Azure DevOps at IF and An introduction to Blazor

Azure DevOps at IF

IF Insurance's Waypoint project has been in production for well over a decade; at this point, it is one of the largest .NET projects in the Nordics.

The Customer team has been running as an agile DevOps team for over a year, and we'd like to share some of our experiences.

For this session, we'll focus on Azure, VSTS, and our build and release pipelines. Other topics we'll touch upon are:

• Infrastructure-as-code
• Trunk-based development
• Straight to production with feature flags
• Enforcing pull-requests and code review
• Deployment slots and health-checks
• Monitoring with Application Insights

NOTE: The session will be held in English (both slides and talk).

John St. Clair and Thor Ånderbakk are both senior developers at Miles. At If, Thor is lead architect of the Customer team, while John is lead developer.

An introduction to Blazor

Did you know that you could write your next web application in c# both on the server and on the client?

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser without any plugins or transpilations. In this presentation we will go through the underlying technology which makes this possible, namely WebAssembly. We will also take a look at the current state of Blazor and see what we can do with it as of now.

Håkan Silfvernagel holds a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and in addition, he holds a Master’s degree in Leadership and Organizational behavior. He has also taken courses on university level in psychology, interaction design and human-computer interaction. He has 19 years’ experience of software development in various positions such as developer, tester, architect, project manager, scrum master, practice manager and team lead. Håkan is currently working as a senior consultant at Miles.