Techorama Netherlands 2019: Full Schedule

7:30am CEST

Registration and breakfast

Tuesday October 1, 2019 7:30am - 8:45am CEST
All of Pathé

8:45am CEST

Customer Experience in the Age of AI Platforms

How will an ‘always-on’ personal assistant transform your daily life? We are at the beginning of a new S-Curve that is set to change the way we live and work, forever. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence are only just getting started, so the key question for all companies is: what will the second half of the curve look like? In this presentation, Steven explores some fascinating scenarios that will shape the future of branding, go-to-market strategies and innovation. How will an ‘always-on’ personal assistant transform your daily life? How will changing customer behaviour disrupt your business? Take a journey to the Day After Tomorrow and see how some of the latest emerging technologies will change the world.

Speakers

Steven Van Belleghem

Tuesday October 1, 2019 11:00am - 11:30am CEST
All of Pathé

Break

11:05am CEST

Introduction Event Storming by Menno Jongerius

Chris (@SQLGeordie) is a Principal Consultant working at Jarrin Consultancy providing SQL Server, Microsoft Azure and AWS consultancy to clients worldwide in a variety of industries ranging from Financial to Healthcare. He has been working with SQL Server since 2001 and during that... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 8

DevOps and Architecture

11:30am CEST

Learn to Say "No!" Without Being a Jerk

Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed because you overcommit? A recovering “People Pleaser,” I know the harm and unrest that can come with saying “yes” too often. Learn to recognize your resistance to saying “no.” Get examples of strategies you can begin to implement immediately to get better results in your life. This talk will present tips and tricks for re-training your mind to only accept invitations that will propel you forward in life.

Speakers

Christina Aldan

Tuesday October 1, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 4

Motivational and self-improvement

'm an independent consultant based in London, working with clients all over the world. I work in the cloud and continuous delivery space, more recently focusing on the use of microservice architectures. Things I've Done After 12 years working at ThoughtWorks, I have taken the plunge... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm CEST
Room 9

DevOps and Architecture

1:45pm CEST

Convince Your DBA to Support DevOps

You know that using DevOps methodologies successfully can lead to massive improvements in your ability to quickly and safely deliver more and better functionality to your business. However, you have an old-school DBA who refuses to get on board with automation and a shift-left mentality. This session is specifically designed to give you the tools and the language you need to talk to your DBA in a language they'll understand. You'll be able to convince them that not only is implementing DevOps good for the organization, it will lead to a safer database environment. Get your DBA into the modern age using the knowledge from this session.

Speakers

This session is packed with ways of making you more productive with Azure Functions. From tips & tricks to running Azure Functions on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). From using Managed Identities to implementing the new Dependency Injection. Join us during this session and walk out with a well-filled toolbox ready to get sh*t done with Azure Functions! Running Azure Functions in AKS, or any other Kubernetes deployment, is very well possible. But be prepared for a few pitfalls. We will show you these pitfalls, and how to avoid them. If you use Managed Identities, your applications will be more secure. We'll tell you why, our demos will show you how! We'll use Managed Identities to securely connect to other Azure resources like Azure Key Vault. Azure Functions V 2.x now supports Dependency Injection, leveraging the ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection features. We will show you how to configure and use DI.

Speakers

Rick van den Bosch

I'm a coder, although the official term is something like Cloud Solution Architect. I have been working with Microsoft Azure since it was first introduced. Next to developing cloud stuff hands-on, I've created cloud migration advises and migration strategies for customers. I also... Read More →

Daniël te Winkel

Working over 25 years in the field, Daniël is an experienced software developer. Since .NET 2.0 he is professionally using C# and .NET. The last four years Daniël is an active Azure Developer and Azure Architect for Betabit. Together with, and for, their customers he creates valuable... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 3

Cloud Services

3:00pm CEST

How to run a global, cloud scale event for 10.000 people

We want to tell you a story, a story about an event that spanned 35 countries, reached 10.000 participants, involved 1.400 websites and databases, raised 8 disruptions on those websites and even caused Azure DevOps outages. In which we reached the limits of the cloud and still were able to spend only half of the budget. We will tell you how not only organize an event on this scale, but also how to automate it; from pipelines to deploy the Azure infrastructure, to the actual event day automation. What did we run into, what did we use and what have we learned.

