Andy Cross, is an author, software consultant, cloud architect and co-owner of Elastacloud. His passion for distributed computing, big data and high-performance compute sees him building massively scalable system utilising the limitless potential of the cloud. Andy’s specialism in the Cloud realm is big data, computation distribution, runtime diagnostics and service elasticity. He is a Microsoft Azure Most Valued Professional (MVP) and Regional Director, co-founder of the UK London Microsoft Azure User Group and a Microsoft DevPro Community Leader.