October .NET User Group
Welcome to another installment of Virtual .NET User Group!
Last month was our first month using Teams, and overall, it worked out well. While the YouTube streaming resulted in some nice results it was tricky to pull off and occasionally error prone - like the time a few months ago when I forgot to hit the "Go Live" button before starting. So, we will continue to use Teams this month.
Speaking of this month, we have 2 presenters presenting on a couple of topics that are often overlooked, but important to the success of your project.
We also have Co-Sponsors this month and they showed up with an impressive list of door prizes.
From Orion Advisor Solutions
- $100 Top Golf
- $50 to Arcadian Grille
- $50 to Taxi's
From eMerging
- $100 to Amazon
- $50 to Local Beer Patio
- $50 to Pitch
We will draw the winners from the list of people in Teams - so be sure to join us!
Host:Microsoft Teams
Topic:
Monitoring the Health of your Services by Ben Bedell
Monitoring the health of your applications and services is a critical component to help with the observability of your applications. It is a necessity for large monolithic applications, and even more so for individual microservice applications. This is a look at a nuget package (Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.HealthChecks ) that handles the repetitive part of implementing health checks, and makes it easy to have a standardized approach to monitoring applications and their dependencies, memory, disk, and creating health probes when using containers or load balancers.
Topic:
Migrating to Azure Application Settings and Azure Secrets by Philip Wolfe
Managing application settings and secrets can be challenging when you consider secure storage, environmental differences, and controlling access to these values. In this rapid fire presentation, we will create an Azure App Config and Azure Key Vault to address with these concerns. We will modify an on-prem app to switch from using values stored in the config file to calling the Azure resources through the Azure Microsoft Configuration Builders github project. We will wrap up with a quick synopsis of pros/cons and lessons learned through Orion’s migration to storing values in the cloud.
Speakers:Ben Bedell
Director of Enterprise Architecture at Orion Advisor Technology. My programming career started when I was 14, working at 4-Tees driving range off 144th and Giles Road. 4-Tees was short for “4-Teachers” who started the driving range as an investment. One of the teachers happened to teach computer science, and with his help, I wrote my first application on an Apple II computer for my dad’s company which was somewhat of a CRM for their sales team. The program was used for a short time, and it really ignited my passion for programming. After school, and a couple jobs, I started at Orion almost 21 years ago where the CEO shared the passion for great software and have felt at home ever since. I have been on an amazing journey, going from 3 developers to where we are now, over 200 employees in software development, and over 400 employees total. Our journey took us from FoxPro to Access to VB6, to all the dot nets. It is a personal challenge every day to grow with the company, and I still get excited about learning new skills.
Philip Wolfe
Enterprise Application Architect. Philip has been developing software with .NET since 2001. He was a conference director of HDC for 5 years, 2 time speaker at Microsoft Tech Ed, 2 time presenter at Infotec, and first president of the .NET users group in Omaha. He is a Nebraska native, married with 3 children, and board member of Omaha Christian Academy. You can follow him at @philipwolfe on Twitter, LinkedIn, and GitHub.
Sponsors:Orion Advisor Solutions
Orion Advisor Solutions is a financial wealth management technology company that builds custom developed software. Orion’s unified tech stack is built to seamlessly connect advisors and their clients to plan for the future, invest intelligently and achieve financial goals. If the solution our advisors need doesn’t exist, we build it ourselves, pioneering possibilities to help our advisors achieve their vision of success and evolve our business ahead of industry trends. Our ability to push the boundaries of traditional advisor tech is driven by a hunger for continuous improvement and a willingness to disrupt ourselves, and the industry, to stay ahead of customer expectations and deliver the tools and resources advisors need to grow their businesses. Orion is a tech powerhouse, designed to bring together leading-edge technology and wealth management.
Orion continues to grow and now have around 1,400+ employees across the US. We offer day one benefits, and you can work 100% remote or go into the office if you want. We know you’ve been hearing the hype so join us to learn from our team and hear more about Orion!
Check us out at https://orion.com/
eMerging, Inc
eMerging, Inc. is an Information Technology Professional Services company. We specialize in connecting qualified IT Talent with our valued clients. We partner with companies that are growing, changing and positioned for success. We attract and hire IT Talent and carefully align them with the needs of our clients and their business culture. We are a full-service staffing company: we support our clients with contract, contract to hire, & direct hire recruitment. We recruiter anything and everything IT: from Help Desk to CIO roles. Our mission is to build strong, authentic relationships with our clients, candidates & consultants.
Thanks,
Matt Ruwe
mruwe@omahamtg.com
.NET User's Group Co-Leader
Brian Olson
bolson@omahamtg.com
.NET User's Group Co-Leader
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