Microsoft Patterns & Practices Symposium 2013
Update 10/2016 - This posting is better viewed in my new blog . I spent three days last week at the 2013 P&P Symposium on the Microsoft campus in Redmond WA. I had high hopes going in that I'd take home a lot of new and interesting knowledge. I ended up being pretty disappointed. This is a list of the sessions along with the immediate impressions note I made for each one as it finished. Day 1 Keynote: Cloud Unplugged, Scott Guthrie: Scott was good but this was unscripted. Resilient Cloud Apps, Mark Simms: Good info. Check out the Transient Fault Application Block. CQRS, Greg Young: Separating data CRUD operations into commands and reads. Meh. Autoscaling in Windows Azure, Grigori Melnik: Nice info poorly given. Check out the Autoscaling Application Block (Wasabi). Windows Azure Active Directory, Vittorio Bertocci: Bingo! SSO! Closing Keynote: Felicity Aston, British Explorer: 60 days alone on the South Pole. Day 2 Keynote: Windows 8 Unplugged, Ales Holecek: