Supercharge Your Architectures with Messaging Patterns

Join this full-day, hands-on workshop to revolutionize your cloud architectures with powerful messaging patterns. Messaging paradigms like Publish-Subscribe, Message Queues, and Request-Reply aren’t just for microservices—they’re critical building blocks for creating resilient, scalable, and responsive systems. Focusing on Azure’s messaging capabilities with Service Bus as our primary tool, you’ll explore how these patterns streamline communication, optimize process flows, and enhance system reliability. Through interactive labs and real-world examples drawn from diverse environments, you’ll gain the practical skills and best practices to transform your architectural strategies and accelerate digital transformation.

Learning Objectives:

• Hands-On Mastery of Messaging: Gain practical experience in creating and managing messaging services using Azure Service Bus while learning to set up robust, event-driven architectures.
• Implement Enterprise-Grade Messaging Patterns: Learn to apply proven patterns—such as Publish-Subscribe, Message Queues, and Request-Reply—to build fault-tolerant, scalable solutions that power your entire system architecture.
• Adopt Best Practices for Resilient Communication: Explore real-world examples and troubleshooting techniques that ensure your messaging infrastructure supports efficient, streamlined, and future-proofed architectures.

Chad Green

Sr. Systems Architect at Jasper Engines

Chad Green is a visionary Senior Systems Architect at Jasper Engines & Transmissions with over 35 years of expertise in crafting innovative, customer-centric solutions. He is currently leading the migration of legacy systems to cloud-native technologies. His career spans diverse industries, including automotive, healthcare, education, and government. Recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and a dynamic community leader, Chad champions knowledge-sharing by organizing conferences and meetups and delivering speaking engagements at national and international events.

Outside the tech world, Chad proudly embraces his roles as a dedicated father, loving husband, and United States Marine Corps veteran. When he's not leading innovation or empowering communities, you'll find him bringing creativity to life through intricate Lego builds and his ever-growing Lego city.

PostgreSQL Introduction for the SQL Server Developer or DBA

PostgreSQL is one of the fastest growing databases in the world. Every major cloud provider has one-click installations or full-blown serverless options that support PostgreSQL. With open-source licensing and time-tested stability, there’s a reason many businesses are using PostgreSQL for new projects, while at the same time, analyzing the ROI of converting existing applications.

All of this adds up to the increased likelihood that you will be asked to develop or support an application using PostgreSQL in the next few years.

In this workshop, I'll introduce you to PostgreSQL from the perspective of a former SQL Server developer that struggled through the transition. I’ll help you make the most of what you already know as a SQL Server user and teach you how to navigate the differences successfully.

In this session we’ll cover:

• An introduction to PostgreSQL, including some of the high-level differences from SQL Server
• Installation
• Tools for connecting and running queries
• Configuration
• A deep-dive on SQL through hands-on exercises
• Adding functionality through extensions
• Indexing
• Query tuning
• Stored procedures
• Functions and triggers
• Community

Learning a new database technology doesn’t have to be scary. By the end of this pre-conference workshop, you’ll have the knowledge and confidence to use your database skills in a new way. Whether at work or with a new hobby project, you’ll be ready to dive in and lead the team when PostgreSQL is the database being used.

Ryan Booz

Developer Advocate at Redgate

Ryan is an Advocate at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL. Ryan has been working as a PostgreSQL advocate, developer, DBA and product manager for more than 20 years, primarily working with time-series data on PostgreSQL and the Microsoft Data Platform.

Ryan is a long-time DBA, starting with MySQL and Postgres in the late 90s. He spent more than 15 years working with SQL Server before returning to PostgreSQL full-time in 2018. He’s at the top of his game when he's learning something new about the data platform or teaching others about the technology he loves.

Dependency Injection in C#

Loosely coupled code is easier to maintain, extend, and test. Dependency Injection (DI) help us get there. In this workshop, we'll see how interfaces can add "seams" to our code that makes it more flexible and maintainable. From there, we'll dig into loose coupling with Dependency Injection. DI doesn't have to be complicated. With just a few simple changes to our constructors or properties, we can have code that is easy to extend and test.

After laying a good foundation, we'll take a closer look by diving into various DI patterns (such as constructor injection and property injection) as well as other patterns that help us handle interception and optional dependencies. Along the way, we'll see how DI helps us adhere to the SOLID principles in our code. We'll also we'll look at common stumbling blocks like dealing with constructor over-injection, managing static dependencies, and handling disposable dependencies.

Throughout the day, we'll go hands-on with labs to give you a chance to put the concepts into action.

If you're a C# developer who wants to get better with concepts like abstraction, loose coupling, extensibility, and unit testing, then this is the workshop for you.

Jeremy Clark

Developer Betterer

Jeremy helps developers by sharing his own struggles, mostly in technology, but also with being more social as an introvert, understanding potential for learning, and playing banjo. He has worked as a corporate developer, as a Chief Improvement Officer at a startup, and as a contract developer. Currently, he teaches developers through online courses, workshops, tech articles, and conference talks. He spends most of his time in C# and has recently ventured into Go (golang) and Rust (rust-lang) to explore some of his favorite topics: interfaces, delegates, concurrency, and parallel programming.

Off the Shelf AI

Hearing about artificial intelligence is unavoidable these days if you’re watching the news or staying abreast of the technical sector. We frequently hear about the power of AI-enabled tools and are shown sound-bites of experts extolling the virtues of their approach.

While these stories inform and entertain, they also create the perception that AI i s extremely difficult and exclusively the realm of experts, which simply isn’t true! These days we do not need to be an AI expert to reap the benefits of the research community. Off-the-shelf open-source tools exist which are powerful enough to solve many industrial problems. In this talk we will map business problems to tools and show how to translate a problem domain into the expected input of the tool. Using these tools will help us identify development opportunities that we might have otherwise missed and save time by not re-implementing common solving techniques.

In this talk, we’ll cover:

• Three common problems that can be solved with AI:
• Routing vehicles around a map
• Solving sudoku puzzles
• Building controllers for autonomous vehicles
• Three off-the-shelf tools that can solve these problems:
• Fastdownward
• Minisat
• OpenAI Gym
• The formalisms that allow us to translate the real world problems into ones these solvers recognize:
• Heuristic search
• Boolean Algebra
• Markov Decision Processes

Jordan Thayer

AI Strategist for SEP

Jordan Thayer received her PhD in Artificial Intelligence in 2012 from the University of New Hampshire. Ever since, she's been applying artificial intelligence in academia and industry to problems including intrusion detection, planning, static analysis, and program generation.

As a thought leader at SEP, she's been proving that AI isn't futuristic technology. Rather, it's a collection of techniques of varying levels of maturity that can often reliably solve problems they have today. She gives talks, runs workshop, visualizes algorithm behavior, and build proofs of concept as well as products to show what AI can do already.

Contain Your Enthusiam - A Full Day with Containers and Kubernetes

Spend a day learning about container technology from the ground up. Starting with Windows and Docker Container Fundamentals, moving to Kubernetes Concepts, then Kubernetes tools for managing multi-cluster, multi-cloud environments.

While not a hands-on, attendees are encouraged to follow along. A prerequisites document will be send out ahead of time for laptop setup to ease those who wish to follow along.

Jason van Brackel

Lead Associate @ Booz Allen Hamilton

Jason van Brackel is an engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton and the founder (and former organizer) of Kubernetes Philly. Passionate about solving real-world problems with software development and Kubernetes, he regularly shares his expertise—whether he’s guiding teams at work or streaming live coding sessions. When he’s not tinkering with cloud-native tools, you’ll find him spending time with his kids or occasionally taking a spill off his skateboard.