NDC Conferences Talks & Presentations

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Four Languages from Forty Years Ago

Four older languages—SQL, Prolog, ML, and Smalltalk—show how programming ideas from the 1970s can still inform modern development.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Building Event-Driven Microservices with Event Sourcing and CQRS

See how replaying business events preserves history and auditability while shaping read and write models for an invoice app.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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The Psychology of Social Engineering

Explore how social engineering uses human error, trust, stereotypes, and everyday habits to influence people and gain access.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Using Kafka for Real-Time Data Ingestion with .NET

Learn Kafka’s architecture and design principles, then build a .NET project that produces and consumes messages efficiently.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Implementing the Clean Architecture in .NET Core

See how Clean Architecture’s separation of concerns supports change and test-driven development, then follow its implementation in working .NET Core examples.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Build Your Own Excel 365 in an Hour with F#

Live-code a spreadsheet in F#, connecting editable cells and formulas to an interactive interface with results that update as data changes.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Why You Should Use F#

F# combines typed domain modeling and functional programming with .NET tooling for backend services.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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The Power of Composition

See how functional composition builds software from small parts, from FizzBuzz to a complete object-free web application.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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From SQL to Azure Cosmos DB

Explore how document modeling in Azure Cosmos DB changes application and domain models, including tradeoffs in transactions, queries, and usage.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Why You Should Never Build Microservices - and Why We Do It Anyway

A candid account of why teams pursue microservices despite their costs, with practical discussion of trade-offs, warning signs, and when a monolith may fit better.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Dependency Injection Revisited

A functional approach to controlling nondeterministic behavior, and whether those solutions can also work in object-oriented code.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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The Power of Composition

A beginner-focused look at how functional composition builds larger programs from small parts, culminating in a complete object-free web application.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Compositional UIs - The Microservices Last Mile

Explore how compositional UIs connect microservices into a maintainable, consistent application while preserving service autonomy.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 2 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Refactoring to Immutability

Explore how to reduce mutable state in existing code through practical refactoring, treating immutability as an achievable design goal.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

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Making Blazor Work with Everything, Plus WebAssembly on the Server

See how Blazor components cross framework and app boundaries, and how WebAssembly may extend .NET workloads to sandboxed server applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk