Tales from the Azure Migration Trenches - Jimmy Bogard - NDC Sydney 2024

"Join Jimmy Bogard for a tale of migrating applications and databases to Azure, covering the Azure migration process, planning, and tools such as Azure Migrate, Azure DevOps, and Azure Data Studio, and more."

Key takeaways
  • Azure migration process involves phases: discovery, assessment, planning, migration, and validation
  • Understand the application, identify the critical components, and prioritize migration
  • Use Azure Migrate tool to analyze and migrate applications and databases
  • Azure deployment takes time and requires careful planning and testing
  • Consider using infrastructure as code tools like Terraform for infrastructure automation
  • Use Azure DevOps for build and deploy pipelines
  • Use Azure SignalR for real-time communication
  • Use transactional replication to synchronize data between on-prem and Azure databases
  • Use Azure Data Studio for data migration and exploration
  • Use Azure SQL Migration extension for SQL database migration