NDC Porto 2023 Impressions
We, as the core team members of ABP, are always trying to catch what's going around the world with software development. This keeps us aligning our projects and goals with the globe. For this reason, we came to the historical city of Portugal, Porto for NDC Porto 2023 Conference. It was held in an old building called Alfandega Conference Center, formerly used as a customs house.
It was a 5-day event. 2 days were workshops, and 3 days were conference days with parallel sessions. There were 95 speakers and over 100 sessions.
This year's occasion carried on the legacy of being a global hub for IT enthusiasts, developers, and technologists. NDC Porto 2023 again shows why it is an essential event for anybody working in software development, with its outstanding speaker roster, innovative subjects, and exciting networking chances.
The conference covered the following topics:
.NET – AI – Architecture – Big Data – Cloud – Continuous Delivery – Cross-Platform – Database – Design – DevOps – Docker – Ethics – Fun – Functional Programming – JavaScript – Languages – Machine Learning – Microservices – Microsoft – Mobile – People – Security – Serverless – Soft Skills – Testing – Tools – UX – Web
We couldn't catch the first 2 days, but we were lucky that the keynote was taken to the last day. Steve Sanderson's topic was "Where Web Tech is Going Now?" It was a very inspiring session. Even though he's a Microsoft employee, he took part in a very small time slot for Blazor, and he showed live code examples in Next.js, SvelteKit, Blazor, Astro, etc... And finally, he showed the next generation of Blazor Server and WASM => WASI preview 2. This technology tries to overcome the initial slowness Blazor WASM, and maybe it'll be the future of server-side cloud computing.