Speakers

Rob Bos

Rob has a strong focus on ALM and DevOps, automating manual tasks and helping teams deliver value to the end-user faster, using Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery and other DevOps techniques. This is applied on anything Rob comes across, whether it’s an application, infrastructure... Read More →

Michiel van Oudheusden

Michiel is a Microsoft .NET consultant, developer, and architect. With a focus on ALM and DevOps, APIs and containers, but also on products like AzureDevOps, Azure, Containers and everything around it, he has a broad interest and experience. From traditional Windows applications to... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 8

Cloud Services

3:00pm CEST

Azure Cosmos DB Part II – Building Cosmos DB Applications

In this intensive demo-packed session, you’ll learn how to write applications for Cosmos DB, and see how to work with the various Cosmos DB APIs. These APIs support a variety of data models, including the SQL and MongoDB APIs (for JSON documents), Table API for (key-value entities), Gremlin API (for graphs) and Cassandra (for columnar). Regardless what you choose as a data model of choice, you’ll learn how to provision throughput, and how to partition and globally distribute your data to deliver massive scale. You’ll see how to migrate data from SQL Server to Cosmos DB, and how to write queries using Cosmos DB SQL. Then we’ll write data access code that creates and queries databases, collections, and documents. We’ll also create, deploy, and execute server-side stored procedures, triggers and user-defined functions, using the Cosmos DB server-side programming model. Attend this session, and prepare to build Cosmos DB applications today!

Speakers

Leonard Lobel

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 6

Data Platform and BI

3:00pm CEST

Run Query Run - Wait Stats Reborn (SQL Server 2017 Cloud Version)

SQL Server Wait Statistics and Queues subject was introduced in the year 2005. Since every single DBA and Developers have spent countless hours learning about wait stats. However, there are quite a few new DBAs and Developers in the last 10 years often wonder how they can get started with SQL Wait Statistics so they can be as proficient as experienced DBAs. In this session, we will see how we can learn the to various tricks derived from SQL Server Wait Statistics which can help us run our queries faster. We will focus on new Wait Statistics features introduced in SQL Server 2017 on-premises and Azure to tune our queries so they can run faster. Besides the most popular malign wait statistics, we will cover following important topics in our session a) Impact of Enabling Query Wait Stats b) New Session Level Wait Statistics c) New CPU wait types introduced in SQL Server 2017 d) Significance of Auto-Tuning e) Waits for Adaptive Joins After all, don't we all want to run our queries at flash speed!

Speakers

Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave is a SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and an independent consultant. He has authored 11 SQL Server database books, 21 Pluralsight courses and has written over 4100 articles on the database technology on his blog at a https://blog.sqlauthority.com. Along with 16+ years... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 10

Data Platform and BI

3:00pm CEST

Null safety in C# 8.0

We'll spend half the talk covering details of null reference types to cover the things that might surprise people and so they understand it's benefits and limitations. We'll spend the other half talking about how you can incorporate null reference types into your application.

Speakers

Kathleen Dollard

Kathleen loves to code and loves to teach and talk about code. She’s written tons of articles, a book, and spoken at numerous conferences around the world. She’s on the .NET Core team at Microsoft, where she works on the .NET Core CLI and SDK and managed languages (VB.NET and... Read More →

Mads Torgersen

Mads is the lead designer of C#, and a program manager at Microsoft. He’s also contributed as a language designer to TypeScript, Visual Basic and (even) Java. Before joining Microsoft in 2005 he was a university professor for a stint, and he can still be a little like that some... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 9

Developer trends

3:00pm CEST

Cloud native infrastructure deployments with Terraform

As we move towards hosting workloads on cloud-based resources such as virtual machines, storage, and container-based solutions, it is also important to modernize how these resources are deployed and managed. Gone are the days of manual and one-off virtual machine deployments and upgrades. In a cloud-native would, infrastructure deployments should be repeatable, automated, and version controlled. In order to reach this cloud-native goal, it is important to consider template-based deployment technologies. In this workshop, I will give a brief overview of what Terraform is and how it works. We will then go from 0 to 60 as we dig into more advanced Terraform features such as state tracking, workspaces, and Terraform modules. Along the way, we will build a fully functional DevOps pipeline that takes advantage of these features to provide production-ready deployment automation for your organization. As a result of attending this workshop, you will not only have the opportunity to consider why and how to level up your Terraform deployments, you will gain hands-on exposure to the technical details required to do so.

