[HYBRID] How Simple Is "As Simple As Possible" - Rendle + gRPC - John Staveley

Tonight's event will be both in-person at BJSS on King Street, Nottingham, and on Zoom!

If you could fill out the following form and let us know if you are coming in-person or online...

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How Simple Is "As Simple As Possible" - Rendle

Software engineering these days is out of control. Microservices and micro-frontends, modular monoliths, HTTP or gRPC APIs, messaging, event-driven, event-sourced...

Is it any wonder that projects run into trouble before they've even shipped anything?

A good response to this is to say "we should keep things as simple as possible." But how simple is that? In this talk we'll look at some patterns, processes, tools and services; ask whether we NEED them; and if we do, find the simplest possible solution.

We'll look at abstractions and where they do and don't belong. And you will learn how to say "we don't need that," or at least "we don't need that yet."

Demystifying gRPC - John Staveley

Intrigued by why some of the world's largest companies (Netflix, Google, Cisco, Twitter, Uber etc) are using gRPC?

In this demo based talk we delve into the world of gRPC, what it does and why we should use it. We compare the interface with both Rest and graphQL.

We will show you how to implement gRPC server-side in .NET and in the web. Finally, I will show you how the tooling helps you deliver powerful interfaces and interact with them quickly and simply.

Our Speakers:

Rendle:

Rendle is the founder of RendleLabs, which provides consulting services and workshops to .NET development teams across all industries. Their particular obsessions are API design and development, performance, Observability and code-base modernisation.

They also use skills acquired during a few years as a professional stand-up comic to deliver entertaining and informative talks at conferences around the world, and recently learned to play bass so they could join tech parody band The LineBreakers.

You can find Rendle at;

Blog: https://rendle.dev/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markrendle

John Staveley:

John Staveley is a developer focusing on web development with 24 years experience, mostly in the .Net stack.

He is an organiser at Leeds Sharp, Leeds Data Science and Leeds IoT meetups and regular speaker on a variety subjects such as security, IoT and messaging across the north of England.

You can find John at;

Twitter: http://twitter.com/JohnStaveley/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnstaveley/

How to find us:

We'll be in-person at the BJSS offices on King Street in Nottingham as well as on Zoom.

BJSS Ltd, Fothergill House, 16 King St, Nottingham NG1 2AS
You'll find us next to DoughNotts!

If you could fill out the following form and let us know if you are coming in-person or online...

https://forms.gle/GGTFKJayG8WshMuW9

(Feel free to also fill out the question at the bottom or the meetup too!)
Thanks!

Swag:

We'll be giving away a JetBrains license to one lucky attendee!

Food:

We'll have some wonderful food courtesy of Rebel Recruiters!