Friday
Room 3 - Level 4
15:00 - 16:00
(UTC±00)
Talk (60 min)
Workflows of Highly Functional App & Data Engineering Teams
How does a highly functional development team manage enterprise data engineering? They focus on the core principles of Schema Management, Standards Enforcement, Database Testing, and Automated Incremental Deployment. Microsoft brings an agonizing menu of choices to architects and engineers; they can be a challenge to wade through. This session can help. Let’s review how some of the world’s largest and most critical app & data engineering teams handle change management, observability, and quality at enterprise scale.
Goals:
• Understand how enterprise teams manage schema control, including versioning, migrations, and updates, to ensure data consistency across all environments.
• Explore how enterprise teams ensure engineering quality through automated testing, code reviews, and standards enforcement.
• Learn how enterprise teams automate reliable delivery through continuous integration and deployment, reducing errors and improving efficiency.
Jerry Nixon
Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft Product Manager for SQL Server, focusing on SQL Developer Experiences and Data API builder. With more than two decades of experience, he excels in developing, designing, and delivering software. He's spoken at tiny venues and giant launch events. He's trained thousands of developers. Jerry is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Colorado Christian University in Denver. Advocating for users and clean, maintainable code, Jerry's core passions lie in accessible design, data engineering, and plain-ole software development. He has a deep history of field engineering for Microsoft's largest customers and craziest products. While most of his days revolve around Outlook, Visual Studio, and online Docs, what he enjoys most is teaching his three beautiful daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.