Microsoft Tech Summit

[DA-LION-619]

Anyone else here attending at the Sandton Convention Center.

 

[skimread]

No. Was sold out very quickly. Hanseman in SA events usually do.

 

[[)roi(]]

Anyone else here attending at the Sandton Convention Center.

What did you think was interesting; I scanned it and TBH nothing stood out.

 

[DA-LION-619]

What did you think was interesting; I scanned it and TBH nothing stood out.

The cloud based stuff.
Azure SQL DB.
Dev Ops with VSTS.

 

[[)roi(]]

The cloud based stuff.
Azure SQL DB.
Dev Ops with VSTS.

Not sure about you, but for a lot of that kind of stuff I prefer to just read the docs; as for this summit, there's really a lot of basic topics; which is a probably a choice to appeal to a wide audience, but that does make it pretty boring.

 

[DA-LION-619]

Not sure about you, but for a lot of that kind of stuff I prefer to just read the docs; as for this summit, there's really a lot of basic topics; which is a probably a choice to appeal to a wide audience, but that does make it pretty boring.

True but it's also nice to get perspective from the guys that are building the technologies and meet the people you follow on Twitter and find out the direction MS is going in.

Also to meet the developers that are using the MS stack and the processes they follow.

 

[InvisibleJim]

The topics I'm mostly interested in are tomorrow. Particularly intrigued to go to the 'Why does Microsoft Love Linux and Open source' session.

 

[reactor_sa]

There's hardly anything new to learn at the events, it's all online like 6months earlier. That and trying to find 2 days out of the office.....

 

[MielieSpoor]

The cloud based stuff.
Azure SQL DB.
Dev Ops with VSTS.

I was there but didn't go to the VSTS sessions as that is my day job. There wasn't really anything new they could show me.

It was worth it though.