How do you pimp your festival? With a chat bot!

Last week, we teamed up with 20 different developers for a hackathon to create a chat bot for the Eurosonic Noorderslag festival. Eurosonic Noorderslag is an annual festival for new and upcoming artists with over 40,000 attendees. The purpose of our bot is to provide the attendees with near real-time answers to everything related to the festival. Together with these developers we built a fully functioning bot using the Azure Bot Framework. In this blog I'll briefly introduce the technology we h »

My journey from AWS to Azure

Before joining Microsoft a little over three months ago, I was not familiar with the Azure Cloud whatsoever and I replaced my Windows machine with an Apple MacBook several years ago without ever looking back. I have been a software engineer for the last 10 years, but when working in the cloud I have always developed in Amazon's AWS Cloud while working at various startups. When I signed up to become a Technical Evangelist at Microsoft I knew this was about to change. I spent the last month and a »