Stephen KaufmanStephen Kaufman works for Microsoft as a solution architect in the Americas Office of the CTO and is the lead architect for the US Azure PaaS Center of Expertise (CoE). He is a public speaker and has appeared at a variety of industry conferences natonally and internationally at events, such as TechEd North America, TechEd EMEA, Microsoft SOA and BPM conference, as well as many internal Microsoft conferences over the years discussing application development, integration, and cloud computing, as well as a variety of other related topics. Stephen is also a published author with two books—Pro BizTalk 2009 (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219815) and Pro Windows Server AppFabric (http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430228172), both by Apress Publishing—as well as a number of whitepapers and other published content, including a blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/skaufman. In addition, he is a board certified architect (CITA-P-IASA Global) and continues to work mentoring and sitting on architecture certification review boards. Lastly, Stephen was a contributing author for the Azure Architecture Certification Exam 70-534, Architecting Azure Solutions. Read More Read Less