Voice of the DBA

Tag: VSLive

  • Learn about Modern Microsoft Apps in San Diego

    I wrote about learning today for the editorial: I Can’t Make You Learn. I sure hope you want to learn. It’s been great for my career and it will help yours.

    Join me this September in San Diego (register). I used to live there (Carlsbad) and it’s a beautiful, wonderful part of California to visit. VS Live comes to San Diego, and I’m honored to be speaking this year.

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    Visual Studio Live! (VSLive!) San Diego 2026 is at the Bahia Resort Hotel, September 14–18, 2026 in San Diego, CA. It’s five days of immersive developer training right on Mission Bay.

    I think actually worked as a waiter for a wedding in this hotel. If not this one, then one of the others right there on Mission Bay. It’s a great place to stay and I’m looking forward to going back.

    Whether you’re building modern apps on the Microsoft stack (.NET, ASP.NET Core, C#, Blazor, .NET MAUI) or focused on cloud and AI (Azure, GitHub Copilot, AI-powered development, Kubernetes, modern data platforms), this is real-world instruction, hands-on labs, and direct access to expert speakers, Microsoft engineers, and MVPs. Learn more: vslive.com/sandiego

    I’ll be discussing local LLM models, which I think are important for the future. You might not want an LLM on your laptop (maybe a MLM or SLM), but your org might want local models in its data center. I’ll also be discussing the Data API builder, which is a great piece of tech that makes your development against a database much easier, whether you write the code or an AI agent helps.

    Save $500 off standard pricing with my exclusive code JONES. Be sure to register by July 17th.

    Register with my code here: https://na.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg.php?eventid=865669&discountcode=JONES

  • Resources for Adding Graph Structures to Your Database at VS Live

    Thanks to everyone who attended my talk at VS Live Las Vegas 2023 on graph databases. I hope you enjoyed it, and if you have questions, please feel free to reach out.

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    Here are the resources:

  • Resources for Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments

    I delivered my talk on Architecting Zero Downtime Deployments yesterday at VS Live Las Vegas 2023. It went fairly well, even though I ran some incorrect code somewhere. Apologies for that, but glad I could fix things.

    The code for the database and the C# app is in this Github repo: https://github.com/way0utwest/ZeroDowntime

    The PPT is also in the repo, updated today.

    If you find issues, or an improve my C#, please feel free to open an issue or submit a PR.

  • Viva Las Vegas–Off to VS Live

    I’m off to VS Live Las Vegas  for a few days this week. I was in the UK last week and I leave early Wed-Fri for a trip this week.

    If you’ve never been to VS Live, it’s a neat event. Smaller than many conferences, but it covers a bunch of different technologies for developers. Databases are a small part, and I’m always honored when I get to speak there. I hear different perspectives and questions than I find at many data professional events.

    I also learn some interesting things about software development from others. To me, this is a great way to round out my knowledge. When I was more of an attendee than a speaker, I liked going to these events that are focused on multiple technologies.

    If you want a last minute trip to Vegas, come this week. If not, there are some other great events coming up this year. Think about going to one if you do a lot of development:

    I won’t be at those, sadly, but my schedule is a little crazy in 2023, so I’m limiting the submissions. Hopefully I’ll do a few more of these next year.