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[Post-Event] CloudBrew - Belgium, 2014

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This weeks I had the opportunity to attend to CloudBrew conference in Belgium The conference is organized by Azug (Belgium Microsoft Azure Group). I was surprised to discover an extremly active Azure community here.
There were two tracks in parallel where different aspects of cloud and Azure were presented. All the sessions were interesting. The most important thing at all sessions was that speakers shared their own experience with cloud and Azure (in this way we can learn more easily, from the mistakes of others). And of course the beer sampling was a great experience, the art of making and drinking : -) beer was shared with us.
In the second part of the day I delivered a session where I talked about how we can use Azure to improve the redundancy level of our systems with out of the box solutions offered by Microsoft Azure.
Below, you can find the slides from the session and a picture that I really enjoy.


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