Learn essential strategies for building scalable and resilient cloud applications in this 51-minute conference talk. Explore load balancing, partitioning, and platform-specific features of cloud providers. Dive into Azure services like App Service, Storage, and Traffic Manager. Discover techniques for graceful degradation, CQRS, and advanced architectures. Gain insights on implementing message queues, Service Boss, and API management. Master the skills needed to achieve optimal performance and availability in cloud systems.