Microsoft DevCon 2016 - Introducing the Final Wave of Community Track Speakers / Microsoft Blog

maria_gore May 5, 2016 at 11:14

Microsoft DevCon 2016 - Introducing the Final Wave of Community Track Speakers

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We continue to announce speakers at our annual DevCon 2016 Developer Conference ! This year, DevCon will provide participants with a new program format and various ticket types, including the special Pass Pass offer . In previous publications, we announced the contents of the conference and a list of the main tracks: Windows, Office, Azure, Startup and Community track. And they presented the first wave of Community track speakers . It is time to tell and introduce all the speakers of the track, each of which is an undoubted professional in his field and a recognized industry expert.

And we are also very pleased that our invited experts are representatives of various areas of IT, and their reports cover completely different topics - the cloud, the Internet of things, DevOps, testing, flexible methodologies, virtual reality and much more.

Report: Implementing Scrum practices in large

Scrum projects is one of the most common approaches for implementing Agile software development methodologies. He has certain rules and laws that must be followed. On the other hand, as practice shows, it is not always possible to adhere to all the rules. This report will explain how and why it is sometimes necessary to modify SCRUM mechanisms, using the methodology as an example in development and operation teams when creating software for Swiss banks.

Report: How to make your game profitable

. This report will reveal the secrets of methods that guarantee profit from mobile applications, confirmed by millions of happy players. The speaker will talk about various nuances and tricks that will significantly increase your income from a mobile application or game. You will also find examples of possible steps for success in the global market.

Report: Containers and microservices for the developer.

What is useful in containers for your product and development team? Do I need to rewrite everything to microservices? Which technologies to choose? The report will provide information on current technologies and patterns that will help answer these questions.

Report: Open Source Benchmarks The

speaker has been dealing with the topic of microoptimization for several years and is the maintainer of the open source library BenchmarkDotNet. This library helps people write the “right” benchmarks that measure how long certain methods work. Benchmarking is a very complex, but at the same time very interesting topic, which, unfortunately, not many programmers understand (and knowing at least the basics is very useful). This report will talk about the role of the open source community in shaping the culture of modern .NET benchmarking, and the speaker will show a couple of funny examples in which evaluating the speed of several lines of code is not as easy as it might seem at first glance.

Report: Simple and scalable backends

. What is the reason for the complexity of the applications we create? The answer to this philosophical question is tried every day by IT industry specialists, based on knowledge and experience. Best engineering practices and design patterns are designed to help with this. In his speech, the speaker will share his experience in creating backends in complex subject areas and talk about the NuClear River project - an open source tool for building Read Models, which can greatly simplify the solution of some business problems.

Report: Reviewing the Azure Active Directory API Security Model from First-Hand Experience

What is an “Application” and What Does “Integration” Mean? In this report, the speaker will present various aspects and answer many questions. Including the Consent framework, authentication and authorization, an overview of the available authentication protocols, access methods and much more.

Report: How to destroy database performance in 30 minutes

Administering databases, in particular SQL Server, is not the most difficult process. Relatively small databases require no more than one business day to configure the server for normal, efficient, and continuous operation. However, most of the recommendations on the Internet contain extremely harmful tips that, when superficially looked, look “beautiful”, but in fact lead to a significant degradation of performance. Using real-life examples, the speaker will talk about “what is good and what is bad” for the effective functioning of the database server.

Report: How we raised the farm, or real experience in testing automation on mobile devices

In this report, the speaker will touch upon one of the most important and at the same time controversial topics for developers - the topic of testing. And since the last few years his team has been working on the DevExtreme framework for mobile devices, the story will be devoted to testing on various devices. Report on finds and omissions, defeats and victories, and how, stepping on various favorite rakes, the team was still able to do automated testing of dreams.

Report: Dodo Pizza: growth by leaps and bounds The

team was faced with the task of moving to Azure and starting to scale. Now the company Dodo Pizza is growing at 10% per month and does not slow down. In the report, the founder of the company will tell you what changes they are making to scale with the business, and how Azure helps.

Speaker: Gleb Lesnikov - System Administrator and Head of Technical Support, Dodo Pizza

Report: User Interaction in VR / AR: Evolution or Revolution?

