ASP.NET Core 5, gRPC, Protobuf, Visual Studio, .NET CLI, Docker, Kubernetes, services meshes, monitoring, distributed tracing

Day 1: Building gRPC applications in ASP.NET Core

Day 2: Security, Deployment and Observability

Service mesh (using Linkerd as an example)

Attendees will be expected to be familiar with .NET and C#, and bring a computer with the latest .NET Core 5 SDK and an IDE (VS2019, VS Code or Rider). For day two a local Docker installation that supports Kubernetes is strongly recommended (e.g. Docker Desktop for Windows or Mac).

2 Days

Modern distributed systems with gRPC in ASP.NET Core 5

.NET

Multi-platform, multi-client, and highly-mobile users bring a new set of challenges, so the approaches of the past are no longer appropriate for modern applications. This two-day workshop is your chance to dive into all things security related to these new technologies. Learn how to securely connect native and browser-based applications to your back-ends and integrate them with enterprise identity management systems as well as social identity providers and services.


.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Web APIs, Claims, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, WS-Federation, SAML, JSON Web Tokens, Single Sign-on and off, Federation, Delegation, Home Realm, Discovery, CORS

Social Logins (e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)


Attendees will need to bring a computer with the latest .NET Core SDK and the IDE of your choice (e.g. Visual Studio) installed.

Identity & Access Control for modern Applications and APIs using ASP.NET Core 5

Security

In this tutorial, we will look at why asynchronous messaging is often the preferred solution to the problems of integrating and distributed solution, and look at the implementation of common messaging patterns.

If you have ever been put off moving from RPC-based solutions to messaging because of the need to learn how to implement messaging based solutions, this workshop will get you started. if you have been using messaging but want to gain a firmer understanding

The session will be a hands-on introduction and take you from simple messaging scenarios like "Hello World" through to more complex ideas like routing, brokers, and publish-subscribe.

Day 1: Messaging Architectures and Simple Patterns

Day 2: Distributed Systems Advanced Patterns

There will be hands on coding exercises in .NET and Python enabling you to implement simple and more complex messaging scenarios.


We will use Rabbit MQ for examples. You need not have the latter installed on your machine, but you should have Docker installed on your machine, as exercises will use Docker Compose.This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) course. At BYOD courses delegates are required to bring their own laptop with the necessary software installed

Practical Messaging Workshop

DevOps

Python


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Talk (15 min)

Hello and Welcome!

Talk (60 min)

TDD Revisited

Testing

Agile



In this talk, you'll see what it's like to use the latest .NET 5 features to create a Blazor UI, and preview some exciting .NET 6 enhancements we have in the pipeline. You'll see a truly dramatic improvement in the developer experience, some runtime features that enable more robustness and performance than ever before, and helpful tips that can be applied in existing .NET 5-based applications. And of course, it’s demos all the way.

If you're new to Blazor, this will be a great way to get a sense of what it's all about. If you're already a seasoned expert, this is your chance to find out what's coming next.

Talk (45 min)

Blazor in 2021


Build your brand whilst still using those great features that attracted you to your chosen platform in the first place.

With the joint power of client-side Blazor and static web apps in Azure, you no longer need to run web servers or App Services in order to host your site online. You can get set up in minutes!

In this session, we'll set up a new Blazor Wasm Application and Azure Function, deploy to Azure and then fetch blog posts from dev.to to link to them in our page.

We'll also talk about next steps - and how to eat the elephant one bite at a time - to create your personal brand!

Building your personal online brand using Static Blazor Apps, one step at a time



What if I told you there was a way to migrate one page at a time, keeping everything else running normally? Well, there is. In this talk I’ll show you how to include Microsoft’s reverse proxy in an ASP.NET Core MVC application to proxy requests to your old ASP.NET app, but intercept specific pages and render them using shiny new Razor. With this approach, you can gradually migrate and upgrade your application at the same time as maintaining and supporting it. It may take years, but you’ll get there in the end!

Migrate your Web Apps to ASP.NET Core, one page at a time

.NET Rocks Live!



Only now you are expected to manage people and not just code. What motivated you to improve doesn't seem to always work on your team. So what do you do? We will explore the art of managing talented people and learning what the human needs for guidance and support from their leader.

The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers

Workskills

People

Talk (30 min)

Q&A with Gemma Cameron



While the classical models still work and have their own merits, some of them rely heavily on documentation, extensive coordination between teams or code-sharing. We use shared libraries, and over time our projects become intertwined with dependencies. In these cases, we need something to untangle those and reduce coupling. Welcome gRPC.

gRPC has been around for a while and .NET welcomes it as a first-class citizen. It is contract-based, performant - with smaller response/request bodies, perfect for polyglot environments and supports different models – from client-server, to bi-directional streaming out of the box.
In this session, we will look at how to use gRPC and its 4 models and what are the benefits and or downsides of using gRPC compared to the traditional models.

Embracing gRPC in .NET

Architecture



But as you are doing that, what are some features, you realize will be useful in your next service? What are some out-of-the-box capabilities you wish you had been looking for while picking a framework? In this talk I am going to go over some very developer-friendly features that make server side application development and maintenance seamless for teams building and using them alike!

NDC { Manchester }

Agenda 2021

09:00 - 09:15 (UTC±00)

Hello and Welcome!

Dylan Beattie

09:15 - 10:00 (UTC±00)

Building your personal online brand using Static Blazor Apps, one step at a time

Stacy Cashmore

10:20 - 11:20 (UTC±00)

TDD Revisited

Ian Cooper

11:30 - 12:00 (UTC±00)

Q&A with Gemma Cameron

Gemma Cameron

Martin Thwaites

Dylan Beattie

12:15 - 13:00 (UTC±00)

Embracing gRPC in .NET

Irina Scurtu

13:15 - 14:00 (UTC±00)

Blazor in 2021

Steve Sanderson

14:15 - 15:00 (UTC±00)

The Care and Feeding of Software Engineers

Heather Downing

15:15 - 16:00 (UTC±00)

Building friendliness into server side applications

Janani Subbiah

16:15 - 17:00 (UTC±00)

Migrate your Web Apps to ASP.NET Core, one page at a time

Mark Rendle

17:15 - 18:15 (UTC±00)

.NET Rocks Live!

Richard Campbell

Carl Franklin