Microsoft is intent on making application development accessible for non-programmers. It’s a daunting and usually thankless challenge, but they continue to fight the good fight.

Microsoft’s goal is to allow any business user to connect to the data they care about, add business rules, and spin up a usable application in hours instead of weeks. This sounds ideal – it eliminates the slow and expensive process of product development. By empowering users to scratch their own itches, Microsoft seeks to democratize computing and enable truly rapid, agile development.

We’re looking forward to Chicago Code Camp, the 8th annual Chicagoland technology conference for and by developers. The event takes place Saturday April 30, 2016 at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Bert Johnson will present Automating Private and Hybrid Cloud Deployments with Azure Stack. The session will outline DevOps strategies and tools for orchestrating infrastructure with Azure Stack.