Talks

ADO.NET and Entity Framework (EF): one is 17-years-old and archaic; the other is painfully slow and barely functional for anything more complex than "select * from Foo". But you just use Dapper, or a similar micro-ORM. Have you chosen wisely?

Dylan Beattie will take a fresh look at the cost of the code we're shipping every day. What's the real cost of code — to our organisations, to our society, to our environment? How can we help our teams and users understand that cost? And what can we do to reduce it?

The C# programming language continues to rapidly evolve. Upcoming release adds support for async streams. What is it? Why do we need it? How does it work? We'll answer all these questions, review BCL changes, compare new features with existing ones and take a look under the hood of compiler.

Learn how to apply Chaos Engineering, directly in your .NET service or app! Cause orchestrated mayhem and verify if your app still functions when its dependencies start failing.

We will deep dive into the design of an IoT application made of hardware sensors, the powerful and cheap Raspberry PI Linux-based computer and the power of .NET Core, including ASP.NET Core.

We'll see how to create .NET tools that use Event Tracing for Windows to capture information in real-time and offline and analyze these to get to the information we seek.

Introduction into quantum computing: what it is, what it's used for, perspectives and problems in the area. In addition, Q# language introduction: all elements required for the independent experiments.

Popular architectural concepts are connected to functional programming, one way or another. How this came to be, how it's usually manifested, how you're supposed to deal with it and how understanding of functional architecture fundamentals can help you make your code better? That's what we're going to discuss.

An overview of the latest and greatest features available in C# 8.

ASP.NET Core 2.2 introduces health endpoints that let your apps and APIs tell you how healthy they are themselves. In this session you will learn how to make health checks an integral part of your solution.

We'll explore development best practices to use serializers correctly and approaches that allow us to exploit such vulnerabilities with lower risk.

Uncertain about your future as a desktop developer? Worry no more! .NET-based desktop development is here to stay, and is getting a major boost with .NET Core 3.0. Find out what's new in this talk.

You'll learn how we were implementing domain-driven design in our project, learning to communicate with clients, dividing our code base to bounded contexts, improving the code quality and, of course, what conclusions we drew from all this.

Switching to F#.

Come to this talk if you want to learn how to write maintainable and reliable builds with NUKE, which are also understood by everyone in your team!

Function-as-a-Service offerings are advertised as the way to build applications in days or hours, and then scale them up to millions of users. But there is no magic. Join Mikhail for an in-depth journey to explore how serverless works, what are the benefits and caveats, and why you should care.

We have a bunch of options today when implementing an API gateway for our APIs. The starting point is actually DOING THAT immediately, regardless of the underlying technology. In this session, we'll see how to go in production with an implementation of Ocelot, an open source project written in ASP.NET Core.

From monolith thinking to distributed thinking, moving from one data model to multiple vertical bounded contexts. The talk is trying to offer a way to move from monolith design to distributed design (microservices). It is based on old design concepts like DDD and SOA and clean code.

Using real-world examples, Andrey will tell how to write cross-procedural code analysis and why it is now necessary for C# code analyzers, no matter what they're based on — ReSharper, Roslyn or custom code model.

Learn how to write valid GC, which is one that not only allocates objects but also actually collects the memory after those no longer used.

We'll explore several cases when using methods from .NET standard library led to performance degradation and discuss solutions tailored specifically to certain cases and therefore free of such flaws.

Dylan shows you how to build a parser and interpreter for an esoteric programming language using C# and .NET.

Foundations sound horribly boring, but if you love building and using open source software, they're actually really cool.

Following his own experience and observations, Dmitry will explore right and wrong patterns of writing asynchronous code.

We'll see a solution which enables transparent two-way connection between C++ and C# on the level of interfaces which both C# and C++ classes can implement.

Sergey is going to deliver an entire talk about cybernetics patterns in biology: from every cell in the body, signed by an unique key — a major histocompatibility complex protein — to how a corn farm can influence evolution by brute force.

The talk addresses the concerns of architects and managers needing to build durable solutions on the Microsoft stack and lists facts about setting up a web backend and frontend and cross-cutting concerns such as caching, security, health checking, API, configuration.

We will revive the journey from imperative UI frameworks, where the UI is represented by a big stateful object, revisit the MVVM pattern, where "proxy" objects communicate with the UI through bindings, and finally reach the functional style, where we describe the UI at a specific point in time and let the framework do the plumbing and translate it to actual pixels on the screen.

Blazor is a client-side framework capable of running C# code. We'll see a few examples and glimpses of what it could be to take Blazor for development.

In this session Edwin will show you how to leverage Kubernetes and Istio to implement a service mesh for your microservices-based system.

While debugging synchronous code can be straightforward, investigating an asynchronous deadlock or race condition proves to be surprisingly tricky. Follow us through real-life examples and investigations to cover the main asynchronous code patterns that can go wrong. You will tumble on deadlock and understand the reasons behind ThreadPool thread starvation.