• Creating apps as script
• Using Nuget packages and Script packs
• Creating command line tools
• Using the REPL
• Writing reusable script libraries.
• Extending scriptcs with script packs and modules
• Using lightweight editing tools like Sublime, VS Code and ATOM
• Debugging scripts in Visual Studio
• Hosting scriptcs within your own applications and libraries for extensibility.

You will script all the things!

As distributed systems become more complex, we are discovering new development patterns that help us create and maintain these distributed systems, and the most significant pattern of the last ten years has been the widespread adoption of asynchronous programming. From continuation passing, to JavaScript callbacks, to ES6 promises and the async/await operators in C# and .NET, most of our day-to-day development languages now have first-class support for asynchronous programming patterns - and if you've not worked with them before, you can find the learning curve a little daunting.

In this workshop we'll discuss the origins and applications of asynchronous programming, and how it relates to underlying concepts like OS threads and parallel computation. We'll look at how the asynchronous features of various development platforms have evolved, from modules to libraries to language keywords, and we'll look at how - and when - you can apply these patterns in your own projects to deliver responsive applications and great user experience even when your app is spending 90% of its time waiting for responses from external services.

Tutorial Steps:

• Getting set-up

• Create a console app

• Create a web app

• Create a library

• Use the library in the console and web apps

Topics and discussion points include:

• Building .NET applications with Docker

• Deploying .NET applications using Docker

• Container Orchestration

• Service Discovery

• Load balancing and multiple hosts

• Handling data in a container based solution

• Running containers in production

The workshop will be hands-on where you'll learn lessons from real-world deployments of Docker and container-based systems.

Attendees should have access to a Docker installation. For the workshop, Ben recommends running Digital Ocean or via Katacoda.com. Local installations will work but Wifi might be slow when downloading Docker Images.

Dylan Beattie wrote his first web page in July 1992 (11 months after Tim Berners-Lee wrote HIS first web page), and he's been building websites ever since. In this talk, Dylan will reflect on the history of the World Wide Web, exploring what we've learned - and forgotten - along the way. He'll share with you the lessons he learned over a quarter century of building sites, writing code, designing systems, hiring developers, managing teams and delivering working software, and take a speculative look at the next 25 years of the web, and how it's going to keep on changing the world.

During the session we will explore the various options we have in .NET ecosystem to achieve the same goal. More precisely we will dig into Reactjs.net that offers some extremely flexibility in both full .net and asp.net core. On top of that we will also explore the Node services that is a brand new project developed by Microsoft and offers the same capabilities for React.js and Angular.

In this 45 minute talk, we will introduce OAuth 2.0/OpenID Connect and IdentityServer followed by how we migrated an existing custom authentication system to OpenID Connect. We will look at patterns of extending and implementing security within IdentityServer.

We will finish off with what's new in IdentityServer 4.

Harry will share how you can compare and contrast Node.js and .NET, highlighting their distinctive features and some surprising similarities. Through understanding the execution model of Node.js, he will describe its scaling profile and its most compelling use cases.

You will learn how to work through creating a working Node.js application, covering the tools and techniques that real-world projects need, including build automation, unit testing and integration testing.

The session will go into detail on the asynchronous programming model of Node.js, examining a variety of patterns for writing asynchronous code in JavaScript. You will learn how JavaScript and Node.js sidestep some of the complexity and gotchas of asynchronous programming in C#/.NET.

Harry will also share the new and upcoming changes to JavaScript that simplify asynchronous programming further and address flaws in other aspects of the language.

Finally, you will learn how common principles in Node.js are applicable to .NET, how some aspects of Node.js are reflected in .NET Core especially, and how to integrate Node.js with .NET to benefit from the best of both worlds.

Unfortunately, usually any kind of predictive analytics requires deep knowledge on machine learning. Companies need to think of hiring skilled staff able to build and manage complex models. This is the place when Azure Machine Learning Studio comes in. It offers low cost, easy to use and managed environment for developers of all skills levels. During this talk, Barbara will provide information about the following topics:

• Creating an Azure ML experiment

• Using variety of data manipulation techniques

• Customizing ML process by using R modules

• Publishing and consuming an endpoint for predictive analysis

• Retraining the ML model

After this talk, you will get to know basics of Azure ML Studio. You will be able to use variety of data sources, create experiments and use the predictions in your own systems. The talk will provide you with the information on how to enrich your system by reasoning from data using proven and highly scalable ML technologies in an easy and low cost way.

In this talk Sam Elamin will relate his real life experience working on a distributed system dealing with £100,000 worth of transactions every hour. Sam will cover monitoring and how to develop your features based on how your customers use your platform and, most importantly, business metrics.

Sam will cover how to implement metrics in your application and setting up dashboards to gaining visibility into what is happening in your production system right now. We'll also go through some helpful techniques to help you convince your domain experts that gaining this insight is invaluable to keeping your competitive advantage.

As an extra treat come and see how JUSTEAT time travels in production, using open source software that can be set up in a matter of days!

We now have easily discovered applications, streamlined deployment and high levels of usability.Is everything solved though? There are issues related to speed of updates, development costs, security, deep linking and whether the mobile platform owners are fighting back against the likes of Facebook.What is the future of apps? Who will win the platform battles? What will it mean to write an app for a light switch? Join us for this session and you will learn the outcome of Apps Vs. Web!

As an example, Evelina will use the fssnip.net website which allows simple sharing of F# code samples. The website stores a lot of very useful code snippets, but the original version of the website lacks any search capability and organisation of the code samples is a complete mess.

In the talk, she will walk you through several machine learning algorithms for text processing that we can use to improve the website and make the code samples more accessible and usable. After this talk, you will not only better understand the principles behind several machine learning algorithms, but you will also get a good idea how you can use them in practice to build user-friendly web applications.