7 Deadly Presentation Sins with Andrew & Samantha Coates

What makes a great presentation? More importantly, what are the elements that can destroy a great presentation, even if the content itself is technically sound? In this session Samantha and Andrew Coates demonstrate seven sins that must not be committed in a presentation, why and how a presentation can suffer from committing them, and how…

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Thousands of concurrent connections with Azure SignalR Service

As much as everyone loves having real-time applications, it is a pain to have them in high traffic websites. Scaling is a big issue which can be easily solved by using Azure’s SignalR Service. How can we add real-time functionality to cloud hosted web applications? How can we test and handle high traffic volume without…

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Clean Code with Entity Framework Core | Brendan Richards

Object Relational Mappers like EF Core exist to take the drudgery out of getting your Object-Orientated C# code to talk to a relational database. Opinions on this vary from “ORMs are the Vietnam of Computer Science” to “If you write data access code, you are stealing from your client”. Like any powerful tool, EF Core…

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Real-life SpendOps with Cosmos DB | William Liebenberg

In this video, William will measure test outcomes in terms of Success or Failure. With Cosmos DB we also need factor in the effect our code changes will have on the cost of our software in production. In this talk you will learn the secrets to optimize your Cosmos DB performance and at the same…

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