Googling Wisdom

Thanks to GridAKL (http://www.gridakl.com/) for the venue and Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-nz/) for the catering!

Tonight we have the privilege of having two representatives from Google visit us.

Building ASP.NET apps on Google Cloud - Mete Atamel (https://twitter.com/meteatamel)

With high performance Virtual Machines (VM) and networking, blazing fast VM provisioning, per-minute billing and rich set of services, Google Cloud is a great platform to deploy and run your traditional ASP.NET Core applications. In this session, we will cover:

• How to run traditional Windows based ASP.NET apps on Compute Engine.

• How to run new Linux based ASP.NET Core apps App Engine and Kubernetes/Container Engine.

• How to integrate with Google Cloud services such as Cloud Storage and use machine learning APIs such as Vision API and Speech API.

• How to use Google Cloud PowerShell cmdlets and Visual Studio plugin to manage your projects.

This is your opportunity to learn about what Google Cloud offers for your ASP.NET app!

Introducing Mete

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I'm a Developer Advocate at Google, currently focused on helping developers with Google Cloud Platform. As a long-time Java and a recent C# developer, I like to compare the two ecosystems. Prior to Google, I worked at Microsoft, Skype, Adobe, EMC, and Nokia building apps and services on various web, mobile and cloud platforms. Originally from Cyprus, I currently live in Greenwich, not too far away from the prime meridian.

What can we learn from 750 billion GitHub events and 42 TB of code - Felipe Hoffa (https://twitter.com/felipehoffa)

"Data gives us insights into how people build software, and the activities of open source communities on GitHub represent one of the richest datasets ever created of people working together at scale." --GitHub Universe 2016

We are going to analyse - live on stage - 5 years of GitHub metadata and 42 TB code stored in it to answer questions like:

• How is this run

• How coding patterns have changed through time.

• Guiding your project design decisions based on actual usage of your APIs.

• How to request features based on data.

• The most effective phrasing to request changes.

• Effects of social media on a project's popularity.

• Who starred your project - and what other projects interest them.

• Measuring community health.

• Running static code analysis at scale.

• Tabs or spaces?

Introducing Felipe

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In 2011 Felipe Hoffa moved from Chile to San Francisco to join Google as a Software Engineer. Since 2013 he's been a Developer Advocate on big data - to inspire developers around the world to leverage the Google Cloud Platform tools to analyze and understand their data in ways they could never before. You can find him in several YouTube videos, blog posts, and conferences around the world.

Doors open at 6:30pm and the presentation will start at 7:00pm (please note the slightly later start time). This is a night not to be missed!

I hope to see you there!