Recap of Cloud Stories from Norway, Episode 10: Building a Service Platform on Azure and using Azure Durable Functions in Forte Digital

The next episode of the “Cloud stories from Norway” video show is ready for watching! In this 40-minutes long show we feature Azure cloud best practices, patterns, tips & tricks used in production in the products and services of well-known Norwegian companies.

What do you think about learning cloud technology by exploring how the real-world solutions were built? Technical stories about cloud development presented by the local experts are a powerful addition to the documentation, guides, articles.

Cloud Stories from Norway series is exactly about that: we invite the developers who work for well-known companies and build services, applications, solutions many of us use every day to tell their cloud stories. To share their best practices, patterns, tips & tricks which we can get inspiration from, learn, and use in our own projects.

For this episode, Maxim Salnikov from Microsoft invited Christer V. Aas and Bjørn Erik Glomsrud – developers from Forte Digital, a consultancy that acts as an interdisciplinary knowledge hub and a long-term digital partner for many companies in Norway.

From their two short, focused tech sessions and a panel discussion right after, you will learn about

• How Forte Digital builds an Azure-based service platform for Norges Gruppen company: a set of the best practices, patterns, documentation, code samples, and other practical tool to help with the cloud adoption – to build applications and share data in the most efficient and scalable way.
• Azure Functions and Azure Durable Functions – the things you would like to know before using them, based on the practical experience of using them in a large service platform.
• Many more technical tips & tricks to skill you up on cloud technologies!

The video is available online, you can watch it here.

Stay tuned for the next episode of the “Cloud stories from Norway”!

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• Do not forget to add “Azure” to your skills on the LinkedIn profile
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Feel free to send your questions about the Azure cloud technology and educational events here: maxim.salnikov@microsoft.com

Maxim Salnikov
Developer Engagement Lead at Microsoft Norway