Once upon a time, I had a great idea for a startup project. So I invested all my spare time in building the best web application I could build, with lots of really clever, useful features. In just a few short years, I had hardly any customers, and was not making enough money to cover the cost of running the service.

In this session, I’ll share the secrets of how you, too, can start a side project that consumes all your free time, fails to gain traction and ends up losing you money.

I’ll also talk about going back to the drawing board, relaunching the project, and what I’m going to do differently this time to make it a success.

So you have decided that you have outgrown your monolithic application, and now you want to break it up into microservices. Just how do you go about that? Often likened to „building planes in the sky” complex restructuring projects often fail because teams lack the understanding of how to avoid going dark whilst delivering technical transformation.
In this presentation you will discover the key steps at decomposing your monolith. You’ll learn about some key topics like: identifying your business capabilities, strangles, event interception, reference data and autonomy that will help you understand the steps in breaking your code loose from its monolithic prison.
You’ll also discover how you gain buy-in.
By the end of this presentation you should have some idea of proven strategies for technical transformation projects.

It took less than a decade for Git to become the de-facto standard in version control systems. Most people who use it praise its speed. Some appreciate its flexibility. Everyone criticizes its unwarranted complexity. In order to make Git more approachable, a number of GUIs have been developed on top of it. While many of them have contributed to its widespread popularity, they all share a common design flaw: sacrificing Git’s true potential on the altar of user-friendliness.

Regardless of how many features these tools may have, no graphical metaphor can effectively represent what was conceived for the command line. In this session I’ll demonstrate exactly what Git can do for you that none of the GUI tools ever tells you about. Quickly moving chunks of commits between branches, custom history visualizations, alternative workflows and even debugging are only some of the things I’ll demonstrate, all 100% from the command line.

If you’re using Git through a GUI, you’re missing out. Let me show you why.

The new .NET Execution Environment allows so much cross-platform goodness that you may not know where to begin. In this session you’ll learn, from one of the world’s leading experts on the Entity Framework ORM, how to use the new version of EF in ASP.NET Core Web API, and then deploy it to the cloud in a Docker container. And to show how cross-platform you can get, we’ll do all of this on a Mac in OS X. We’ll also explore other new features that EF Core introduces, especially ones which enhance the experience of coding up your data persistence with Entity Framework.

For quite some time, webdevelopers outside of the .NET space have been using task runners like Gulp and Grunt to handle their front end resources. However, until lately, most .NET devs have left that up to Visual Studio and ASP.NET. At least if we generalize a little. This has some pros and cons. However, with the release of ASP.NET 5, those features are being removed from Visual Studio, and replaced by native Node and Gulp/Grunt integration. This will change the way we build ASP.NET applications in the future. And even if you stick with ASP.NET 4.5, the community is moving in this direction.

Are you feeling a little unsure of what this means to you? Not 100% sure what Gulp and Grunt is, and how they fit into your life? Feeling a little lost when people start talking about Node, npm, Bower, bundling and minification? Why not go to this talk and get an understanding of the fundamentals of this new process, and what it means to you?

ASP.NET has been changing rapidly. Let’s take a look at the current state of the .NET world and how ASP.NET fits into it.

Discussion panel with speakers moderated by Mark Rendle.