In this talk, Mark Sowul will describe challenges and solutions for "keeping the lights on" despite the universe's slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. You'll gain awareness of different challenges in maintaining a highly available distributed system, patterns to help with some of those challenges, and an understanding of some unavoidable tradeoffs

I'll be talking about moving desktop apps in WinForms and WPF to .NET Core at Microsoft's Insider Dev Tour in NYC. The Insider Dev Tour is a free, all-day developer event at Microsoft's Times Square office, for developers interested in building Microsoft 365 experiences (Windows, Graph, Office, Teams) today, using the latest dev technologies, as well as for those who want a peek into the future.

I’ll be talking about the Reactive Extensions for .NET at Code Camp NYC. This is a great event, a full-day developer conference hosted at Microsoft’s Times Square office with tons of interesting talks and demonstrations from prominent members of the .NET community (and beyond). Registration is only $15.

In this talk, Mark Sowul will do a deep dive into .NET's async/await paradigm. At the end, you'll understand what's really behind the magic, how it can enable significant scalability improvements and responsive user interfaces, without necessarily starting any new threads!