DevOps

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A Practical View of Release Management for Visual Studio 2015

This session provides a detailed technical presentation of the functionality and architecture of Release Management for Visual Studio 2015. We start by presenting an overview of the key concepts, arch ... more

Level: Advanced

Speaker: Paul Hacker

Topics: DevOps   Visual Studio  

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Automate Your Workflow, Enhance Your Workflow, Maintain Your Sanity with Gulp

Have you ever joined a project already in development? Maybe you've taken over a project from another developer. It's a fact; the majority of projects these days have multiple developers working in un ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Brandon Krueger

Topics: Development Practices   DevOps  

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Chef on Azure - Let’s Get Cooking

Infrastructure as code is becoming increasingly popular across the industry. Automating configuration management creates a repeatable and testable process for infrastructure deployment, allows for sel ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Alexandra Rosenbaum

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps  

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Chef, Meet Azure

You’ve all seen the little Chef icon when deploying to Azure. What’s it mean? How can you use that in your Azure deployment? In this session we will show you how to integrate Chef on Azure into full d ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Trevor Hess

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps  

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Continuous Delivery & Operational Visibility

Leverage the capabilities of the cloud to enable Continuous Delivery. Continuous delivery, however, is more than just the rapid development, testing, and deployment of application features. It also i ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: R. Michael Querimit

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps   Visual Studio  

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Distributed Agile

We live and work in a global and distributed environment. It is no longer the norm to have everyone in one location for software development projects. Whether people are working from home, or the othe ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Jonathan Mills

Topics: Agile   DevOps  

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Git your .NET On!

People generally don't think of version control systems as cool. That was before Git came along. Git is a distributed version control system that gives developer a level of power and flexibility that ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: James Bender

Topics: DevOps  

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How TFS 2015 is Going to Rock Your Agile world!

If you’ve been using Team Foundation Server for a while, you know it can do everything short of making you a latte as you walk into your morning scrum. TFS has come a long way in the last 10 years, an ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Angela Dugan

Topics: Agile   DevOps  

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Implementing Continuous Integration in .NET for cheapskates

Using Continuous Integration in your project is a great way to significantly reduce integration problems, identify and resolve issues quickly, and develop cohesive software more rapidly. In this sess ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Matthew Henroid

Topics: DevOps  

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Introduction to Dev-Ops: 2+2=5

As professionals in the software development industry, we're asked to deliver value more quickly to our business overlords. We have suffered through terminology changes of how to act: Agile, ALM, and ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Chris Kadel

Topics: Agile   DevOps  

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Team Foundation Server Building Extravaganza 2015

Things like continuous integration and automated build are pretty ubiquitous in the industry today. Microsoft has changed the build system significantly in TFS 2015 and in this talk, we intend to tak ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Chris Kadel

Topics: DevOps  

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TFS & GIT: How to Enable Remote Teams To Work Efficiently

Git is a free version control system known for its speed, reliability, and non-linear development model. Created by Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux), Git is a distributed version control tool whereas ... more

Level: Intermediate

Speaker: Derrick Cawthon

Topics: DevOps   Visual Studio  

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The API Economy

Who would have thought that API's would be such a popular new "face" of organizations? For some companies, these API's are a new way to attract customers. For others, API's offer a completely new reve ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Jeff Fattic

Topics: Azure & Cloud   DevOps   Web Services  

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Tools and Techniques for Efficiently Running a Software Company or Managing a Software Team

Managing a software team or company can be tricky and one of the things we often get asked about is how we do this efficiently. During this session ArchitectNow President Kevin Grossnicklaus will di ... more

Level: Beginner

Speaker: Kevin Grossnicklaus

Topics: DevOps  

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