Microsoft Identities and GraphQL

We'll be hearing from two amazing speakers for this event - Nigel Sampson and Rory Braybrook.

Nigel Sampson has been a developer since 2003, building everything from cloud based web applications, microservices and native mobile apps. Currently based at Pushpay, a payments and engagement company in Auckland, New Zealand he works across both monoliths and microservices and the interactions in between.

He's an active open source participant maintaining and contributing to a number of projects and blogs at compiledexperience.com about anything he's currently learning.

Rory is a Microsoft Identity Architect and a Microsoft MVP in Enterprise mobility.

He helps run two user groups and is active on stackoverflow and MSDN.

He blogs regularly on Identity matters at https://medium.com/the-new-control-plane and is active on Twitter as @rbrayb

Nigel's talk on GraphQL:
GraphQL is a new open source specification for querying data from an API. It represents a client focussed approach compared to traditional methods like REST. What are it's strengths and weaknesses? When should you consider adopting GraphQL and what does an implementation in .NET look like?

In this talk we'll start with an introduction to the principals of GraphQL and some of it's unique features. We'll then walk through building a GraphQL server in .NET Core and C# demonstrating the unique advantages the platform and language afford us. We'll then discuss longer term concerns such as operability and maintainability comparing and constrasting to REST.

Rory's talk on the Microsoft Identity Platform:
The Microsoft identity platform is an evolution of the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) developer platform. It allows developers to build applications that sign in all Microsoft identities and get tokens to call Microsoft APIs, such as Microsoft Graph, or APIs that developers have built.

For developers, the Microsoft identity platform offers seamless integration into innovations in the identity and security space, such as passwordless authentication, step-up authentication, and Conditional Access. You don’t need to implement such functionality yourself: applications integrated with the Microsoft identity platform natively take advantage of such innovations.

We'll take a look at the platform and see how you can be up and running in five minutes

Thanks to our lovely sponsors Pushpay and Microsoft, we'll have some drinks and pizza at the event too.