Al Rodriguez
Al Rodriguez is a developer, SRE, sometimes-blogger, and definitely NOT 3 kids in a trench coat. Having spent his development career focused using the .NET ecosystem, he tries to use it everywhere. From applications to UI testing to Infrastructure as Code, C# is his first thought for developing high quality, performant solutions.
Montreal 2025 sessions
Azure IaC for Developers with C# and Pulumi
English session - Intermediate
As developers we know what our application needs from the cloud, so we should be the ones creating the cloud infrastructure for the app. Pulumi is an IaC tool that lets you use general purpose coding languages like C#, TypeScript, and others. So in this session we'll look at how to use C# and Pulumi together for writing Infrastructure as Code to create Azure services and then deploy our apps to it.
Intro to OpenTelemetry for Developers
English session - Intermediate
OpenTelemetry (OTel) is a vendor-neutral, open standard for observing distributed applications. With OTel, you can trace individual requests and view specific metrics about the system's current state. It's like a superset of traditional logging and can be used with or instead of log statements. In this session, we'll review the basics of OpenTelemetry, discuss why you should consider using it, and see a demo of using it across backend services.
