Microsoft Reactor London Meetups are a community of like-minded engineers, developers, professionals and students, allowing you to connect with people, skills, and technology to enhance your career or personal learning.
Our regular meetups are an opportunity to hear from leaders in the industry about challenges, tooling and best practices. If you are interested in speaking or want to suggest a talk you’ve heard before, please do let us know (no vendor / recruitment / sales pitches please).

Agenda
6:00PM – Doors Open
6:30PM – Welcome by Liam Hampton, Regional CA
6:35 PM – 7:10PM – Zero to DevOps with Azure Container Apps by Tarun
7:10 – 7:15PM – Questions
7:15PM – 7:45PM – Break 🍕
7:45PM – 8:15PM – Debugging and Monitoring Serverless Applications with App Insights by Johan Sciard
8:20PM – 9:00PM – Networking

Talk 1:
Zero to DevOps with Azure Container Apps

Learn how Visual Studio Code, GitHub and Azure Container Apps makes it so easy to build cloud native applications.

In this demo only session we’ll walk through building a dotnet core api into a docker container and scaling it using container apps and plugging in continuous deployment using GitHub Actions.

Speaker Bio
Tarun Arora, Head of Application Transformation , Sr Director @ Avanade UKI and Microsoft MVP
Tarun Arora (@arora_tarun) is obsessed with high-quality working software, cloud engineering, lean architectures, and Agile practices. Tarun works for Avanade as Head of Application Transformation, where he helps clients realise value by accelerating their digital transformations. He is a Microsoft MVP in Azure Development technologies and can be often seen presenting at International conferences. Follow him on his YouTube channel - http://bit.ly/azuredevopstv

Talk 2:
Debugging and Monitoring Serverless Applications with App Insights

You've deployed a Serverless application but it's not working?

Leverage App Insights to understand the performance, availability and failures of your Serverless Application and leverage features of Auto-Scaled App Services to troubleshoot issues on the go.

In this presentation, we'll walkthrough how App Insights can tie into your Azure DevOps CICD process while troubleshooting issues inside an application. This demo will showcase: App Insights, Azure App Services (auto-scaled), Deployment Slots and Azure DevOps.

Speaker Bio
Johan is an Engineer within Microsoft's Customer Success Unit who focus on helping customers build and develop cloud capabilities. As part of their work, a core mission they have undertaken is to help raise awareness and understanding of how Azure can be leveraged further and more efficiently to enable digitalization and application innovation within organisations. Their goal is to empower all developer communities to achieve more.