Speaking on Azure Event Grid at the Microsoft Tech Summit in Sydney

I’m really excited about the opportunity to speak at the Microsoft Tech Summit in Sydney this week! This free two-day event is a technical learning opportunity with a focus on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. There are some great sessions lined up with mostly Microsoft speakers, and although my partner slot is only 15 minutes, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share my thoughts on Azure Event Grid with the community:

Unfortunately with such a short time frame, there won’t be the opportunity to share and demonstrate the scenario which I’ve blogged about here, but I hopefully will have time to do a very short demo of the blob storage integration. In my preparation, I’ve been able to whittle down the execution time to less than three minutes, which includes:

• Showing a pre-created Azure blob storage account with a single empty container
• Provisioning an Event Grid subscription to blob creation events from within this storage account
• Targeting the subscription at a URL from Request Bin
• Uploading a file to the blob container using Azure Storage Explorer
• Observing the event message displayed in Request Bin

Getting all this to work smoothly in a limited time will feel a bit like a Mister Maker “Make It in a Minute” challenge – but Event Grid makes it so easy to integrate with Azure services that I’m pretty confident in being able to pull it off.

Right now, the preview version only accepts a limited number of publishers and subscribers from Azure, but these options will expand over the coming months:

And with support for custom topics and WebHook subscriptions, Event Grid is capable of handling events from anywhere today that can publish a properly formatted message to a URL and provide the necessary SAS token!

If you’re going to be in Sydney at the event, please be sure to drop by the Amplify 1 stage at 9:15am on Thursday and check out my presentation! You won’t be disappointed. And don’t be shy about coming up to say “Hi” – I’ll be around for the rest of the two days, including the MVP  “Meet the Expert” sessions.