Pieter Vandenheede

Chief Architect, Founder Zure Belgium, MCT

About

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 :-) In the past has spoken at conferences and user groups such as NDC, DevCon, AZUG, MIUG, VISUG and BTUG.

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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.