Azure AppDev 2021 - Trends

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Business
Transformation…
The rate of technological change is accelerating.
It’s unpredictable and unprecedented.
The key to surviving any industrial revolution is leading
it. That requires two key elements of agile businesses:
- an awareness of disruptive technology
- develop talent that can make the most of it.
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Application Innovation …
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Application Innovation …
• Organisations must exploit software technology to innovate, differentiate and disrupt.
• Investment in Applications that will enable innovation and provide business advantage over
competitors and their offerings
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Developer Velocity …
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Developer Velocity …
• Successful companies will be those that empower software developers
to achieve more.
• They need the best-in-class tools / platforms to unleash their capabilities
along with a culture of collaboration and sharing.
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Cloud - Secure IT infrastructure on tap …
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Cloud - Secure IT infrastructure on tap …
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Cloud - Secure IT infrastructure on tap …
https://azure1.io
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DevOps…
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DevOps…
The union of people, process, and products to
enable continuous delivery of value
Collaboration
Plan
Develop+T
est
Build+Release
Monitor+
learn
Requirements /
Work Items
Software
/ Data
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Application Platform Maturity …
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Application Platform Maturity …
On premise Azure Azure
Existing Apps Cloud
Infrastructure-ready
Cloud
DevOps-Ready
Monolithic
architecture
Monolithic
architecture
Monolithic
architecture
Rehost
Redeploy as-is
to cloud
Refactor
Minimally alter to take better
advantage of cloud
Rearchitect
Materially alter/decompose
application to services
Azure
Cloud Optimised
(Full PaaS & cloud native)
Microservices
architecture
Rebuild
New code written with Cloud-
Native approach
Migrate Innovate
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Cloud Native …
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Cloud Native …
Cloud-Native
Applications, born in the
cloud
Cross-Device
Cross-Platform
Intelligent
and Data-driven
Immersive
and Personal
Containers &
Orchestrators
Application
Services (PaaS)
APIs &
Microservices
Serverless
Seamlessly
integrated
DevOps
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Cross Device / Cross Platform…
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Cross Device / Cross Platform…
• Servers
• Desktops, Tablets, Mobiles
• Smart speakers, interactive voice units…
• Wearables, smart watches, heath monitoring devices …
• Mixed reality headsets …
• IoT Devices, sensors, control units …
• Games consoles
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Open Source / Inner Source…
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Open Source / Inner Source…
• Open source
• Inner source
• Facilitate code reuse
• Understand and mitigate against the risks of open
source
• Software Composition Analysis
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Infrastructure as Code…
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Integration …
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Integration …
Events
APIs Message
Workflows
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Low Code / Citizen Developer…
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Low Code / Citizen Developer…
Power Platform
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Application Security…
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Application Security…
• The measures taken to improve the security of an application often by finding, fixing, and preventing security
vulnerabilities.
• Microsoft has guidance, tooling and services to help make sure application security is automated and baked into DevOps
in a pervasive manner.
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Identity …
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Identity …
• Authentication v Authorization
• Azure AD
• Azure AD B2
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Intelligent Edge…
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Intelligent Edge…
• Ubiquitous connectivity and inexpensive devices …
• IoT Edge Runtime
• IoT Hub
• Azure ARC
• Azure Stack
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Data …
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Data …
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Accessibility …
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Sustainable Software Engineering …
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Remote Development…
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