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Dennis Doomen

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Dennis Doomen

Hands-on architect in the .NET space with 29 years of experience on an everlasting quest for knowledge to build the right software the right way at the right time

Dennis is a Microsoft MVP and Principal Consultant at Dutch Microsoft consultancy firm Aviva Solutions. With 29 years of experience under his belt as a software architect and/or lead developer, he specializes in designing full-stack enterprise solutions based on .NET as well as providing coaching on all aspects of designing, building, documenting, deploying and maintaining software systems in an agile world. He is the author of several open-source projects, including Fluent Assertions, Pathy, Reflectify, PackageGuard, and several .NET Solution Templates, and has been maintaining coding guidelines for C# since 2001. You can find him on Twitter, Mastodon and BlueSky.

Sessions

What I learned from modernizing a microservices architecture

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During the last year or so I had to take the architectural ownership of an existing microservice architecture deployed on Azure. It was designed to serve as an integration platform between several backend systems, but evolved to become much more than that. As somebody with a lot of experience modernizing legacy code, I was surprised by many of its problems and how the team was suffering. In this talk, I like to share all the coding mistakes, design flaws, technical debt and pattern misuse I found, and how I addressed them gradually while training the team on the job