The Engineering Manager doesn't need to be the most technical person in the team, a psychologist, or a bad cop. You only need to have enough leadership tools in your pocket.

In Atlassian, as one of the young industry thought leaders, engineering managers use a leadership framework called 4Cs. Using this approach can set you up for success in leading fully remote teams who work from anywhere.




Welcome to this interactive workshop which provides practical guidance and leadership recommendations and suits the following groups:

1. Techie ICs (Individual contributors like developers, OPS, architects, and computer engineers) who are keen to step up to a management role.


2. The managers who struggle with running remote teams in this new era and want to be more effective leaders

You will leave this workshop having developed the leadership skills you need and picked tools in the 4Cs framework to manage technical engineering teams. It also helps you make a determined decision on your next career path if you are hesitant.



Here are a few of the topics covered in this workshop to develop leadership skills:


- How to be a great connector to build psychological safety in the team?
- What tools and methodologies do you need to be a great conductor to contribute to the team’s success?
- What does it take to be a productive compass?
- How to be an effective coach helping with growth and performance improvement, providing feedback and making effective and constructive conversations yet difficult?

Each topic will be thoroughly covered using examples and followed by exercises that allow you to reflect and fully absorb.

2 Days

12-13 Feb

Managing engineers is not magic. You need tools for that!

Work skills

On the practical side, you'll see how to work with Event Storming to map out business needs, and discover new opportunities in the domain. Then, you'll see how to use Event Storms as the basis for slicing up the business into domains and subdomains which are the candidates for software architecture and team boundaries (using various flavours of Event Storming (big picture, process modelling, software-design).


You'll also get a chance to analyze scenarios presented in other formats like Domain Message Flow Modelling and the Bounded Context Canvas. And you'll get to switch into the architect role and design architectures with these techniques yourself.


Throughout this course, you'll get to experience a diverse number of scenarios from different domains, based on the real world experiences of Max and Nick. While the course is largely hands-on, you will also learn the necessary theory even if you have no previous experience of Domain-Driven Design.

Strategic Domain-Driven Design: Analysis, Architecture, and Modelling

Architecture

Let us venture on a journey into the wonderful world that is software exploitation and learn how to use gamified safe environments to build skillsets to help us write better and safer software. Because once you learn how to hack, you never go back.

In this workshop, we go in-depth and learn and perform exploits.


This is a hands-on workshop. All attendees need to bring a laptop to follow along with labs and exercises. 

How hacking works - Workshop edition

Cross-Platform

1. What is DAPR and how it helps microservices development

Using DAPR Building Blocks for microservice state persistence

Using DAPR Building Blocks for sync and async communication between microservices

Building and debugging microservices locally


2. How to run DAPR in Production with Azure Container Apps

Provision Infrastructure with Azure Bicep

Containerizing microservices with GitHub Actions

Deploying microservices with GitHub Actions

This workshop is suitable for Software Engineers experienced in almost any language (.NET, Python, Java, Go, Ruby etc.) as well as Platform Engineers. All you need is a basic knowledge of Microservice Development, a computer, and desire to lift your microservices development game!

A computer - either Windows PC, macOS, or Linux

Visual Studio 2022 or VS Code or JetBrains Rider

Unleashing the Power of Microservices with Dapr and Azure Container Apps

Microservices

Cloud

Pods, services, deployments, and replicas

ways to scale and expose/isolate your containers

Best practices for building at cloud scale

Tips & Tricks for leveraging Docker and Kubernetes

We'll look at the commands and ecosystem around building infrastructure as code, local and cloud clusters, and best practices with containers. Come see why devs and ops love Kubernetes.

 running on your machine in Kubernetes mode.

Teach you the skills to leverage Docker and Kubernetes in your environment today.

Why are we learning Docker too? The Kubernetes story begins with "so you've got a Docker container ...". Docker is how we build the images; Kubernetes is how we run these containers at scale.


Because Docker leverages the OS's virtualization technologies, the install requirements for Docker are 

 specific. Ensure you exactly meet these specs to get the most from our time today:


- 2010 or newer model with Intel's MMU virtualization
- OS X 10.15 or newer


- 64-bit Windows
- Windows 10 version 2004 or better
- Access to your machine's BIOS to turn on virtualization
- Administrator access to run Docker Desktop and a console as Admin


-64-bit Linux these versions or better: Ubuntu 14.04, Debian 7.7, CentOS 7, or Fedora 24 or better

Kubernetes Hands-on Workshop

Kubernetes

Roll up your sleeves and build an app that you’ll actually be able to hold in your hands! Over two days, we’ll learn all about .NET MAUI by building a real-time chat app that can run on desktop or mobile and see how you can use device and platform features with simplicity. Learn important concepts like layouts and controls, authentication, and enterprise development patterns and practices like MVVM.

