Lightning talks

Join us for 3 short presentations on some fascinating topics!

Migrating a legacy application – a tale as old as time, with Tim Covark

A familiar story – an application has been serving the business well for more than a decade, but is reaching the end of its life. Replacing it with something more modern is a fine line to walk – come and listen to where we got it right, and where it went wrong.

Crystal clear database sharding with Entity Framework Core, with Matt Astachnowicz

Multi-tenant architectures have always been quite good at creating a never-ending stream of problems for SaaS developers, whether that be maintaining data separation, keeping the system performant or meeting data sovereignty requirements. At Teamgage we needed a rock solid, highly customisable tool to handle our multi tenancy and routing of database requests, so we developed our own shard manager: Crystal. Using this tool we can easily handle all of our daily ops work like creating & updating tenants, deploying updates and applying database migrations. We would like to share some of our work with you to hopefully save you a few headaches too!

Practical Powershell for Devs, with Ben Laan

About Tim

Tim Covark is the product development manager at Cashflow Manager, a small business accounting platform. He’s also worked as a product manager at Sweat and Beyond Bank, and before that was a Ruby developer.

About Matt

I’m definitely still quite new to the development game, having worked in the field for just over 2 years. After 18 months hustling in the world of big IT corporates, I transitioned to the exciting startup industry where I currently work for Teamgage helping by pushing out non-stop high-quality bugs (sometimes with features attached).

About Ben

I am a Software Architect with over 23 years of industry experience. I am passionate about all aspects of software development.

I work for MatrixGroup, a division of Eka. We build state of the art bulk commodity handling solutions for tier one clients in the Minerals and Agricultural industries throughout the world.

I have extensive experience designing and building platform architectures that support complex, modular and customised solutions for clients. This includes building N-Tier, distributed systems, and interfacing with real-time (SCADA) systems, using .NET technologies such as WPF, XNA, ASP.NET (MVC, Web Api)

This meeting will be run online using Microsoft Teams.

This is free, thanks to Encode Talent!