Dmytro IELKIN presented on developing a distributed Azure application alone. He discussed starting with a simple ASP.NET MVC website and database, using Azure Web Jobs for background tasks triggered by queues, implementing real-time notifications with SignalR and web sockets, scaling the website and SignalR with auto-scale, scaling out, CDN, and traffic manager, using deployment slots for deployment and database migration, and analytics with Application Insights for page views, exceptions, and custom event tracking. He concluded by encouraging the audience to visit azure.microsoft.com to get started.