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The Azure DevOps Podcast is a show for developers and devops professionals shipping software using Microsoft technologies. Each show brings you hard-hitting interviews with industry experts innovating better methods and sharing success stories. Listen in to learn how to increase quality, ship quickly, and operate well. Hosted by Jeffrey Palermo and sponsored by Clear Measure, Inc.
- 295 - Brady Gaster: .NET Cloud Native - Episode 295
Brady Gaster is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET and Visual Studio team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes of making it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!
Topics of Discussion:
[2:49] Brady’s career highlights and how throwing parties prepared him for Microsoft.
[4:07] History of Microsoft’s publishing tools and their evolution towards cloud-native development.
[7:37] Using Azure Container Apps for containerization and publishing to Kubernetes.
[13:42] Using Aspire for containerized applications in Azure, including toolchain and orchestration.
[17:36] Simplifying software development with automation.
[23:27] Azure subscriptions and provisioning for developers.
[25:38] AZD infra synth.
[26:15] Using Azure DevOps and Azure Development Environments for named environments in .NET development.
[30:39] The system of record for the names of the environments.
[37:13] What we can look forward to with the next release.
[38:37] What should we know about Microsoft Learn so far?
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“Brady Gaster: Orleans — Episode 221”
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Mon, 29 Apr 2024 - 40min - 294 - Raziel Tabib: GitOps - Episode 294
Raziel is the Senior Vice President of Codefresh at Octopus Deploy. He is an entrepreneur, technology enthusiast, and software developer at heart. He is the Founder of Codefresh and is passionate about accelerating the way software is disrupting our day-to-day life by simplifying the way we deploy applications.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:23] When Raziel first got interested in making a difference in the industry.
[3:05] The role of the software developer has evolved over time.
[7:11] What is GitOps?
[14:46] Overlap with the concept of infrastructure as code.
[14:57] Simplifying software deployment using GitOps.
[20:44] Why it’s an exciting time to be in software development.
[22:55] What can we do with Codefresh?
[25:24] Does Codefresh work with other infrastructure types?
[26:29] Storing and managing application configuration and infrastructure code in separate Git repositories.
[29:10] What are the most common reasons this infrastructure repository would have a commit pushed to it?
[35:27] Codefresh joining Octopus Deploy.
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Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 41min - 293 - Glenn Condron: .NET Web Development - Episode 293
Glenn is a Principal Product Manager for the App Platform team within the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Glenn was a developer in Australia where he worked on software for various government departments.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:47] Glenn’s career path.
[6:33] The old .NET vs the new .NET.
[8:09] .NET was initially Windows-only but is now being rebuilt as open-source, cross-platform software.
[9:40] The evolution of .NET.
[9:53] .NET core.
[14:04] New features and ideas presented at .NET Conf.
[16:26] Aspire.
[18:58] Every piece of an Aspire solution uses open Telemetry as a standard.
[19:26] Redis.
[27:15] Aspire knows all the “what’ and “how” to deploy to the cloud, without explicit cloud knowledge.
[32:36] The intent of AZD.
[36:57] Handling the components of Aspire.
[40:21] How to add custom resources to Aspire.
[41:00] Opinionated vs non-opinionated development in the .NET ecosystem.
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Glenn Condron on New Capabilities on .NET - Ep 58
Building Cloud Native Apps with .NET 8
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Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 45min - 292 - Richard Hundhausen: Product Ownership - Episode 292
Richard Hundhausen helps software organizations and teams deliver better products by understanding and leveraging Azure DevOps and Scrum. He is a Professional Scrum Trainer, Professional Scrum Developer, author of Professional Scrum with Azure DevOps (MS Press), and co-creator of the Nexus Scaled Scrum framework. As a software developer and consultant with over 30 years of experience, he understands that software is built and delivered by people and not by processes or tools.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:03] Is it really that easy to teach developers?
[3:34] Scrum implementation and best practices for developers and managers.
[5:11] What is a Scrum trainer and developer?
[6:40] Reminding teams to talk to each other and deliver value earlier.
[6:47] Remembering not just the nouns, but the verbs: improve, collaborate, share, love the values, commit, have courage, be open, have focus, and be respectful.
[8:39] The importance of having the right teams.
[12:04] Improving software development efficiency through cross-functional teams.
[13:47] The importance of being a self-managing team.
[15:04] When we outsource everything to HR to find a good culture, that can perpetuate the “it’s someone else’s job” mentality.
[15:24] Bigger companies vs. smaller companies.
[17:44] Giving creatives the space to create.
[21:09] HDD (Hypothesis-driven development) can help us learn early and adapt.
[29:27] The importance of focusing on outcomes and impacts, rather than just measuring resources, activities, and outputs.
[31:08] Outcomes and impacts are where we should be focused.
[32:40] One percent of product owners using Scrum as intended?
[33:27] Even if you don’t have a product owner, have someone who orders the work.
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Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development in Azure DevOps
“Richard Hundhausen on Professional Scrum — Ep 100”
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Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 40min - 291 - Mads Torgersen: The Latest in C# - Episode 291
Mads is the Lead Designer of the C# language and has been at Microsoft for 18 years. Prior to this, Mads was a professor and contributed to a language starting with J. He was previously on episode 164 of the podcast where he spoke about the latest on C# at the time.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:40] The serendipitous career path Mads took that led him to C# and Microsoft.
[6:17] Where are the high points of where the C# language has gone over the past six months?
[7:40] Adding a unified syntax.
[10:00] Primary constructors.
[15:43] Some new features in C# are still too early to see their full impact, but we can still have hypotheses about how they will affect programming.
[16:14] Non-nullable conversion.
[21:45] Learning C# and its evolution.
[23:24] The concept of everyday C#.
[26:15] C# goals.
[33:02] Does C# have a clear category?
[39:41] Generative AI.
[41:16] AI's impact on coding and the impact generative AI is having on development.
[47:17] Will AI replace the career opportunities for developers?
[51:21] Acknowledging the disruptive nature of AI with also the belief that it will lead to societal changes, including job displacement, and hopes for environmentally sustainable productivity gains.
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Ep #164: Mads Torgersen on C#10 and .NET6
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Mon, 01 Apr 2024 - 52min - 290 - Mark Miller: Voice User Interface - Episode 290
Mark Miller, is an eight-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/CodeRushed!
Topics of Discussion:
[4:12] Mark’s passion for creating developer tools.
[7:08] Why Mark loves developer tooling.
[7:52] UI design and developer tools with a focus on efficiency.
[10:35] Mark recounts his early days in UI.
[12:41] AP testing is starting to grow in popularity.
[13:38] User experience design evolution and paradigm shifts.
[15:25] Using voice commands for coding and software development.
[20:25] Using Azure Cognitive Services for fast file opening and accessibility in Visual Studio.
[26:31] Voice-to-code technology and its potential impact on software development.
[31:20] Coding and language use in software development.
[33:04] Mark shares some code examples.
[36:25] Using AI for voice commands and file management.
[45:27] This release promises using simple expressions, but the technology is built to grow.
[48:06] Customizing voice commands for Visual Studio, including mapping keys and volume thresholds.
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Mark Miller — The Science of Great UI in Software Ep #212
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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 54min - 289 - Richard Lander: Containerization and Linux - Episode 289
Richard Lander is a Principal Program Manager on the .NET team at Microsoft. He’s been with Microsoft since 2000, and working on .NET since 2003! Currently, he’s working on runtime features, docker container experience, blogging, and customer engagement. He’s also part of the design team that defines new .NET runtime capabilities and features.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:31] Richard talks about the technologies that we should already be using and what we should be looking to adopt in the near future.
[6:58] Azure services.
[7:22] The benefits of using Aspire, and why people should be interested in using it.
[14:00] What has Richard been working on over the last several years?
[14:14] Improving container image size and reducing complexity in a.NET application.
[19:52] Web Assembly and WASI, web assembly system interface.
[23:48] Docker containers have a spec called OCI, open container initiative.
[26:50] Canonical and building chiseled containers.
[36:02] Nano-framework.
[36:53] Using Raspberry Pi for edge computing and density in IoT projects.
[41:38] Using Linux and Windows for development work.
[46:55] Improving container image publishing experience in .NET.
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Richard Lander on the New .NET Platform
What is .NET, and why should you choose it?
Announcing .NET Chiseled Containers
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Mon, 18 Mar 2024 - 54min - 288 - Rockford Lhotka: Philosophy on Architecture - Episode 288
Rockford Lhotka is VP of Strategy at Xebia and Chief Software Architect at Marimer LLC. He is the creator of the open-source CSLA .NET development framework, the author of numerous books, and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a member of the Microsoft Regional Director and MVP programs.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:36] Rockford’s career path at Xebia and consulting.
[5:18] Building frameworks that stand the test of time.
[6:38] Changes in the CLSA user base and the two major inflection points.
[11:40] How Rockford thinks about the general spectrum.
[16:14] The ways we can improve education include decades of previous experience and education.
[17:15] We need to ask why more.
[28:12] The job of an application architect.
[30:15] The “layer cake” as a visual way to express the concept.
[32:57] Separating business logic from user interface.
[33:53] The need for practical tools and frameworks that make developing easier.
[34:05] The five layers in the layer cake approach.
[47:03] The beauty of consistent coding.
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Mon, 11 Mar 2024 - 50min - 287 - Jared Parsons: Designing C# and Testing a Compiler - Episode 287
Jared Parsons, the Principal Developer Lead on the C# Compiler Team. Everybody tuning in probably uses his code on a day-to-day basis! Jared started at Microsoft 20 years ago as a Developer; moved on to become a Senior Developer; then the Principal Developer on Midori OS; and most recently, the Principal Developer on the C# Compiler Team, which he has been with since 2014.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:14] Jared talks about his twisty career path.
[5:29] What does designing a programming language look like?
[6:18] The two features in C#.
[10:30] The C# language design process.
[14:09] How we get from ideas to designs and implementations.
[16:02] Jared recommends resources to learn more.
[17:34] Jared’s favorite convention for all the member types.
[18:20] Primary constructors.
[24:21] Is the entire compiler open source?
[25:28] Thinking like a customer and pushing on the tools if needed.
[30:33] How the process has changed over the years.
[32:41] Jared’s favorite testing unit.
