Progressive Web App Workshop

Let's connect with PWAs! Progressive Web Apps seek to bridge the gap between native Android and iOS apps and the Web. Learn about the APIs available in today's mobile devices that enable you to leverage web technologies to deliver app-like experiences without having to write a line of Kotlin or Swift.

We'll cover many of the APis that make Progressive Web Apps possible while building a dating web app for cats. Topics include:

• Installable PWAs
• Offline mode with IndexDB and Service Workers
• Geolocation
• QR code scanning
• Payments
• Push Notifications

You'll leave this full-day workshop armed with the hands-on experience to deliver a PWA that starts fast and stays fast.

Chris Lorenzo

Distinguished Engineer

Chris has worked at Comcast since 2007 -- currently as a Distinguished Engineer. He enjoys building/motivating teams and ramping up new projects using the latest patterns and web primitives. Besides coding in Javascript, he loves spending time with his family and helping out in the community. He's also a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies.

John Riviello

Engineering Fellow amp; Lead Frontend Developer at Comcast

John is Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies, an international conference speaker, and LinkedIn Learning course author. He absolutely loves solving technical challenges, but realizes the biggest challenges in tech are human challenges. He influences with empathy instead of authority, and actively mentors the next generation of technology leaders.

Design and Develop a Serverless Event-Driven Microservice-Based Solution

You have heard all the buzzwords such as microservices, event-driven architecture, serverless, etc. You probably have attended sessions that talk about these terms. But how do you put all that together?

During this full-day workshop, you will start by designing a solution using serverless and event-driven cloud services using microservice patterns. Then you will build that solution using .NET, Azure services, and other best-practice tools. Finally, you will deploy that solution to the cloud so your customers can reap the rewards of a well-architected, reliable, and scalable solution that meets their needs today and provides for growth in the future.

Chad Green

Microsoft MVP; Director of IT Architecture at Glennis Solutions

Chad Green is a developer, speaker, and software development community organizer. He is the organizer of Code PaLOUsa, a regional software development conference in Louisville, Kentucky along with the Louisville .NET Meetup and Louisville Tech Leaders. He is also a frequent speaker at software development conferences, where he shares his knowledge and experience in the field. He is passionate about helping other developers grow in their careers and is active in the local developer community.

Workshop Duo:

Azure MLOps Workshop

Many organizations are looking to train and deploy custom-trained machine learning models. MLOps provides environments, compute, data organization, versioning, and end-to-end pipelines that bring your models to fruition. This workshop provides an overview of MLOps in Azure and then proposes a series of challenges for you to solve alone or in a group.

Please make sure you have these things set up and ready to go:

• Azure CLI
• Azure Subscription with Owner permissions
• Git
• GitHub Account
• Administrator rights to your computer (the ability to install software)
• Python 3.12.0
• Visual Studio Code (with the Jupyter and Python extensions)

Building beautiful, performant, single-codebase Web, Mobile, and Desktop apps with .NET

This workshop is for .NET developers who want to learn how to build single-codebase .NET-powered applications which run on Web, Mobile, and Desktop. This is a hands-on, semi-guided workshop in which attendees will be asked to complete a series of exercises to build a complete cross-platform YouTube-like application using the open-source Uno Platform. Two demo application walkthroughs will be provided to attendees and our proctors will be there to help you complete each section. In addition, the complete end-application source code will be provided for continued learning.

The concepts covered are:

• Project setup and environment configuration
• Building rich, responsive UI in either C# Markup only or with XAML
• Utilizing pre-packaged extensions for navigation and logging
• Utilizing Hot Reload on either Visual Studio or VS Code, XAML or C# Markup
• Importing designs from Figma
• Application theming
• Source-level debugging

Walking away from the workshop you will feel empowered to use your existing .NET skills to build beautiful, performant, single codebase and cross-platform web, mobile and desktop apps.

It is recommended that workshop attendees have Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 7/8 RC2 installed prior to the workshop.

