Tech Editors

Marc Mercuri is currently a Principal Program Manager in the Azure Customer Advisory Team (CAT) and the functional lead of the team’s strategic accounts program. Marc has been actively working in the software and services industry for the past 20 years. The majority of this time has been focused on distributed computing scenarios, with the past 6 years exclusively focused on cloud-centric (PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS) enterprise projects and commercial products.

Marc has been involved in the architecture of hundreds of high-profile, high-scale public and hybrid cloud solutions. The result is significant experience in designing, implementing, operating, and supporting reliable cloud solutions and services at scale. This experience includes both general cloud architecture best practices as well as nuanced considerations for key scenarios (IoT, Enterprise Hybrid, Consumer Mobile, Big Data Pipelines, Machine Learning, Deployment Automation, Open Source Software Deployment/Configuration, etc.).

Marc is the author of four books on services and identity and is a speaker at internal and external conferences. He has 10 issued patents and 17 patents pending in the areas of cloud, mobile, and social.

Nigel Poulton is a self-confessed tech addict who is currently living it large in the container world. He creates the best IT training videos in the world for Pluralsight (those are his words) and co-hosts the In Tech We Trust Podcast. In his spare time he does a good impression of a husband and a father. He lives on Twitter @nigelpoulton and he blogs at http://nigelpoulton.com.