Jerry Nixon
Microsoft SQL Server, Product Manager
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft Product Manager for SQL Server, focusing on SQL Developer Experiences and Data API builder. With more than two decades of experience, he excels in developing, designing, and delivering software. He's spoken at tiny venues and giant launch events. He's trained thousands of developers. Jerry is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Colorado Christian University in Denver. Advocating for users and clean, maintainable code, Jerry's core passions lie in accessible design, data engineering, and plain-ole software development. He has a deep history of field engineering for Microsoft's largest customers and craziest products. While most of his days revolve around Outlook, Visual Studio, and online Docs, what he enjoys most is teaching his three beautiful daughters Star Trek character backstories and episode plots.
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Modern Architecture 101 for New Engineers & Forgetful Architects
I've been a Microsoft field engineer for fourteen years—learn from my experience and mistakes. Today’s landscape of architectural choices for enterprise solutions is vast, with real problems to solve and real issues that come with those solutions. Big enterprises or small, problems are problems. There are plenty of tools and frameworks, but what really sets enterprise solutions apart from one-off applications are the fundamental patterns. In this session, we’ll break down a typical enterprise architecture piece by piece, focusing on the decisions engineers and architects make when tackling common problems and requirements. We’ll dive into areas like scalability, security, integration, and maintainability, giving you practical insights whether you’re new to the field or just need a refresher.
This is theory. Come ready to absorb a lot of important information.
Get Started with .NET Aspire with a Database
This introductory session is for developers ready to explore .NET Aspire with SQL Server and Azure SQL Database. Build foundational knowledge & gain practical insights to adopt new patterns. We'll also look at how the Community Toolkit can enhance .NET Aspire projects with prebuilt solutions.
A Developer's Guide to Database Patterns
If you think of the database as a pain in the neck, you're not alone. But with some engineering rigor, you can level up your database game. This critical component of your architecture can benefit from the same practices as code — source control gates, unit testing, CI/CD automation, linting, quality measurements, and abstract repositories. In this session, learn the engineering best practices used by development teams whose databases aren't a pain in the neck. This session is a collection of patterns recently curated from many of Microsoft's largest and most demanding customers.
How Microsoft's new, open-source Data API builder fits into Solution Architecture
Software Architects choose tools and patterns with an eye toward cost, time, shelf-life, and standard features. Data API builder is not source generation — it's Microsoft's free Data API engine that exposes secure REST & GraphQL endpoints over SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, and Azure Cosmos DB, whether in Azure, on-premises, or even in AWS or GCP. In this session, we'll discuss security & architecture options, and when to use GraphQL versus REST endpoints.
Not your Father's SQL Server: Developer Innovations in Data Storage
There have been so many innovations in recent years, it's easy to have missed them. Together, though, they've lifted SQL to be a modern, multi-modal database for Machine Learning, JSON Documents, Polybase, Geospatial, Temporal & Graph data stores. Let's take another look at database features targeting developer productivity and unlocking new solutions.
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Jerry Nixon
Microsoft SQL Server, Product Manager
Denver, Colorado, United States
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