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Nico Vermeir

Nico Vermeir

Application Architect .NET at Inetum

Merchtem, Belgium

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Nico Vermeir is an application architect at Inetum Belgium since 2010, where he has a strong focus on building and architecting modern applications.
Being a strong believer in the importance of communities he tries to share knowledge wherever he can, be it on Twitter, at a user group or conference. He has spoken on many international conferences such as NDC Oslo, NDC Sydney, NDC London, Swetugg, Build Stuff, DotNext.
Nico is a Microsoft MVP in Developer Technologies, crew member of Techorama BE and NL and crew member of VISUG, Belgium's largest .NET user group.

In his spare time he enjoys brewing (and tasting) beer, playing the guitar, riding his Harley-Davidson and doing Karate.

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Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • Mobile Apps
  • Blazor
  • Architecture
  • WPF
  • WinForms
  • .NET MAUI
  • ASP.NET
  • . NET
  • microservices
  • Dapr
  • Aspire
  • C#

Tales from the trenches: Building a distributed system with Aspire and Dapr

.NET Aspire and Dapr, they sounds similar, they certainly have overlapping features, but they each bring their strengths to the challenges of building distributed applications.

We have been building a distributed application using these two technologies for the better part of the year now. In this session I will share our successes and our failures. By the end you will have a good idea whether or not this combination, or just one of the two technologies, are a good fit for your project.

We will learn about service discovery, containerization, tracing, logging and much more. So get ready for a session filled to the brink with great distributed stuff!

.NET Aspire and Dapr: a microservices match made in heaven

Microservices are great but they bring their own challenges. The distributed application runtime, or Dapr, already solves quite some problems, but there is a new kid on the block. With. NET Aspire you get a neat dashboard, open telemetry tracing by default and much more.

Join me in this full day discovery of where Dapr and Aspire compliment each other, fight each other or when to choose which flavor.

By the end of this workshop you will have the tools you need to successfully setup a microservices architecture, and you'll know how to choose between Dapr or Aspire on its own, or how to use them together

The .NET ABC of things you pretend to know about

Ever pretended to know what a specific technical term means? And after a while it just became awkward to ask?

We've all been there. The software development industry is one of knowledge workers, combine that with an alarming amount of developers suffering of imposter syndrome and we get the "yes I know what that means", instead of asking for an explanation.

In this session we will go through terminologies like tree-shaking, linking, just-in-time, garbage collection and many others that I have discovered people are pretending to know about. Even if you can place the words, I will try to give you a better understanding of what it actually does.

From Hell to Heaven: Porting Doom to MAUI

Ever wondered how far we can push MAUI? How about making a C# version of the all-time classic game Doom into a cross-plaform version?

It all started with: "hey I'm porting Doom to C#, want to have a go at getting it to run on MAUI?".
Couple of weeks later there was something resembling Doom running on my phone, few months later and we have a fully playable game.

During this adventure I have hit a couple of limits of Microsoft's new cross-platform framework. In this session I'll explain the limits we've run into, the workarounds, and how much code we can actually share between the WPF version and the MAUI version of Doom.

This session has demons, in more than one way.

Keep your secrets safe in .NET

Secrets, they are widely used in all of our applications. Be it connectionstrings, credentials, API keys and so on. Obviously we don't want these in our source control systems. But where do we put them? How do we change them between environments?

In this session I will show the different approaches provided by .NET. We will take a look at options for your own machine, team shared or cloud-based.

Let's put an end to secrets in source control!

From identifying as a teapot to internet over pidgeons: the crazy entries in technology history

Ever heard of "IP over avian carrier"? How about "HTTP 418 I'm a teapot"?
The history of technology is full of crazy standards that sound like a complete joke, but for some reason became an actual product or standard.

Join me on a journey through history as we discuss technology's craziest "how is this even a thing?" bits.

And who knows? Maybe you can invent the next crazy thing!

NDC Oslo 2023 Sessionize Event

May 2023 Oslo, Norway

Swetugg Stockholm 2023 Sessionize Event

February 2023 Stockholm, Sweden

Build Stuff 2022 Lithuania Sessionize Event

November 2022 Vilnius, Lithuania

VisugXL 2022 Sessionize Event

October 2022 Hasselt, Belgium

NDC London 2022 Sessionize Event

May 2022 London, United Kingdom

VisugXL 2021 Sessionize Event

November 2021 Brussels, Belgium

.NET Frontend Day Sessionize Event

January 2021

VISUG Sessionize Event

December 2020

Swetugg 2020 Sessionize Event

February 2020 Stockholm, Sweden

NDC Sydney 2019 Sessionize Event

October 2019 Sydney, Australia

Nico Vermeir

Application Architect .NET at Inetum

Merchtem, Belgium

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