers to be able to launch their own infrastructure when needed. The demo’s will include the ability to launch instances, databases and manage user access

By the end of the talk, Paul will have demonstrated that the creation of infrastructure now becomes part of the development lifecycle and that the old ways of system administration is fast moving to become infrastructure engineering. Paul will also demonstrate that the creation of new ‘environments’ are just a change of parameters in our infrastructure code

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  One of the biggest changes in Windows Server 2016 will be support for containers. Containers are the latest buzz in IT technology. They enable you to isolate your applications from the underlying OS improving the deployment and reliability of those applications. Windows Server 2016 will provide two kinds of native containers: Windows Server Containers and Hyper-V Containers. Windows Server Containers are isolated from each other but they run directly on the Windows Server 2016 OS. Hyper-V Containers provide enhanced isolation by running the containers from a Hyper-V VM. This session will provide an overview of Windows Server containers and will show you how to create and manage them. 
  
  

Nowadays, software companies need to provide stable applications, rather sooner than later, to a world which is very unforgiving when it comes to its apps. To respond to this need, companies often solely focus on the development-part, 'forgetting' to invest in the application lifecycle itself.

In this session, Pieter and Jef will dive into testing, demonstrating unit, integration and coded UI tests. They will show you how to implement effective logging and monitoring and how to set up a simple build pipeline for your app. The technologies used for this session are Visual Studio, SpecFlow, Application Insights and Visual Studio Team Services.

After this session, you should have a good understanding on how to mature your software development process.

The dream of any DevOps solution is to make the provisioning and deployment to environments seamless. In this session we will show you how this dream can be achieved using the latest advances in Visual Studio Team Services and Azure.

 We will show how you can use utilise Azure Resource Templates to define your environment then the latest features of VSTS Release Management to create an end to end deployment of you environment and application, with appropriate testing.

 We will also discuss how these techniques could potentially be used for on-premises scenarios now and in the future

Wouldn't you like to be able to automatically test a web site on behalf of the user, rather than manually running the website and doing it yourself? Then you're in the right place. In this session, you'll learn how to write a few lines of code that can replace all the manual Web UI testing that you've been doing. You'll learn how to write a test one time to run again and again. We'll discuss how to automatically fill in forms, navigate, and do any action that the user might do, but automatically, and with no user! Now you can ensure a higher quality of your software the easy way with automation.