Whether you’re building apps for enterprise or consumers, the concepts and topics we cover will give you a glimpse of the breadth and depth of what .NET MAUI has to offer.

Setting the Stage: Dive into project setup, tooling essentials, and kickstarting our .NET MAUI journey.

Device Dynamics: Harness key device features, transforming apps from static interfaces to responsive experiences.

Chat Mechanics: Understand real-time connectivity using SignalR, ensuring instantaneous communications.

Page turners: Explore intuitive page navigation and user experience elements.

Crafting maintainable apps: Familiarise with the MVVM pattern, organising your application's logic for maintainability and scalability.

Secure and personalise: Dive into user authentication techniques and craft tailored user profiles.

Beyond One-on-One: Grasp the nuances of creating chat groups and channels, fostering community interactions.

Engaging Practicality: Hands-on sessions to integrate your learnings, taking your chat app to the next level.

Visual Studio with the .NET MAUI workload installed

Visual Studio for Mac with the .NET MAUI workload installed

VS Code with the .NET MAUI extension installed

You’ll need a powerful enough Windows or Mac laptop to run the IDE and debug code while running on an emulator or simulator.

To get the most out of the workshop you’ll need a physical iOS or Android device to test your code on. For iOS devices, enrolment in the Apple Developer program will be helpful.

Hands-on Cross-platform Mobile and Desktop Apps with .NET MAUI

.NET

Mobile

So what does "cloud-ready" actually mean?

A “cloud ready” application is a legacy software application that has been modified to run on cloud computing infrastructure.

Whether you are looking at a modular monolith or a full-blown distributed system, building a cloud-ready, resilient application is a must.

In this workshop, we will look at the requirements for Tacky Tacos. A fictional taco business that's thriving and wishes to expand.
We'll look at all the different requirements that need to be met, starting with a code kata and how we can apply various design patterns to our way of thinking.
We'll then move on to building out a functioning, all-be-it, contrived modular monolith using .NET 8 and C#, learning as we go.




- Architecture and Methodology
- Modular monolith vs microservices vs SOA
- Distribution and Modularisation
- Common design patterns
- Modelling requirements
- .NET 8 application development recap
- Databases
- Synchronous communication
- Asynchronous communication
- Add more!




This workshop is aimed at backend developers with some experience writing web applications using C# and .NET.

The workshop will not cover .NET Framework.




- A computer - either Windows PC or macOS
- Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider
- VS Code
- .NET 8 or higher
- Docker Desktop
- Postman or similar
- Azurite


Building cloud-ready, resilient systems in .NET

In this tutorial, we will look at distributed systems, such as microservices, and how we integrate them. We will understand why we would prefer to messaging, the fundamentals and key concepts of messaging and how to build an event driven architecture. If you have ever been put off moving from HTTP or RPC-based solutions to messaging because of the need to learn how to implement messaging-based solutions, this workshop will get you started. if you have been using messaging but want to gain a firmer understanding of how to build event driven architectures, this workshop will help you understand how to succeed with reactive approaches.



The material is presented in four parts: integrating distributed systems, an introduction to messaging (hands-on exercises), advanced messaging, and event driven architectures.

Hands-on exercises are offered in C#, JavaScript, Python and Go.



Messaging Architectures and Simple Patterns

Insights from Paper Offices and Flow-Based Programming

Commands or Event? Orchestration and Choreography.


We will use Rabbit MQ for examples. You need not have the latter installed on your machine, but you should have Docker installed on your machine, as exercises will use Docker Compose.

This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) course. At BYOD courses delegates are required to bring their own laptop with the necessary software installed.

The exercises are self-paced and you will find it helpful to have headphones to listen to the material that accompanies each exercise (though scripts are provided for those who cannot use headphones).

Practical Messaging

DevOps

Python

This workshop has been updated to take advantage of great new features in .NET 8 & C# 12 including Blazor, Minimal APIs, Identity Endpoints, and more.

NDC { Sydney }

Workshops

09:00 - 17:00 (UTC+11)

Practical Messaging

Ian Cooper

Managing engineers is not magic. You need tools for that!

Nelly Sattari

Strategic Domain-Driven Design: Analysis, Architecture, and Modelling

Nick Tune

Unleashing the Power of Microservices with Dapr and Azure Container Apps

William Liebenberg

Hands-on Cross-platform Mobile and Desktop Apps with .NET MAUI

Matt Goldman

How hacking works - Workshop edition

Espen Sande-Larsen

Application Building with ASP.NET Core 8

Damian Edwards

David Fowler

Kubernetes Hands-on Workshop

Rob Richardson

Building cloud-ready, resilient systems in .NET

Layla Porter