.NET Day 2023: Your code is just a detail

We love code. We love new languages and language features, elegant architectures and ingenious algorithms. We love it so much that sometimes we get blinded by the pizazz and forget about the all the other parts of writing software beyond the code; the countless hidden dangers that can sink your software project.

It's time to look up from the keyboard and broaden our horizons. Common bottlenecks, tools that help and hurt, processes we don't think about, and relationships that go unspoken. Let's focus on the bigger picture and see how going outside the confines of code can make us more valuable to the companies we work for and the teams we work with. Code is great, but it’s only a detail in a much larger organism.

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1. Damian Brady Dev Advocacy Manager, GitHub Your code is just a detail
2. Damian Brady Dev Advocacy Manager, GitHub Your code is just a detail
3. Damian Brady Dev Advocacy Manager, GitHub
5. Is there more to life than code?
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12. DevOps
13. The outer loop TODO: break this up
14. CREATE AND DELIVER LEARN AND PLAN
15. CREATE AND DELIVER LEARN AND PLAN
19. Test in production
24. 💩 ☂
25. Developers Managers
26. The outer loop TODO: break this up
27. CREATE AND DELIVER LEARN AND PLAN B U ILD TEST DEPLOY
28. Ephemeral dev environments
29. Codespaces A cloud dev environment that lets you code from anywhere Code without compromise Simplify your workflow Extend and customize Code, build, test, debug, and deploy with a complete development environment in your browser, running on Azure. Automatically set up dependencies and SSH keys. Go from code to commit faster on any project. Configure your editor with dotfiles and VS Code extensions to create a consistent environment in every Codespace. Appendix / Products & Features
30. Dead Code
31. Abstraction is your friend IWeatherProvider GoogleWeatherProvider BingWeatherProvider BingWeatherProvider
32. Feature Flags Existing code New code ON OFF Feature Flag
33. Feature Flag ON OFF
34. Feature Flag ON OFF
35. Optimize for context switching
36. Optimize for developers
37. Optimize for delivery
38. Damian Brady Dev Advocacy Manager, GitHub Your code is just a detail