Sydney and Canberra .NET User Groups: Rapidly Producing Real World IoT Projects – presented by Peter Cole

I was given the challenge of producing a low cost customer tracking solution for the Microsoft Technology Centre in Sydney.

The team was astounded at how I made a working prototype in just 3 days, using open source technology, RFID tags and Azure IoT services. Come along and see how you can do it!

In this talk, we'll draw on ideas and insight from user experience, API design, psychology and education to show how you can incorporate discoverability into every layer of your application. We'll look at some real-world systems, and we'll discuss how discoverability works with different interaction paradigms. Because, whether you're building databases, class libraries, hypermedia APIs or mobile apps, sooner or later somebody else is going to work with your code - and when they do, wouldn't it be great if they went away afterwards with a smile on their face?

Melbourne .NET User Group double header: Scrum and the "Product person" + Azure DevOps and CosmosDB

Session #1: The View From The Bridge – presented by Chris Drylie

The importance of having direction and the right focus is not as clear cut as most of companies think. Here we will review what the dev team is made up of and the why it is so important to have that ‘Product’ person as part of the team and not just someone who sits on the side lines telling you what people want and why they want it. Cutting through buzz words like Product Owner and Manager and understanding the core of these principles and what they bring to the team.

This presentation will discuss these challenges faced when a new Product member joins a development team that has never had this voice before and how to address these concerns that follow and the positive/negative outcomes of a change of this nature. How this increased volume, variety, and velocity of work being generated by these teams, but put them under a spotlight they had never been part of before. We will also touch on the point that this is not limited to any one methodology and how this person bridges the gap between the development team and the world.

Session #2: DevOps saves you $$$ - Slash your CosmosDB cost while Boosting your Performance – presented by William Liebenberg

In this presentation William Liebenberg who has used SQL Server for 10 years, will show you how he changed his world using CosmosDB. William will show you how to set up your Azure DevOps Build Pipeline for automated cost testing with CosmosDB. You will learn the secrets to reduce costs and optimize performance by using measurements from your tests.

Today we measure test outcomes in terms of success or failure. Tomorrow with CosmosDB we also need to consider many other factors eg. selecting an appropriate partition key, consistency level and how we structure our queries.

Brisbane Full Stack User Group: Power BI for Developers - presented by Peter Myers

Integrate, Extend, Embed!

In this session, you will learn how developers can deliver real-time dashboards, create custom visuals and embed rich interactive analytics in their apps with Power BI. This presentation specifically targets experienced app developers, and also those curious to understand what developers can achieve with Power BI. Numerous demonstrations will put the theory into action