As a Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Mike is an Azure goto for ISV’s (independent software vendors). He’s been active in the IT industry for more than 20 years and has performed almost all types of job profiles, going from coaching and leading a team to architecting and systems design and training. Today he’s primarily into the Microsoft Cloud Platform and Application Lifecycle Management. He’s not a stranger to both dev and IT Pro topics, they even call him the perfect hybrid solution.

In January 2012 he became a crew member of AZUG, the Belgian Microsoft Azure User Group. As an active member he’s both involved in giving presentations and organizing events (like ITProceed, Techorama and Global Azure Bootcamp aka GAB). Mike was also a Microsoft Azure MVP (awarded 5 times since 2013, received his Fifth in July 2017! ) and Microsoft Azure Advisor.

Helping out in the community and introducing new & young people into the world of Microsoft and technology is also one of his passions.

Failure is not an option : design for failure

we live in times where may of us are cloud building, sometimes even just cloud moving. This session will handle design for failure from an azure perspective in regards to architecture on a solution level and certain patterns. This session is not on microservices design (although it can be part of it) but rather on aspects of resilience, scalability, health and high availability.

we'll see how you can leverage some services in the Azure platform to help you , but also some reference architectures and best practices (+ tips on how to improve after the facts)