28th June: iO .Net Cardiff - The Legend of the T-Shaped Developer

• Wednesday, 28 June 2023
• 06:30 PM - 08:30 PM

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.Net Cardiff is BACK and bringing you 3 lightning talks that all link back to The Legend of the T-Shaped Developer!

Join us on Wednesday 28th June from 18:30 at the newly refurbished Confused.com offices on Greyfriars Road.

Traditionally, organisations have favoured I-shaped developers: a short of specialist that has honed a deep and pretty specific area of expertise. Now, besides having a defined area of expertise that goes deep into one field, T-Shaped Developers also have a broad knowledge in other areas of expertise such as DevOps, Cloud, or UX.

We will be joined by Adam Cullen - Enterprise Architect, Ian Griffiths - Principal Engineer and Chris Taylor - Director of Engineering (DevOps). Their talks will cover EDA with Cosmos & Event Hubs, Upgrading Azure Functions to .Net 7's Isolated Model and Leveraging DevOps Practices to help Reduce Tech Debt.

We will be releasing weekly details about our speakers in the run up to the event. First up, Ian Griffiths!

Ian is a Principal Engineer at Confused.com and has been building full stack, cloud-hosted applications on AWS and Azure for nearly 10 years. He regularly giggles to himself about how many of the concepts he learned when he started being a professional developer working on IBM mainframes are still relevant and valid today.  

His talk titled "Upgrading Azure Functions to .Net 7's Isolated Model" will be a demonstration of taking a .Net 6 HTTP-triggered in-process function and updating it to run as a .Net 7 out-of-process function. 

There'll be a bit of bicep, an Azure DevOps pipeline and some C# code.  He'll have a before and after version of all the code in a GitHub repo that will be shared nearer the time.  If we have time he might even try and squeeze in a bit of Cosmos data binding and a timer trigger too, to demonstrate how that changes between the two versions.

Huge thanks to our hosts and refreshment sponsors Confused.com!

Confused are based in central Cardiff (a 10-minute walk from the station) and there are plenty of public car parks around if you're driving.

See you on the 28th June!

Agenda:
18:30 - Arrive for pizza and drinks
19:00 - Talks start
20:00 - End

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