Speakers

Neil Peterson

Neil Peterson is a datacenter and cloud enthusiast. With 15 years' experience in large datacenter deployment, management and maintenance operations, Neil now works as a cloud advocate delivering technical training, documentation, and samples with focus on Azure infrastructure, automation... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 7

DevOps and Architecture

3:00pm CEST

An Introduction to WebAssembly

Want to write a web application? Better get familiar with JavaScript! JavaScript has long been the king of front-end. While there have been various attempts to dethrone it, they have typically involved treating JavaScript as an assembly-language analog that you transpile your code to. This has lead to complex build pipelines that result in JavaScript which the browser has to parse and *you* still have to debug. But what if there were an actual byte-code language you could compile your non-JavaScript code to instead? That is what WebAssembly is. I'm going to explain how WebAssembly works and how to use it in this talk. I'll cover what it is, how it fits into your application, and how to build and use your own WebAssembly modules. And, I'll demo how to build and use those modules with both Rust and the WebAssembly Text Format. That's right, I'll be live coding in an assembly language. I'll also go over some online resources for other languages and tools that make use of WebAssembly. When we're done, you'll have the footing you need to start building applications featuring WebAssembly. So grab a non-JavaScript language, a modern browser, and let's and get started!

Speakers

Guy Royse

Guy works for DataRobot in Columbus, Ohio as a Developer Evangelist. Combining his decades of experience in writing software with a passion for sharing what he has learned, Guy goes out into developer communities and helps others build great software. Teaching and community have long... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 2

Web and Frontend

3:00pm CEST

Instant VR, just add browser.

With VR starting to taking off and AR becoming more and more of a thing, there is one particular industry that can play an important part in its adaption: The Web. This talk will cover why the browser is an effective tool to run XR applications and what tools are available to craft these virtual experiences, along with a number of examples how it’s being used right now. Make sure your mobile is charged, bring your Google Cardboard because there will be live demos.

Speakers

Ruben van der Leun

Starting at a very young age with GW-Basic, Ruben knew that software development would play an important part of his life. After college, he jumped headfirst into browser-based development. As a freelancer, he is helping developing various mobile and web projects, using Javascript/Typescript... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 4

Web and Frontend

4:00pm CEST

Break and partner expo

Tuesday October 1, 2019 4:00pm - 4:30pm CEST
All of Pathé

Break

4:05pm CEST

Meet the Global AI Community by Marian Dragt

I'm developing software for over two decades. I'm working as a cloud solution architect and a team lead at 4DotNet in The Netherlands. In my current position I love to help customers with their journey to the cloud. I like to create highly performant software and to help team members... Read More →

Tuesday October 1, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 3

DevOps and Architecture

4:30pm CEST

Microsoft’s DevOps Journey

Martin Woodward leads a whistle-stop tour of Microsoft's nine-year DevOps journey so far, explaining why the company embarked on this transformation and what benefits it has already seen. He goes through a set of lessons they learned, mistakes they made along the way and how they adjusted the processes, culture and tooling to help address them.

Speakers

WebAssembly (WASM) is challenging JavaScript's monopoly in the browser. Many higher-level languages are currently evaluating whether WASM is a way for them to conquer the web client. .NET is spearheading this movement. In 2017, we saw the first .NET prototypes running on WASM. Based on that, Blazor, the new .NET- and WASM-based Single-Page-App (SPA) framework has appeared. The .NET community is thrilled but Blazor could be interesting for developers new to .NET, too. Rainer Stropek engaged early in the Blazor open source project. Join him in this fast-paced, demo-heavy session and see what's behind this new contender in the world of browser development.

Speakers

Rainer Stropek

Tuesday October 1, 2019 5:45pm - 6:45pm CEST
Room 10

Web and Frontend

8:45am CEST

Deep Learning like a Viking: Building Convolutional Neural Networks with Keras

The Vikings came from the land of ice and snow, from the midnight sun, where the hot springs flow. In addition to longships and bad attitudes, they had a system of writing that we, in modern times, have dubbed the Younger Futhark (or ᚠᚢᚦᚬᚱᚴ if you're a Viking). These sigils are more commonly called runes and have been mimicked in fantasy literature and role-playing games for decades. Of course, having an alphabet, runic or otherwise, solves lots of problems. But, it also introduces others. The Vikings had the same problem we do today. How were they to get their automated software systems to recognize the hand-carved input of a typical boatman? Of course, they were never able to solve this problem and were instead forced into a life of burning and pillaging. Today, we have deep learning and neural networks and can, fortunately, avoid such a fate. In this session, we are going to build a Convolution Neural Network to recognize hand-written runes from the Younger Futhark. We'll be using Keras to write easy to understand Python code that creates and trains the neural network to do this. We'll wire this up to a web application using Flask and some client-side JavaScript so you can write some runes yourself and see if it recognizes them. When we're done, you'll understand how Convolution Neural Networks work, how to build your own using Python and Keras, and how to make it a part of an application using Flask. Maybe you'll even try seeing what it thinks of the Bluetooth logo?

