Melb.NET Oct 2021 ONLINE Meetup

🎉 Melb․NET Oct Meetup is coming to you ONLINE!!

🗣 Apply to speak now: https://bit.ly/melbdotnet-cfp

Get ready to join us on Tuesday, Oct 5 at 6:30 pm on Zoom!

FREE GIVEAWAYS
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Speaker 1: Randi Ratnayake

"Making the best out of Durable Functions"

Azure durable functions is a powerful orchestration programming model that allows you to write workflows as code. In this session, we will quickly touch base on what is Durable functions and deep dive into some learnings and practical do's and don'ts to make the best out of Durable Functions.

About Randi:
During the day, A consultant working in Melbourne, Australia. He is all about empowering organisations through innovation to grow beyond limits with Microsoft Azure. By night, A competent .NET developer by learning new skills by solving his jigsaw puzzles. In between, a caring father, loving husband and a mentor to anyone seek guidance.
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Speaker 2: Dasith Wijes

"Tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry"

Everyone is building distributed systems these days. Some better than others. One thing the teams building and running distributed systems well have in common is they have very good observability of the components and services. Conversely, the teams that don't have good observability struggle when things go wrong in a distributed system because it's often terribly time consuming to put the pieces together to analyse the crime scene. The logs might sit in disparate log aggregation systems and even when in one place, leave you with having to do the hard work to correlate and visualize the system workflows yourself. OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud-native software which aims to solve some of these issues by having a common set of definitions of concepts around observability and exposing them to the tool of your choice. In this talk, I examine how to propagate your tracing context across process boundaries and visualize the flow of requests through your distributed services (Microservices/Serverless/Other) easily using tools like Zipkin and Jaeger. We will see how to use already instrumented libraries and also how to propagate the trace information yourself. At the end of this talk you will know how to easily trace and observe distributed components of the systems you build.

About Dasith:
Dasith is a solutions architect, full stack .NET developer with distributed systems focus, keen problem solver and an improving cricketer. He's got close to 2 decades of experience designing and building software solutions and loves all things technology. After leading the development of an ERP solution for the construction industry and working on trade printing software for a while he used to work as a lead consultant for Readify (Telstra Purple) and currently practices his trade as an Application Development Consultant for Microsoft working with clients of all sizes. As a consultant over the last few years he's worked on a broad technology stack which consists of all things from Serverless to IoT. He is a recovering competitive fps gamer who still talks about things like mouse sensitivity and ping over a frothy beverage.
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