Machine Learning Lite - Great Taste, Less Filling
Mike Schlegel
Not a data scientist? No problem. This is a developer led introduction to using Azure's Machine Learning Studio. We'll talk about how ML Studio works and walk through an experiment from raw data to usable metrics. No deep dives on math, no need to learn R. Just some interesting conclusions abou
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Hialeah
Topics: ;
Tags: Azure; Big Data; Cloud
Refactoring Your Health
David Merk; Tony Thigpen
A great developer has courage, dedication, passion, and enough mental chops to break down problems and innovate solutions. That toughness is what heroes are made of; but with such an exhausting job, it's no surprise that a lot of IT professionals struggle to show the same dedication for their physic
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Keeneland
Topics: Soft Skills;
Tags: Other; Soft Skills
Building a QA practice from scratch
Alison Hawke
When you’re the only QA, how do you instill quality practices and build that mindset into the wider company? I'm going to walk through how we went from eight to forty-five quality advocates, and talk about recruiting, training, fun, multiple remote offices, delegation, velociraptor-avoidance techniq
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Belmont
Topics: Software Testing;
Tags: Career Development; Quality Assurance; Testing
How Microsoft does DevOps
Paul Hacker
Learn how Microsoft has taken in its journey to DevOps over the past 8 years and completely changed their approach to building software and services. You’ll learn about Microsoft’s 90,000 engineers working in the public cloud delivering into production multiple times per day and how some products ha
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Regency South A
Topics: Application Development;
Tags: Azure; Cloud; Development Practices; DevOps
Real-Time Data Streaming with Azure Stream Analytics
Alexander Slotte
It’s imperative in today's world to be able to make split second decisions based on real-time data. Reports based on batch data are great for looking back at trends and potentially making long-term decision, but old data is in many cases already obsolete, and the opportunity to have an actionable im
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Derby
Topics: ;
Tags: .NET; Azure; Big Data; IoT
Developer Version 1.0.0
Charlotte Shreve
I recently finished my first trip around the sun as a professional software developer. For this talk I'll recap what I learned, what I wish I learned, and what I think all developers can learn from remembering their own first year in the industry. We'll talk about mentorship, being a young woman in
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Adueduct
Topics: Soft Skills
Tags: Soft Skills
Building Great Libraries with .NET Standard
Chad Green
For 17 years, the biggest decision was whether it was time to upgrade to the latest .NET framework or not. Not there .NET Framework, .NET Core, and .NET Standard. So many options and it is not completely obviously which one (or ones) you should be using. During this session we will review the diff
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Pimlico
Topics: Application Development;
Tags: .NET; Architecture
Multithreaded JavaScript—Web Workers and Atomics
Jeff Strauss
For better or worse, JavaScript is single-threaded by design. For over 50 years Moore’s Law has described persistent exponential growth in computational power, but physical limitations have slowed that trend. Advancement now comes through the use of multiple CPUs and cores. This is fine for language
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Downs
Topics: Application Development;
Tags: JavaScript; Web
What is all the fuss about GraphQL
Baskar Rao Dandlamudi
Whether it is enterprise information systems or personal blogs there has been increased adoption of GraphQL in all these applications. While the developer community was settling with REST based APIs to handle most of their API requirements, GraphQL came in to help solve most typical issues which dev
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Churchill
Topics: Application Development
Tags:
An Introduction to WebAssembly
Guy Royse
Want to write a web application? Better get familiar with JavaScript! JavaScript has long been the king of front-end. While there have been various attempts to dethrone it, they have typically involved treating JavaScript as an assembly-language analog that you transpile your code to. This has lead
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Conference Theater
Topics: Application Development;
Tags: JavaScript; WebAssembly
Hold Up, Wait a Minute, Let Me Put Some Async In It
Matthew Jones
The introduction of async/await to C# has irrevocably changed how .NET developers created their applications. But what about older applications? How can they get the async goodness?
In this code-heavy session, we'll take a "older" .NET web app which has no asynchronous code and slowly refactor it
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Regency South B
Topics: Application Development;
Tags: .NET; Performance; Web
nginx + Redis = Ludicrous Speed
Jason McCreary
Nearly ever app has an API. The next step is "scale". But what you really mean is speed - Ludicrous Speed. Let's explore a super fast API with native PHP (no frameworks) running atop nginx, and using Redis as our runtime database. We'll take a peak at how underneath this may be a traditional PHP app
Date/Time: Friday, August 23, 2019 10:15 AM
Room: Park Suite
Topics: Application Development;
Tags: Architecture; Development Practices; DevOps