Dasith Wijesiriwardena

Software Engineer | Solutions Architect | Tech Speaker | Geek with an unhealthy fascination for distributed systems and a #microsoftie. Not in that order. Iā€™m currently based in Melbourne and work for Microsoft.

Iā€™ve been developing software for close to 2 decades now. Since my early days of playing with C++, VB, ASP and PHP, software development has gone through a paradigm shift. These days I mostly work on things that run natively on the cloud and edge. Join me on my journey through the world of .NET and all things distributed.

Consider any opinions expressed here as my own.

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I recently got a chance to speak at Levels ConferenceĀ and it was my first time speaking in front of such a large audience. There were around 400 very keen junior developers there.

Audience

The goal of the conference isĀ to bring together the Developer community of Australia and beyond. They aim to give people a platform to share, grow and connect, regardless of experience level.

This was the inaugural running of the event organized by Luke Mesiti and LJ Kenward both of whom did an amazing job of making the event such a success. I had an awesome time networking and meeting junior developers of all ages and backgrounds. It certainly inspired me to get more involved in the community.

My talk was about Event Sourcing and Command Query Responsibility Segregation. I introduced the concepts and gave examples of how ES has been solving our problems for a long time before software engineering was a thing. I also spoke a bit about the kind of problems we can apply ES + CQRS to.

The abstract is as follows.

Abstract

You can download the slides fromĀ here


A big thanks for everyone who helped organize this event and the junior devs who came to listen to some awesome speakers. It was so nice to meet all of you. If you have any thoughts + feedback about my talk or the event in general please feel free to leave it here or send them my way via twitter @dasiths.

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