Ignite Australia 2017
This month I had a pleasure to speak at Microsoft Ignite conference in Australia.
My talks
I updated my talk about the Azure Portal with more performance tips & tricks, and one of the most important thing I learned while working with the Azure Portal Team: the Data Driven Approach for making decisions and improving product.
I got very positive outcome during and after my session:
I also updated my TypeScript talk with yarn (faster and better npm), and webpack (module bundler that can also compile TypeScript to JavaScript, minify it, optimize it and much more).
After my talks I've been interviewed by Duncan Hunter on Azure Portal and Building Large Scale Web Apps with TypeScript:
Recommended sessions
I personally attended, and watched later (after the conference), a few good talks. From what I've seen I would strongly recommend (in addition to my sessions of course):
The Technical Debt Prevention Clinic (Richard Banks) - great talk on distinguishing technical debt from bad code, and strategies to avoid bad code
Microservices, Docker, .NET, Windows, Linux, Azure. Oh, My! (Richard Banks) - awesome intro to Docker+Azure (if you haven't check Docker yet)
Applied Azure: Building a Large Scale Real World Application on a Coffee Budget (Troy Hunt) - nice overview of different Azure's offerings (did you know that New Relic is free with Azure App Service?)
Ten Things Every Expert Xamarin Developer Should Know (Glenn Stephens, Kym Phillpotts) - 10 good to know things if you are building apps with Xamarin
Building Azure Connected Mobile Client Apps (Glenn Stephens) - high level overview of building Xamarin apps with Azure
CQRS Secrets: How to Support Scalability and Performance (Richard Banks) - great intro to CQRS, from why to how
Blockchain 101 & Azure Blockchain as a Service (David Burela) - new hot thing from Azure
Blockchain Development on Azure Blockchain as a Service (David Burela & Chris Zhong) - deeper dive
30 Terrible Habits of Server and Cloud Administrators (Orin Thomas) - BEST VOTED SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE, title says all, and it also relates to developers' habits
Summary
Microsoft Ignite Australia was very well organized conference. I had a pleasure to meet a lot of passionate and curious people there. If you are a speaker or developer looking for a good conference, I strongly recommend you to go. If you are not from Australia, don't forget to take melatonin for 14h+ flight :) Oh, and the location is great too!
