Moving our enterprise app to the cloud: Notes from the field - Rik Hepworth

We've had an enterprise application running on-premises for security-conscious customers for five+ years. Even though we designed it to be straightforward to move the Azure, lots happened in those years. In this session I'll talk about how we originally planned for cloud migration, what really happened, and what we've learned so far on the journey. We've got it all: a mobile client app, sensitive data, integration with external systems, business-critical service. As we built our first full cloud environment we found several young services that really helped us, and some older services we expected to be easy that proved to be less so.

Note: This session is a technical migration session, but doesn't go into code. It covers the application components on-premises and what the resulting cloud architecture looks like, with discussion around why services were chosen or discounted for our first deployment, and what we learned on the way.

Rik Hepworth

Rik is Chief Consulting Officer at Black Marble, a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award and a Microsoft Regional Director. He is an organiser of the DDD and DDD North UK community events and a member of the admin team for the Global Azure worldwide community event.