Service Fabric - Build low-latency, self-healing, hyper-scalable apps!
Joe Swan is Head of Technology at IAM Cloud, and co-organiser of HackManchester. He blogs regularly at codeburst.wordpress.com.
In this talk, Joe will walk us through how Service Fabric can help you rapidly develop and update microservice-based applications and unlock true hybrid flexibility between Azure and on-premises.
We will cover what Service Fabric means to your Azure workload and how you can leverage Stateless and Stateful Services and Actors along with the Reliable Services API to create high-performance applications.
There will be information on some of the pitfalls of service communication as well as how to use Actors to off-load your compute to Azure in a variety of scenarios.
What is "dynamic" really good for? How does it work? Is it as fast as Microsoft claim and how did they manage this? There will be some code examples which show how they can be used in production code and also some fun uses of them that maybe have no real world use, but are a good way to understand how they can be leveraged. This will include an intro to ExpandoObject and also creating wrappers for data structures and even some playing about creating Ruby-style DSLs using dynamics. The pros and cons of each approach will be highlighted as it's not all unicorns and rainbows, but it's definitely a way to expand your tool belt of "fun things in C# to use that are actually useful".
