Mark Rendle
Mark has been a professional software developer for 30 years and a .NET developer for nearly 20 of those. His latest mission is to help .NET teams all over the world move to .NET Core, and adopt modern software development practices, technologies and architectures. To achieve this, Mark creates training materials and online courses, delivers workshops, consults with firms large and small, and develops clever tools to help with the migration process. In his spare time, he makes games with his daughter and son using Unity.
High-Performance Networking with .NET Core 3.0
WCF may be no more, but there are still countless legacy systems that only speak SOAP, and new code still needs to talk to them. As part of the Visual Recode project, we're providing a brand new SOAP client generator for .NET Core 3.0; one that uses the full range of new, high-performance features of the modern framework. We've got Pipelines, Channels, Buffers, Pools, Spans, the works. In this talk, I'll show you how it all works together to create a client that uses less than 1% of the memory used by the old WCF client, and how you can use these new components to improve your own projects at all levels.
Futurology for Developers - The Next 30 Years in Tech
2019 is the 30th anniversary of my first job in tech. On my first day I was given a Wyse 60 terminal attached via RS232 cables to a Tandon 286, and told to learn C from a dead tree so I could write text applications for an 80x24 character screen. Fast-forward to now: my phone is about a million times more powerful than that Tandon; screens are 3840x2160 pixels; every computer in the world is attached to every other thing with no cables; and we code using… still basically C.
Having lived through all these changes in realtime, and as an incurable neophile, I think I can make an educated guess as to what the next 30 years are going to be like, and what we're all going to be doing by 2049. If anything, I'm going to underestimate it, but hopefully you'll be inspired, invigorated and maybe even informed about the future of your career in tech.
Mark has been a professional software developer for 30 years and a .NET developer for nearly 20 of those. His latest mission is to help .NET teams all over the world move to .NET Core, and adopt modern software development practices, technologies and architectures. To achieve this, Mark creates training materials and online courses, delivers workshops, consults with firms large and small, and develops clever tools to help with the migration process. In his spare time, he makes games with his daughter and son using Unity.
High-Performance Networking with .NET Core 3.0
WCF may be no more, but there are still countless legacy systems that only speak SOAP, and new code still needs to talk to them. As part of the Visual Recode project, we're providing a brand new SOAP client generator for .NET Core 3.0; one that uses the full range of new, high-performance features of the modern framework. We've got Pipelines, Channels, Buffers, Pools, Spans, the works. In this talk, I'll show you how it all works together to create a client that uses less than 1% of the memory used by the old WCF client, and how you can use these new components to improve your own projects at all levels.
Futurology for Developers - The Next 30 Years in Tech
2019 is the 30th anniversary of my first job in tech. On my first day I was given a Wyse 60 terminal attached via RS232 cables to a Tandon 286, and told to learn C from a dead tree so I could write text applications for an 80x24 character screen. Fast-forward to now: my phone is about a million times more powerful than that Tandon; screens are 3840x2160 pixels; every computer in the world is attached to every other thing with no cables; and we code using… still basically C.
Having lived through all these changes in realtime, and as an incurable neophile, I think I can make an educated guess as to what the next 30 years are going to be like, and what we're all going to be doing by 2049. If anything, I'm going to underestimate it, but hopefully you'll be inspired, invigorated and maybe even informed about the future of your career in tech.