2026-04-02 - Azug Session April
This will be our second session of the year! See you there? We are invited at the Zure offices in Sint-Martens-Latem.
Agenda
Navigating the integration wilderness: moving from monolith towards a cloud ecosystem
Microsoft integration evolved from a single, opinionated monolith into a powerful cloud ecosystem. Along the way, the guardrails disappeared, and Azure handed us the keys.
The old days enforced enterprise integration patterns whether you liked it or not. Azure Integration Services assumes you already know how to survive. The problem? Many modern integrations look like they were dropped into the wild, without preparation.
In this session, we’ll trace the evolution from monolith to ecosystem through real enterprise integration patterns. We’ll show why wiring services together isn’t architecture, how poor design decisions quickly surface through cost, reliability, and observability, and why ecosystems demand more discipline - not less.
We’ll close with a forward-looking perspective on how modern development approaches can accelerate integration work — provided you build structure, resilience, and balance into your ecosystem from day one.
Speaker: Pieter Vandenheede - CTO at Zure
Minority Report: observing Azure, the pre-cog way
Set in a near future where crime is stopped before it happens, Minority Report portrays a world ruled by foresight. A specialized police unit relies on three precognitive humans, the pre cogs, whose visions reveal murders before they occur. John Anderton, the unit’s chief investigator, enforces justice based on predicted intent rather than committed action. When he is himself accused of a future crime, he is forced to question the system he helped build and confront the danger of treating incomplete visions as absolute truth.
This session borrows that tension and applies it to Azure observability. Like the pre cogs, modern platforms should not merely surface numbers on a dashboard but reveal intent, sequence and consequence within applications. Minority Report reframes observability as an investigative discipline, shifting focus away from raw metrics toward application and functional understanding. Instead of asking what broke, we ask what was unfolding and why it mattered.
Using several Azure services and tools we can create the same experience like John Anderton/Tom Cruise did in the film (except for maybe without the classical music, but with metal or hard rock instead!)
The goal is not perfect prediction, but pre knowledge through evidence. Observability becomes less about surveillance and noise, and more about meaning, investigation and understanding what your systems are truly telling you.
Speaker: Mike Martin - Head of Cloud at DataCamp
Practical details
Event date: April 2nd, 2026 - you are welcome from 17:30, food served at 18:00, session starts 18:30.
Event location:
Zure
Xavier De Cocklaan 70
9831 Sint-Martens-Latem
Belgium