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Jared Parsons on DevOps on the C# Compiler Team: Ep #53
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Mon, 04 Mar 2024 - 35min - 286 - Michael Washington: Azure OpenAI - Episode 286
Michael is an ASP.NET and C# programmer who has extensive knowledge in process improvement, AI and Large Language Models, and student information systems. He also is the founder of two websites — AIStoryBuilders.com and BlazorHelpWebsite.com — both fantastic resources that help empower developers. Michael resides in Los Angeles, California, with his son Zachary and wife, Valerie.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:14] Michael talks about his career path.
[5:15] AIStoryBuilders.com.
[6:21] The vision for his book and what sets it apart from others.
[9:10] What is “RAG”? Retrieval augmented generation.
[12:35] How did Michael come up with the AI Story Builders name?
[14:09] Keeping AI on track despite the limitations.
[17:44] Models behave better when trained on more data.
[21:26] How do you make the decision on which named model to use?
[34:05] Where Microsoft is a leader.
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Mon, 26 Feb 2024 - 38min - 285 - Kent Beck: Tidy First - Episode 285
Original signer of the Agile Manifesto, author of the Extreme Programming book series, rediscoverer of Test-Driven Development, and inspiring Keynote Speaker. I read his TDD book 20 years ago.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:06] What led Kent into extreme programming, and realizing that technical mastery alone is not enough for project success.
[6:24] The significance of extreme programming.
[9:15] The Agile Manifesto.
[10:46] The importance of taking responsibility seriously.
[14:06] What was the inspiration behind Tidy First?
[16:27] Why software design is an important skill.
[17:31] The human aspect dominates in design.
[19:40] You can make large changes in small safe steps.
[23:09] Normalizing symmetry.
[30:17] Preserving flexibility in design through empirical and reversible changes rather than rather than speculative or reactive design.
[31:51] Kent’s experimentation with the GPT phase of AI on publications.
[32:11] Rent-A-Kent to get better answers around software development.
[37:19] Advice for young programmers.
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Tidy First? by Kent Beck
Test Driven Development, by Kent Beck
Extreme Programming Explained, by Kent Beck with Cynthia Andres
Implementation Patterns, by Kent Beck
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Mon, 19 Feb 2024 - 40min - 284 - Paul Yuknewicz: Cloud Native & Serverless - Episode 284
Paul Yuknewicz is a Lead Product Manager for Azure Developer Experience at Microsoft; he is responsible for the PM team that designs the developer experience for building and diagnosing cloud-native applications for Azure. In his role, he’s very passionate about helping developers succeed in building high-scale distributed applications and building strong collaboration with customers. He has fun learning and challenging the status quo in a breadth of technologies and languages, like Linux, Windows, Java, .NET, Serverless, containers, service meshes, and application observability. He speaks at industry conferences not only at Microsoft but also at conferences like DEVintersection, TechBash, and more.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:40] Paul talks about his career evolution.
[5:28] Working in SharePoint, Azure, and then in the microservices field.
[6:44] DAPR, distributed application runtime.
[8:06] The power of the open source world.
[8:33] What is Serverless?
[11:08] The evolution of their work in AI.
[12:05] The concept of Serverless vs. developing in a microservices fashion.
[15:17] Why Paul thinks containers are great.
[18:16] Who Serverless is good for.
[20:01] Serverless architecture and cost savings.
[23:55] Container apps.
[28:31] The tactical process behind Dapper.
[34:41] Container apps environment.
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“Paul Yuknewicz on Azure Development Ep #136”
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Mon, 12 Feb 2024 - 38min - 283 - Uncle Bob Martin: Clean Code and How to Do Software Well - Episode 283
If you don’t already know Bob, he is a software engineer, instructor, and best-selling author. He is most recognized for developing numerous software design principles and for being a founder of the incredibly influential Agile Manifesto. Bob is the author of a number of Clean Code related books including his latest, Clean Agile: Back to Basics, where he reintroduces Agile values and principles for a new generation of programmers and nonprogrammers alike. In the past, Bob was also the editor-in-chief of C++ Report magazine and served as the first chairman of the Agile Alliance.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:48] Why the term “clean” when it comes to software?
[5:16] Are people still writing “dirty” software?
[7:06] it is the developers job to maintain quality, and pretending to go fast by rushing is not a viable solution.
[9:54] Uncle Bob’s upcoming book on the history of programmers.
[11:00] The first era of programmers may be the scribes of Egypt.
[15:00] How Uncle Bob went about organizing the book into different eras of programmers.
[18:10] A short backstory about Grace Hopper.
[23:33] Uncle Bob’s other new book which is out now, Functional Design.
[24:54] Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
[28:37] Does functionality have a concise set of principles?
[33:11] Where are the shifts happening?
[34:01] The loss of Moore’s Law.
[37:33] What will be the winning strategies as we prepare for a few years where things grow, but not as quickly as they have, and we sit on a plateau?
[40:51] Make it right, then you can make it fast.
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Previous episode with Uncle Bob
.NET Developer Apprentice - Texas
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Mon, 05 Feb 2024 - 41min - 282 - Greg Leonardo: Optimizing Cloud Budgets in Azure - Episode 282
Greg is a Cloud Architect that assists organizations with cloud adoption and innovation and is currently a Cloud Architect and the owner of Webonology. He has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Greg has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is currently the president of TampaDev, a community meetup that runs #TampaCC and various technology events throughout Tampa. Greg holds a certification as a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and Microsoft Certified Trainer, and is an Azure MVP.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:49] What has been Greg’s secret sauce to success? Helping others.
[4:53] Optimizing Azure budgets.
[7:12] The cloud shines in replatforming or rehosting.
[9:12] To Greg, a lot of the cost optimization really focuses on architectural optimization.
[13:58] The importance of looking at evolution and realizing that technology doesn’t stop at the cloud.
[18:35] Don’t blame technology for your shortcomings.
[23:31] Azure services surprise people with their cost, and the need to go into things with eyes wide open.
[29:21] The problem with the pricing calculator.
[35:47] The two-fold problem with present-day containers.
[37:02] Privatized workloads.
[40:08] How the cloud can make our lives easier and enhance what we are already doing.
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Ep 250: Responsible AI with Greg Leonardo
Greg Leonardo — Cloud Daily Wire
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Mon, 29 Jan 2024 - 41min - 281 - Andrew Lock: Containers in .NET 8 - Episode 281
Andrew Lock is a senior software engineer at Datadog, working out of Devon, in the UK. He is a Microsoft MVP, Author of ASP.NET Core in Action, and has an active blog all about his experience working with .NET and ASP.NET Core.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:08] What is Andrew working on these days?
[3:42] The push towards open telemetry in .NET and the ecosystem in general.
[4:49] In Andrew’s opinion, open telemetry is ready for use, but there is still much to learn.
[6:58] The state of containers for .NET developers.
[9:48] The use of chiseled containers.
[15:46] Using chiseled containers for that extra level of security.
[17:01] The different levels of chiseling.
[19:04] What does it mean to be a self-contained ASP.NET application?
[23:52] Other big container changes, including running as a non-root user and the default port inside the Docker container changing.
[28:18] Port 8080 and the user App.
[30:12] Windows containers for testing.
[33:14] The repeatability of Dockers containers.
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“Ep 198: Andrew Luck: Web Applications in Net6”
Updates to Docker Images in .NET8
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Mon, 22 Jan 2024 - 36min - 280 - Scott Hanselman: Semantic Kernel - Episode 280
Scott Hanselman is a teacher at heart. He speaks all over to whoever will listen. He's written code that you, dear listener, has used. Scott has been blogging, coding, and podcasting a LONG time. He codes, writes, speaks, empowers, promotes, braids, learns and listens - usually not in that order. And he's a Vice President at Microsoft in his day job. You can find him on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Mastodon! His Hanselminutes podcast has surpassed 900 episodes, and his Azure Friday show, over 750 episodes.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:33] What should developers be focusing on?
[625] Understanding the complexity of AI development.
[8:09] Without understanding context, we can’t make good prompts.
[8:42] What are the levels of the pyramid that every developer should understand?
[9:16] Developers should start by learning the basics of AI.
[9:22] The question of who is responsible when a website or model goes down.
[14:15] Grounding your AI in reality.
[15:19] Edge deployed AI model.
[17:00] A foundational model is a machine learning model that has been pre-trained on a data set.
[20:40] The limitations of large language models.
[21:00] AI transformer models and their growth in size and complexity.
[21:46] Conversation with John Maeda at the .NET Conf on Semantic Kernel.
[22:02] Integrating these large language models into conventional programming languages.
[23:08] A few exciting and actionable features of semantic kernel.
[28:18] Concerns about data privacy in smart homes.
[29:07] Advice for developers looking to jump into semantic kernel.
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Mon, 15 Jan 2024 - 31min - 279 - 2024 Kickoff - Episode 279
Welcome to 2024. It’s going to be a great year in .NET, in Azure, and with DevOps. To kick things off, I wanted to review some of the big things you’ll want to look at in 2024. To do that, I’m airing a piece I recorded reviewing the highlights from .NET Conf looking at it from an architectural perspective. There are so many updates, but in this piece, I interpret the architectural thinking you’ll undergo as you implement the new bits. So, Happy New Year, and I’ll roll the piece.
Topics of Discussion:
[:14] Jeffrey is looking for his next software engineering apprentice.
[5:44] The biggest architectural change in Maui is going to a single project system.
[7:34] When you should do a proof of concept.
[9:59] What is the architectural significance of the semantic kernel?
[13:40] Cloud Native.
[13:46] Microsoft is giving us the building blocks so that we can create our own GPT Program.
[16:19] Training and use of the right library.
[18:11] Health checks are essential for monitoring dependencies in an application.
[23:03] Containers.
[28:11] How do you know if AOT is for you?
[29:25] .NET Aspire’s biggest architectural opportunities.
[32:07] In Blazor, the biggest news architecturally and the biggest impact on your team is the ability to develop any type of application with just one developer skill set, design patterns, and programming model.
[38:22] In C#, class-level parameters are going to change your game.
[43:15] The importance of continuous integration and environment types for .NET applications in 2024.
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Mon, 08 Jan 2024 - 44min - 278 - Jeff Fritz: .NET Conf Recap - Episode 278
Jeff Fritz is an experienced developer, technical educator, and PM on the .NET team at Microsoft. He founded The Live Coders team on Twitch, and regularly livestreams builds of websites and fun applications. You can follow Jeff for more .NET, .NET Core, and Visual Studio content on Twitch and Twitter at @csharpfritz.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:00] Jeff talks about how he shifted from programming to teaching.
