Meet the Expert: Thorr Giddings on .NET Modernization Techniques & Tooling on AWS
Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Learn how to approach and run a refactoring and replatforming strategy
To take full advantage of cloud economics, organizations are modernizing their Windows workloads using a combination of rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring approaches. This unlocks innovation for businesses and delivers new functionality to their customers.
As a .NET developer, you’re likely seeking options for modernizing your existing .NET Framework applications by analyzing .NET applications, their process dependencies, and technical complexities; porting .NET Framework to .NET Core on Linux; and moving to Windows containers—all in a modern and resilient way that can run anywhere. So what’s the best way forward?
Join us for this edition of Meet the Expert with Thorr Giddings to learn how to approach and run a refactoring and replatforming strategy to accelerate innovation, lower TCO, and increase developer productivity for your organization. If you’ve been tasked with evaluating the modernization of Windows applications, this information-packed hour will highlight a number of modernization pathways and tools that you can leverage on AWS to accelerate your modernization journey.
O'Reilly Meet the Expert explores emerging business and technology topics and ideas through a series of one-hour interactive events. You’ll engage in a live conversation with experts, sharing your questions and ideas while hearing their unique perspectives, insights, fears, and predictions.
What you’ll learn and how you can apply it
- Explore AWS modernization techniques and pathways
- Understand the depth and breadth of .NET tools on AWS
- Learn how to incorporate Windows containers and serverless architecture to build modern .NET apps on AWS
- Discover how to quickly migrate and assess .NET applications in AWS
- See how to build modern .NET applications in an AWS managed environment
- Learn how to port existing .NET applications running on Windows Server to .NET Core on Linux
- Understand how to analyze .NET applications, their process dependencies, and their technical complexity as well as their source code and databases
- Find out how to containerize on-prem applications so that they run in containers that are managed by Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS App Runner
This live event is for you because...
- You want to learn about the fundamental shifts that are transforming the business landscape and customer needs.
- You’re an experienced .NET/C# developer who wants to learn the latest .NET on AWS tooling and techniques.
- You’re an architect, developer, or IT professional who wants to better understand how to soundly assess and safely complete a modernization strategy.
Prerequisites
- Come with your questions for Thorr Giddings
- Have a pen and paper handy to capture notes, insights, and inspiration
Recommended follow-up:
- Read AWS Cookbook (book)
Schedule
The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at 9:00am PT / 12:00pm ET
- Introduction and presentation (15 minutes)
- Interactive discussion and Q&A (45 minutes)
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Thorr Giddings
Thorr Giddings is the .NET developer advocate leader at Amazon Web Services, where he enables customers to modernize applications on AWS and helps developers make the transition to cloud architecture. He’s been using .NET professionally since 2002. He also has a background in enterprise Java programming, big data, marketing, automotive financial services, and logistics.