.NET Tour UK 2020 Special Event

We'll be taking part in the .NET Tour UK 2020 (https://dotnettour.github.io/UKTour2020), a series of concurrent community meetup events with amazing .NET speakers.

🗣️ Karel Zikmund - Engineering Manager on .NET Libraries Team at Microsoft.

Karel is a member of the .NET team since 2005:

🎤 Async Demystified

Do you struggle to fully understand async in C#? How it works and why?

I did. So I asked the best - the author of async, Stephen Toub. This talk is a summary of the most interesting insights from him that helped me finally truly understand the magic behind async.

The talk will cover:

History and evolution of asynchronous programming patterns in C# and their problems. Leading to async and demonstrating the “why” behind its design choices.
Touch on the “how” it works behind the scenes.
Reasons for customizing and hyper-optimizing async for high-performance (like Networking stack).
Touch on related building block - ThreadPool.
Hands-on, sync-over-async pattern and associated problems. Workarounds in your code if you hit it. Potential solutions in future .NET versions.

🗣️ Irina Scurtu

Microsoft MVP. Based in Romania.

Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, Software Architect, CTT+ technical trainer and Microsoft Certified Trainer, always in a quest for latest trends and best practices in architecture, .NET and the world around it.

Irina Scurtu has more than 700 hours of delivered training, workshops and presentations, being passionate about domain-driven design and microservices with all their ups and downs. She is the founder of DotNet Iasi User Group where she tries to gather people that are willing to share their knowledge with others.

🎤 Forget about HTTP

Microservices should be autonomous and independent, but what happens when your business domain doesn’t allow it, and you need to get data from other microservices? You’ll soon realize that simple HTTP calls are not enough anymore, or that your app is more brittle than ever and then you switch to messaging. With messaging you need to have a different mindset and be willing to embrace new challenges.

In this session, we’ll see what other options we have and we’ll talk about the benefits or the drawbacks of choosing an approach or another.

⚠️This event will start slightly earlier than usual to accommodate the timings for the additional speakers.

5:45 pm - Arrivals

6:30 pm - .NET Tour Live Introduction - Karel Zikmund and Steve Gordon

6:40 pm - Talks