In-Depth Training for Developers

Looking for intense developer training to help you take your dev career to a new level? VSLive! Training Seminars take our world-class education to you in an intimate virtual setting with an industry expert as your guide. Keep up-to-date on some of the hottest trends in the developer world to drive your career forward. These engaging and high-impact training seminars provide in-depth education and knowledge-share, networking with fellow peers, and one-on-one interaction with a skilled instructor to take what you have learned back to your office.


Who Should Attend?

This technical VSLive! training seminar is tailored for software developers, engineers and architects that design, implement and operate modern distributed cloud-native applications on the Microsoft platform with .NET 6 or later. Experience with container technology is highly recommended to get the most out of your workshop, but not required.

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2-Day Training Seminar:
Building and Deploying Microservice Applications Using .NET9 and Dapr on Azure Container Apps

March 4-5, 2025

9:00AM – 5:00PM Central

Level: Intermediate

Modern distributed applications require much more than just application logic. Features such as state management for services, communication using publish/subscribe messaging might be needed. When you want to build Cloud-native software, you often end up deploying to a Kubernetes cluster. But can't this be done in a simpler way?

Yes, and this is where Dapr and Azure Container apps come into play.

Dapr introduces a runtime to offer such building blocks, and is less invasive in your application, allowing you to pick and choose what you need. In this workshop, we will look at the approach that the Dapr runtime takes with a sidecar architecture, separating application logic from the Dapr runtime components. You will learn how to develop distributed applications in .NET using Dapr features. You will first run your app locally, before deploying it to Azure Container Apps.

Azure Container Apps supports the use of Dapr out of the box, so you have a match made in heaven. It’s a simplified way of running microservices, deployed to managed infrastructure. Azure Container Apps also brings you nice features such as jobs, blue/green deployments and autoscaling using Keda.

Join this hands-on workshop to get ready to deploy your own microservice applications using Dapr on Azure Container Apps.

What you will learn:

  • How Dapr accelerates building Microservice Apps
  • How to deploy Microservices Apps to Azure Container Apps
  • How to develop & test locally, and how to deploy to Azure

Attendee Workstation Requirements:

You must provide your own computer (Windows or Mac) for this seminar with a camera, Internet connection, speakers, and a microphone.

A laptop with a modern browser is required. We will use GitHub Codespaces to offer a ready-to-use development environment.

Meet Our Speakers

Alex Thissen
Architect, Lead Developer, and Mentor, Xebia

Alex is an application development enthusiast since the late nineties and works as an architect, lead developer and mentor at large enterprises and small companies. He spends his time teaching other developers the details of the Microsoft development platform and frameworks, and coaches architects to design and build modern distributed applications at cloud scale. He has received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for Visual Studio and Development Technologies since 2007. In his spare time Alex likes to participate in all kinds of sport, and loves playing and programming new and retro video games.

Loek Duys
CTO, Xebia

Loek is the CTO at Xebia Microsoft Services NL, Cloud architect, and Microsoft Azure MVP, helping companies modernize their IT all the way; Cloud strategy, SecDevOps practices, and Continuous Delivery. He spends most of his days helping teams by providing advice, hands-on assistance, solving problems and delivering technical training. A couple of times per year, he speaks at international conferences and workshops. By being a consultant, international speaker, trainer, active contributor to open-source projects, and forum participant, he loves to share knowledge with the community.

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Top Reasons to Join Us!

In-Depth Training

If you are a developer, data engineer, architect, IT leader, Chief Data Officer, Chief Technology Officer, or industry professional looking for training, VSLive! Training Seminars provide focused in-depth training with one of the top experts in the field. Attend virtually and learn the steps and design principles to set you on the right path to building modern, cloud-ready applications in .NET and C#.

Networking

With small classes and an expert instructor, the intimate virtual setting of these training courses allows for networking with your peers to learn from their experiences, problem-solve, and brings solutions back to your office.

Get the Most Out of Your Time

If you don’t have time for a full 4, 5, or 6-day conference, look no further. VSLive! Virtual Training Seminars provide in-depth, actionable training in a two-day format to fit in with your busy schedule.

Looking For More? If you are interested in more developer training offerings, check out vslive.com and live360events.com to explore the events, sessions, workshops and hands-on training options we offer.

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Seminar Pricing

Packages
Early Bird Registration through February 14th
Standard Registration through March 4th
2-day seminar (per attendee)
$1,400
$1,550
Team - 2-Day for Groups of 3 or More (per attendee)
$1,350
$1,500

DISCOUNTS are available for alumni, government employees, and educators. For more information, contact us at sross@converge360.com, or 949.296.9840. Part of a team of 3 or more? Contact us at sross@converge360.com, or 949.296.9840 for more information and pricing.

Questions?
Contact Our Conference Registrar
Sara Ross
Call: 949.296.9840
Email: sross@converge360.com

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