In today's technological landscape, the synergy between Cloud Native technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) opens the stage to a myriad of unexplored challenges and opportunities. Dynamic, always-on and highly scalable infrastructures, typical of the Cloud Native paradigm, seamlessly integrate with AI's need to rapidly prototype solutions and access vast computational resources. The convergence of these two worlds has exposed some gaps in the Cloud Native ecosystem that need to be addressed. At the same time, AI opens numerous opportunities for innovation that are yet to be explored. This talk will delve into the Cloud Native Artificial Intelligence (CNAI) paradigm as a holistic approach to unlocking the full potential of the cloud in managing AI workloads and aim to anticipate the growth opportunities that lie ahead for the Cloud Native world.
Graziano is a software engineer and passionate about agile development and product management. Formerly a developer of distributed systems in enterprise environments and a product manager, he focuses on sharing the myriad beauties of the cloud-native world. Active in international... Read More →
Discover how effortless it is to kickstart your AI app journey with GitHub and Azure. In this session, Gabriela de Queiroz, will demonstrate the power of starting with a GitHub repository from the Azure AI app template gallery. Participants will see the process unfold, beginning with GitHub Codespaces and a model from the GitHub Models catalog. Once the app is running smoothly locally, Gabriela will guide you through deploying it to Azure using the Azure Developer CLI. Plus, see how GitHub Copilot for Azure can simplify every step of your deployment process, answering all your questions along the way.
Gabriela de Queiroz is the Director of AI at Microsoft, where she provides strategic guidance to both early and growth-stage startups, helping them harness the full capabilities of AI and Microsoft’s products.Prior to joining Microsoft, Gabriela held significant positions at IBM... Read More →
The cloud-centric world has turned every line of code into a buying decision and highlighted the economic aspects of software design. After first struggling with the ramifications of this, (and a meager $3000.00 budget on my first cloud project in 2009) I discovered how cloud economics presented an opportunity to merge efficiency concepts taken from classic manufacturing with modern software engineering and architecture.
Since that time we have seen an industry wide focus on cloud cost management and new practices like FinOps emerge, but few have explored how to apply cloud economics directly to modern DevOps practices resulting in million dollar lines of code and unprofitable system design that has soured some on cloud computing as a whole. My experience however has been very different. I will share the lessons I've learned over the last 15 years treating cost as a key non-functional requirement during development.
By integrating the Theory of Constraints, Lean Manufacturing, and unit economics, alongside cloud cost efficiency goals and performance as crucial inputs, I will share a strategy that fosters continuous improvement and boosts profitability under current consumption-based cloud pricing models. This approach ensures an economical path from concept to deployment, and ongoing operations, without compromising innovation and time-to-market.
Erik Peterson is the Founder and CTO of CloudZero and a pioneer in engineering-led cost optimization and unit economics. He has been building in the cloud since its arrival and has over two decades of software startup experience, with a passion for cost-efficient engineering and excellent... Read More →
Daniel Myers, Snowflake, Director of Developer RelationsAPIs for data - do you start with the data model or the API model? Learn best practices and how to build data-intensive applications on Snowflake and large language models (LLMs). In this session, you’ll learn different API architectural patterns, including Connected Apps and Snowflake Native Apps. Daniel will demonstrate how to develop, deploy, and run applications directly on Snowflake.
With cross-functional experience in software engineering, product management, and business development, Daniel is the Director of Developer Relations at Snowflake. Daniel leads global, cross-functional teams in software development and customer adoption, with a focus on bottom-up... Read More →
GenAI has gone from generally available, novel technology to widely adopted in a matter of months. Most engineering organizations are using GenAI to generate code, write tests, and assist in code reviews. New code is becoming dirt cheap to write - but our delivery pipelines remain miserably unprepared for the tsunami of new code flowing at a much more rapid pace.
Our current pipelines need a hard reset to prepare us for the GenAI revolution - and engineering managers need to get started TODAY.
This talk will dive into where GenAI is starting to break down our delivery pipelines. While scaling CI/CD is easy, and we can always add a few more workers, scaling the humans in the process is the hard part. This talk will demonstrate how massive amounts of new machine-generated code will impact our pipelines, in ways that will require either greater headcount, or smarter, automated pipelines. You'll come away with ideas for how to modernize your delivery pipeline so you can fully embrace the GenAI revolution.
Yishai Beeri likes to solve problems, and that’s why he was so fascinated with programming when first encountered Logo back in the 80s, where the possibilities seemed endless.He has made it a focus of his career to solve complex programming problems, both as a consultant and entrepreneur... Read More →