Speakers

Michael is an experienced coder and international speaker who is rather happy that his hobby and his profession are the same. As a part of RavenDB Core Team, Michael is working on awesome stuff in RavenDB, in particular around the distributed engine and deep dive debugging. And by... Read More →

Geert van der Cruijsen

Geert is a DevOps Consultant, Cloud architect and full cycle developer working for Xpirit in the Netherlands who helps development teams build better software by coaching and helping them hands on. Geert loves improving teams on all aspects, from software craftsmanship to cloud native... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 8:45am - 9:45am CEST
Room 3

DevOps and Architecture

8:45am CEST

Using GraphQL with Xamarin

GraphQL is an exciting new API architecture that enables huge performance benefits over REST APIs. But why is it better than REST, and how do we interact with GraphQL APIs from our Xamarin apps? Join me as we demonstrate how our mobile apps can benefit from GraphQL! We’ll start by demonstrating the benefit of GraphQL: fewer API queries and smaller payloads. We’ll then jump into a live-coding demo where we’ll learn how to leverage HttpClient to interact with GraphQL APIs in C#.

Speakers

Brandon Minnick

Wednesday October 2, 2019 8:45am - 9:45am CEST
Room 5

Web and Frontend

9:45am CEST

Break and room switch

Wednesday October 2, 2019 9:45am - 10:00am CEST
All of Pathé

Break

10:00am CEST

An AI with an Agenda: How Our Cognitive Biases Leak Into Machine Learning

In the glorious AI-assisted future, all decisions are objective and perfect, and there’s no such thing as cognitive biases. That’s why we created AI and machine learning, right? Because humans can make mistakes, and computers are perfect. Well, there’s some bad news: humans make those AIs and machine learning models, and as a result humanity’s biases and missteps can subtly work their way into our AI and models. All hope isn’t lost, though! In this talk you’ll learn how science and statistics have already solved some of these problems and how a robust awareness of cognitive biases can help with many of the rest. Come learn what else we can do to protect ourselves from these old mistakes, because we owe it to the people who’ll rely on our algorithms to deliver the best possible intelligence!

Speakers

I am a Senior Analytics Consultant in Avanade Norway and a Microsoft Data Platform MVP. I have a passion for Analytics Experiences, and I am a Power BI Enthusiast. I have presented at several local and international Microsoft conferences the past two years. Sharing my knowledge with... Read More →

Mark Heath

Mark is a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author and open source developer. He works as .NET developer and software architect, building digital evidence management systems in Azure for the police. You can keep up with what he's doing on his blog at markheath.net or on Twitter @mark_he... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am CEST
Room 3

DevOps and Architecture

10:00am CEST

Introduction to GitHub Actions

GitHub announced Actions last year, providing repository automation and allowing you to extend the GitHub platform by building functionality that responds to events that occur in your repository. This year, GitHub announced CI/CD build and release capabilities for GitHub Actions for Linux, Windows and macOS. Edward Thomson takes you through a tour of all the functionality that GitHub Actions offers.

Speakers

Edward Thomson

Wednesday October 2, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am CEST
Room 6

DevOps and Architecture

10:00am CEST

Simplifying Front-End State Management with Observable Store

There are a lot of state management options for Angular, React, and Vue.js applications but which one is appropriate for your application? In this talk Dan Wahlin will discuss several options that are available and the pros and cons of each. He’ll then show a lesser known (yet extremely simple) option that works across all front-end applications called Observable Store. Learn how to store your state, access it, work with immutable data, provide store change notifications, and more.

Speakers

Dan Wahlin

Dan Wahlin founded Wahlin Consulting (https://codewithdan.com) which provides training and architecture services on front-end and back-end web technologies, Microservices, and Docker/Kubernetes. He’s published multiple courses on Pluralsight.com and is a Docker Captain, Microsoft... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 10:00am - 11:00am CEST
Room 2

Web and Frontend

11:00am CEST

Break and partner expo

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:00am - 11:30am CEST
All of Pathé

Break

11:05am CEST

Introduction to Progressive Web Apps by Menno Jongerius

Jonathan is an IT architect at Info Support in The Netherlands. He’s been a .NET developer for more than 10 years and has experience in building web scale applications including backend and frontend (web and mobile) development. Jonathan has a passion for improving productivity... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 4

Developer trends

11:30am CEST

Debugging and light profiling

Debugging is a game of strategy. The rules are set by the computer, your debugger, and requirements or user expectations. You may enter the contest expecting a trivial opponent, only to find it like Hydra with two new problems sprouting for each one you solve. It’s a critical game because we fix bugs from the time we first check in code, and the cost of each bug tends to increase across the project lifecycle. In this talk, you’ll learn about debugging strategies that help you ask better questions in order to significantly reduce the amount of time you spend debugging. Poor performance can be a bug, and you’ll learn straightforward profiling techniques to help you understand performance problems. Core debugging principles covered in this talk apply across most languages and platforms; the demonstrations will use Visual Studio 2017. Leave this talk ready to formulate ideas into testable strategies you can use to resolve bugs faster and with more confidence.