Carey Payette

Trillium Innovations

Carey Payette is a Senior Software Engineer with Trillium Innovations (a Solliance partner), an ASPInsider, Progress Developer Expert, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, and a Microsoft Azure MVP. Her primary focus is Cloud integration and deployment for the web, mobile, big data, AI, machine learning, and IoT spaces. Always eager to learn, you will find her tinkering regularly with various sensors, microcontrollers, programming languages, and frameworks. Carey is also a wife and Mom to three fabulous boys.

Steve Bilogan

Senior Engineer @ Uno Platform

Steve is a Senior Engineer and one of the core maintainers of the open-source Uno Platform project. Steve has been a .NET dev since 2008 and considers himself a .NET Junkie. When not at his computer, he is either watching the Montreal Canadiens lose or asleep on the couch.

Workshop Duo:

Securely developing Infrastructure as Code

We routinely scan our code for vulnerabilities, but what about our infrastructure? Our infrastructure as code can have as many secrets as our codebase. Many organizations are using Terraform with automated pipelines like GitHub Actions. How do we automatically scan our Terraform modules for misconfiguration or secrets? How can we configure Terraform to store state securely in the cloud for each environment?

During this session we will examine how to leverage open-source tools to:

• Scan for security and configuration issues using tools like tfsec, terrascan, and checkov
• Securely configure Terraform backends like AzureRM
• Securely pass variables and input into Terraform
• Securely deploy Terraform to clouds like Azure

After this session you will have the tools and examples to securely develop terraform for the cloud.

CI/CD with Github Actions

Learn about building and deploying applications using Github Actions. We will learn diverse ways to trigger our builds and build several types of applications.

We will work up from basics and fully understand how workflows run, how to select and call different actions, and how to handle configuration and secrets.

After this session you'll be able to build and deploy your software from GitHub. You will understand:

• GitHub Actions Runners
• YAML workflow syntax
• Workflow Triggers
• Variables
• Job Dependencies
• Conditionals
• Matrix Builds
• Outputs
• Environments
• Secrets
• Deployments to Container Registries and Azure

Chris Ayers

Senior Customer Engineer @ Microsoft

Chris is a Senior Customer Engineer on the Fast Track for Azure team at Microsoft. He has a focus in modern applications built with DevOps, microservices, containers, Single Page Apps, RESTful APIs, and cloud technologies following agile practices. In his free time, Chris is a speaker at numerous meetups, an avid reader, and a gamer.

Test Driven-Development Workshop Duo

Establishing Good TDD Habits

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn fundamental techniques for improving your code through TDD and Pair Programming. You'll sharpen your skills working with your peers on programming exercises designed to instill good techniques that you'll be ready to apply to your current and future code.

Attendees should already be comfortable with a programming language of their choice, and if possible, should bring along a laptop with their preferred development tools installed. This workshop will have you do group/pair design, refactoring, and application of design patterns through short programming exercises to improve your skills at writing clean code.

Mastering TDD in Legacy Code

In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn to effectively use the principles and practices of increasing the reliability and maintainability of your code through testing and pair programming. You'll sharpen your skills working with your peers on programming exercises designed to instill good practices that you'll be ready to apply to non-trivial codebases.

Attendees should be comfortable with a programming language of their choice, and if possible, should bring along a laptop with their development tools installed, including a unit test tool. This session will focus on group/pair design, refactoring, and application of design patterns to improve the design of existing software.

Both beginners and experienced developers and from all backgrounds are welcome.

Brendan Enrick

Mentoring, Training, and Coaching Developers

I've been speaking about coding for over a decade. Everything changes, but everything is the same. I write code to solve problems, and I try to leave things nicer than I found them. I have fun while doing it. Let's write code and talk about code together!

Sarah Dutkiewicz

Wife, mom, techie - 100% me, unapologetically

Sarah Dutkiewicz is a native Clevelander, Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, published technical author of a PowerShell book, podcast/live coding guest, conference organizer, hackathon lead organizer, speaker, community advocate, software developer, wife, and mom. She speaks on topics such as Azure DevOps for varied audiences, database development, web development, and user experience guidance for developers. With her varied career, Sarah brings developer, DBA, and server admin perspectives to technical and non-technical teams, bridging communication gaps, and helping them grow.