Speaker

Pieter Vandenheede

Pieter Vandenheede

Chief Architect, Founder Zure Belgium, MCT

Menen, Belgium

Pieter Vandenheede is the chief architect and founder of Zure Belgium.
He is specialized in Azure cloud architecture and cloud-native development.

Passionate about tech, sci-fi, community, basketball and a father of 2, trying to bring all things together in a single mind, which sometimes succeeds :-)

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Cloud Computing
  • Machine Learning & AI
  • Cloud Integration
  • Data Platform
  • Microsoft Technologies
  • Azure PaaS
  • REST API
  • .NET
  • Web API
  • Azure DevOps
  • Azure Cognitive Services
  • Azure App Service
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure Data & AI
  • Azure Logic Apps
  • Azure IoT
  • Azure Security
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Azure

Playing the game with Azure Cognitive Services

Azure Cognitive Services offers the most comprehensive portfolio in the market for developers who want to embed AI capabilities into their applications and platforms.

During this session, Pieter will give you an overview into the Azure Cognitive Services offering. Armed with machine learning algorithms, he will show how AI can help you reach some hard to achieve goals and how to integrate them within your applications.

This session covers an extensive demo using cognitive services in combination with custom vision to recognize the blackjack value of a set of card.

Enable warp speed on your .NET APIs

In a fast, digital world, data should be served at the speed of light... some however are stuck at impulse speed.... Do you own or operate a .NET API that is not performing as expected? Learn how to boost the performance!

In this session, Pieter brings a real-life example of an underperforming .NET API, He will go over a few steps and show you what you can do to improve and measure the performance of your .NET APIs using load/performance testing and Azure tooling.

Pieter will use tools like Azure App services & autoscaling, k6, Azure Redis Cache, Azure API Management, JSON serializers and a touch of profiling to find the bottlenecks and increase performance.

Expect demos and lessons learned on how we boosted performance and utilization of one of our APIs for one of our customers.

"Paradise by your dashboard light" - Make your dashboards work for you

Admit it, hardly anyone is using your out-of-the-box Azure dashboard, tucked away in some obscure resource group.
It's cool to be able to show the number of exceptions, DTU or CPU usage or how much you spend, but is it really that useful?

Stop right there!

These days, everyone knows how to create basic dashboards in Azure, but only few teams and organizations are truly leveraging the dashboarding potential of Azure.
Pieter will take you on a journey through monitoring, metrics, telemetry and KPIs, to show you how you can effectively create useful dashboards that work for you, your team and the business owners.
He will provide some valuable insights and examples for different audiences and scenarios, so that you can walk away from this session with a bag full of ideas to create dashboards that truly shine!

Or would you rather sleep on it?

DevCon 23

RWE DevCon 23

May 2023 Essen, Germany

Visug User group

March 2023

NDC London 2023

January 2023 London, United Kingdom

CloudBrew 2022 - A two-day Microsoft Azure event

November 2022 Mechelen, Belgium

Global Azure Virtual

April 2020 Seattle, Washington, United States

Global Integration Bootcamp 2020 - Rotterdam

March 2020 Rotterdam, Netherlands

Pieter Vandenheede

Chief Architect, Founder Zure Belgium, MCT

Menen, Belgium