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Chris Klug

Chris Klug

Developer Badass-as-a-Service

Stockholm, Sweden

Chris Klug is a developer badass-as-a-service that either creates or solves problems depending on who you ask. He loves creating and building things. Whether it be a new application, a new kitchen or a new RC helicopter, you will see him building things all the time. Most of the time, that means writing code and solving problems for clients at a company called Active Solution in Stockholm though. Except for the many days he spends at conferences and usergroups, talking about doing things he is passionate about, and for the days he goes mountain biking, IPSC shooting, kiteboarding or RC helicopter flying.
For the last 15-something years, he has been solving problems for customers, and loving it. But if he gets to choose, he'll go to the beach and kitesurf every day!

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Area of Expertise

  • Media & Information

Topics

  • Azure
  • Containers
  • Automatization
  • Pulumi
  • .NET (Core) development
  • .NET Patterns & Practices
  • C#.Net
  • .NET
  • Software Development
  • Software Architecture

Improving your dev experience with .NET Aspire

Building applications today is a lot more complicated than it used to be, as we tend to shy away from monoliths and build, at least somewhat, distributed applications. On top of that, they tend to be dependent on a bunch of external services like Redis, SQL, Service Buses and Kafka. All of them, things that make your application development a more complicated.

Sure, a lot of it can be handled by a bunch of configuration, conventions and Docker. But it still takes time, is sometimes overly complicated, and causes quite a few headaches. What if it didn't have to?

.NET Aspire is built to simplify your development in these kinds of scenarios. The goal is to allow you to orchestrate your solution using code, and have the framework sort out things like service discovery, telemetry, logging, resiliency and more.

In this presentation you will get an introduction to what .NET Aspire can do for you! It will also try to explain a bit about how it actually works, instead of just showing the new and shiny stuff and saying that it is the result of many sacrificed chickens and black magic!

Exposing the not-so-secret practices of the cult of DDD

For decades, the followers of the Legend of the Ubiquitous Language, have been successfully implementing software solutions in complex domains. Using the not-so-secret practices outlined by the cult of DDD, they merge the realms of development and business to create understandable and manageable software.

But even if these powerful practices aren't secret, they are shrouded in mystery and complex language. Making them tools used almost exclusively by developers who have studied the ancient book of Evans. A book filled with incantations like "bounded context", "value object" and "anti-corruption layer".

But that ends today! In this session, we will expose some of the most useful DDD practices for what they are. And we will also show you how they can become powerful tools in your developer toolbelt. Even if you do not want to bend your knee to the craftspeople of old, and spend the rest of your career trying to explain the legend of the ubiquitous language to everyone around you.

Stop using Entity Framework as just a DTO provider!

Entity Framework is a great tool to retrieve your data from the database. However, it is also a bit complicated, and requires that you read a bit more than just the "Getting Started with EF" page. Unfortunately, this seems to be what most developers do.

At least I think that is why I keep seeing people using it to replicating the database structure in their code with DTO:s. This is not the way it was intended to be used. It was intended to persist and retrieve data for you C# object. Not just DTO:s.

And if one more person tells me "we used a micro-ORM for this project, since it does the same thing as EF but without the complexity", I will blow a gasket!

Why not join me, Chris Klug, for a look at how we can do better? In this talk, I will show you how we can use proper OOP and still use EF to persist and retrieve our objects.

Introduction to Actor-based Development with Project Orleans

There are some domains that are really hard to model using your standard n-tier architecture. Domains like real time vehicle tracking, auctions and many IoT scenarios. Sure, they might look easy enough, and “work on my machine”, but when you start throwing some load at it, it can start to crumble quite quickly. And going down the good ol’ “Eventual Consistency Road” isn’t always an option, as consistency is actually important in some cases.

