Running a Real World, Mission-Critical System on Azure

Explore the challenges and solutions of running a mission-critical system on Azure in this NDC London 2023 conference talk. Learn about controlled deployment, infrastructure resilience, and system health monitoring through real-world experiences. Discover how to leverage Docker, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL, and design patterns to build robust systems. Gain insights into software architecture principles, automated delivery, and infrastructure deployment. Examine strategies for handling service outages, including the Retry and Circuit breaker patterns, and understand the importance of distributed caching in maintaining system reliability.

The European Gas network
Replacing the earlier system
Our software architecture principles
Services of the Gas storage
Zooming in on the Dispatch service
Demo: Dapr, Docker and other useful tools
Automated software delivery
Azure Architecture
Automated infrastructure deployment
Dealing with service outages, by adding resilience
The Retry pattern
The Circuit breaker pattern
Distributed caching