Haishi Bai Author

Haishi Bai works at Microsoft as a Principal Software Engineer. He is a passionate developer, experienced architect and devoted educator. He’s authored nine cloud computing and distributed system books covering a great spectrum of cloud and edge technologies. He’s the creator and active contributor to open source projects like Open Application Model (OAM), quantum circuit simulator (Bono) and Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr). He’s also a third-year volunteer instructor teaching programming at high schools.

Boris Scholl is a Partner Product Architect with Microsoft’s Cloud & AI engineering team focusing on the next generation of distributed systems platforms and application models for cloud and edge. He has been working on Azure Developer tools and platforms in various product engineering roles since late 2011. Boris rejoined the Azure Compute team in 2018 after having spent the 18 months outside Microsoft working as a VP of Engineering with Oracle building out a microservices platform based on Kubernetes and Service Meshes. His work on distributed systems platforms has resulted in several patents on cloud computing and distributed systems. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, a contributor to many blogs, instructor for distributed computing topics and the lead author of one of the first books about microservices and Docker on Azure (Microservices with Docker on Azure).