Up & running with the super-fast gRPC in .NET Core 3 + CSS Grid: The end of Flex

November Melbourne .NET User Group Double header: Up and running with the super-fast gRPC in .NET Core 3 with Liam Elliott + Lightning Talk: CSS Grid: The end of Flex and Bootstrap? with Gabriel George

Talk 1

Up and running with the super-fast gRPC in .NET Core 3 with Liam Elliott

Remote procedure calls (RPC) have been around since the beginning of time – most of them never copped a speeding ticket! Many of us have lived through XML-RPC -> SOAP -> .NET Remoting -> WCF -> JSON-RPC and most recently -> REST.

Back in 2015 Google threw their hat into the ring with gRPC, promising faster more efficient communication, cross-platform clients and streaming request and responses.

In 2019 Microsoft released .NET Core 3 which includes gRPC.
During this exciting session, Liam will explain and demo why you need to add this cool new Microsoft feature into your new .NET projects. Your services will be so fast you will smell the burning rubber!

About Liam:
Liam is a SSW Solution Architect who builds enterprise applications on the Azure platform. He has vast experience with modern enterprise applications and his recent projects use ASP.NET Core Web Api's with front-ends on both Angular and React.

Like many of his peers, Liam’s first memories of a computer were with a Commodore 64, writing programs in BASIC (Goto statements and all). His love for computers evolved into hacking the games in QBASIC. Since 2005 Liam’s passion has been developing on the .NET platform. He shares his experience for modern technologies through user groups and training events.

Talk 2 (Lightning talk)
CSS Grid: The end of Flex and Bootstrap? with Gabriel George

CSS Flex-box has been around for years and is pretty well known. Even Bootstrap is using flex-box in their v4. However, how much do you know or even heard about CSS Grid? Is it a Flex-box replacement or just another display type that is meant to confuse developers?

About Gabriel (Gabe):

Gabe is a Senior Software Architect at the SSW Melbourne Office. He specialises in enterprise front-end development with various modern JavaScript framework.

He is a very motivated person that loves to share his knowledge with his peers. He loves to learn new technologies, especially the cutting edge ones.

He loves to share things that he is passionate about. He made a YouTube channel in collaboration with Thiago Passos that is called: Angular in 5 Minutes.

When he is not working, he likes to play games, do road trips, and brew his own coffee. He also actively participates as a singer, conductor, and pianist in a ​youth community choir. ​