ANTON BOYKO
Founder and main speaker of Ukrainian Microsoft Azure Community

10+ years in application development. Building apps based on Microsoft Azure platform since 2011. Microsoft Azure technical expert. Microsoft Azure MVP since 2014. Owner and one of the organizers of the most popular Microsoft Azure conferences in Ukraine: Azure Day and Global Azure Bootcamp.

"Azure Functions - the evolution of microservices platform or marketing gibberish?"

When many people hear the word microservices, they think of Kubernetes. And it’s hard to blame them: the utilization of Docker containerization together with Kubernetes orchestration really seems like a match made in heaven.

But, there is a new name in town: serverless (or FaaS). It seems it can offer you all the stuff that Kubernetes has and more. Native support for .NET, Java, Python, Node. Out-of-the-box binding for things like HTTP incoming requests (for Web API), incoming queue message (for processing async tasks), time-based trigger, etc. It also comes with micro billing (you pay only for execution time, not for idle time) and 0-to-infinite scalability. But is it all too good to be true? Aren't there any drawbacks? Is it all a huge marketing scheme to make us actually pay more? Let's find out.

IURII IVON
EPAM Solution Architect, Microsoft Competency Center Expert

14 years in Software Development (8 years at EPAM Dnipro). Main Focus: Solution Architecture, mainly based on Microsoft technologies, performance analysis and improvement. Business Areas: Medical Laboratory Systems, Commodity Trading, Loan Origination. Expert Areas: .NET, Relational and Non-Relational Databases

Iurii has been working in lead positions on different projects since 2007. He is experienced in various areas and technologies including WEB and desktop applications, WEB services, and solutions with mixed technology stack (.NET, + Java).

“Migrating from a monolith to microservices – is it worth it?”

The term ‘microservices’ has become so popular that many people see it as a silver bullet for all architectural problems, or at least as a trend that should be followed. If your project is a monolith today, does it make sense to move towards microservices? This presentation overviews painful issues to be considered when migrating from a monolith to microservice architecture, ways to solve them, and ideas on the feasibility of such migration.