Cloud, Containers, and Microservices

T02 Zero Downtime at Scale: Architecting Highly Resilient Applications in Azure

March 17th, 2026

8:00am - 9:15am

Level: Intermediate

Justine Cocchi

Senior Program Manager

Microsoft

We'll dive into the design principles and architectural patterns essential for building applications with zero downtime, zero data loss, and seamless scalability. We'll walk through a real world ecommerce app to illustrate patterns like active-active replication, circuit breaker, and saga transactions.

Learn how these patterns are operationalized in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Cosmos DB, and other critical Azure services. Gain actionable insights on developing, monitoring, and optimizing distributed apps for performance. By the end of this session, developers will have the tools to architect and build robust, fault-tolerant systems tailored to business-critical demands.

You will learn:

  • Understand resiliency best practices and design principles
  • Implement key architecture patterns that enable fault tolerance at scale
  • Monitor application performance for continuous improvement