The Beer Driven Devs caught up with Brandon Minnick at NDC for a conversation about AWS, .NET MAUI, and, of course, beer.
Brandon is a Developer Advocate at AWS, former Xamarin and Microsoft employee, and creator + lead maintainer of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit. Brandon is also the author of several apps, tools, and libraries, and can regularly be found talking about .NET at conferences all around the world, as well as on the .NET on AWS podcast.
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The Show
- 00:50 - Introduction to Brandon’s talk
- 01:25 - Native AOT
- 03:09 - Brandon’s serverless .NET resources page
- 06:06 - Serverless startup times
- 08:49 - Integrated security in AWS
- 10:31 - Serverless ASP.NET Core on AWS Lambda
- 11:25 - Brandon’s .NET MAUI course on Dometrain (course not yet published but keep checking!)
- 13:30 - Network neutrality at the ASX
- 15:15 - Solution templating with AWS Serverless Application Model
- 17:30 - Brandon’s GitTrends app
- 20:55 - Xamarin to .NET MAUI migrations
- 30:50 - The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit
- 33:15 - How do you handle breaking changes? Challenges in the Rx.NET library
- 34:40 - Lottie and animations
- 36:25 - .NET Framework to .NET Core and precedent for optimisim
- 38:20 - The forgotten developers
- 42:00 The community roots of cross-platform .NET
- 42:25 - XAML vs C# and the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit markup library
- 49:15 - Async/await best practices
- 53:45 - Brian Lagunas’ video on async void [Matt: apologies, I said Steven Thewissen in the show but it’s Brian’s video I was referring to]
- 55:05 - Brandon’s first app - Punday
The Beers 🍻
- 🍺 Brandon’s choice this week: VB (Victoria Bitter - no link as the site is not secure - and for those familiar with the product, that tracks!)