DotNext 2016 Moscow: 8 MVP, StackOverflow and a bit of hardcore
How much MVP does it take to make a conference program cool? The answer is obvious: the more the better! That is why with every DotNext this number is growing: this year at the conference you will meet at least 8 Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals and at least two Microsoft experts.
So, who will be on December 9 at DotNext 2016 Moscow? Look under the cut. The main problem in finding guru developers is not that many of them live abroad. The difficulty is that many people do not want to go to Russia. It’s no joke, we have war, tyranny, and so on: this is how Moscow and St. Petersburg appear to them. However, the ice can be melted, and our MVP-speakers help us with this, who, once arrived at DotNext, stay with us for a long time and often recommend to colleagues to come to us.
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You don’t need to go far for examples: Dino Esposito, Sasha Goldshtein and Andrey Akinshin participate in DotNext not for the first and not the second time. However, this time the program is interesting not for veterans, but for “newbies”, including:
Rachel Reese / Jet.com
Alex Thissen / Xpirit
Filip W / Sonova
Jesse Liberty / Liberty Associates, Inc.
In addition, we have a category of speakers who do not have the title of MVP. Why? Because Microsoft employees can not get this status. And here we have an addition: the report of Egor Bogatov from the Xamarin team.
Well, the new guests were introduced, now let's see what we will talk with them about. Let's start with the fact that it is easier, with keynoats:
Dino Esposito - .NET Core: State of the art - a kind of continuation of the report from the St. Petersburg DotNext, supplemented and rethought after six months since the release of .NET Core 1.0:
Overview report of the latest features of C # 6 and 7: null check operator, initialized auto-implemented properties, support for nameof expressions, string interpolation, and many others
Jesse will not only talk about what it is, but also show examples of implementation in demos that show the applied value of new features.
In addition to keywaters, Alex Thissen from Xpirit will speak with a great overview of the changes in the .NET world , who will talk about the multitude of .NET platforms, the multitude of compilers and runtimes so that listeners can keep up with Micosoft at a wild pace moving their product.
And what will those who waited for hardcore ? Probably our most brainwashing .NET speaker and the best speaker of DotNext 2016 Piter, Sasha Goldshtein , will give two presentations:
Squeezing the Hardware to Make Performance Juice : there is nowhere more hardcore, the report is built around getting maximum performance from modern hardware: we’ll talk about vectorization, parallel computing and the latest generation of instruction set architectures. To understand what Sasha's reports are, I invite you to watch his report from the very recent DotNext 2016 Piter (the report is published for the first time in the public domain, by the way):
Traditionally, the second report “WinDbg Superpowers for .NET Developers” will be devoted to DevTools: let's talk about scripts and WinDbg extensions that automate routine tasks; We will discuss unknown extensions that allow you to perform an x64 stack reconstruction, display requests made by ASP.NET and drive LINQ-like requests to objects from the .NET heap; In addition, let's talk about the features that should be used in the code to greatly simplify the debugging process.
Andrey DreamWalker Akinshin from JetBrains will continue the report on .NET arithmetic . As a teaser for the report, Andrei sent one problem - write the solutions directly in the comments and encourage the author to rate your answer :)
What will output the following code:
var x = new List<double>(); x.Add(1e16); x.AddRange(Enumerable.Repeat(1.0, 100)); Console.WriteLine("{0:N}", x.Sum());
If there are any problems in calculating the amount, can you suggest solutions?
And for those who seemed to be little, you are welcome to watch a video of the report from the St. Petersburg DotNext:
Do you often see female speakers in Russia (we have them on DotNext, thanks to Julia Cisyk :))? What about female MVP speakers ? I will see for the first time!
Finishing our MVP procession, Filip W, who, in his C # Scripting report, talks about how and why you can use C # scripting in completely unexpected places: for example, extending applications with C # scripting, embedding a REPL in an application or browser, or improved assembly of web applications and deploy in Azure.
However, what are we all about MVP, but about MVP? For a long time, we tried to pull out the guys from StackOverflow on DotNext (more than 3 conferences, it seems) - after all, they have a highload and performance, and the developers love them. And this time, with two reports, Marco Cecconi from the SO London office joined the speaker team:
This time, Egor Bogatov will talk about working with C ++ code in his report “C ++ via C #” : it will be about how to generate C # wrappers for a large C ++ project, in the shortest possible time completely repeating the object model of the original code ... make it all cross-platform using Xamarin.
In general, as you can see, there are plenty of new faces, and the speakers are all like world-class experts. This DotNext we really did not have. If you want to see who else from the speakers confirmed participation, welcome to our website: there is already a program , and all the conditions of registration .
PS If suddenly someone counted MVP in a post, then they turned out 7, but not 8, as in the title. The answer is simple: 8 MVP is Mikhail yu5k3 Shcherbakov, a member of our Program Committee and the leader of the SPB .NET Community, who recently received the MVP statuette, with which we heartily congratulate him. We have not yet received a request for a report from Mikhail, but we are not losing hope :)