NetPonto #34 - kicking off a new year! 👟

Hello everyone!

Continuing our online sessions, this time around it will be, exceptionally, on a Thursday! It will also be in english.

## Agenda ##
👋 18:30 - Intro
🎙 18:40 - C. Augusto Proiete - Serilog Deep Dive: Beyond the Provided Sinks
👋 19:30 - Closing

Event will be held online and link will be provided closer to the date.

🎙 C. Augusto Proiete - Serilog Deep Dive: Beyond the Provided Sinks 🎙
Lead Dev, Open-source maintainer and Kitesurfer - https://augustoproiete.net/

📝 Abstract:
Instrumentation is a critical part of application development, and Serilog has been a key component of many .NET applications, helping developers record the right data, at the right time, and in a format that can be used efficiently when it's needed.

This session will explore the core Serilog building blocks, from non-trivial log pipeline configurations, to developing customs sinks, enrichers, and other more advanced components for leveraging the power of Serilog to build a robust instrumentation strategy for your app, whether it's in the cloud, on-prem, or both (hybrid).

👤 Bio:
Augusto is extremely passionate about software development and the developer community, contributes to open-source projects and speaks at technology conferences/meetups worldwide.

By day, he works as a Senior Lead Software Engineer for a leading diversified Reinsurer, developing a cloud-based insurance and reinsurance risk transfer and collateral management platform.

Currently based in Bermuda, he literally lives in paradise and, at the same time, is only a couple of hours' flight away from most cities in the East Coast of the US including New York, Washington D.C., and Atlanta, which he visits often.

Before relocating to Bermuda, Augusto lived in Portugal for several years where he co-founded the .NET user group "NetPonto" which has been successfully bringing together .NET developers across the country since 2009 with regular monthly events in different cities including Lisbon, Oporto, and Coimbra.

Nowadays, he's bootstrapping the Bermuda Software Engineers meetup, helping to build a community of like-minded developers on the island that shares knowledge and collaborates on interesting and fun open-source projects.

He's a Microsoft MVP and ASP Insider, and his main topics for speaking in 2020-2021 include:

Software architecture and patterns for the Cloud
Building distributed systems using C# .NET
Extending Excel using C# .NET with custom functions, and custom UI's
Systems integration using .NET, Rust, Python, and other technologies
Continuous Integration, build, test and delivery
Mastering Source Control workflows using Git
Software development in .NET 5, .NET Core, Blazor, and ASP .NET
... and more.

You can contact him on Twitter @augustoproiete or hello@augustoproiete.net

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## Sponsors ##

We'd like to thank our sponsors that help us makes these events a reality.

🥈 PostMarkApp
🥈 .NET Foundation
🥉 Trello