If you're a developer, data scientist, or AI enthusiast wanting to integrate the OpenAI API into your C# applications, this workshop is for you. In this workshop, you'll delve into the world of OpenAI's powerful language models, gaining the skills to leverage their potential and create innovative AI-driven solutions. You'll explore various features from text summarization and generation, conversational agents and chatbot development, image generation and manipulation, and audio-to-text with language translation. Throughout the workshop, you'll engage in hands-on coding exercises, collaborate on projects, and participate in discussions to reinforce your learning. Kesha Williams will provide guidance and support as you navigate the workshop material, ensuring you gain practical experience with the OpenAI API in C#.

Getting started with the OpenAI API and understanding its functionalities

Understanding the fundamentals of AI language models and their applications

Exploring advanced prompt engineering techniques

Navigating the OpenAI API documentation and gaining proficiency in using its endpoints

Creating an OpenAI Account and obtaining an API Key

Installing the OpenAI API Library and authenticating to OpenAI

Implementing text generation and summarization using the OpenAI API

Building interactive chatbots and virtual assistants with natural language understanding using the OpenAI API

Generating and manipulating images using the OpenAI API

Turning audio to text with language translation using the OpenAI API

Integrating APIs with external systems like Twitter

Effectively managing API costs and scaling applications

Troubleshooting and understanding common API errors

C#, Generative AI, OpenAI API, GPT 3.5 + 4.0, ChatGPT, Whisper, DALL-E

Introduction to the OpenAI API and its capabilities 

Setting up the development environment and configuring the OpenAI API in C#

Understanding API authentication and handling requests in C# 

Exploring the different endpoints and functionalities available in the OpenAI API

Leveraging advanced OpenAI models for tasks like text generation, summarization, and question-answering

Building intelligent chatbots and conversational agents using the OpenAI API in C#

Leveraging advanced OpenAI models for tasks like image generation and manipulation

Implementing audio-to-text applications with the OpenAI API, including language translation and sentiment analysis

Integrating OpenAI APIs with external systems like Twitter

Deploying and scaling OpenAI-powered applications in production environments while managing costs effectively

Troubleshooting and understanding common API errors  

Ethical considerations and responsible AI usage in your C# projects

This workshop suits developers, data scientists, and AI enthusiasts who want to integrate the OpenAI API into their C# applications. Basic programming knowledge, preferably in C#, is recommended. Familiarity with web APIs and RESTful services will be helpful but optional.

Attendees must bring their laptops with access to a C# IDE.

2 Days

OpenAI & ChatGPT: Mastering AI- Language Models in C#

The Engineering Manager doesn't need to be the most technical person in the team, a psychologist, or a bad cop. You only need to have enough leadership tools in your pocket.

In Atlassian, as one of the young industry thought leaders, engineering managers use a leadership framework called 4Cs. Using this approach can set you up for success in leading fully remote teams who work from anywhere.




Welcome to this interactive workshop which provides practical guidance and leadership recommendations and suits the following groups:

1. Techie ICs (Individual contributors like developers, OPS, architects, and computer engineers) who are keen to step up to a management role.


2. The managers who struggle with running remote teams in this new era and want to be more effective leaders

You will leave this workshop having developed the leadership skills you need and picked tools in the 4Cs framework to manage technical engineering teams. It also helps you make a determined decision on your next career path if you are hesitant.



Here are a few of the topics covered in this workshop to develop leadership skills:


- How to be a great connector to build psychological safety in the team?
- What tools and methodologies do you need to be a great conductor to contribute to the team’s success?
- What does it take to be a productive compass?
- How to be an effective coach helping with growth and performance improvement, providing feedback and making effective and constructive conversations yet difficult?

Each topic will be thoroughly covered using examples and followed by exercises that allow you to reflect and fully absorb.

Managing engineers is not magic. You need tools for that!

Work skills

Multi-platform, multi-client, and highly-mobile users bring a new set of challenges, so the approaches of the past are no longer appropriate for modern applications. This two-day workshop is your chance to dive into all things security related to these new technologies. Learn how to securely connect native and browser-based applications to your back-ends and integrate them with enterprise identity management systems as well as social identity providers and services.


.NET Core, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Web APIs, Claims, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, WS-Federation, SAML, JSON Web Tokens, Single Sign-on and off, Federation, Delegation, Home Realm, Discovery, CORS

Social Logins (e.g. Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)


Attendees will need to bring a computer with the latest .NET Core SDK and the IDE of your choice (e.g. Visual Studio) installed.

Identity & Access Control for modern Applications and APIs using ASP.NET Core 7

.NET

Security

This workshop will get you started on the right track and teach you all the best practices you need to know to write clean and effective unit and integration tests in .NET with C#. 

It will also introduce you to the concept of performance testing and get you started with testing how your applications perform when pushed to their limits.