The advent of new technologies entails new milestones in UI / UX, visualization and user interaction. In this report, the participants, together with the speaker, will plunge into it all and consider the stages of their development. They will learn how they mutated and how exactly what is available now appeared. They will reveal what trends VR / AR brought to visualization and UI / UX, and consider the good and bad ways of their development. You will try to imagine what awaits in the interfaces of the future and when will it come. You’ll also try to find out whether virtual reality technology will bring a revolution in the world of user interaction and whether VR / AR glasses will become “must have” devices.

Report: How to build your own brewery with the Internet of things, the cloud and the mobile application

The report will examine the really useful use of Azure, IoT and analytics - building a cloud brewery management system. Participants will get acquainted with the correct process of home grain brewing, find out what processes in it can be automated using Azure IoT Hub, Stream Analytics and Windows 10 IoT.

Report: Debugging Office Add-Ins for iOS, Mac, and Android

In 2015, Office Add-Ins became partially available on iOS and OSX. Despite the unified Java Script API, the emergence of new platforms entailed the need for testing and debugging solutions for all platforms. As part of the report, the speaker will talk about weinre and ngrok tools that allow you to remotely debug web applications, as well as about the features of their use for debugging Add-Ins for Office.

Report: Microsoft.ServiceFabс for building a platform Connected Car

Now you can not surprise anyone with a coffee machine controlled via twitter, or a refrigerator, which itself buys products in the online store. With the Connected Car solution, thousands of motorists can remotely control their cars, and car manufacturers and dealerships can diagnose, aggregate signals and data from car sensors for further analysis to take care of their customers like no one else in history has done. This report is about how Service Fabric is used to build the Connected Car platform, as well as the tools and technologies that the company uses to achieve this.

Report: Azure Functions - software logic, as a service in the cloud.

Azure Functions service offers the ability to provide on-demand computing in response to events. The service is built on Azure, the market leader in PaaS. During this talk, you will learn how Azure Functions extends the existing WebJobs infrastructure to provide easy code execution in response to events arising from both Azure services, SaaS products, and local systems. You will also see how to create and deploy Azure Functions code written in JavaScript and C # using the intuitive browser user interface to respond to events generated by Blob Storage, Table Storage, Azure Queues, Service Bus, Event Hubs, HTTP requests or timer .

Speaker: Marcin Borecki - CloudExpert.pl, Microsoft, Hedgehog Fund

Report: A practical example of building Continuous Integration in 72 hours - how we built processes inside the company.

DevOps is good, but you need to go to it in small steps. If your company does not have experience building effective development processes and quality control, then you need to start small - for example, by setting up a continuous integration process. In the report, the speaker will show in practice how to implement CI within the company as soon as possible.

Report: Embrace the immensity, or how to use several MVVM frameworks in one XAML project.

Some XAML developers use their favorite MVVM framework from project to project. Others each time choose a new MVVM framework for a new project. In the report, the speaker will share that one can go even further and use several MVVM frameworks on the same project at the same time, each of which will solve the problem for which it is best suited. Participants will see how to combine the good old Prism with the hipster ReactiveUI and take advantage of both frameworks.

Report: How to analyze key performance counters and identify system weaknesses

Do you know how fast and reliable your system is? How effective is it? How to localize performance problems? In his report, the speaker will try to answer these questions in the context of collecting and analyzing performance counters for the Azure cloud application.

DevCon 2016

DevCon is the largest Microsoft conference for developers in Russia. We spend its sixth year and traditionally try to gather those who are not indifferent to the Microsoft platform outside the city, in a comfortable country park hotel, to discuss current technologies together and try the latest versions of products in practice.

In 2016, DevCon will appear in an updated format and we are pleased to share with you the secrets of preparing our conference, as well as the main announcements:

This year, event participants will have more opportunities to immerse themselves in technology and gain new knowledge: master classes, reports, intensives. At the same time, DevCon is still more than just a conference, with a rich program and communication with experts and colleagues outside the program. On the site you can learn more about how to become a member.

We remind you that this year we offer a simplified participation in DevCon 2016 with a new category of Guest Pass tickets for 2500 rubles , which includes a transfer to the venue, visiting all the reports and workshops on the first day of the conference, and an interactive exhibition!

Hurry up to buy GUEST PASS for DevCon 2016.

See you at the conference!

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