CloudBrew 2024

CloudBrew 2024

CloudBrew 2024 was an inspiring Azure-focused conference filled with insightful sessions on security, networking, DevOps, and innovative cloud solutions. Over two days, I gained valuable knowledge from industry experts about cutting-edge practices and tools in the Azure ecosystem.

Highlights first day

• Security Essentials for Azure PaaS Lovers (Karim Vaes): A deep dive into securing Azure PaaS environments, starting from code to CI/CD, and exploring mitigations for different architectures.
• It's Always DNS: Pain Points with Azure PaaS and vNets (Rik Hepworth): Tackled the complexities of combining PaaS services with vNets, highlighting best practices for creating secure and efficient multi-environment architectures.
• Secure Access to Your Azure Environment (Barbara Forbes): Explored Azure security tools like MFA, PIM, JIT, and VPNs, balancing convenience with robust protection against threats.
• Better API Governance with Azure API Center (Massimo Crippa): Demonstrated how Azure API Center fosters API reuse, compliance, and collaboration for successful API programs.
• Building a Second Brain in Azure (Yves Goeleven): Showcased how to leverage Azure tools for personal knowledge management and productivity, helping architects stay ahead in their field.

Highlights second day

• High Performance Computing Made Easy (Wouter Gevaert): Explored Cycle Cloud and its simplicity in creating tailored HPC solutions with a live demo.
• Radius - Infrastructure Recipes (Eric Berg): Introduced Radius, an open-source platform enabling developers to deploy cloud-native apps across platforms without IaC expertise.
• DevOps at Netflix (Tejas Chopra): Gained insights into Netflix's DevOps culture and Agile practices that drive innovation and efficiency.
• Automating Complex Cloud Test Environments at Scale (Geert van der Cruijsen & René Vrijsen): A look at how ASML leverages cloud solutions to dynamically create test environments at scale for their cutting-edge machinery.
• Microservices Orchestration with Azure Container Apps (Eduard Keilholz): Explored microservices architecture and best practices for deploying and managing applications with Azure Container Apps.

CloudBrew 2024 reinforced my passion for cloud technologies and provided actionable insights I’m excited to apply in my projects.