The Brisbane .NET User Group

Meetup kindly sponsored this month by our friends at Versent. 🍜

Live stream from 6pm AEST via our YouTube channel. 📽️

Recordings after the event on our YouTube channel. 📺

Venue kindly sponsored by Versent (formerly Telstra Purple). 🪑

Lucky door prizes kindly sponsored by JetBrains. 📜

We are glad to recommend our sponsors products and services, and we appreciate their ongoing sponsorship of our user group! 😁

FastEndpoints: A Straightforward Approach to .NET APIs (by Isaac Dedini) [~45m]

Building .NET APIs often leads us down a familiar path: controllers, DTOs scattered across projects, MediatR, commands, queries, and application logic that somehow finds its way into every layer except where it belongs. After seeing the same problems arising across multiple projects, the search began for a more straightforward approach.

This talk explores FastEndpoints as an alternative to more conventional .NET API patterns. We'll look at how FastEndpoints encourages vertical slice architecture, keeps related code together, and maintains cleaner boundaries between application and domain logic. The session will provide an overview of FastEndpoints' key features and demonstrate how this approach differs from more conventional patterns.

Whether you're exploring different architectural approaches or are curious about tools that prioritise developer experience, this talk will give you a practical introduction to what FastEndpoints offers.

Schedule (Brisbane/Australia):
5:00pm Attendees can arrive in-person.
5:30pm Refreshments.
5:55pm Turtle's bodacious welcome.
6pm FastEndpoints talk by Isaac Dedini (~45 minutes).
7pm Close, and head to the Criterion.

Meetup kindly sponsored this month by our friends at Particular Software. 🍜

Live stream from 6pm AEST via our YouTube channel. 📽️

Recordings after the event on our YouTube channel. 📺

Venue kindly sponsored by Versent (formerly Telstra Purple). 🪑

Lucky door prizes kindly sponsored by JetBrains. 📜

We are glad to recommend our sponsors products and services, and we appreciate their ongoing sponsorship of our user group! 😁

Distributed Systems with .NET Aspire: From Code to Cloud (by Jason Taylor) [~1h]

Distributed systems can be overwhelming - but with .NET Aspire, building them feels refreshingly simple. In this session, we’ll explore a multi-service, message-driven application and see how Aspire streamlines orchestration, configuration, and diagnostics across your system.

Along the way, I’ll show how easily you can plug in messaging, persistence, and observability without the usual wiring and complexity. Once it's running locally, we’ll set up CI/CD and deploy the whole thing to the cloud - with minimal effort.

Whether you're modernising an existing solution or starting from scratch, you’ll walk away with practical ideas and a new appreciation for Aspire’s end-to-end developer experience.

Schedule (Brisbane/Australia):
5:00pm Attendees can arrive in-person.
5:30pm Refreshments.
6pm Turtle's bodacious welcome.
6:10pm .NET Aspire talk by Jason Taylor (~1 hour).
7:10pm Close, and head to the Criterion.