[4:08] Teaching and mentoring led Jeff to an opportunity to join Microsoft as a developer advocate.
[7:33] Jeff is the Executive Producer for .NET Conf.
[8:10] What are some of the great events happening at .NET Conf?
[10:00] When did Jeff build the .NET Conf 2023 team?
[11:35] The planning and execution of .NET Conf.
[15:31] Virtual vs. in-person conferences and interactivity.
[22:16] The biggest .NET conference announcements and new features that attendees shouldn’t miss.
[23:20] .NET Aspire.
[24:33] Intro to Web Applications for .NET for experts.
[29:40] Jeff loves that “aha moment” that can come with thinking outside the box.
[30:24] What should people do next?
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Mon, 01 Jan 2024 - 35min - 277 - Carl Franklin: Why.NET Rocks - Episode 277
Carl Franklin is Executive Vice President of App vNext, a software development firm focused on modern methodologies and technologies. Carl is a 20+ year veteran of the software industry, co-host and founder of .NET Rocks!, the first and most widely listened to podcast for .NET developers, a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies, and Senior Executive of Pwop Studios, a full-service audio and video production/post-production studio located in Southeastern Connecticut.
Topics of Discussion:
[6:50] Tips for those interested in starting their own podcast.
[9:42] What draws Carl to teaching and training?
[11:01] Carl’s mentorship from Ethan Winer at Crescent Software and how that ethic stuck with him.
[12:10] What has and hasn’t changed, and how do we navigate text moving off the paper and onto the web?
[15:41] Why Carl finds it worthwhile to have talk code with ChatGPT.
[20:22] SMTP in the ’90s had little security.
[23:40] What are the big things coming out that are going to change the game?
[24:40] Steve Sanderson’s demo of Blazor.
[28:36] The remaking of how we do URL launches applications.
[31:22] The Blazor component model is clean and easy to use, thanks to Steve Sanderson.
[31:57] The evolution of web development, from static sites to interactive applications, and how Blazor’s streaming rendering technology can bridge the gap between these two approaches.
[35:42] EventCallback.
[36:22] What does the next five years look like for Carl?
[40:17] A new show, The Blazor Puzzle.
[42:07] Taking inspiration from the Car Talk podcast.
[44:44] What conferences and travel do Carl and Jeffrey have on their calendars for 2024?
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Tue, 26 Dec 2023 - 52min - 276 - Steve Smith: .NET 8 and Architecture - Episode 276
Steve works with companies that want to avoid the trap of technical debt by helping their teams deliver quality software quickly. Steve and his team at NimblePros have been described by clients as a “force multiplier,” amplifying the value of existing development teams. Steve’s client list includes Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Celina Insurance, and many other satisfied customers. He also offers career coaching to developers through DevBetter.com. Steve has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for over 20 years.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:24] Steve’s path into development.
[5:14] How writing testable software became a passion of Steve’s.
[7:09] Which parts of the .NET release stood out the most to Steve?
[7:41] .NET Aspire.
[12:26] Making local development easier.
[14:05] Steve believes developers should be capable and comfortable writing unit tests for their software and writing unit-testable code.
[15:27] Dependency inversion principle.
[16:40] Thinking of interfaces as describing the “what” and implementations as describing the “how.”
[17:57] A few other items that Steve is also excited about in C# 12.
[20:58] Class level parameters in C#.
[25:59] Managing dependencies in distributed systems.
[28:47] The PACELC Principle.
[31:08] The trade-offs of using microservices, including the potential for inconsistent data and the need for coordination between services.
[36:34] AI’s impact on developer productivity.
[41:46] The importance of understanding AI’s limitations.
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Clean Architecture .NET Conf 2023
Steve Smith: Domain Driven Design
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Mon, 18 Dec 2023 - 43min - 275 - Clark Sell: Developer Education and Networking - Episode 275
From humble beginnings as a mechanic who later became a software engineer/architect/now business owner and who has built software for some of the biggest companies on the planet, Clark’s passionately unapologetic on a mission to create the most inclusive, tech-savvy, family-friendly community of geeks on the planet. Fueled by creativity, Clark invests his time partnering with companies on how to foster their communities while helping them solve business problems through innovative technology solutions and common sense.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:45] What events in Clark’s career shaped and steered him in his current direction?
[4:29] Developmentor, and how Clark got into user groups and events.
[6:54] What should we know about That Conference?
[9:52] The growing culture of That Conference.
[12:22] The pros and cons of small tech conferences.
[12:41] That Conference is only a team of four.
[13:50] The importance of in-person connections and bonding at conferences.
[14:56] We want to meet other coders! How That Conference gets people together where the conversation is perfectly aligned.
[19:09] What was the first conference Clark attended?
[25:06] Tips for both newbies and return attendees for getting the most out of attending That Conference.
[26:09] Open spaces provide a place for unstructured conversation anytime, anywhere.
[28:40] Making the most of networking when the “density of nerds” is extremely high.
[28:55] At conferences, it’s about the collective coming together.
[30:44] How can someone learn more and get involved with That Conference?
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Mon, 11 Dec 2023 - 36min - 274 - Daniel Roth: Blazor with .NET 8 - Episode 274
Daniel Roth is a Principal Product Manager on the ASP.NET team working on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and other web features. He has previously worked on various parts of .NET, including System.Net, WCF, XAML, and ASP.NET. His passions include building frameworks for modern Web frameworks that are simple and easy to use.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:08] Daniel talks about joining Microsoft fresh out of college and shares a brief history of how his career has evolved.
[4:10] Working on Blazor with Steve Sanderson.
[5:42] Different career paths at a company that sells software products.
[7:20] How product managers blend technical and business aspects of software development.
[10:40] There’s nothing “normal” about Blazor.
[12:25] Why Daniel would recommend Blazor.
[15:34] The initial choice in building between Blazor server apps and web assembly apps, and how we have evolved past these two project template models.
[16:29] Blazor components can be rendered in different ways depending on the render mode chosen.
[27:15] The importance of maximizing choices in the future for an application.
[30:28] Azure bill updates.
[33:15] Server-side rendering, stateful vs stateless models, and new features in.NET 8.
[37:00] Other exciting Blazor news and features, such as enhanced navigation.
[39:55] Improvements for authentication and identity.
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Mon, 04 Dec 2023 - 44min - 273 - Maarten Balliauw: Developer Tools - Episode 273
Maarten loves building web and cloud apps. His main interests are in .NET web technologies, C#, and application performance. He is Developer Advocate at JetBrains and created SpeakerTravel, a tool to help conference organizers. Maarten is a frequent speaker at various national and international events. In his free time, he brews his own beer.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:34] The mindset difference between developing software applications for everyday use versus developer tools, and how it affects the programming process.
[5:40] What is JetBrains, and why should .NET devs care?
[6:44] IDE stands for integrated development environments.
[9:01] JetBrains announcing Rider.
[10:31] Essential software development patterns for desktop applications.
[13:35] What does the code generally look like? Is it .NET events? Is it observer pattern?
[15:54] Maarten talks about the approach of creating general-purpose business applications with modular components, making development and maintenance more efficient.
[18:35] TeamCity, a continuous integration (CI) server used internally and for building products.
[19:50] The concept of a safe merge.
[21:11] JetBrains Toolbox.
[21:53] How Maarten compartmentalizes tests.
[24:44] Static analysis tools for code quality and customization.
[27:38] Duplicate code identifier.
[30:41] VS Code.
[32:13] What are some interesting things to look out for in the future?
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Building a .NET IDE with JetBrains Rider
Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement
.NET Annotated Monthly — Sept 2023
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Mon, 27 Nov 2023 - 35min - 272 - Scott Hunter: .NET8 - Episode 272
Scott is the Vice President of Product for Azure Developer Experience. He builds all the .NET tools for Azure.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:20] Scott talks about joining Microsoft in 2007 and a few of his most memorable milestones and moments.
[5:55] .NET Aspire
[6:46] The 3‒4 items in .NET that are important for developers to focus on.
[12:02] Improving.NET performance through AOT compilation.
[12:22] Introducing a self-contained application.
[19:09] Advancements in .NET technology and its applications.
[22:11] AI technology and its integration into various products.
[22:12] The generative pre-trained to chat transform (GPT).
[24:19] Semantic Kernel and open SDK in .NET.
[30:12] Aspire, a tool for simplifying web development.
[38:25] What Scott calls the orchestrator app.
[43:27] Scott’s excitement for the multi-part cloud applications coming together.
[45:08] The great feedback that is already rolling in.
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Orchestrate Your AI with Semantic Kernel
Demystifying Retrieval Augmented Generation with .NET
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Mon, 20 Nov 2023 - 47min - 271 - Martin Thwaites: Building Software for Production - Episode 271
Martin Thwaites is a Developer Advocate at Honeycomb, an o11y enthusiast, and a delivery-focused Developer from the UK. With over 20 years of experience in development in the .NET ecosystem, he’s worked with many companies on scaling up engineering teams and products. The past few years have been spent working on solving complex problems with some of the UK’s big names, including e-commerce retailers and credit lenders.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:42] Martin getting his start in testing.
[5:55] What other products is Honeycomb similar to?
[5:57] APM monitoring metrics.
[9:05] O11y
[9:30] The foundational elements of Honeycomb.
[13:36] For smartphone applications, desktop, or mobile, what of these concepts are the same, and what’s different?
[15:49] Tracing the unknown unknowns.
[17:43] Where open telemetry comes in and shines.
[28:04] Do you commit locally, group them up together and execute a push?
[33:24] Moving TFS Code Base onto Git.
[34:40] What TFS did right.
[35:31] The minimum sets of testing and verification that need to go in this chain just to get people enough of a safety net.
[35:43] Developer tests and Web Application Factory.
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Mon, 13 Nov 2023 - 42min - 270 - Jeremy Clark: Design Patterns - Episode 270
Jeremy helps developers by sharing his struggles, mostly in technology, but also with being more social as an introvert, understanding learning potential, and playing banjo. He has worked as a corporate developer, as a Chief Improvement Officer at a startup, and as a contract developer. Currently, he teaches developers through online courses, workshops, tech articles, and conference talks. He spends most of his time in C# and has recently ventured into Go (Golang) and Rust (Rust lang) to explore some of his favorite topics: interfaces, delegates, concurrency, and parallel programming. You can see him speaking next at LIVE! 360 in Orlando, FL Nov 12‒17, 2023. Use promo code “Clark” to save $500 off your ticket. Also Oct 23rd at DevSpaceConf in Huntsville, AL.
