DevSum 2026 - Two Talks and a Workshop
Anyone who knows me knows I have a soft spot for the DevSum conference in Stockholm. Part of this is because I get to visit my home country and meet friends from all around the world. Another part is that DevSum is such a well-organized conference that it’s a joy to speak there! The conference has a long history and many returning speakers and attendees year after year, witch makes it almost feel like a small family.
This year I got to experience something completely new: the terror and excitement of running my first 100% self-written workshop. I have run workshops before but never created the entire thing from scratch, and let me tell it is a lot of work. The workshop went well and I got a lot of great feedback and ideas on things I can fix and improve further. I had lovely attendees who were keen to learn and who made the day an absolute delight.
My workshop is called “Production-Ready Azure Functions: Build, Tune, and Scale High-Performance Serverless Apps.” The group go from a simple PDF-to-Markdown conversion function to a fully orchestrated workflow by the end of the day. As we move through the modules, attendees learn about all the concepts that make up Azure Functions. Along the way, we cover telemetry, correlation IDs in logs, resource tagging, parallelism, trigger performance, and cold starts. We also use multiple programming languages and configure Azure Functions for performance and scale.
The next day I had the pleasure and honor to get on stage together with not one, not two, but three of my fellow speakers. I shared the stage with Chris Ayers, Scott Hunter and Tiberiu Covaci to talk about agentic software development with GitHub Copilot and Squad. During the evening we built a social site for conferences and discussed architecture and mobile capabilities of web apps. I had a blast and I think it resonated well with the audience too!
On the last day of the conference I yet again spoke about Azure Functions with my talk “Azure Functions – Performance Sins and Their Penance” where I go through the importance of logging, well-structured written functions, using the Azure features effectively and how some small changes could make your Azure Functions both cheaper, faster and easier to monitor.
All in all, DevSum 2026 was a fantastic event. I hope they will ask me back again