This Hack enables attendees to learn how to implement mission-critical data solutions for modern applications.

This Hack simulates a real-world scenario where developers need to migrate a monolithic legacy application to a cloud-based NoSQL environment, taking advantage of microservices and event sourcing.

During the “hacking” attendees will focus on:

1. Migrating an existing on-premise database to the cloud (using NoSQL as data solution) and then collecting and storing real-time data in the new NoSQL data platform.
2. Optimizing the NoSQL database through modeling, implementing a good partition strategy, indexing, denormalization, creating materialized views, and tuning throughput for varying workloads. Next, attendees will implement an event sourcing pattern to optimize, scale, and distribute the processing of streaming data in realtime.
3. Expanding search capabilities by enabling full-text, fuzzy, and faceted searches against the data store.
4. Configuring replicas across multiple regions worldwide.

By the end of the Hack, attendees will have built out a technical solution that incorporates several complementary Azure services for stream processing, data storage, and visualization. These services work together to create an end-to end modern, flexible, and scalable cloud-native NoSQL data solution to store, process, and access any required business data.

App Modernization with NoSQL Hackathon