Design patterns are not just for architects. In fact, you already use Design Patterns but probably don’t know it. Observer, Facade, Iterator, Proxy — these are all patterns that allow us to better communicate our ideas with other developers. And once we understand the patterns, we can use solutions that people way smarter than we have already implemented. In this session, we’ll take a look at several Gang of Four patterns that we regularly use without realizing it. Don’t know who the Gang of Four is? Join us to find out.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:30] Jeremy talks about his foray into programming and the colleagues that helped him gain confidence.
[6:44] Jeremy went from speaking at smaller user groups and code camps to global conferences.
[7:35] The act of sharing gained expertise is what makes you an expert.
[10:10] Design patterns and their relevance in development.
[13:19] The importance of the Gang of Four book and Head First Design Patterns.
[17:24] Iterator and the patterns that fall in that category.
[20:43] Are we seeing classic patterns be redirected or are new ones taking shape?
[23:05] The concept of abstraction.
[24:10] The two states that developers fall into.
[28:02] More about Jeremy’s testing philosophy and how it’s changed over the years.
[29:26] What Jeremy prioritizes when helping other developers start a new codebase.
[32:34] Where people can go for more education and information on these topics.
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Mon, 06 Nov 2023 - 35min - 269 - Matthew Casperson: Platform Engineering - Episode 269
Matthew has loved technology since his first Commodore 64, and that passion remains to this day. His days have me integrating enterprise platforms with Octopus, writing guides and books for platforms like Kubernetes, blogging, and training my colleagues, testing bleeding edge open source projects, and contributing to various blogs.
Matthew is a 5-star published author and has created solutions that Red Hat felt were worthy of being submitted for a patent. CEOs endorse his development skills.
Although he calls himself a developer, Matthew is quite comfortable administering a Linux server, managing a MySQL database, deploying infrastructure with Ansible, reconfiguring a firewall, or just doing what needs to be done to get the job finished.
To ensure that he is learning the industry's best practices, Matthew pushes himself to gain certification in technologies that he relies on, with Oracle proudly telling him “You are among the elite 1% of certified Java professionals who have gone on to achieve the Java Enterprise Architect certification.”
Topics of Discussion:
[3:36] Mike talks about some high points in his varied career.
[6:33] What is platform engineering?
[8:22] Most jobs fall into the category of DevOps.
[10:58] The platform team is looking inward and trying to scale up the team members as opposed to scaling up the technology.
[13:08] Has Matt seen any of the job boards coming out with how we need to hire a platform engineering director or platform engineering analyst?
[15:08] What does Matt’s typical work day and work week look like?
[17:02] Guiding customers into creating useful solutions in their own teams.
[18:17] Have we figured out the difference between platform engineering and DevOps?
[20:05] “Needless creativity.”
[23:56] The importance of consistent feedback and improvement.
[25:58] Developers have a $0 budget, but an unlimited time budget.
[30:55] DevOps teams need to take dependencies seriously.
[31:44] How we can standardize and automate some of those internal processes through platform engineering.
[35:06] Dependabot.
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Mon, 30 Oct 2023 - 38min - 268 - Mike Martin: Architecting Azure - Episode 268
Mike Martin, an exceptional Senior Cloud Solution Architect and Technical Evangelist at Microsoft. With over two decades of experience in the IT industry, Mike is an expert in coaching and leading teams and architecting, designing, and training systems. As an Azure specialist for ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) and partners, he is the go-to person for all things related to the Microsoft Cloud Platform and Application Lifecycle Management. Mike is known as the perfect hybrid solution with his unique combination of expertise in both development and IT Pro topics.
Mike Martin's involvement in the Belgian Microsoft Azure User Group (AZUG) dates back to January 2012, when he joined the group as a crew member. He has been an active contributor to the community ever since, regularly giving presentations and playing an integral role in organizing events such as ITProceed, Techorama, and the Global Azure Bootcamp (GAB).
Mike’s extensive knowledge and experience in Microsoft Azure have earned him numerous accolades, including being recognized as a Microsoft Azure MVP five times since 2013, with his most recent award in July 2017. He is also a Microsoft Azure Advisor, providing guidance and insights to others in the community.
Beyond his professional achievements, Mike is passionate about giving back to the community and inspiring the next generation of technologists. He takes great pleasure in introducing young people to the world of Microsoft and technology and is always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need.
Topics of Discussion:
[5:05] How Mike got into his career, and a few of the highlights he has had over the past 27 years in the field.
[9:34] Where he got reborn as a true architect.
[10:53] The beauty of being involved from the beginning, and why youngsters may have a challenging time.
[13:28] The importance of independent scale.
[18:25] Going by the philosophy of KISS: keep it simple, stupid.
[22:27] How does Mike coach people in the decision of the level of resilience?
[28:40] Functional monitoring when it comes to resiliency.
[29:52] The patterns Mike advises to his coders to hook up existing monitoring tools to get that functional level of monitoring.
[30:32] Reliable web application and the well-architected framework.
[34:46] What is giving Mike hope for the future in programming these days?
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Mon, 23 Oct 2023 - 40min - 267 - Jeff Julian: IoT with Meadow and Wilderness Labs - Episode 267
Jeff Julian is a long-time software developer. He used to run the Geeks with Blogs blogging site when developer blogging was the peak of social media. He’s received multiple Microsoft MVP awards and has spoken at many conferences. He has retired from the software development community and now runs a local farm where he has custom-developed a farm operating system using IoT devices and electronics.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:55] Some tips to do conferences right.
[4:55] What led Jeff to apply programming to farming?
[6:50] Jeff’s decision to buy land, and the challenges that came with purchasing it.
[10:31] Becoming aware of Wilderness Labs and Meadow.
[12:33] Selling directly to the customer.
[12:42] What Meadow is, and some of the things they have automated.
[17:15] Driving the fodder system.
[20:22] Where and how does the code come in for this automation?
[24:46] UptimeRobot and using F7 devices for data collection and IoT projects.
[26:22] Using technology for farming and beekeeping.
[33:57] IoT devices, sensors, and power consumption.
[36:13] How many tiny computers does it take?
[38:02] The challenges of IoT devices.
[44:15] The heart of the .NET community should be people helping each other learn and grow.
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Mon, 16 Oct 2023 - 46min - 266 - Shawn Wildermuth: Web Service APIs in .NET 7 - Episode 266
Shawn Wildermuth has been tinkering with computers and software since he got a VIC-20 back in the early ’80s. He has been a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight Author, and filmmaker. You can reach him at his blog at Wildermuth.com and he makes films at Twainfilms.com.
Topics of Discussion:
[5:34] What got Shawn excited about coding?
[9:26] How should developers be thinking about just the concept of an API? What are the categories that they should be aware of?
[16:04] Shawn’s first steps in designing an API.
[18:37] What are the newer concepts and newer advances that are worth taking a look at?
[19:10] Maturing minimal APIs.
[24:53] Endpoint filtering.
[27:01] Does the core logic need to be aware that it might be in a caching workflow, or does caching as a concept belong to the interface for the application programming?
[31:45] Shawn’s favorite method for testing the complete set of web service APIs.
[34:59] Helping young developers not get lost along the way of feeling the need to be perfect.
[39:25] How developers make the decision of where and how to run the applications they built.
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Shawn Wildermuth on Next-gen Web Services
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Mon, 09 Oct 2023 - 43min - 265 - Jay Harris: Overcoming Tough Problems in Software Projects - Episode 265
Jay Harris is a speaker, software consultant, and owner of Arana Software. He has been developing on the web since 1995, when the Blink tag lured him away from Visual Basic 3, and has been awarded as a Microsoft Regional Director, ASPInsider, and Microsoft MVP. Recognizing that the greatest application performance bottleneck is a developer’s time, Jay’s continuing quest is for frameworks, modules, tools, and practices that make developers stronger, fitter, happier, and more productive.
Jay resides in Las Vegas, USA. Follow him on Twitter at @jayharris.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:40] Jay gives a shout-out to a phenomenal manager, Larry, who had a profound impact on his career.
[5:30] Advice for managing burnout in software development teams.
[7:16] The importance of learning how to say no.
[10:19] Respecting team limits and honoring downtime is crucial for long-term success.
[16:06] Maintaining software team velocity through play and downtime.
[18:23] The key to sustainable software delivery is collaboration, compromise, and empowering teams to be self-sufficient.
[23:28] Pain points in user interfaces.
[30:39] Overcoming the challenges of working with PDFs.
[36:49] Jay walks us through the typical code flow.
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Jay Harris on Distributed DevOps
Glenn Burnside Managing Developers
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Mon, 02 Oct 2023 - 41min - 264 - Jimmy Bogard: .NET 7 and Azure Modernization - Episode 264
Jimmy is the creator and maintainer of the popular OSS libraries AutoMapper and MediatR. Jimmy is an independent consultant based in Austin, TX. Jimmy has received the “Microsoft Most Valuable Professional” (MVP) award every year since 2009.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:45] How do we modernize old software systems?
[4:55] Dividing the modernization process into small steps to minimize dependencies and validate changes along the way.
[5:01] Does Jimmy have a preferred sequence of work that he has found that makes modernizing a system easier?
[7:01] Modernizing legacy ASP.NET web applications with test coverage.
[7:24] System web adapters.
[12:02] Database migration to Azure using SQL Data Sync and Hangfire.
[12:09] Any “gotchas” on the database side?
[15:27] What exactly is Hangfire?
[17:02] The flexibility of Hangfire in its triggers and scheduling.
[23:49] How system web adapters enable easy migration of controllers and actions.
[25:16] Second success story for YARP: Yet Another Reverse Proxy.
[27:15] What was the thought about observability architectures?
[29:02] What are some of Jimmy’s favorite features?
[32:08] The team modernized the telemetry system for a large organization, enabling them to query data more efficiently and gain valuable insights.
[35:05] Lessons learned and best practices while modernizing.NET applications with Azure DevOps.
