Web Performance & API design

Preliminary program:

18:30 - Doors open - welcoming & pizza

19:00 - 19:45
Benjamin Howarth - Performance in the Javascript Era

More often approached as an afterthought, this primer will cover some essential ground on how to approach measuring website and web app performance, along with some quick wins, through to some more lower-level technical nuances with HTTP2, compression, and header management, and finally putting all our tools together to comprehensively and continuously keep a watchful eye on your performance metrics. The topic will include ASP.NET and NodeJS samples, and slides & code will be made available on Github well in advance.

19:45 - 20:00 Break

20:00 - 20:45
Fanie Reynders - ASP.NET Core Hidden Gems

Microsoft’s ASP.NET Core is a brand new web framework, completely open sourced and cross-platform; for building scalable- & cloud-ready web applications. This talk covers some of the features in the framework, that is not that obvious, in my opinion, that we can utilise when building modern and practical APIs. Think REST, dependency injection, application startup, startup filters, custom servers, clients, hosted services, conventions, model binding, application parts, HATEOAS, and more.

20:45 Networking

Benjamin Howarth is a freelance ASP.NET architect & senior developer, specializing in open-source content management systems. His experience in high-scale high-performance websites has been a strength over the past five years, working for Tesco, FIA Formula E, Universal Music Group, and Manchester Airport Group.
https://benjaminhowarth.com
https://twitter.com/@benjaminhowarth

Originally from South Africa, Fanie Reynders is a Software Engineer living in The Netherlands with over a decade experience in the software industry. He is the coolest dad, Microsoft Certified Professional, Microsoft MVP and secretly a Cloud Technology Evangelist obsessed with code, architecture and shiny new tech; sharing knowledge wherever to whoever will listen. He likes teaching, writing and vlogging about the things that make him happy.
https://reynders.co
https://twitter.com/@FanieReynders