Speakers

Kathleen Dollard

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 9

Developer trends

11:30am CEST

Continuous Intelligence... What's this all about?

Continuous Intelligence combines the terms of Continuous Integration and Business Intelligence and aims for defining and implementing processes to keep your implementation and deployment processes for your BI applications flexible and as seamless as possible. Even in the near past support for CI processes of BI projects was almost not there. But the last few years brought some changes to the perception of this topic and shifted the mindset. Let's look at advantages and challenges for CI in BI and at possibilities to implement such a process for Analysis Services.

Speakers

Gabi Münster

Gabi Münster started working with SQL Server technologies in 2005. Since 2010 she works as a BI Consultant for oh22data AG. Her core topics are SSAS, SSRS and MDS. She speaks at regional chapter meetings, national and international conferences. Since 2016 she also supports a regional... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 7

DevOps and Architecture

11:30am CEST

Just what is a "service mesh", and if I get one will it make everything OK?

Communication is the backbone of distributed applications. Imagine you could control that backbone independently of all the components, so your application code just makes simple calls to other services, and your communication backbone does all the complex non-functional work. Load balancing, traffic management, fault tolerance, end-to-end monitoring, dynamic routing and secure communication could all be applied and controlled centrally. That's a service mesh. In this session I'll cover the major features of a service mesh using Istio - which is the most popular technology in this space. I'll show you what you can do with a service mesh, how it simplifies application design and also where it adds complexity. My examples will range from new microservices designs to legacy monoliths, and you'll see what a service mesh can bring to different types of application.

Speakers

Elton Stoneman

I'm a Pluralsight Author, Microsoft MVP and Developer Advocate at Docker, Inc. I've been architecting and delivering successful solutions with Microsoft technologies since 2000, most recently Big Data and API implementations in Azure, and distributed applications with Docker. Currently... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 6

DevOps and Architecture

11:30am CEST

The Developer's Guide to Selling Your Work

A few years ago, I had an idea to make the web better. It was going to be great, and I had the team to build it. Nine months of late nights and lost weekends later, we launched it! The problem: no one cared. A brilliant project isn't enough. I had to spread my vision, which was difficult for a developer like me. I learned quickly that even the best ideas needed to be sold. I had to build an audience, tell a story, and win over customers. Join me for a developer's guide to marketing. I'll share hard-fought lessons on page design, social networking, advertising, and analytics that will help you bring your ideas to the world.

Speakers

Todd Gardner

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 8

Motivational and self-improvement

11:30am CEST

APIs Exposed!

More and more developers are building APIs, whether that be for consumption by client-side applications, exposing endpoints directly to customers so they can use an alternative front-end or wrapping up services in containers. Now that we have all these exposed endpoints, what are we doing to secure them? Previously, our monolith was self-contained with limited points of access making authentication and authorisation more straightforward - that’s no longer the case. We’ll cover the potential risks we may face such as cross-site scripting and BruteForce attacks as well as a look at the possible options for securing API endpoints including OAuth, Access Tokens, JSON web tokens, IP whitelisting, rate limiting to name but a few.

Speakers

Layla Porter

Layla is a self-taught .NET web developer and former Pilates teacher and professional horse-rider. She is passionate about Microsoft technologies and organises the Milton Keynes .NET meetup group. Layla is a Developer Evangelist at Twilio, based in London.

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 5

Web and Frontend

11:30am CEST

I don't feel so well… Integrating health checks in your .NET Core solutions

Do you have any idea how your ASP.NET Web Apps and APIs are functioning? Are they behaving healthily or in a degraded state? You might be able to tell from log information and telemetry data, but why not have them tell you how healthy they are themselves? ASP.NET Core 2.2 introduces health endpoints that let your apps and APIs do just that. In this session you will learn how to make health checks an integral part of your solution. We will cover various types of health checks ranging from internal status, such as memory thresholds, to health based on external dependencies, such as databases and HTTP endpoints. Finally, you are going to see how this all can be used in a Docker container cluster to allow the orchestrator to check for liveliness and readiness based on your health endpoints.