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YARP: Yet Another Reverse Proxy
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Mon, 25 Sep 2023 - 39min - 263 - J. Tower: Modernization Strangler Fig Pattern - Episode 263
Jonathan, or J. as he’s known to friends, is a husband, a father, and the owner of Trailhead Technology Partners, a custom software consulting company with employees all around the world. He is also a Microsoft MVP in .NET and frequently speaks at software meetups and conferences. He doesn’t mind too much because he loves sharing what he’s learned, and it also gives him an excuse to visit any nearby National Parks, a passion of his, proven by the fact that he's currently made it to 56 of the 63 parks.
J. also has a passion for building community and has served on several non-profit boards over the years as a result. Currently, J. sits on the SoftwareGR board, a non-profit trade organization dedicated to building the software industry in West Michigan. He also runs Beer City Code, a software conference, and has served as president on that board for over a decade. J. loves hiking, reading, photography, and trying to see all the best picture nominees before the Oscars ceremony.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:18] J starting his own consulting company, Trailhead.
[4:55] The two categories that make up software architecture.
[5:54] J’s philosophy on when he would rewrite a legacy software system.
[10:52] The pros and cons of making small improvements over time.
[11:33] What is the strangler fig pattern, and how does that turn into a strategy for a software update?
[16:02] Bringing older ASP.NET applications up to .NET7.
[19:55] What is a reverse proxy?
[22:21] We reference the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code.
[25:08] In this process, do both of the applications just get access to everything, or do you have to do something specific?
[31:28] Architecturally, does this approach work in modernizing from older or other platform web applications?
[34:02] The concept of microfrontends.
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Mon, 18 Sep 2023 - 38min - 262 - Chris "Woody" Woodruff: Network Programming - Episode 262
Chris Woodruff, or as his friends call him, Woody, is a software developer and architect of over 25 years. Woody loves software engineering, especially allowing applications and services to communicate across networks and through Web APIs. He has been a Microsoft MVP in SQL, Data, and C# in the past, along with multiple years of being awarded the AWS Community Builder Award. Woody lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he explores the many breweries in West Michigan and travels with his family. Woody is also a long-time bourbon fan and loves hunting for whiskey bottles.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:46] The many positions Woody has held in his career.
[7:14] The genesis behind Woody’s new book, Practical Network Programming Using C#. Dive deep into #CSharp12 and #DotNET8.
[9:24] The second book Woody is working on co-writing, on the patterns of developer relations.
[14:10] The original intent of the internet was to protect the military.
[15:22] What is a packet?
[21:08] A brief history of web services.
[24:00] Who was Roy Fielding?
[28:48] Woody talks about using different applications, the WebSocket service, and Dapr.
[35:36] You have to know about the transport across the network, as well as how to build the code and architect your application so that it utilizes the network efficiently.
[40:14] We can expect the book out by May or June 2024.
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Mon, 11 Sep 2023 - 42min - 261 - Jeremy Miller: Parallelism in Software - Episode 261
Jeremy Miller started his career as a “real” engineer but wandered into software because that looked like more fun. Since then, Jeremy has worked in and led software development teams in the computer manufacturing industry, finance, insurance, health care, and banking industries. Lately, Jeremy has been focused on leading software architecture teams and helping mentor other software architects. Having had roles both as an in-house software architect and as a software consultant, Jeremy has a great deal of insight into the challenges that confront companies developing and maintaining enterprise systems over time.
Jeremy is well known for his Open-Source Software tools starting with Structure Map and continuing today to Marten and Wolverine. Jeremy is also a frequent author and technical speaker at software conferences. Jeremy recently helped found JasperFx Software to build a sustainable business around the “Critter Stack” tools.
Topics of Discussion:
[6:10] How Jeremy got into open-source development.
[6:50] Being a part of the codebetter.com website in the pre-Twitter days.
[9:30] What most developers should be aware of in the space of getting code to run or multiple instances to run at the same time and having it come out well.
[12:04] What is Marten, and how does it work?
[12:26] TPL Dataflow Library is a hidden gem inside of Microsoft.
[15:25] The two parts of Marten and how they work together.
[17:42] What is a producer-consumer pattern?
[20:05] How to implement a queue pattern.
[24:04] You should probably have some basic understanding of one level underneath you, but Jeremy thinks you don’t want to work on the thread level yourself.
[25:38] Jeremy defines “Critter Stack.”
[29:55] Jeremy’s advice for new developers.
[32:59] Jeremy talks about the type of customers he is looking to collaborate with.
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Mon, 04 Sep 2023 - 36min - 260 - Nathaniel Schutta: Thinking Architecturally - Episode 260
Nathaniel Schutta (or Nate) is a software architect focused on cloud computing and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books and appeared in various videos. Nate is a seasoned speaker, regularly presenting at conferences worldwide, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, Nate co-authored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough. Nate has published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices both available as free downloads from VMware.
Topics of Discussion:
[5:12] How Nate decided he liked development and architecture, and who was Dr. Evil?
[7:10] Nate worked at a software company for a brief period and spent a lot of his time building enterprise web apps.
[10:13] Is it possible to think and talk about software the same, regardless of language?
[14:17] Nate Defines circuit breaker.
[15:56] The importance of having good observability and monitoring in place to see what is going on.
[22:35] Nate gives some categories of architects and where he thinks it changes in responsibility and scope.
[26:14] To quote Ralph Johnson, “Architecture is the important stuff, whatever that is.” While we may have different definitions of “IT,” Nate thinks that it has the decisions that are hard to change later, and the ones we hope we get right in the first place. The “IT” is also what matters to the application at hand.
[36:14] Are we currently at another inflection point?
[38:03] The current landscape and challenges of inventing things on the fly.
[45:22] What can we expect from Nate’s new book?
[55:54] Engineers often overlook soft skills, and the Dale Carnegie books on leadership are a great place to start.
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Mon, 28 Aug 2023 - 59min - 259 - Bob Walker: Painless Operations - Episode 259
Bob started as a .NET Developer back in the early days of .NET 1.1 with the goal of converting ASP pages to ASP.NET web applications. During that time, his career progressed from .NET Developer to Lead Developer, to Architect, to where he is today. As a technical director at Octopus Deploy, he helps solve complex customer problems as Octopus Deploy. As a team, we help answer both technical and non-technical questions. Bob has been a fan of making it easier to deploy software since the early 2010s, when working for a company the only time to deploy to production was 2 a.m. Saturday. That has led him down the path of CI/CD, DevOps, TDD, and automating all things. He was exposed to Redgate tooling and Octopus Deploy while working at Farm Credit Services of America and has been a fan ever since. In his current role, Bob gets to work with a variety of technologies every day.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:41] One of the biggest high points in Bob’s career was being one of the champions of automating database deployments, and seeing that spread across all these other teams.
[3:51] Also, he adopted test-driven development and was able to improve the speed of his application from 500 milliseconds per request to 50 milliseconds.
[5:20] Bob talks about test-driven development.
[7:00] The rules of thumb for people to get right to make running their software system more painless.
[8:14] The problem of database management.
[10:10] There are two schools of thought: state-based management and migration approach.
[12:59] Distributed source control and having a build server are two of the main tools to consider.
[15:28] The critical ingredients of monitoring and recovery.
[22:07] The two ways to define a tenant.
[24:11] One of the advantages of multi-tenancy applications is having a shared application and a shared database, where all the data of all the customers is intermingled with one customer’s data.
[27:29] Managing complexity in the cloud.
[33:53] I’s all about improving a little, every day, and practicing to get better just a little bit more.
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Mon, 21 Aug 2023 - 34min - 258 - Damian Brady: GitHub Copilot - Episode 258
Damian Brady is a Developer Advocate Manager at GitHub. He's a developer, speaker, and author specializing in DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 25-year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:12] How did Damian get into the field?
[5:50] What is GitHub Copilot, and what are some of the most impressive and time-saving features?
[8:38] What is the model that GitHub Copilot uses?
[10:32] How have they decided what code is appropriate for this model?
[12:13] Damian talks about both the prompt engineering and the server side.
[17:30] How do you know if your code is good code?
[19:50] Damian shares some cool prompts he has seen in Copilot Chat.
[26:10] Github Copilot Voice is an experimental tool, useful for people who find it hard to type or who can’t type.
[32:48] The aim of Copilot is to basically increase your productivity, but increase your happiness as a developer as well.
[34:40] Will this eventually take the job of all developers?
[38:14] Whether it’s GitHub Copilot or a competitive tool that does AI programming, it’s just going to be the way that you do software engineering.
[43:07] The difference between junior and senior developers.
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Mon, 14 Aug 2023 - 49min - 257 - Glenn Burnside: Managing Developers - Episode 257
Glenn Burnside is the Principal Engineer at Skimmer. For 11 years, he was the Executive Vice President at Headspring until they were acquired by Accenture. Before that, he held a number of development management positions as well as leadership roles in the Boy Scouts and other community roles. Glenn holds an Executive MBA from Quantic School of Business and a Computer Engineering degree from Texas A&M University, where he held leadership positions in the Corps of Cadets, Company B-1. You can find more about Glenn at glennburnside.com.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:48] Glenn shares a funny story of threatening to quit if he became a manager, and what it feels like to bug people about filling out their timesheets.
[5:13] What Glenn realized about software team management and paving the way for others to grow.
[9:03] Glenn talks about his thought process of adding someone to the team, whether it’s from scratch or adding someone to an existing team.
[10:08] A concept from The Ideal Team Player, of finding someone that is humble, hungry, and smart.
[13:14] Why Glenn asks to look for demonstrated ability or demonstrated actions from their prior history rather than answering a hypothetical question.
[14:05] The STARR method: Situation, Task, Action, Resolution, Retrospective.
[17:44] The importance of finding someone that can improve with you and learn as they go.
[19:46] The younger generation of developers has skills but lacks confidence.
[21:54] Gathering data points of the industry as a whole from outside your inner circle and place of employment.
[23:07] You’ve got the great people on your team, now how do you get them to stay?
[25:02] Keeping everybody aimed at the higher mission.
[31:11] Having respect for the whole team, not just thinking of yourself as an individual player.