However, these aren’t new problems, and smart people have already created solutions for them. Solutions like the Actor pattern, which solves the problem by using in-memory “actors” to make life simpler. Unfortunately, the Actor pattern introduces another set of challenges. Things like instance proxying, state management, clustering, actor distribution and so on. Topics that most of us don’t feel like solving on our own. Luckily, Microsoft has already built all of this for us, in something they call Project Orleans.

Why not join Chris Klug, as he explains how Project Orleans can help you to solve scenarios like the ones described above. It might be worth noting though, that if you like slide heavy presentations with lots of theory and little practice, you should probably stay away. This session uses lots of demos to show you the practicalities of getting started building solutions using Project Orleans, and the features is offers. So please come well rested, and ready for a lot of coding.

I'm just trying to keep my head above water

I'm a lucky guy, and I know it! I'm a middle-aged white male with a good job, a great wife, and all of that. Life is pretty good! Or at least it should be...

The other side of the story is that I have spent most of my career struggling mentally. I've not only questioned myself professionally since day one, but I have also had to take time off work because I couldn't even get out of bed in the morning. Still, most people around me don't have a clue about my situation. When they find out, they generally go "What? You? I would never have thought that"... A response that probably indicates how well I manage to hide it from the world. But I am more and more certain that that is not the right way to handle it...

I have spent a LOT of time trying to find ways to cope with the struggles in my life. Trying to balance my private life and work. Something that is much harder than it sounds in our industry. And I think we need to talk about it.

I want to talk about some of the things I have experienced, and some of the things I have done to try and make my life…well…a life for me. I also want to explain how getting a book about living with ADHD from my parents when I was 40 became a life altering experience. Not to mention what I think we as an industry could do to make life better for the people in it.

The not-so-SOLID Principles of Software Development

Most developers have probably, at some point, been told that the SOLID principles are the foundation that all good software stands on top of. The presenter of this session has even traveled around the world and told thousands of people this at various conferences and usergroups. However, is it really so?

After years of talking about, and thinking about the SOLID principles, Chris Klug has started to question the validity of them. Are these principles still valid 20+ years after they were formulated? Or have we moved beyond these principles and found other "truths" or pillars to build our software on top of?

In this talk, Chris will walk you through each one of the principles and explain what they are supposed to mean, as well as what they actually mean. He will also try to shed some light on whether they may or may not be valid anymore. And as you might have guessed by now, telling developers to strictly follow the SOLID principles might not be the most solid advice anymore.

ASP.NET Core Beyond the Basics

There are a lot of “getting started” talks in the ASP.NET Core world, but they won’t take you very far in the real world. What if you already know what the Startup class does, how configuration is handled, and what Kestrel is? Well, that’s where this talk might become interesting.

Instead of covering the basics of how to get up and running, this talk will have a look at some of the more…how to put it…complex areas of ASP.NET Core. Instead of looking at how you build a basic Hello World website, it looks at things like building custom middlewares and model binders, how we can do URL rewriting and run background tasks. And more!

With all the demos to be presented, and the limited amount of time to do it in, there will be no introduction to ASP.NET Core. There will be no “this template includes…”. Instead there will be a quick jump right into the deep end, and a big focus on expanding you knowledge of some of the more advanced abilities built into the framework!

SOLID – The five commandments of good software

The SOLID principles. The five commandments of the software world. Forgotten for years, as developers focused on JavaScript frameworks with stupid names and complicated patterns. Not grasping that the SOLID principles transcend beyond frameworks and patterns.
The SOLID principles are the foundation of building good software. They are the breakers of monoliths. The decouplers of coupling. The squashers of regression bugs. One might even say that they are the creators of maintainable code.
Unless you already a believer, you need to attend this session and get on the right path. Chris, the bringer of SOLID knowledge, will go through each one of the principles, explaining what it means, what it will do for you, and why you should stop breaking it. You will even be shown C# code that explains how they help you, and what problems will haunt you if you ignore them and are faced with their wrath.

Chris Klug

Developer Badass-as-a-Service

Stockholm, Sweden