Sander Molenkamp
Principal Cloud Architect @ Info Support & Microsoft Azure MVP
Heiloo, The Netherlands
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Sander Molenkamp is a principal cloud architect and Microsoft Azure MVP with over 25 years of professional experience. He works for Info Support (http://www.infosupport.com) designing and developing customer solutions using cloud native architectures.
Sander is also an accomplished speaker, having shared his insights and expertise at numerous international conferences. He is passionate about technology and freely shares his knowledge through the dotnetFlix YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/dotnetflix).
Furthermore, Sander actively contributes to the organization of multiple free community events, including the Dutch Azure Meetup, Azure Fest, and Bitbash.
In his free time, Sander enjoys traveling, is (still) learning to play the ukelele, and tinkers with technology and LEGO. He has also defeated the sword master of Mêlée Island™️.
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Fast Loops: Accelerating Cloud-Native Development with .NET Aspire
In cloud-native development, the speed at which you can build, test, and iterate—your inner loop—is key to delivering great software. In this session, we’ll explore how .NET Aspire streamlines microservice development, focusing on improving the development lifecycle to help you move faster and more efficiently.
Imagine running an amusement park, with all its rides and guest services powered by a distributed system. Through live demos, we’ll show how .NET Aspire helps you build and manage microservices for such complex scenarios with ease. Combined with Azure Container Apps, you’ll see how effortlessly you can deploy, scale, and maintain these services in the cloud.
Join us to discover how .NET Aspire can transform your cloud-native development experience, helping you iterate quickly and focus on delivering features that matter.
Airport Quest: Relationship-Based Access Control with OpenFGA
In today’s complex systems, authorization models need to be as flexible and dynamic as the environments they protect. In this session, we’ll take you on an adventure through the world of Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC) with OpenFGA, an open-source authorization system built for high performance and flexibility.
Join us for Airport Quest, where we’ll use a fun, interactive scenario to guide you through the limitations of traditional models like Role-Based and Attribute-Based Access Control. Along the way, we’ll demonstrate how OpenFGA empowers developers to manage fine-grained, dynamic access control by leveraging real-world relationships between users and objects.
Expect a unique and engaging experience that combines practical demos with a touch of adventure as we show how to implement ReBAC in a .NET environment and make authorization smarter, not harder.
Pub crawling in Orleans: exploring the Actor model
The Actor model has been around since the seventies, but modern multi-core CPUs and the increasing use of distributed systems have made the Actor model more popular than ever.
Orleans, which is Microsoft's implementation of the (virtual) Actor model, is also getting more attention. Microsoft is aligning Orleans 4 with .NET 7 to provide a simple, performant way to create actor-based distributed systems to developers.
In this demo-heavy session, I'll start by showing you the various features of Orleans, including how they compare to other Actor model implementations. Next you'll learn how we can use those features to create a distributed pub crawl platform that is both easy to maintain and scale. *Beers not included.
Star Tours: Event Sourcing at Cosmic Scale
Set in the Star Wars universe, Star Tours is a Disney theme park attraction that takes passengers on a turbulent trip across the galaxy. You might have ridden it, but have you ever stopped and thought about the complexity of running such an interplanetary travelling agency?
Event Sourcing can help us tackle this complexity by storing state as a series of events that include the ‘why’ and ‘when’ of the specific event. Cosmos DB, the multi-model globally distributed database service on Azure is a great fit for storing these events.
In this demo-heavy session I'll show you how to build an event store on Cosmos DB starting from scratch. Topics include bulk operations using stored procedures, partitioning strategies, and how to create projections using the Cosmos DB Change Feed. After this session, you’ll be ready to start your own galactic travelling agency!
Let's go on a Blazor adventure!
Blazor is a free and open-source web framework that enables developers to create web apps using C# and HTML. Being a .NET developer as well as a big fan of classic point-and-click adventure games like Monkey Island, I’ve created Game-a-Tron 4000: an adventure game engine written for Blazor.
In this session I’ll show you the resulting game and how it was implemented using Blazor. We’ll dive deep into Blazor Components and JavaScript interoperability, all while you can feel nostalgic for the good old days when games came on floppy disks and graphics were pixelated!
Dapr workshop: build microservice applications the easy way
Dapr is an open source, event-driven, portable runtime for building microservices. It provides powerful building blocks to make it easy for developers to build resilient microservice applications using a variety of languages and frameworks.
In this session you will get an introduction of Dapr and the Dapr building blocks. After that, you will learn how to apply Dapr yourself in a sample application during the hands-on part of the workshop.
The workshop features step-by-step instructions so you can work on this at your own pace. During the workshop you will get hands-on experience with the following Dapr building blocks: service invocation, state management, pub/sub, bindings and secret management.
A perfect match: Dapr & Azure Container Apps
Do you want to run containerized microservice applications with features like autoscaling, HTTPS ingress and traffic routing, but don't want the complexity of the full Kubernetes platform? Or maybe you just don't need the full flexibility that Kubernetes offers and rather trade that in for ease of use. If so, meet Azure Container Apps (ACA): an Azure service that lets you run containerized apps on a serverless platform.
To further ease your life as a developer, ACA includes full support for Dapr, the CNCF project for building portable and reliable microservices.
In this demo-heavy session you’ll learn how to run your microservice apps on ACA while solving common distributed systems problems such as service location, state management and pub/sub with Dapr.
Exploring the Cosmos with Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL combines the power of distributed PostgreSQL with Citus to deliver high-performance, scalable data solutions for cloud-native applications. In this session, we’ll explore how Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL can be leveraged to solve large-scale data challenges, including real-time analytics and time series data processing.
We’ll cover essential concepts such as using the Citus extension for horizontal scaling, handling time series data efficiently, and applying roll-ups for aggregation. Additionally, you’ll learn how to integrate with .NET and Entity Framework by building custom extensions that optimize your development workflow.
For the demo, we’ll dive into astronomic datasets to demonstrate real-world use cases—tracking stars, planets, and other celestial data—showcasing powerful scenarios in data management and analytics.
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