Pragmatic Performance with David Wengier and ARM Templates with Justin Yoo

Melbourne .NET User Group – Pragmatic Performance with David Wengier and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates with Justin Yoo

We’ve got an extra special Melbourne .NET user group session for you! Justin Yoo presented at DDD Sydney, and David Wengier is about to jet off to present at NDC Sydney. Come catch these 2 in-demand presentations at the Melbourne .NET user group.

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Talk #1: Pragmatic Performance: When to care about perf, and what to do about it - David Wengier
As a developer you often hear both that performance is important, but also that you shouldn't worry about performance up front, so when is the right time to think about it? And if the time is right, what are you actually supposed to do?
If you're interested to hear about a pragmatic approach to performance, this talk will explain when is the right time to think about benchmarking, but more importantly will run through how to correctly benchmark .NET code so any decisions made will be based on information about your code that is trustworthy.
Additionally, you'll also find out about some of the common, and some of the unknown, performance pitfalls of the .NET Framework and we'll discuss the true meaning behind the phrase "premature optimization is the root of all evil".

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Talk #2: Lessons learned: Best practices writing ARM templates - Justin Yoo
An ARM template is a convenient tool to manage Azure resources, but it is very difficult to manage them, and can be time consuming unless it is efficiently written. In addition, an ARM template is a big JSON file that is hard to read. What if DevOps engineers could write them in YAML? How about testing them efficiently? Lifecycle management? There are many ways to write ARM templates that really work, but not all of them are considered best practices.

At the end of the session, audiences will learn how to manage ARM templates in YAML, and hear best practices for ARM templates. Hear how ARM templates are tested before deployment, and how deployment histories of ARM templates can be proactively managed.

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About the presenters:
David Wengier has spent almost 20 years learning how to do the right thing by doing a lot of the wrong things first. He hopes to save you from some of that pain by sharing his passion for looking into the "why" of things, to help better understand them.

Justin Yoo is a Senior Consultant at Mexia and double-awarded Microsoft MVP in both Azure and Developer Technologies (particularly in .NET and DevOps/ALM). He is passionate to share his knowledge with community, which he has learnt from the various industry. He is also a big fan of serverless technologies that he believes it will make everyone’s life much easier.

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Doors open at 6pm for pizza and mingling. The sessions will kick off at 6:30.