- Understanding the different types of testing
- Introduction to Unit testing
- Mocking
- Fakes
- Assertions
- Creating test data at scale
- Creating realistic test data
- Testing “untestable” code
- Code coverage
- Measuring code coverage
- The value of code coverage
- Introduction to Mutation testing

- Introduction to Integration testing
- Understanding the WebApplicationFactory
- Mocking third party API dependencies
- Building test-specific environments using Docker
- Databases
- APIs
- Integration testing Web UI
- Introduction to Performance testing
- Load testing
- Stress testing
- Soak testing
- Smoke testing

This workshop is aimed at backend developers with some experience writing applications using C# and .NET.

The workshop will not focus on .NET Framework at all and will only briefly touch on front end testing.

Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider or VS Code

Docker Desktop (no need for Kubernetes to be installed)

From Zero to Hero: Effective testing in C#

Testing

It’s 2023. .NET is a free, open-source development framework that runs on everything from Raspberry Pis to cloud data centres, server-side rendering is cool again, and despite what you might have read on LinkedIn, AI is 

 about to take away all our jobs. In this two-day, workshop, you’ll learn how to design, deliver, and test state-of-the-art web applications that harness the power of the C# language and the 

 Core platform. Alongside familiar patterns like model/view/controller and dependency injection, the latest versions of 

 Core introduced a streamlined hosting model, a new set of conventions for routing requests within our applications, and a completely new architecture known as “minimal APIs” for building API endpoints and microservices.
.NET also supports a thriving ecosystem of open source projects and packages. Entity Framework Core provides first-class abstractions over relational databases like MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL. Libraries like NodaTime can simplify and streamline your application logic. Projects like xUnit, Moq, and Shouldly let you test your applications at whatever level makes sense - from low-level unit testing to end-to-end integration tests that test your app’s entire HTTP pipeline. And on the front-end, it’s never been easier to incorporate technologies like SASS, CSS grids, responsive layouts, and even libraries like MJML for sending HTML emails.

Overview of .NET web application architecture

.NET 6 vs .NET 7 - long term support, or latest & greatest?

Deploying database changes using EF Core Migrations

Testing application behaviour and business logic

Data formatting: dates, times, currencies

Formatting data using System.Globalization

Layouts, areas, partial views, and tag helpers.

Cross-platform gotchas: what to watch out for when you’re developing on Windows or macOS and hosting on Linux

Deploying to Microsoft Azure using GitHub Actions

Application monitoring using Application Insights

This workshop is aimed at developers with some experience of the C# language, the .NET platform, and some basic web development. If you understand classes, inheritance, Console. WriteLine, and you know what the <select> tag in HTML does, then you should be just fine.


Attendees will need a computer running .NET 6 or .NET 7, Docker, and a code editor that supports .NET such as Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, JetBrains Rider, or Visual Studio Code.

Modern Web Development with C# and .NET

You will not only learn how to use Azure Active Directory to protect your apps, but also to protect the environment they run in and how to use Azure AD to enforce policies for resource access.




* The basics of OAUTH/OpenID.
* Identity concepts in Azure Active Directory.
* How to integrate your applications with Azure AD and use single-sign-on (SSO).
* How to secure your APIs using Azure AD.
* Several ways of granularly granting permissions to various resources, both by role, application or user.
* What is the difference between an app registration and a service principal?
* Getting rid of passwords and using managed identities.
* Using identity to access Azure resources.
* Role-based access control.
* Granting access to external collaborators.
* Implementing just-in-time, auditable permissions for protected resources.
* Using Azure B2C for regular consumer apps.

There will be hands-on labs you can do on-site and take home with you to reinforce the concepts and techniques you learn.




Developers who want to get a better understanding of how Azure Active Directory identity works and how to use it to secure their apps and environments.

While the concepts can be used with any language, the workshop examples will be in C# on the .NET platform. No prior knowledge about Azure Active Directory or identity assumed.

Basic programming skills necessary to follow hands-on labs.




You will need to bring a computer with the latest .NET SDK and the editor of your choice (for instance Visual Studio 2022, JetBrains Rider or VS Code).

Awesome Azure Authentication Adventures

Cloud

On the practical side, you'll see how to work with Event Storming to map out business needs, and discover new opportunities in the domain. Then, you'll see how to use Event Storms as the basis for slicing up the business into domains and subdomains which are the candidates for software architecture and team boundaries (using various flavours of Event Storming (big picture, process modelling, software-design).


You'll also get a chance to analyze scenarios presented in other formats like Domain Message Flow Modelling and the Bounded Context Canvas. And you'll get to switch into the architect role and design architectures with these techniques yourself.


Throughout this course, you'll get to experience a diverse number of scenarios from different domains, based on the real world experiences of Max and Nick. While the course is largely hands-on, you will also learn the necessary theory even if you have no previous experience of Domain-Driven Design.

Strategic Domain-Driven Design: Analysis, Architecture, and Modelling

Architecture

The workshop is interactive, with hands-on exercises as well as presentation of design techniques, principles, and a lightweight process for incorporating design into development. You'll learn how to create your team's customized recipe for great design, choosing the techniques that work well for your circumstances.

