Interested in learning GraphQL? Or having a hard time to get started? Perfect! In this one-day hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to setup and use GraphQL in your next JavaScript project. This workshop consists of two parts: First you’ll learn how to use a GraphQL server with Apollo Server and play around with the endpoint using GraphQLi. After the “backend” part is covered, you’ll create a frontend application using React and Apollo that can extract and mutate data using GraphQL easily.

Building cloud-native applications and services that will run in the cloud, both public and private, is an important decision to make in order to achieve continuous delivery, reliability, and faster time to market. In this session, we will talk about building cloud-native services for Azure, using the latest version of .NET. What are containers? What is all this Kubernetes talk? Should you use microservices for all your future projects? How do you manage your data? How do you implement logging, metrics, and secret management?