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Mon, 07 Aug 2023 - 34min - 256 - Dennis van der Stelt: Microservices and Distributed Systems - Episode 256
Dennis van der Stelt is a Software Architect who loves building distributed systems and the challenges they bring. To be better than the day before, he continuously searches for new ways to improve his knowledge of architecture and software development. What he learns he tries to share via numerous articles, presentations, and posts on his blog. If you want to chat, feel free to ping Dennis on Twitter at @dvdstelt.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:07] How did Dennis get into distributed systems?
[5:24] Helping customers with building distributed systems.
[7:00] Dennis describes the essence of distributed systems.
[9:07] The role of asynchronous messaging between components in distributed systems.
[12:38] Dennis shares a story about a panicked CEO when the database went down, and the lessons learned from the experience.
[14:44] Starting with synchronous distribution, and then moving to asynchronous when you find the benefit.
[16:05] The downsides of using asynchronous communication.
[17:28] Who decides what happens when things go wrong?
[22:34] What Amazon does right.
[27:18] Microservices and event-driven architecture — Jeffrey has yet to find a microservices expert!
[35:48] Thinking more about the domain model in vertical slices.
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Mon, 31 Jul 2023 - 38min - 255 - Giorgi Dalakishvili: Beyond Relational Data with Entity Framework - Episode 255
Giorgi Dalakishvili is a software developer with more than a decade of experience. He works mainly with C#, ASP.NET MVC/ASP.NET Core, REST, WCF, Xamarin, Android, iOS, Entity Framework, Azure, SQL Server, and Oracle.
Giorgi is an open-source author and contributor on GitHub and a member of the .NET Foundation and InfoQ Editor.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:33] Giorgi has worked with all the frameworks and libraries that Microsoft has come out with over the past 10‒15 years. He discusses using Entity Framework and starting his small speaking engagements.
[5:12] Sessionize is a website where you can put out some different topics that you’d be willing to speak on, and just reach out to different user groups to take the plunge and do some public speaking for the first time.
[6:03] Other types of data with Entity Framework beyond relational data, such as hierarchical data type from SQL Server.
[8:49] How it simplifies your life.
[9:28] What about JSON? Are there any limitations on the back-end database?
[13:00] Is the support in EF Core 7.0 good enough to give a try if you’re going against SQL Server?
[14:09] What other types of data are interesting to work with with Entity Framework?
[14:36] Using geospatial data. What does it even look like?
[18:30] Full text search, and how it’s different from a regular text search.
[23:20] There are a lot of features to uncover in relational databases that we aren’t even aware of yet.
[26:22] There are some problems and some tasks that are better solved with non-relational databases, but the majority can overlap between the two systems.
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Mon, 24 Jul 2023 - 27min - 254 - Mitchel Sellers: Architecting .NET MAUI - Episode 254
Mitchel Sellers is globally known as a 15-time Microsoft MVP, an ASPInsider, a DNN MVP, an MCP (Microsoft .NET, ASP.NET, and SQL Server), and CEO of IowaComputerGurus Inc. Sellers has a deep understanding of software development and, when speaking, focuses on proper architecture standards, performance, stability, security, and overall cost-effectiveness of delivered solutions. This message and his abilities resonate in the technical war room as well as the executive board room.
Mitchel is a prolific public speaker, presenting more than 400 sessions at user groups and conferences globally, such as DevUp, SDN, and Code PaLOUsa. Sellers has been the author of multiple books and a regular blogger on technology topics.
When Mitchel is not working in technology, you will find him flying his airplane, teaching others how to fly, or spending time with his family. He is also actively involved in the Open Source Community working diligently to further the movement.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:02] Congrats to Mitchel on his election to a leadership position at the .NET foundation.
[3:41] What is the .NET Foundation?
[5:58] What about .NET Maui catches Mitchel’s attention, and is it really ready for us to go for it?
[6:40] Official support for Xamarin Forms is going to be ending officially in early 2024.
[8:48] The .NET Maui Blazor hybrid model.
[10:22] What has been Mitchel’s experience pushing Maui applications to the various app stores?
[13:00] The most applicable patterns when you are laying out the spread of a Maui application.
[16:10] The preference for a centralized location.
[21:49] The tendency to overlook analytics.
[22:57] What does the analytics and telemetry suite look like, and what are the users doing with the application?
[25:01] Tools like App Insights from Azure can be awesome, but they can also get very expensive.
[27:10] What is the DevOps story for Maui applications these days from continuous integration and automated testing to deployments and versioning?
[31:12] Using GitHub actions, which of the steps require certain operating-system-hosted agents?
[34:37] What is next for Maui, both traditional and using the Blazor hybrid?
[37:40] Where can we find Mitchel next?
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Mon, 17 Jul 2023 - 38min - 253 - Mike Brind on Razor Pages in Action - Episode 253
Mike Brind spent the first 20 years of his working life in a series of successful sales and marketing roles, towards the end of which he was introduced to HTML and databases. A dormant inner geek took over and Mike became very much more interested in developing websites than selling advertising space on them.
As well as books such as those in the Wrox Beginner series, Mike became reliant on the enormous amount of free help provided by online communities while he learned his new craft. Mike is now one of the all-time leading contributors to the official ASP.NET forums at http://forums.asp.net and is also a moderator there.
As a result of his contributions to the ASP.NET community via the forums, and through his technical article site at http://www.mikesdotnetting.com, Mike received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for ASP.NET from 2008 to 2018. Beginning ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix is Mike’s first book.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:06] How did Mike decide to leave school to become a programmer?
[5:42] Jeffrey and his son are programming their own video game!
[7:17] What sparked his interest in Razor and writing his new book, ASP.NET Core Razor Pages in Action?
[9:51] What is the framework that Mike uses in his day-to-day job?
[10:37] How would Mike classify the types of websites or web applications that are perfect for Razor pages, and maybe had some difficulties with other frameworks?
[14:16] Are there any commonalities that you lose if you do the application with Razor pages and not MVC?
[16:32] How does Mike organize his feature folders?
[18:12] How Mike organizes test libraries and test cases.
[20:06] What has been Mike’s experience with Playwright?
[21:02] What’s coming in the future of Razor and Blazor?
[24:39] The modernization jump for people who have old classic ASP applications is Razor pages.
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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 - 28min - 252 - Brian Lagunas on Establishing Quality - Episode 252
Brian Lagunas is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Patterns & Practices Champion, leader of the Boise .Net Developers User Group (NETDUG), board member of Boise Code Camp, speaker, trainer, and Pluralsight author. He can be found speaking at a variety of developer events around the world. His talks always involve some form of markup (XAML or HTML), as well as how to build well-architected applications with Prism. In his spare time, he authors courses for Pluralsight, blogs, livestreams about various technologies, and manages the Prism Library. The easiest way to find Brian is on Twitter at @BrianLagunas.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:21] High points in Brian’s career that have shaped his way of thinking about software, including starting his career at a global infrastructure company construction company.
[5:22] The mentor that taught Brian about the importance of getting your foundation right.
[7:11] How today’s development mindset is different.
[8:40] How does Brian balance or reason those competing pressures from the outside?
[9:52] Delivering quality first and creating a long-term plan for the team.
[12:43] Fixing problems with the software versus working on new capabilities.
[15:56] Brian’s approach when he took the team over, and how he handled any resistance and pushback by showing his team firsthand better efficiency and productivity.
[16:26] How Brian measured actual progress.
[21:02] The value of having a subjective opinion.
[22:30] What quality controls does Brian put in place?
[25:42] The issue Brian and his team found.
[27:51] What kind of skills did Brian have to employ to make this level of testing possible?
[29:15] The importance of everyone being open to helping and learning from each other and helping out where they can.
[29:50] How Brian thinks about pull requests.
[32:14] Stay tuned for Brian’s thoughts on static analysis.
[33:41] The emotional side of things and how people feel about their work when they are focused more on development and spending less time fighting fires.
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Mon, 03 Jul 2023 - 38min - 251 - Kevin LaBranche: Leading teams through DevOps - Episode 251
Kevin is a software developer who finds great joy in teaching and learning from others. He’s been honing my craft for over two and a half decades. If he’s not in code, he’s near it. Kevin is often working on practices and processes that improve the engineering excellence of the team.
Currently, Kevin is in an architecture/lead development position at Northern Arizona University. He develops best practices tailored to the team and company culture. Kevin is a strong believer in applying systems thinking to all he does.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:13] How Kevin discovered his passion for software, and proof you can be successful even if you are bad at math!
[4:51] Kevin loves giving back to others by offering his mentorship.
[5:15] How we can adjust to a changing culture.
[8:09] The evolution of his DevOps team.
[12:11] The idea of being able to read the code.
[13:06] How do you start the DevOps journey?
[15:05] What is a build script? Why is it important, and what are the most important components that need to be in the build script, in Kevin’s opinion?
[20:16] What are the items that Kevin likes to make sure are in the DevOps environment when developers are starting a new application?
[23:00] Creating a new web application in an existing environment vs. a new environment.
[27:12] The importance of getting value out the door.
[29:41] Safe database deployment, safe database changes.
[32:45] Kevin’s chosen practice for using toggling and deprecating feature flags along with some of his favorite tools and libraries.
[34:01] Protecting against API changes with third-party services.
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Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 37min - 250 - Greg Leonardo: Responsible AI - Episode 250
Greg is a Cloud Architect that assists organizations with cloud adoption and innovation and is currently a Public Cloud Architect at AT&T. He has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Greg has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is currently the president of TampaDev, a community meetup that runs #TampaCC and various technology events throughout Tampa. Greg holds a certification as a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, and Microsoft Certified Trainer, and is an Azure MVP.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:01] Greg talks about being a military veteran from the first Gulf War and then transitioning into the technology arena.
[3:33] Giving back to the veteran community.
[6:04] Is AI inherently irresponsible?
[6:30] Greg defines responsible AI.
[7:02] Thinking about AI as your personal assistant, but only presenting you with the facts.
[8:53] The difference between the public models set out by the big companies, and the other aspect of creating your own model by choosing your own set of data using the GPT technology to analyze that data.
[16:43] Hallucinations in AI and GPT models.
[17:10] What is actionable right now for developers when they are designing it so that we can have some safeguards built in?
[21:55] The difference between fact and affirmation.
[23:41] The system shouldn’t just give us what we want, but it should be able to route that want into something that’s factual.
[33:10] The design process for developers that want to create their own model.
[37:11] Does Greg have any Chat GPT models?
