Kevin Smith
Coder
Kevin Smith is an accomplished Principal Software Engineer and technology enthusiast with a strong background in a wide range of technologies. He has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP and MongoDB Champion for his expertise and contributions to the industry.
In his day-to-day work, Kevin focuses on the development of .NET and TypeScript applications, leveraging AWS and Azure Cloud Services to build robust and scalable solutions for his clients. He brings a wealth of experience and expertise to every project he works on, delivering outstanding results and exceeding expectations.
Beyond his work as a software engineer, Kevin is heavily involved in the technology community. He runs three community groups, including dotnet York and dotnetsheff in the North of England, as well as a virtual hackathon group called MiniHack. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge and expertise with others, regularly speaking at user groups and conferences and contributing to the open-source community.
How I test my ASP.NET Core APIs
If you know me, I’m passionate about testing, and what better than this talk I’ll be sharing my experience over the last 10+ years of testing APIs. This will cover the basics of how you get started with testing ASP.NET Core APIs, the layers I test at to prove our confidence in production, to how libraries and technology choices such as MongoDB and SQL Server make such a difference on your workflow with testing. We’ll also cover practices I use to ensure I don’t get bitten down the line when refactoring and updating the libraries.
Let's start using MongoDB in our next .NET project!
I've had a passion for MongoDB since the first release of version 1. It's packed with features and is the most popular general-purpose document database out there. In this talk, we'll cover the reasons why we'd use MongoDB over traditional relational databases, and the many ways we can access and interact with our data within a .NET application.
.NET Minimal APIs
In this session, we'll take a look at the "what", "why" and "how" around the .NET Minimal APIs and how we can utilize these to make our API faster and more understandable. We'll also cover the new .NET Minimal APIs coming in .NET 7!
Testing your ASP.NET Core APIs
Testing is becoming one of the most essential skills for developers. We’re pushing quality to the forefront of software development so that we can have more stable builds and faster release cycles.
In this talk, we’ll cover how we can test our ASP.NET Core APIs function correctly at a level that includes the APIs supporting infrastructures, such as the database, file system, and network. We’ll go into the use of the in-memory test server which will host our APIs and how we can configure it for our test runs.
Everything You Need to Know About Configuration in .NET
We will delve into the intricate details of the new ways to configure .Net applications with ease and flexibility in mind.
We’ll take a look at why we need configuration in our application and the types of things that should be configurable. We will then dive into the great developer story that Microsoft has built for .NET to allow us to provide configuration at easily apply configuration in our applications. Starting with the minimal approach, we will explore scenarios where our configuration practices will take advantage of type safety focusing on the IOptions pattern. There are also lots of other scenarios that we’ll cover that you most likely have never touched such as user secrets and validation!
MongoDB vs SQL Server
Project Manager - “So team, what technologies are we going to use to write this great new music tracking application?”
Dev 1 - “blazor + .net core for the frontend, and SQL Server for the database”
Dev 2 - “SQL Server! – It’s 2020 we should be using MongoDB”
In this talk, we hope to end this debate once and for all. David and Kev will go head to head showing the advantages (and disadvantages) of their preferred database technology
Feature Management in .NET Core
Ever heared of a feature toggle? ...or maybe you call it a feature switch, feature flag, feature flipper or conditional feature 🤷?
We'll take a look at what feature toggling is and the diffrent types of feature toggling we can apply in our .NET Core applications.
A more flexible way to store your data with MongoDB
If you've been anywhere near software development, the norm is to store your data in a relational form, but what if there was a different way?
We will take a look at the history of MongoDB and why it continues to be a trending database year on year. We will then go into the advantages of having a flexible document model and how we can utilize MongoDB for our application storage.
DDD 2020 Sessionize Event
DDD North 2020! Sessionize Event
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