Future Tech 202120 Videos

Future Tech 2021: Richard Campbell – The Next Decade of Software Development

It’s 2021 – and after a very odd year, we’re still in a new decade! How will software development evolve in the 2020s? Join Richard Campbell as he explores the landscape of technology that will have a huge impact on development over the next ten years. How will the pandemic change things? What new devices […]

Future Tech 2021: Annie Talvasto – Top new CNCF projects to look out for

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) bought you such fan favorites like Kubernetes & Prometheus. In this talk Annie Talvasto will introduce you the most interesting and coolest upcoming CNCF tools and projects. This compact and demo-filled talk will give you ideas and inspiration that you can 1) discover new technologies and tools to use […]

Future Tech 2021: Amber Vanderburg – The Power of Performance Feedback

Feedback is a critical part of performance. The way you give and receive feedback directly affects the outcomes of your team. If you’re like most people, the feedback you provide is often vague, inconsistent, nuanced, and generally ineffective. And furthermore, the way you receive feedback likely isn’t working for you. To unlock real performance improvement- […]

Future Tech 2021: Michaël Hompus – Achievement unlocked: use .NET to unlock Xbox achievements

While playing the movie trivia game “Scene It?” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scene_It%3F] on my Xbox 360 back in 2007, I had the feeling that with a camera, computer, and some software, it should be much easier to get the correct answers to the questions in the game. But where to start? Fast forward to today: Now I have lots […]

Future Tech 2021: Erik Lieben – Serverless EventSourcing for pennies using Azure Functions, Storage, and EventGrid

As developers, we store our code in a system (GIT) that allows us to time travel, compare, work together, and reason about our code. We can go back in time to learn who made a particular change, where a bug originated, or which parts of our code have a high change rate. It stores our […]

Future Tech 2021: Donald Hessing & Arin Roy – Introduction to GraphQL – The API for modern apps

GraphQL is a new API standard that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to REST. GraphQL enables declarative data fetching where a client can specify exactly what data it needs from an API. Instead of multiple endpoints that return fixed data structures, a GraphQL server only exposes a single endpoint and response with […]

Future Tech 2021: Johnny Hooyberghs – Microsoft Q# and Azure Quantum

You’ve probably heard about quantum computing, but it still remains a mystery? In this deep-dive session, specifically targeted to software developers, I will explain important concepts like qubits, superposition, and entanglement. Theoretical knowledge about quantum physics, quantum circuits, quantum gates, and quantum algorithms will be combined with examples using the Microsoft Quantum Developer Kit and […]

Future Tech 2021: Roelant Dieben & Michiel Hamers – The Power of Automation

As a .NET software developer we are constantly broadening our horizon with the exciting new features that are added to the .NET framework and its extended family. Sometimes new techniques come along that can potentially change everything. The Microsoft Power Platform could be such a game-changer, but should we fear this development, or should we […]

Future Tech 2021: Luca Bolognese – Introduction to Functional Programming in F#

We are going to look at the fundamental concepts in functional programming by transforming a snippet of code from imperative to functional. We will use F# as our chosen programming language, but also see how the same concepts apply in C, Powershell, C# and others.”

Future Tech 2021: Brendan Burns – Why should you care about microservices?

Are microservices really a technical innovation? Or are they really about ideal team design? At the end of the day, technology changes rapidly, but people change slowly, if ever. This means that to truly build great systems, we need to understand how to enable our teams to excel, as well as how to use the […]