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Mon, 19 Jun 2023 - 38min - 249 - Matthew Renze: AI Ethics - Episode 249
Matthew Renze is a data science consultant, author, and public speaker. He is the founder of Renze Consulting, an AI consulting company that has trained over 500,000 software developers and IT professionals. His clients range from small tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He is also the President of Serenze Global, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to technology education for under-represented individuals by empowering the next generation of tech community leaders. Matthew is currently working on his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence with a Data Science specialization at Johns Hopkins University. He currently has double degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy with a minor in Economics from Iowa State University. He is a Microsoft MVP in AI, an ASPinsider, and an author for Pluralsight, Udemy, and Skillshare. His interests include AI, ML, data science, mindfulness, technology education, and tech community leadership.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:41] How Matthew got into software development and eventually AI, rebranding himself as a data scientist and then AI consultant.
[5:40] Matthew is getting his Master’s Degree in Artificial Intelligence.
[6:04] How can we demystify AI and all the buzzwords we use?
[9:13] Are there any current products that meet the definition of strong general AI?
[11:03] What does weak general AI mean?
[13:51] For .NET developers, what can they actually do today, with this latest generation of generative AI?
[17:02] What are some examples in AI right now that Matthew has come across that clearly violate any standard of ethical boundary?
[19:00] A few of the issues with AI currently or ways that AI systems are being abused:
AI hallucination
AI-generated misinformation
Algorithmic bias and discrimination
Lack of trust in AI
Recommendation engines (rabbit holes)
Lack of basic AI literacy
[22:00] Is it even possible for these models not to be biased?
[22:35] We have to make sure that we’ve got balanced data sets in order to get the models to train properly.
[25:41] How do we regulate ethics?
[27:55] The distinction between using supervised learning, and then self-supervised learning, or reinforcement learning.
[39:20] How we can prevent deep fake videos.
[42:01] It’s important to get these tools in the hands of the right people, provide education, and move forward mindfully.
[47:02] Curating your own algorithm and handling information overload.
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Mon, 12 Jun 2023 - 52min - 248 - Sagar Lad: Data DevOps and Security - Episode 248
Sagar Lad is a Technical Solution Architect with a leading multinational software company and has deep expertise in implementing Data & Analytics solutions for large enterprises using Cloud and Artificial Intelligence. He is an experienced Azure Platform evangelist with 9+ Years of IT experience and a strong focus on driving cloud adoption for enterprise organizations using Microsoft Cloud Solutions & Offerings. He loves blogging and is an active blogger on Medium, LinkedIn, and the C# Corner developer community. He was awarded the C# Corner MVP in September 2021 for his contributions to the developer community. He’s also the author of three books, Mastering Databricks Lakehouse Platform, Azure Security for Critical Workloads, and Hands-On Azure Data Platform.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:57] Sagar talks about the critical points in his career that led him to technology.
[6:01] What turned Sagar on to a love of data?
[8:39] With so much technical jargon out there, how do you simplify?
[12:40] What is Data Lakehouse?
[13:25] What are some common scenarios where Data Lakehouse can be really valuable?
[18:53] What does unit testing mean in the data bricks world?
[22:10] How long does it take to run the tests in Azure?
[25:42] What’s the most expensive Databricks environment that Sagar has seen on a monthly basis?
[27:54] What are some of the things that are being missed around the industry?
[31:42] Sagar says that when we talk about security, there are seven layers.
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Mon, 05 Jun 2023 - 34min - 247 - René Schumacher: The DevOps Mindset - Episode 247
René is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering (CSA-E) and technical lead for Azure DevOps and software development processes at Microsoft in Germany. In his role as CE, he helps customers adopt good development practices and processes as well as understanding the principles of DevOps. As an Azure DevOps expert, René trains customers in using the DevOps toolchain and shows ways to integrate Azure DevOps into existing heterogeneous environments.
Before his start at Microsoft in late 2008, René had been working as a developer of enterprise logistic systems for almost ten years.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:05] René’s start of his career and how he got into programming.
[5:20] How does René define the real difference between the 1990s waterfall mindset and the agile mindset, just from a process perspective?
[7:49] How DevOps is an evolution of Agile.
[9:13] What is DevOps all about?
[11:29] The three ways of DevOps as described in The Phoenix Project:
Maximize flow or system thinking.
Amplify feedback loops.
The culture of continuous experimentation and learning.
[16:52] The importance of creating a natural cadence in your iteration.
[17:16] What’s the best way to standardize across different teams?
[21:13] Choosing the right tool at the right point in time.
[24:10] What type of test automation does René find himself recommending?
[27:50] To René, the most important thing is to get your code right. In addition, unit testing also has a very positive impact on your architecture and design because you're building a testable product.
[28:50] What is Rene’s view on open telemetry in a DevOps mindset?
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Mon, 29 May 2023 - 37min - 246 - Toi Wright: Blazor WebAssembly - Episode 246
Toi B. Wright is an independent consultant who has been working as a software developer for over 25 years. She has a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. She has been a Microsoft MVP in ASP/ASP.NET since 2005. She is also an ASPInsider. Ms. Wright is the author of two editions of Blazor WebAssembly by Example: A project-based guide to building web apps with .NET, Blazor WebAssembly, and C#. She is also the author of other .NET books and training courses.
Ms. Wright was the organizer of the original We Are Microsoft — Charity Challenge Weekend, www.wearemicrosoft.com, which was the precursor to Give Camps Everywhere. She is the Founder of the Dallas ASP.NET User Group, www.dallasasp.net. She has been involved with various user groups around Dallas since 1994 and has been running one or more user groups since 2000. She most recently helped organize the new Geeks in Pink group. This group supports women in technology.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:46] What got Toi into web development?
[8:17] What inspired Toi to write a book, and what is it about this version of Blazor web application technology on top of .NET that just that really captivated her?
[10:54] What’s new in the second version of Blazor web assembly?
[13:21] What can people expect now, using Visual Studio and debugging with Blazor WebAssembly?
[15:01] Are there specific things that are in a Blazor project that people need to think about when it comes to secure web applications?
[17:34] Does Toi know the state of the component vendors out there for web assembly? And do all those components work in the web Assembly version?
[20:10] What is Toi’s favorite hosting model?
[22:59] More about Blazor Unity, and what Toi is excited about most for the future.
[28:15] What does Toi think the “normal” .NET application is going to be with all of these choices?
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Mon, 22 May 2023 - 31min - 245 - Ryan Booz- Modern Databases - Episode 245
Ryan is an Advocate at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL. Ryan has been working as a PostgreSQL advocate, developer, DBA, and product manager for more than 20 years, primarily working with time-series data on PostgreSQL and the Microsoft Data Platform.
Ryan is a long-time DBA, starting with MySQL and Postgres in the late ’90s. He spent more than 15 years working with SQL Server before returning to PostgreSQL full-time in 2018. He’s at the top of his game when he's learning something new about the data platform or teaching others about the technology he loves.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:23] Ryan’s background and his love of helping people with their data.
[6:06] What are some features of Postgres that really intrigued Ryan?
[6:12] What are some of the choices in the database world that people should be well versed in?
[11:00] Is there a marketplace for these extensions?
[15:00] Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and many others have been very interested over the last 3‒4 years in the open-source code base.
[15:50] Is there any environment or platform where Postgres can’t run?
[17:24] Can we use a downsized database engine?
[19:19] Ryan discusses Amazon Redshift.
[23:58] What’s the state of the modern Redgate tools?
[26:42] What are the top three tools developers should reach for?
[27:00] What are the features of Flyway?
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Mon, 15 May 2023 - 32min - 244 - Maddy Montaquila: MAUI applications in .NET 7 - Episode 244
Maddy Montaquila is a Senior Product Manager on the .NET MAUI team and has been working with .NET mobile apps since 2018 working on Xamarin tooling. When she first joined Microsoft and worked with the Xamarin team as an intern, she realized the impact that she could have in creating amazing developer tools and frameworks, which inspired her to pursue a role as Program Manager. You can connect with her on Twitter and GitHub @maddymontaquila!
Topics of Discussion:
[4:21] How did Maddy get lucked into development and the mobile side of product management?
[7:39] You can distill product manager roles to the intersection of the technology and what’s possible, the business, what’s going to make you money, and what your customers actually want and need.
[9:17] Why is it important for program managers to have at least some coding background?
[10:41] When people dive into Maui, what can they expect right now?
[15:44] What tools or resources does someone need to get started, and what are the limitations?
[20:44] What is the current DevOps story for going from a developer workstation all the way through testing and packaging, and then finally delivering it to the App Store?
[23:47] Is there a favorite deployed test framework?
[27:26] Why does Maddy prefer sometimes to work in Xaml?
[29:17] If you’re going to reach for controls right now, is everything that they need built-in? What is the status of DevExpress?
[37:03] It’s a great time to be a .net developer!
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Mon, 08 May 2023 - 38min - 243 - Andy Roberts: Data in a Development World - Episode 243
Andy is a Data Platform and AI Architect at Microsoft, where he has worked for over 24 years. A long time ago, his father dropped two books on his desk and said: "Andy, I need you to be an SQL Expert for a meeting tomorrow. Can you handle that?" Recently out of college, he was still accustomed to cramming for an exam, so he showed up the next day, won the project, and began his new life as a “data guy.”
Since then, he’s “been around the (data) block.” Whether a developer, database analyst, architect, project lead, or more recently a part of a sales organization, the heart of his job has always revolved around data: acquiring it, shaping it, moving it, protecting it, using it to predict future outcomes, processing it efficiently, etc.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:56] Andy has always grown up with computers around and has his father to thank for a lot of it.
[6:39] What is it that causes some developers to say, I want to write code, but I don’t want to mess with the database?
[14:29] What does Andy’s job as an AI architect look like?
[16:19] When you have that predictive function with something to host it, that’s where AI happens and when intelligence starts happening in your application.
[17:16] The importance of pre-trained models in machine learning.
[20:00] What is reinforcement learning?
[20:58] Why are we calling some things artificial intelligence and other things, not AI?
[24:44] Andy gives his advice for those new to writing software and in developing.
[29:08] What is a data lake?
[31:48] The importance of thinking about the database as part of the application, not a separate thing.
