Many developers evoke the mischievous spirit and day-to-day burden of technical debt to explain the misfortunes and troubles of their codebase and delivery. While unmanaged technical debt weighs down many codebases and exerts drag on their schedules, it is more often an effect than a cause.

In this talk, we will look at what is and is not meant by technical debt — and other metaphors — with a view to properly attributing the root and recurring cause as technical neglect rather than technical debt. Without seeing technical neglect for what it is, we will continue to misattribute our problems to an effect rather than a cause.

Join us for a talk about what you can do with the new technologies in Umbraco today, and get a look into the future of what is coming to Umbraco in 2025.

In this talk, we will be diving into the current technologies available today in Umbraco such as Hybrid Cache, API users, and Tiptap. We aim to shine a light on using some of the new features with examples and demos. We will also be talking about the exciting new things coming to Umbraco in 2025 and what that means for you as an Umbraco developer and user.

Join us for a talk about what you can do with the new technologies in Umbraco today, and get a look into the future of what is coming to Umbraco in 2025.

In this talk, we will be diving into the current technologies available today in Umbraco such as Hybrid Cache, API users, and Tiptap. We aim to shine a light on using some of the new features with examples and demos. We will also be talking about the exciting new things coming to Umbraco in 2025 and what that means for you as an Umbraco developer and user.

Companies strive to maximize the value of their data, extract meaningful insights, and ensure their accuracy. With the rise of AI and machine learning, there’s growing pressure to integrate these technologies into daily workflows, regardless of one’s technical background.

Historically, data warehouses offered structured solutions but struggled with scalability and handling complex data types. The shift to data lakes provided flexibility but sacrificed stability, particularly around A.C.I.D. transactions.

To address these evolving needs, new tools like Microsoft Fabric have emerged, promising to balance simplicity, flexibility, and advanced capabilities. This session will explore Microsoft Fabric, its relevance to developers, and how it enables effective data consumption, querying, and integration with AI and machine learning for greater organizational impact.

Remember the days of sprinkling Console.WriteLine or Debug.WriteLine all over your code to figure out what was going wrong? Or drowning in a sea of logs? Say goodbye to the chaos and hello to OpenTelemetry! 🎉

OpenTelemetry brings traces, metrics, and logs together into one powerful, open standard. Whether it’s your CMS, client-side code, or third-party integrations, OpenTelemetry provides a unified and manageable way to understand what’s happening in your app—at any stage, from local dev to production.

In this talk, we’ll explore .NET 9’s new HybridCache, a powerful caching mechanism that combines the speed of in-memory caching with the scalability of distributed caching. We’ll discuss the challenges of traditional caching solutions and how HybridCache solves issues like high latency, scalability, and cache consistency in multi-instance applications. Through a live demo, we’ll demonstrate how to use HybridCache with real-world data, showcasing features like cache fallback, expiry management, and seamless integration with Redis. We'll also take a look at how HybridCache impacts your Umbraco solutions. By the end, you’ll understand how to implement HybridCache in your applications to improve performance, reduce network traffic, and simplify caching strategies.

In this talk, we'll discuss whether we should be using Azure Container Apps. They offer all the benefits of Web Apps, plus the ability to scale to zero, drastically reducing costs & carbon emissions. With canary deploys rollouts too, they’re a greener, cheaper, & safer hosting solution.

We all know computers “work in binary”, but how does that affect our day-to-day coding? Understand binary basics, the point of floating-point, and dip into decimals and doubles. Learn why 1 + 1 = 10 and 0.1 + 0.2 ≠ 0.3.

Semantic Search can dramatically improve the quality of search results, providing useful results where a traditional keyword search fails. In this talk I demo the benefits of Semantic Search and show how to integrate it with Heartcore.

Umbraco MVP and communication advocate Richard Jackson discusses and demonstrates Mermaid. A Javascript-based diagramming and charting tool, Mermaid allows developers to author their processes as code, which can then be rendered into all manner of charts and visuals.

This talk serves as an illustration to this code-first approach, how it can be built into standard developer practices and version control, while also discussing the importance of maintainable, sharable business visualisations.