Looking back at Future Tech Masterclasses Live 2020
Looking back at Future Tech Masterclasses Live 2020

Event

On September 15, 16, and 17 Future Tech Masterclasses Live took place. Future Tech is all about Microsoft technologies with a strong focus on .Net development and Azure Cloud technology. ABN AMRO was the proud sponsor of Future Tech. Read the article below about the event, including videos of highlighted talks!

Because ABN AMRO is moving to Azure, we decided to share our journey with the Microsoft community. Not just to inform them about how we do this, but also to get feedback on how we can improve our migration. ABN AMRO always loves to learn the dos and don’ts from engineers who already have a lot of experience on the Azure platform. This was the reason to become the main sponsor of Future Tech.

The Highlights

On Tuesday 15th of September, the event kicked-off with ABN AMROs keynote about Azure DevOps is at the heart of the new Developer Engineering ECO System by Michael Bentley. He talked about our decision to simplify our IT landscape at ABN AMRO. Next to that, Michael gives some insights into how DevOps teams manage the software development lifecycle. Watch his talk:

Scott Hunter from Microsoft ended the first day with a story about .NET cloud native and Microservice development. With a lot of live coding, Scott showed how to set up a microservice in a Kubernetes environment with Docker containers. Also, Scott takes you on a journey with all the features of .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5. Watch it below:

On Wednesday 16th of September, the ABN AMRO Center Of Expertise, Kubernetes team kicked off. Rodrigo Dias and Jyoti Singh gave their session Igniting the adoption of containers in the cloud for financial enterprises. Using AKS (Azure Kubernetes Services) is new for a lot of teams within ABN AMRO. Therefore, Rodrigo and Jyoti tried to set up an easy step for our 400+ development teams. Watch their talk:

The closing session of Wednesday was Gian Paolo Santopaolo with gRPC is the new WCF. This was a deep dive session on how to implement this new and cross-platform communication layer in C# and .NET Core. Gian also shared some lessons learned from deploying this functionality in a production environment. Watch his story below:

Thursday 17th of September was the last day of Future Tech. Kenzie Whalen kicked off with UNO, a new platform to write a single codebase to deploy on iOS, Android, UWP, and Web Assembly. UNO Is new, so Kenzie walked through the foundation in XAML, and the ability to start writing and debugging the first app on this UNO Platform. Watch it:

In 2018 Microsoft acquired Github. April Edwards and Abel Wang from Microsoft explained how you can use GitHub Actions to deploy your applications. Next to that, they shared all the excitement around using Github in Agile working and DevOps mode. See their story here:

The closing of the last day of Future Tech was a funny .NET pub quiz hosted by Stijn van de Blankevoort and Marcel Meijer. Viewers could register themselves beforehand and had to answer 30 random questions from ‘What is the most dreaded programming language according to developers?’ to ‘What is the most loved web framework?’. Prices are of course already send to the winners but you can re-watch the quiz and see all the questions and answers below:

This concluded the Future Tech Masterclass 2020. Of course, we are already preparing Future Tech 2021, which will be held on the 23rd of March. So save the date!
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