.NET Tour: Karel Zikmund and Ryan Nowak + more!

Speakers:
Karel Zikmund - .https://twitter.com/ziki_cz
Karel is on .NET team since 2005:
• Started as developer on Runtime/CLR components (7 years).
• Manager of reliability and performance team (incl. Quick Response Team) (3 years).
• Manager of .NET Native toolchain team (1 year).
• Now in the roles of community manager of CoreFX repo and manager of a few CoreFX/BCL areas like Networking (3 years).
Details: https://karelz.github.io

Ryan Nowak - https://twitter.com/aVerySpicyBoi
Ryan Nowak is a developer and architect on the .NET team, where he works on Razor, MVC, ASP.NET Core and a variety of other things. He's been employed at Microsoft for 10 years, working on various developer tools such as profilers, IDEs and compilers. Ryan is one of the core developers on Blazor, focused on the ASP.NET Core integration, compiler, Razor language and tooling support.

Schedule:

Ryan Nowak: Server-Side Blazor - How Does it Work? - 30 min

Server-Side Blazor is a new web technology that has a SPA user experience with .NET code running on the server (new in .NET Core 3.0). This talk will give a short intro to Blazor, and then dig into the technical design details of how this works. We'll cover everything that happens between the time you write the code to seeing real-time UI updates in the browser.

Karel Zikmund: War stories from .NET team

Expect deep dive into a few interesting investigations we faced on .NET team in the last decade.
War stories about:
• Investigations spanning years,
• Dormant bugs coming to life after a decade,
• Root-causes leading to surprising places,
• How we rooted-cause problems with minimal information available,
• Shocking impact of bugs on real world.
We will also cover:
• Root-causing HW bugs (avoid the one-machine problem),
• The value and art of minimal repro,
• Innovation and compatibility - the age-old rivals.

Ryan Nowak: Deep Dive: Routing in ASP.NET Core 3.0

ASP.NET Core 3.0 comes with a new routing system that's at the center of many frameworks (Controllers, Pages, gRPC, SignalR). Join architect Ryan Nowak on the journey of replacing one of the core parts of ASP.NET Core, while minimizing disruption to users, improving performance and adding features. The talk covers features that took multiple releases, and impacts how every ASP.NET Core application is written. We'll discuss the philosophy and design as well as deep technical details with examples.

Ryan & Karel: Panel Discussion

Bring your burning questions about .NET!

We're trying out a new location in Morningside, hosted by our friends at Auror HQ. Thanks to them and Microsoft, pizza, other dietary requirement friendly food, and drinks will be provided. If you have specific dietary requirements, please let us know ahead of time.

We're lucky enough to have this event sponsored by The Beer Spot! The Beer Spot is an award winning bar, dedicated to showcasing the amazing independent beer brewed across New Zealand. We have more than 40 taps of regularly rotating beerilicious goodness - paired with some of the finest food trucks in Auckland - at venues in Northcote and Huapai, with a Morningside site opening in a matter of days near the corner of New North Road and Morningside Drive🤞