Tech Talks by Fortech: Dino Esposito – The Force of Simplicity in Software

We are pleased to announce the first, of many, Tech Talks powered by Fortech, an initiative driven by our Brașov Team. Tech Talks is about knowledge sharing, technology, the people behind it, and last but not least, about our community.

In this edition, our guest speaker and well-known author of 20+ .NET books published by Microsoft Press, Dino Esposito, will talk about The Force of Simplicity in Software using an ASP.NET application as a guideline.

The KEYNOTE

His keynote will summarize Domain-Driven Design and jump to devising of apps in a top-down fashion using a ref template for the records.

The world of software is funny because it develops under the continuous action of two untamable forces: formal design patterns and pragmatism. Domain-driven Design (DDD) has been the mantra for over 15 years, but there are situations in which it helps and situations in which it’s just hype. Finding pragmatic advice in it, and separating the wheat from the chaff, is the Holy Grail. Funny enough, while tons of words are spent on design patterns very few realistic templates exist. Even reference applications crafted to be the starting point of further applications tend to be padded with must-have features that mostly aim to show how smart the author is rather than helping the user. Finally, the philosopher’s stone of the decade: AI. Intelligence in UI is one thing—improving and smoothing the user experience - AI all the way through is quite another. AI, in general, won’t save the world, but it just solves very specific problems for which you have done a lot of work in data engineering. AI does help, but it doesn’t need hype.

When you proceed top-down, you are forced to focus on UX, and then you need it to be intelligent, without specific AI algorithms. In the end, your code is tailor-made for the problem; hence, it is simpler in a way. Or, as Einstein used to say, “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Join the Tech Talks to learn more!

AGENDA:

18:00 – 18:10 Event opening

18:10 – 19:10 Dino Esposito – The Force of Simplicity in Software

19:10 – 19:40 Q&A Session

19:40 – 20:00 Event closing

Event location: Online

Registration for this free event is open until 11:00 PM on November 9th, 2021.

Meet the Speaker:

Dino Esposito authored over 20 books and 1000 articles in a so-far 25-year long career. It is commonly recognized that his books and articles helped the professional growth of thousands of developers and software architects using Microsoft technologies. Dino started back in 1992 and led a team of five dreamers who deployed in 1995 a thing that today would be the same as Flickr or iCloud Photos. Dino counts ten years of experience in developing software for professional tennis and live scoring. Former JetBrains technical evangelist and best-selling trainer at Pluralsight, Dino spoke at over 100 industry events in over 20 different countries and is a former member of the team that manages WURFL—the database of mobile devices used by organizations such as Google and Facebook. After spending two years in renewable energy, he returned to the old passion of software for professional sport and is exploring the dazzling new world of digital therapy and optimization of clinical procedures in healthcare.