November 2, 2016 at 17:12Videos of the best reports of the .NET conference DotNext 2016 Piter
While preparations for the Moscow DotNext are in full swing, we have opened access to video reports from the conference last summer. By the link - a full playlist, and under the cut - the top 5 reports on the feedback of participants. Saying “top”, we do not mean our favorite reports or the choice of some “experts” - the best ones were selected based on a balanced assessment from 80% of the conference participants. What do you think, whose performance was appreciated by the audience - performance expert Sasha Goldstein or charismatic Dino Esposito?
5th place
Dmitry Soshnikov - How many lives does .NET have: we think about the fate of our favorite platform
Average rating: 4.48
We say “.NET” - we mean “Microsoft”: the opening keynote of DotNext was from the technology evangelist of the company that spawned the entire platform. Starting with nostalgia for the times of ZX Spectrum and reaching the application of Cognitive Services , he became a good workout for the audience before diving headlong into the topics of subsequent reports.
Dmitry will develop the topic of Cognitive Services at the upcoming DotNext 2016 Moscow - in the report “Intelligent Chatbots and Cognitive Services”.
4th place
Andrey Akinshin, Julia Tsisyk, Anatoly Kulakov - Let's talk about arithmetic
Average rating: 4.58
One of the most effective ways to feel stupid is to try to help a sixth grader with homework. A similar situation with this report: it seems to be devoted to basic arithmetic operations, but thanks to it one could unexpectedly discover that you do not know much about them. The performance is built in a puzzler format with two assistants: Andrei Akinshin voices the puzzle, Anatoly Kulakov and Yulia Tsisyk make assumptions - and the audience is trying to understand which of them is right.
At the Moscow DotNext, Akinshin will continue to talk about arithmetic, but not in the format of problems.
3rd place
Sasha Goldshtein - PerfView: Measure and Improve Your App's Performance For Free
Average rating: 4.65
If the author of the book “Pro .NET Performance” has the root “perf” in the title of the report, this is an occasion to pay attention. Sasha Goldstein talked about how Microsoft's PerfView tool is better than regular profiler
In December, Goldstein will also have a report with "perf" in the title: "Squeezing the Hardware to Make Performance Juice." And besides him, also the report "WinDbg Superpowers for .NET Developers"
2nd place
Dino Esposito - ASP.NET Core 1.0: Challenges and Opportunities
Average rating: 4.69
When Dino Esposito enters the scene, there is no doubt that it will be expressive - one of his gestures would be enough for three. But this year, the audience was especially lucky, because the difficult situation with (ASP) .NET Core fits his style in the best way possible. So the report lacked sarcasm, which at the same time mixed the audience and at the same time capaciously conveys the problem. In the scene “dialogue with the manager about the transition to Core”, starting at 39:53, Esposito did not even have to clearly articulate the latest remark in order to cause applause.
Several months have already passed since this presentation - how are things with Core now? In December, Esposito will open keynoutom Moscow DotNext, so that everything can be found there, and for sure it will turn out too bright.
1st place
Sasha Goldshtein - The C ++ and CLR Memory Models
Average rating: 4.70
“Gold” went to the same speaker as “bronze”! However, it is not surprising - in the .NET-environment Goldstein, thanks to his knowledge of the guts, enjoys the same unconditional respect as Alexey Shipilev at Java conferences. In the report, “The C ++ and CLR Memory Models,” Sasha said, for example, about things that developers take for granted, but are actually true only for x86 processors. So in their case, the transition to an architecture like ARM can break everything. I recall a recent tweet of the same Shipilev:
One would think that viewers automatically give high marks to those reports on “complex” topics in which not all of what was said was understood. But in fact, the opposite is true: Goldstein’s reviews praised the ability to “explain complex in simple words.”
DotNext 2016 Moscow
At the upcoming Moscow DotNext, you get a real royal flash: all the speakers who got into this top will speak there ! There will also be new faces:
- Jesse Liberty (Liberty Associates), who will speak immediately twice: with keynotes about C # 7 innovations and the report “Advanced Xamarin.Forms”.
- Dina Goldshtein (Aternity), who recently told us about performance monitoring tools, will take a closer look at ETW (Event Tracing for Windows).
- Marco Cecconi talks about working on a performance project that is familiar to all developers: Stack Overflow. Of his two reports, the first will be about the project as a whole, and the second about a specific feature: tags by which the necessary records are filtered out from millions of possible ones.
- Egor Bogatov (Xamarin / Microsoft) will consider a more hardcore situation than “just C #”: interaction from C # with C ++ code.
- Gael Fraiteur (PostSharp Technologies) will suggest diving into multithreading, understanding what happens at the core and processor level when we use multithreading features in .NET.
In general, we are waiting for everyone on December 9!