Managing Director / Chief Engineer
Germany
Managing Director at 4PS Germany, Chief Engineer at Hilti, Microsoft RD & dual Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain
Tobias Fenster started as a developer in the 1990s. Holding different positions including Head of Technical Consulting, Head of Development and CTO for multiple Microsoft partners during his career, he is now a Managing Director at 4PS Germany and Chief Engineer at Hilti. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, holds dual Microsoft MVP awards for Business Applications and Azure and is a Docker Captain. He is blogging on tobiasfenster.io, where he writes about Business Applications, Docker and Windows Containers, but also tooling like Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code and infrastructure automation. His other focus is Azure, mainly around container environments and SQL.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is gaining traction. But how does development work in that product and how does the CI/CD and general ALM story look like? In this session, you will learn about the basics and take an app from zero to production.
Read moreContainers have taken the world of running applications by storm. But you can also use them to vastly improve your development setup. In this session you will see the different tools and approaches from local to remote to serverless development. You will see devcontainers in VS Code, remote development machines and Github Codespaces
Read moreConsuming 3rd party APIs has become a standard task for a lot of developers and organizations. However, this typically means a dependency on a 3rd party who need to make test systems available, maintain the data or even provide a setup for CI/CD. In this session, you will see how you can get rid of that dependency through a (free and open source) tool called WireMock to make your dev and test workflows a lot easier. We will use Business Central as an example, but the concept and usage of WireMock would be similar in other Dynamics 365 offerings - and actually any API consuming scenarios
Read moreHopefully, you are no longer managing your Azure infrastructure manually through the Azure Portal, aka "ClickOps". Infrastructure as Code approaches like Bicep or Terraform have seen a lot of uptake in the last couple of years and certainly are a big step forwards. But what if we could take that approach to the next level by managing your resources directly in a Git repository and letting a tool handle the rollout and maintenance? That is the idea of GitOps! In this session, you will learn about the basics of using GitOps with Azure and see in hands-on demos how it actually works
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