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Description
In this episode, David Fowler, the Partner Architect for the ASP.NET team walks you through landing his first job, moving from a dev to an architect role and what he had to learn and let go of at every step along the path. (David intros himself as a Principal Architect but his promotion was announced right after we filmed.)
[00:15] - intros and what's an architect?
[03:55] - a quick overview of contributions from his "minion days" on WebForms
[06:38] - origins of NuGet
[10:28] - signalR and important forks in the road
[17:05] - discovering the impact of signalR
[17:37] - filling the knowledge gaps - learning to scale up
[21:12] - regrets in signalR - lessons learned
[23:33] - moving to architect for ASP.NET Core
[28:40] - when David knew he was an Architect
[30:35] - the importance of having the right manager
[32:35] - how did he land at Microsoft? planning ahead during college
[36:52] - meeting Bill Gates
[38:30] - all the way back - David's first computer
[40:48] - all about Barbados and Rihanna
[45:24] - mentors and the importance of learning to debug
[47:11] - best career advice from Scott Guthrie
[48:00] - on networking
[48:48] - David's productivity hacks - work life balance - personal backlogs
[50:45] - coping with the ambiguity of architect role and sense of accomplishments
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The Discussion
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xhanti Great talk, I really admire David and the work he's done.
Getting a chance to see the man behind the Github profile and tweets was great. -
Jamie Maguire Awesome interview, resonated a lot with me!
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foxjazz We used signalr to show big ships moving around on a map based on last known position reported. -
ancientitguy This was nice. Enjoyed it very much. -
larskemmann Best line: "How are they measuring me? How am I not going to get fired soon? Are they going to find me out?" My goodness, that *totally* resonates. :D -
Ernest Very inspiring talk indeed. Your journey has been quite adventurous David! I have also been recently made Team Lead at work and I've found that I am not getting my coding stuff done because I'm always helping out the other devs to understand what they need to do to get stuff done - so I enable others to do thier jobs and that is one of my jobs now.
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etatmirtna Architect - Influence Not Authority. Brilliant - utterly brilliant!
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