Speakers

Alex Thissen

Wednesday October 2, 2019 11:30am - 12:30pm CEST
Room 3

Web and Frontend

Edwin van Wijk

I've been working in IT since 1999 and I'm currently working as Principal Software Architect and Microsoft Competence Center lead at Info Support in The Netherlands. I'm a Microsoft MVP in the Developer Technologies category. My primary areas of expertise are: building distributed... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm CEST
Room 9

DevOps and Architecture

1:45pm CEST

DevOps: Lessons learned from the Industrial Revolution

A VC funded start-up are set about to revolutionise communication between the financial centres of the world, but at the same time they have to pioneer new science, broker peace in a nation recently engaged in a bitter civil war, harness the power of the largest machine ever built. And do all this in a lean, agile way bringing fundamental researchers, engineering and live site operators together on the same boat on the same one-shot journey across previously uncharted waters. Oh yeah – and this happened 150 years ago. Find out what lessons we can learn today from the beginning of the first communications revolution of the industrial age.

Speakers

Martin Woodward

Wednesday October 2, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm CEST
Room 10

DevOps and Architecture

1:45pm CEST

When "We are down" is not good enough. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) in Azure

The more we are connected and the more others are connected to us, the more important reliability of your sites becomes. Site Reliability Engineering is an engineering discipline devoted to helping an organization sustainably achieve the appropriate level of reliability in their systems, services, and products. But what does this mean, and how do get started with this? In this session I will talk about the concepts of Site Reliability Engineering and use Microsoft Azure to implement some of the concepts and practices

Speakers

René van Osnabrugge

René is always looking for improvements on all fronts. By using modern technology, implementing Continuous Delivery, DevOps practices and coaching in the domain of Scrum and Agile, he helps companies improve their software delivery process. René is an active blogger and speaker... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm CEST
Room 6

DevOps and Architecture

1:45pm CEST

Empathy Is Your Secret Weapon

It can be argued that trauma is defined by perception. As different as we all look, sound and act, so to are we different in how we process our life experiences, even the most dramatic. The things that have happened to you are likely to have the strongest influence on your current and future behavior but the way you process those experiences can be altered. Empathy is your greatest ally in life and in business. It is also a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to evolve.

Speakers

Christina Aldan

Wednesday October 2, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm CEST
Room 3

Motivational and self-improvement

1:45pm CEST

Why I am hooked on the future of React

The React team rewrote the book on developing components. Before we had a choice between classes and functional components. Yet many components needed to be classes. A functional component was often too limited. Now, using hooks, we can extend functional components to be as powerful as we want. Suspense and asynchronous rendering is in the future of React. It will make large applications much more responsive and easier to deal with. Getting started with suspense and asynchronous rendering isn't hard as you will discover. Come to this session to learn what React hooks are and how to get started using hooks. But be warned, once seen React hooks can’t be unseen and your React components will never be the same again.

Speakers

Maurice de Beijer

Maurice de Beijer is an independent software consultant and trainer. He specializes in JavaScript, React, Angular 2+ and ASP.NET MVC. His work includes a large, global, safety application for the oil and gas industry. Maurice is also active in the open source community. He teaches... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 1:45pm - 2:45pm CEST
Room 2

Web and Frontend

2:45pm CEST

Break and room switch

Prathy Kamasani

Prathy Kamasani is a Microsoft Valuable Professional working as an independent MSBI contractor based in London.She specialises in Power BI, SSIS, SSAS and SSRS. Prathy is active in the SQL Server community as a speaker, volunteer and organises London Power BI User Group. She is a... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 3

Data Platform and BI

3:00pm CEST

Implementing Domain Driven Design

“Domain Driven Design is an approach to software development for complex needs by connecting the implementation to an evolving model.” While there are many resources on the web about the DDD, they are generally theoretical rather than useful practical guides. One reason is that a DDD implementation quite varies depending on your domain and culture. However, it is still possible to provide some explicit rules those can help you while designing your code base. This talk starts by introducing the DDD and providing a layering model based on the DDD and the Clean Architecture. It then introduces the core building blocks (like Aggregates, Repositories, Domain Services, DTOs… etc) of an application built on the DDD principles. In the second part of the talk, it shows some strict coding rules for the core building blocks with real code examples and suggestions. These rules are essential to build a large scale application implements DDD patterns & practices. While the solution structure and code samples are based on .NET and C#, the talk is useful for developers and architects working with any server side technology.