The focus is on interaction design, design thinking techniques, and innovation, not aesthetics and layout. We’ll discuss how to facilitate design meetings, reach group decisions, probe user work and task flows, fit design tasks to those flows, and use that understanding as a basis to foster innovation through better interactions with users. You'll help your team enter production coding with fewer blind alleys, backtrack, and rework. Some exercises will be in groups – bring others on your team if you would like to experience this workshop together.

Master Class: Design Thinking for Applications

Design

So what does "cloud-ready" actually mean?

A “cloud ready” application is a legacy software application that has been modified to run on cloud computing infrastructure.

Whether you are looking at a modular monolith or a full-blown distributed system, building a cloud-ready, resilient application is a must.

In this workshop, we will look at the requirements for Tacky Tacos. A fictional taco business that's thriving and wishes to expand.

We'll look at all the different requirements that need to be met, starting with a code kata and how we can apply various design patterns to our way of thinking.

We'll then move on to actually building out a functioning, all-be-it, contrived application in .NET 7 and C#, learning as we go.

This workshop is aimed at backend developers with some experience writing web applications using C# and .NET.

The workshop will not cover .NET Framework.

Building cloud-ready, resilient systems in .NET

This workshop teaches advanced, cutting edge techniques based on ongoing research that are designed to identify and decrease risk, improve confidence in decision making and protect your architecture when the domain is characterized by uncertainty.

The workshop introduces ideas on the philosophy of architecture, forcing participants to think outside of the technology and relate decision making to markets, culture, economic and societal concerns. It teaches practical techniques in stressor analysis and the use of matrices to make component decisions and gives participants the chance to work with these techniques in labs and groups.

This workshop is suitable for senior developers who want a head start into the world of architecture, for teams embarking on large, risk filled projects, and for seasoned architects seeking new techniques. It has also been successful in unting teams around a common definition of architecture.

Concrete Complexity for Software Engineering

Modelling stress: socio-economic architecture

Contagion analysis and component decisions

Good understanding of software design. A laptop with Excel will be necessary.

Advanced Software Architecture with Residuality Theory

Microservices

Soft Skills

In this tutorial, we will look at distributed systems, such as microservices, and how we integrate them. We will understand why we would prefer to messaging, the fundamentals and key concepts of messaging and how to build an event driven architecture. If you have ever been put off moving from HTTP or RPC-based solutions to messaging because of the need to learn how to implement messaging-based solutions, this workshop will get you started. if you have been using messaging but want to gain a firmer understanding of how to build event driven architectures, this workshop will help you understand how to succeed with reactive approaches.



The material is presented in four parts: integrating distributed systems, an introduction to messaging (hands-on exercises), advanced messaging, and event driven architectures.

Hands-on exercises are offered in C#, JavaScript, Python and Go.



Messaging Architectures and Simple Patterns

Insights from Paper Offices and Flow-Based Programming

Commands or Event? Orchestration and Choreography.


We will use Rabbit MQ for examples. You need not have the latter installed on your machine, but you should have Docker installed on your machine, as exercises will use Docker Compose.

This is a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) course. At BYOD courses delegates are required to bring their own laptop with the necessary software installed.

The exercises are self-paced and you will find it helpful to have headphones to listen to the material that accompanies each exercise (though scripts are provided for those who cannot use headphones).

Practical Messaging

DevOps

Python

In this workshop, we'll share some framing for microservice architectures that explore the various forces that can drive the design and evolution of microservices, and then you'll participate in a series of interactive architectural kata exercises to put your newfound knowledge to the test. Afterwards, you'll have a series of tools to take back to your own organisations to put into practice.

Understand what makes a good microservice

Learn how to use concepts from domain-driven design to define service boundaries

Understand how to plan and manage a migration from a monolith to the microservice architecture

Understand how technical choices can impact the architecture itself

Learn about managing change and governance in a microservice environment

This is a participatory workshop. You won't get to just sit there and watch – the more you participate in the workshop, the more you'll get out!

NDC { London }

Workshops

09:00 - 17:00 (UTC±00)

Designing Microservices

Sam Newman

From Zero to Hero: Effective testing in C#

Nick Chapsas

Strategic Domain-Driven Design: Analysis, Architecture, and Modelling

Nick Tune

Maxime Sanglan-Charlier

Modern Web Development with C# and .NET

Dylan Beattie

Practical Messaging

Ian Cooper

Managing engineers is not magic. You need tools for that!

Nelly Sattari

Identity & Access Control for modern Applications and APIs using ASP.NET Core 7

Anders Abel

Master Class: Design Thinking for Applications

Billy Hollis

Awesome Azure Authentication Adventures

Glenn F. Henriksen

Advanced Software Architecture with Residuality Theory

Barry O'Reilly

OpenAI & ChatGPT: Mastering AI- Language Models in C#

Kesha Williams

Building cloud-ready, resilient systems in .NET

Layla Porter