Speaker: Alex Mang SQL Server had, has and will certainly have a lot to offer, but the number one concern of a common developer when it comes to SQL is the management cost involved. This also happens to be the number one reason for why Azure SQL Database is so successful for hardcore developers whoRead more about SQL Database from A Developer’s Perspective (400)[…]

Speaker: Alex Mang Each year the IT world offers a hype-word. The last decade has all been about mobile, cloud, Big Data and IoT. In the context of cloud apps however, monolithic applications have little to offer in terms of HA and DR and their deployment process is mostly an error-prone operation. Curious enough, evenRead more about Everyone Loves Docker Containers Before They Understand Docker Containers (200)[…]

Speaker: Dino Esposito There’s been a lot of buzz in the past year around the new ASP.NET Core and the direction of the new Microsoft strategy for the web and beyond. In a nutshell, Windows is no longer the foundation of the Microsoft strategy; the new foundation is the cloud. The future of Microsoft isRead more about Migrating to ASP.NET Core: Challenges and Opportunities (200)[…]

Speaker: Dino Esposito The expression “Domain Model” is one of the most abused expressions of the recent history of software. Everyone talks about it; everyone thinks everyone else is doing it and therefore everyone claims they are doing it. Yes, but how? Entity Framework and Code-First have a role in this. Built with the databaseRead more about Hands-on Experience: What It Means to Design a Domain Model (400)[…]

Speaker: Dino Esposito An aura of mystery sometimes surrounds DDD and makes it kind of an exoteric thing. While experts insist that everyone should be doing DDD, people in the trenches find it hard and sometimes don’t even see the point of making their life harder because of the DDD guidelines. This brings up aRead more about DDD: Where’s the Value and What’s in It for Me? (300)[…]

Speaker: Ted Neward The era of the big, heavy, transactionally-oriented relational-backed client/server topology, as best described by the J2EE Specification and Blueprints document, seems to be over. The era of the lightweight, transactionally-oriented relational-backed client/server topology seems to be at its zenith. Is this really where we want to be when building enterprise systems? AndRead more about Closing Keynote: Rethinking “Enterprise”[…]

Speaker: Jon Skeet Immutability rocks, right? When a type is immutable, it’s usually easier to reason about your code, easier to share data safely, and easier to make money ooze from every USB port. That’s the promise, at least. I heard an F# developer say it, so it must be true. Unfortunately, when a languageRead more about Immutability in C#[…]

Speaker: Jon Skeet Don’t you just love all the new features the team has been packing into C#? Perhaps your first thought on hearing about a new version is “Wow, that could really help my code base – I can’t wait to put it into production.” Not me. I think “I wonder what I couldRead more about Abusing C#[…]

Speaker: Adam Granicz WebSharper is a mature, open-source web ecosystem for developing enterprise F# (and now C#!) web applications. It accommodates standards-based web development by building on F#, a powerful functional-first language; robust and sound functional programming abstractions for modeling user interfaces, web forms, safe URLs, and even entire web applications in the type system;Read more about Functional, reactive web abstractions for .NET (300)[…]

Speaker: Daniel Fisher Since more than a decade I have build architectures for distributed and scaling web applications. I’ve learned my lessons in the nosebleed section. I have no complains. I took my knowlegde from experience and so I know what to care about. A few years ago I sumbled accross CQRS. At first IRead more about CQRS: My 42 (300)[…]