Speakers

Halil İbrahim Kalkan

I am a software architect and developer who likes to build open source projects, writing articles, learning and teaching best practices. I started programming at 14 with Turbo Pascal (year 1997). I’ve graduated from computer engineering in 2007. After 9 years of professional life... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 5

Developer trends

3:00pm CEST

Identity at the center of your applications best practices

Come learn about modern application architecture and how the various identities (users, applications, consumers, partners) interact with your applications. How do you authenticate employees? How does your middle tier authenticate itself to your backend? Does it impersonate a user or does it call as an App? What is a "managed identity". How do you setup logging so you can troubleshoot with your administrators?This session walks you through a ton of details and best practices from Microsoft itself. If you are an architect or developer designing (cloud) applications and APIs you should attend this session.

Speakers

Matthijs Hoekstra

Wednesday October 2, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 10

DevOps and Architecture

3:00pm CEST

Think Like a Trainer: Improving Your Communication Skills

Think back to a time when you were in a conversation that could have gone better. Perhaps you said something the wrong way, or you walked away from the conversation not fully knowing if the other person even understood what you were trying to convey. Technical trainers rely on effective communication as the foundation of everything that we do. We help end users to learn how to use software and adjust to new workflows, through the process of constantly adapting to different backgrounds, skill levels, and learning styles. In this session, you’ll learn actionable strategies to begin thinking like a trainer, including: - Using active listening techniques to communicate with empathy. - Best practices for explaining technical concepts in non-technical terms. - Adjusting your communication approach for different communication styles. - Using problem solving skills to help you get unstuck during difficult conversations.

Speakers

Olivia Liddell

Wednesday October 2, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 7

Motivational and self-improvement

3:00pm CEST

Multithreaded JavaScript—Web Workers and Atomics

For better or worse, JavaScript is single-threaded by design. For over 50 years Moore’s Law has described persistent exponential growth in computational power, but physical limitations have slowed that trend. Advancement now comes through the use of multiple CPUs and cores. This is fine for languages featuring threads and task-based architectures. But what about JavaScript? Thankfully, new paradigms handle parallelism over the web. Web Worker constructs allow long-running code to execute in the background without blocking the UI. Shared Memory and Atomic operations allow true sharing of data among worker processes. Learn to leverage these exciting features to responsibly improve the performance and responsiveness of your web applications!

Speakers

Jeff Strauss

Wednesday October 2, 2019 3:00pm - 4:00pm CEST
Room 2

Web and Frontend

4:00pm CEST

Break and partner expo

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:00pm - 4:30pm CEST
All of Pathé

Break

4:05pm CEST

Improving operational support with Health endpoints by Jeroen Vos

In this short session I will show how we, at Priva, implemented health endpoints in the majority of our services. These services are both .NET Core as well as .NET Full framework so I will not only discuss the built in Health Check API of ASP.NET Core. I will show how and why we created multiple different health endpoints for each service as well as where we use them.

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:05pm - 4:25pm CEST
Community Area

Break

4:30pm CEST

Deep Learning with TensorFlow

Deep Learning is fast becoming an indispensable approach to getting the most from your data. In this session attendees will learn both how Deep Learning fits into the Artificial Intelligence landscape as well as how to get started using TensorFlow. The session will start with the basic intuitions behind the problem setup, models, and optimization methods used to solve computer vision problems.

Speakers

Seth Juarez

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 9

AI & IOT & ML

4:30pm CEST

Zero Credential Development with Managed Identities for Azure Resources

Keys are always needed to access services in Azure and beyond. Storing and managing keys presents many problems, for example rotating and disabling them. Keys often also allow blanket access to the service with no way to limit it. Sometimes there is only one key that needs to be shared by services, so you won't have any way to disable access from one individually. In this talk we will go through Managed Identities for Azure Resources, how they work, and how you can use them to use Azure services in a secure way without having to manage any keys yourself. We will go through a demo application which uses various Azure services through a managed identity, removing the need to use keys entirely. The source code will be available to the audience so they have samples that they can use to implement managed identities in their own applications.

Speakers

Kenny Baas-Schwegler

Strategic software delivery consultant, Xebia

A lot of knowledge is lost when designing and building software — lost because of hand-overs in a telephone game, confusing communication by not having a shared language, discussing complexity without visualization and by not leveraging the full potential and wisdom of the diversity... Read More →

João Rosa

João is a Strategic Software Delivery Consultant at Xebia. He focus on helping teams and organizations to make strategic decisions regarding the software; aligning teams and software to optimize the stream-based value. He believes in the power of collaboration, and is a fan of visual... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 3

Developer trends

4:30pm CEST

Staying friendly with the GC

Many times Garbage Collection considered as developer's best friend. Usually, it makes programming easier and less prone to bugs. But sometimes, Garbage Collection can be developer's worst enemy. In some cases, GC can cause applications to spend up to 90% of their time collecting "garbage"! In this talk, I will discuss memory management in .Net, it's effects on performance and ways of efficiently dealing with GC overhead.

