The Cloud & AI Summit Website: A Real-World Spec Kit Case Study

The website you used to register for this conference — the schedule you're browsing, the QR badge connections you'll make this week, the AI assistant answering your session questions — is a real production application. Its core was built in about a month using GitHub's Spec Kit and Claude Code, and it has been enhanced continuously ever since: 51 spec-driven features, 545 commits, and more than 1,500 automated tests. In this session we'll open the hood on the real thing — no toy demos. You'll tour the architecture: ASP.NET Core Razor Pages on .NET 10, Azure Cosmos DB in serverless mode, Redis, SignalR, and Azure AI Foundry, wired to production integrations with Stripe, Eventbrite, Sessionize, and Mailgun. Then we'll open the actual repository and follow a real feature from written specification through plan, tasks, implementation, tests, and deployment to Azure. You'll see what spec-driven AI development looks like day to day — where it shines, where it fails, and the guardrails that make it safe to move this fast in production. Whether you're evaluating AI-assisted development for your team or just curious how this site works, you'll leave with a concrete, replicable playbook — grounded in an app you've already used today.