
Last week, I had the chance to be a speaker at DotNext 2024 in Moscow. JUG Ru Group is arranging the DotNext Conferences since 2014. It's a specific conference for .NET developers held at the MonArch Moscow Hotel on 10, 11 September 2024. This event brought together over 600 developers on-site, 200 developers online, with around 35 speakers delivering more than 30 talks, making it one of the largest gatherings of the .NET community in Russia.

Key Highlights & Popular Sessions
One of the standout aspects of the conference was its strong technical focus, particularly on deep-dive .NET topics. Talks covered subjects like low-level optimizations, architecture, performance, and platform internals.
The conference started with Sergei Benzenko's talk "What's New in .NET 9". There are important topics like ".NET Aspire in Action", "AI-Driven Software Development", "DDD and Strategic Design" and "OAuth 2.0 User-Managed Access in ASP.NET Core with Keycloak".

There were two international speakers: me and Halil Ibrahim Kalkan from the ABP Core Team. Halil's topic was Implementing Domain-Driven Design as a Pragmatic Developer. In his session, he gave practical, real-world examples of bad and best practices in DDD development.

My Talk
My presentation topic was Building Multi-Tenant ASP.NET Core Applications. It was part of this technical deep dive, and I was thrilled to see so much interest in scalable multi-tenant solutions. I generally talked about metadata in SaaS development and explained how to identify the acti