Speakers

Michael Yarichuk

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 5

Developer trends

4:30pm CEST

How to build resilient applications in Microsoft Azure

We all want to write systems that stay responsive in the face of failure. But building a reliable application in the cloud is quite different from building a reliable application in a traditional enterprise setting. The nature of cloud hosting, where applications run scaled-out on commodity hardware means failure is not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’. This session will show you many principles and patterns for surviving these failures in the Azure cloud, so your users can enjoy an uninterrupted experience.

Speakers

Sander Molenkamp

Sander Molenkamp is a principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 20 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support (www.infosupport.com) designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures. Sander is passionate about community... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 4

DevOps and Architecture

4:30pm CEST

The Power of DevOps in the Real World

It is now 2019 and good DevOps practices are no longer just nice to have. It is absolutely necessary to continuously deliver value to our end users. Yet this isn't easy to do right. In this session, we will explore the why's and the how. Why is DevOps important? Why do we care? How do we implement DevOps best practices? And finally, we will do a real world deep dive. Starting from nothing at all except source code (and I mean NOTHING. No infrastructure at all) we end with a complex modern application deployed all the way out into production hosted in the cloud. We will touch on all modern technologies. From web front ends, to deploying databases with API's in Kubernetes clusters and even mobile apps. With the right tooling, anything is possible. And in this session, you will see all this happen live with DevOps best practices!

Speakers

Abel Wang

Abel Wang is a Principal Cloud Developer Advocate specializing in DevOps and Azure with a background in application development. He is currently part of Donovan Brown's League of Extraordinary Cloud DevOps Advocates. Before joining Microsoft, Abel spent seven years as a Process Consultant... Read More →

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 10

DevOps and Architecture

4:30pm CEST

Beyond HTTP in ASP.NET Core 3.0 with gRPC

In this session, Steve will introduce gRPC, a modern high-performance RPC framework for inter-service communication. We'll look at how gRPC stacks up against existing REST-based communication and explore the benefits this technology has to offer. gRPC uses HTTP/2 as its transport protocol and ProtoBuf encoded content for efficient, fast communication. You'll see C# examples of how to build client and server gRPC components using ASP.NET Core 3.0, using the blazingly fast Kestrel web server. You'll learn how to define your proto3 service definition (contract) and integrate with MSBuild tooling to code gen the server and client components you'll need. You'll be amazed at how quickly a service can be created with little effort or boilerplate code required. You'll also see how additional clients can easily be generated for other languages such as Node.js to make connecting polyglot systems a breeze. It's a great time to begin taking notice of gRPC as a worthy contender to take over from REST for inter-service communication in microservice-based environments. It's time we started to let service talk their own language!

Speakers

Steve Gordon

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 7

Web and Frontend

4:30pm CEST

I'm Going To Make You Stop Hating CSS.

As a formalized language, CSS is over 20 years old and has spent much of that time being maligned by the people who use it. Browser inconsistencies, changing specifications and general weirdness have combined to create this weird pseudo-language that you'd rather avoid. UNTIL TODAY. With modern specs and tooling, CSS has never been more straightforward and less reliant on hacks. In this talk, Lemon will show you some common traps people fall in, as well as some general strategies for making a layout grid you can proud to build and confident in releasing.

Speakers

Lemon

Wednesday October 2, 2019 4:30pm - 5:30pm CEST
Room 6

Web and Frontend

5:30pm CEST

Break and room switch

Wednesday October 2, 2019 5:30pm - 5:45pm CEST
All of Pathé

Break

5:45pm CEST

The Moon: Gateway to the Solar System

In 1972, the last human to walk on the Moon headed back to Earth. Is it time to go back? Join Richard Campbell as he explores the potential of a return of humans to the Moon. Much has been learned about the Moon since the Apollo missions, and interest in the Moon as a place of science, exploration and learning is growing. The Moon can be a catalyst to humankind traveling the solar system - it's time to go back!

Speakers

Richard Campbell

Wednesday October 2, 2019 5:45pm - 6:45pm CEST
Room 9

Keynote

6:45pm CEST

Prize Draw and Closing Reception

Wednesday October 2, 2019 6:45pm - 8:30pm CEST
Room 9

Break