Speaker: Ben Watson

Principal Software Engineer @Microsoft focused on High-Performance .NET

Ben Watson has been a software engineer at Microsoft since 2008. As a core developer of the Bing platform, he has been integral in building one of the world’s leading .NET-based, high-performance server applications, handling high-volume, low-latency requests across tens of thousands of machines for millions of customers. He is passionate about performance and spends much of his time educating teams on best-practices in high-performance .NET. In his spare time, he enjoys geocaching, LEGO, reading, classical music, and spending time with his wife and daughter outdoors in the beautiful Pacific northwest. He is the author of the books Writing High-Performance .NET Code and C# 4.0 How-To.

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Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft

Workshop: Mastering .NET Memory Management

Location: Golden Gate

Day of week: Thursday

Duration: 1:00pm - 4:00pm

Go deep into one of the most critical aspects of .NET performance: Garbage Collection. Correctly managing memory can make or break your application and is the difference between a well-performing app and a disaster of resource usage. This will be an interactive workshop, combining lecture with hands on practice with tools. You will learn how to use standard and perhaps new tools to measure critical performance areas in your own apps. You will dig deep to understand garbage collection and the .NET heap in a fundamental way.

Tracks

Monday Nov 7

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

You know the names. Now learn lessons from their architectures
Distributed Systems War Stories

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” - Lamport.
Containers Everywhere

State of the art in Container deployment, management, scheduling
Art of Relevancy and Recommendations

Lessons on the adoption of practical, real-world machine learning practices. AI & Deep learning explored.
Next Generation Web Standards, Frameworks, and Techniques

JavaScript, HTML5, WASM, and more... innovations targetting the browser
Optimize You

Keeping life in balance is a challenge. Learn lifehacks, tips, & techniques for success.

Tuesday Nov 8

Next Generation Microservices

What will microservices look like in 3 years? What if we could start over?
Java: Are You Ready for This?

Real world lessons & prepping for JDK9. Reactive code in Java today, Performance/Optimization, Where Unsafe is heading, & JVM compile interface.
Big Data Meets the Cloud

Overviews and lessons learned from companies that have implemented their Big Data use-cases in the Cloud
Evolving DevOps

Lessons/stories on optimizing the deployment pipeline
Software Engineering Softskills

Great engineers do more than code. Learn their secrets and level up.
Modern CS in the Real World

Applied, practical, & real-world dive into industry adoption of modern CS ideas

Wednesday Nov 9

Architecting for Failure

Your system will fail. Take control before it takes you with it.
Stream Processing

Stream Processing, Near-Real Time Processing
Bare Metal Performance

Native languages, kernel bypass, tooling - make the most of your hardware
Culture as a Differentiator

The why and how for building successful engineering cultures
//TODO: Security <-- fix this

Building security from the start. Stories, lessons, and innovations advancing the field of software security.
UX Reimagined

Bots, virtual reality, voice, and new thought processes around design. The track explores the current art of the possible in UX and lessons from early adoption.

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