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Mon, 01 May 2023 - 36min - 242 - Donovan Brown is Retiring - Episode 242
Donovan Brown is a Partner Program Manager in the Azure CTO Incubations team at Microsoft. The Incubations team focuses on forward-looking development and innovation to facilitate the development of new projects and ideas. Before joining Microsoft, Donovan spent seven years as a Process Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master. Donovan has traveled the globe helping companies develop solutions using agile practices in many industries. Donovan is an avid programmer, often finding ways to integrate software into his other hobbies and activities.
Topics of Discussion:
[7:37] Why is Donovan retiring?
[8:49] Donovan talks about redefining his success and the decision he and his wife made to go live the life they want to live.
[12:03] Living paycheck to paycheck is a bad idea, regardless of how big the paycheck is.
[14:02] The importance of paying yourself first and making good money choices.
[17:50] If it’s putting money in your pocket, it’s an asset. Some houses are assets, while others are liabilities.
[18:36] Your money is your number one employee.
[23:42] Donovan gives his thoughts on inflation.
[31:00] Donovan gives advice for those early on in their career in both programming and making wise money decisions, including avoiding credit card debt.
[31:26] The importance of being tenacious despite not having a degree or experience.
[40:47] Donovan encourages programmers to learn a language that allows them to dabble in all different platforms.
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Mon, 24 Apr 2023 - 45min - 241 - Tim Corey: Learning Programming - Episode 241
Tim learned software development the hard way, with lots of dead-ends, confusion, and knowledge gaps. He kept thinking, “It shouldn’t be this hard!”
Now he teaches students how to think and code like professional developers. His goal is to make it easier for others to become a developer. He’s been recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional every year since 2017.
Topics of Discussion:
[:45] How Tim actually got into development at the young age of 12.
[6:17] How Tim got over the feeling of not being good enough.
[7:55] How Tim got into teaching.
[9:42] Tim built his YouTube channel slowly to find a consistent release schedule and passionate audience.
[12:55] How to know what language to start in.
[19:53] Why Tim is less of a fan of college and why he doesn’t recommend it.
[22:26] Coding Boot Camps vs. self-paced courses.
[27:47] Tim’s advice for young programmers suffering from impostor syndrome.
[33:12] Every application has two jobs: capture information and display information.
[38:01] What are a few of Tim’s favorite courses now, and what are universities doing right?
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Mon, 17 Apr 2023 - 43min - 240 - Bojan Magusic: Azure Security - Episode 240
Bojan Magusic is a Product Manager on the Customer Acceleration Team and acts as a technology expert for Fortune 500 companies to help them realize the full value of Microsoft Defender for Cloud and improve their overall security posture. He has a strong passion for cybersecurity, advancing women in tech and professional development. He is very interested in building partnerships with other companies to learn how they support, advance, and retain their cyber talent. In addition to various technical certifications (18-plus and counting), he also has received certifications from INSEAD and Kellogg School of Management. Bojan resides in Dublin (Ireland), where he is living the dream!
Topics of Discussion:
[:37] Jeffrey puts out a call for those who would like to work with him.
[4:15] Bojan talks about his book, Azure Security, and what we can expect.
[5:09] Is security a job title? Where does it intersect with programming?
[9:22] What is specifically Azure security, and how is it different from general cybersecurity?
[11:44] Azure Security is practical while still having theoretical concepts that make it easier for folks who are not security engineers.
[13:15] What specifically should development teams be looking at?
[14:33] Defense in depth speaks about how you can minimize the overall risk to your environment by deploying multiple layers of security.
[19:36] What is security hygiene?
[25:25] What are Bojan’s favorite tools for static analysis security vulnerabilities?
[27:45] Why you need to make security part of the software development lifecycle.
[26:25] Bojan talks about the Microsoft DevOps Security Extension.
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Mon, 10 Apr 2023 - 32min - 239 - Thomas Vitale- Kubernetes - Episode 239
Thomas Vitale is a software engineer and architect specializing in building cloud-native, resilient, and secure enterprise applications. He designs and develops software solutions at Systematic, Denmark, where he’s been working on modernizing platforms and applications for the cloud-native world, focusing on developer experience and security.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:52] How did Thomas get into software development?
[6:00] Thomas talks about his book, Cloud Native Spring in Action.
[7:31] Thomas goes over the basics of Kubernetes.
[8:42] What about orchestration of all these containers in a production scenario? How can we distribute these containers across the machines?
[12:11] How do we know when we need more than one Kubernetes cluster?
[19:46] What are a node and a pod, and how do those two relate?
[24:05] How does the application know when Kubernetes might move one container to a pod that happens to be on a different virtual machine with a different IP address?
[27:36] Where does Docker Swarm fit in, and where does Helm fit in?
[33:12] Thomas explains why he likes Carvel as a tool.
[34:12] What is Thomas’s favorite method for spinning up your own Kubernetes cluster locally?
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Mon, 03 Apr 2023 - 37min - 238 - Chris Sainty: Blazor in Action - Episode 238
Chris is a Microsoft MVP, author, and software engineer with over 17 years of experience with ASP.NET. Passionate about sharing his knowledge with the community, he regularly writes both for his own blog as well as others — such as Visual Studio magazine, Progress Telerik, and StackOverflow. This passion for blogging led to his first book, Blazor in Action, a practical guide to building Blazor applications. He also maintains several popular open-source projects under the GitHub organization, Blazored. When not tapping on a keyboard, Chris is a keen speaker, having delivered talks at both user groups and conferences all over the world.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:15] Jeffrey puts out a call for those who may be looking to work with him.
[4:41] What was Chris’s start in the industry?
[10:07] Chris talks about falling in love with Blazor and why he is so passionate about it.
[12:10] Chris shares how he got into blogging and why he thinks it should be for everyone, not just those at the senior level.
[15:22] Talks about winning the Microsoft MVP award.
[15:48] How does Chris talk about Blazor when creating a new application? Are there defaults that he goes to?
[21:51] Chris talks about his organizational technique on the client side.
[25:05] In Chris’s book, Blazor In Action, he talks about GitHub repositories that he likes.
[27:04] Structuring web APIs from a security perspective.
[28:00] How does Chris segment different projects?
[33:47] What is Chris’s favorite method of putting together an authentication flow?
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Mon, 27 Mar 2023 - 41min - 237 - Toni Solarin-Sodara: Developer Tools for Test Automation - Episode 237
Toni Solarin-Sodara is a Software Engineering Lead at Microsoft. He specializes in developer tooling, working at the client platform layer, and building the runtime libraries and tools that enable shipping code to various operating systems and devices. Toni is also the creator and lead maintainer of Coverlet, a cross-platform code coverage framework for .NET, with support for line, branch, and method coverage.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:23] Jeffrey puts out a call for some opportunities to work with him! E-mail jeffrey@clear-measure.com to get more info.
[4:05] What led to Toni’s career in development and programming?
[5:18] What went into the .NET runtime contribution (native AOT)?
[8:16] One thing Toni is quite proud of is being able to build native libraries by using the technology.
[9:08] AOT stands for ahead-of-time compilation.
[10:23] What is Coverlet and why does it work?
[15:13] In what areas does Coverlet work very well?
[15:27] A good chunk of what Coverlet does is allow transparency in the build system integration.
[16:41] What’s the process for taking multiple runs of multiple test suites and getting them into one report?
[23:53] What is Toni’s view on how the code coverage results should be used?
[24:47] How do you get code coverage results when the actual test project is running on a different server?
[30:46] What does Pose do and why is it useful?
[41:08] Toni says that .NET is actually pretty extensive, even as a programming language workbench.
[41:40] What are expression trees?
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Mon, 20 Mar 2023 - 42min - 236 - Grant Fritchey: SQL Server Performance Tuning - Episode 236
A Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Grant Fritchey works for Red Gate Software as a Product Advocate. Grant has more than 30 years of experience in the industry as a DBA and developer. Grant is an active participant in the SQL Server Central discussion forums. He writes articles for SQL Server Central and Simple-Talk. He blogs regularly at scarydba.com. Grant is the author of several books including SQL Server Query Performance Tuning and SQL Server Execution Plans. Grant teaches classes on data management and databases around the world. He teaches in the smallest user group settings and at the largest events.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:24] How did Grant get into the industry?
[5:40 Are there any big shifts that more recent developers and all developers need to know about shifts in how databases have worked?
[13:10] What should developers know about the ecosystem when you’ve taken a system and broken it up into multiple applications?
[16:07] What has changed in Grant’s book, Query Performance Tuning?
[20:34] Performance comes down to the code. It always comes down to the code.
[23:58] What are some of the main tools that developers should have in their toolbox?
[26:20] Why Grant recommends Extended Events and Query Store.
[32:41] Grant gives us his sales pitch.
[38:40] What does Grant think the future looks like?
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Mon, 13 Mar 2023 - 44min - 235 - Christoph Vollmer: Automated Testing Techniques - Episode 235
Christoph Vollmer is an internationally experienced IT Manager with strong experience in software development and team leadership. He has worked for several years as a developer with multiple languages in several organizations and industries with different methodologies. He has had hands-on experience with a broad range of technologies. Successful team lead for cross-functional agile teams with a strong focus on delivering the right thing in the right way. I've mentored and managed team members on different levels. Christoph is passionate about Agile and Scrum as software development methodology because it bridges the gap between development teams and business needs. He has a focus on security starting at development and going all the way through to the end user and our daily lives. Christoph is also strong with automated testing on every level.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:20] What got Christoph into software testing and how did he get into automated testing?
[6:53] What is the testing pyramid in software?
[10:46] What are the best automated testing tools for .NET?
[13:51] What is Mutation testing and Stryker Mutator?
[22:46] How does TDD intersect with a bug report?
[28:48] What is full-system testing and how does Playwright fit in?
[29:49] What is the page object pattern for UI testing?
[32:47] How to know when specialized testing might be needed for your application?
[34:48] Why Christoph thinks accessibility testing should be important to everyone.
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Mon, 06 Mar 2023 - 38min - 234 - Christian Clausen: When to Refactor - Episode 234
Christian Clausen works as a Technical Agile Coach teaching teams how to properly refactor their code. Previously he worked as a software engineer on the Coccinelle semantic patching project, an automated refactoring tool. He has an MSc in computer science and five years of experience teaching software quality at a university level. He is the author of the book Five Lines of Code published by Manning. He was one of the Top Three rated speakers at GOTO Aarhus 2022. People were standing in line to get a signed copy of his book Five Lines of Code.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:46] Christian talks about what got him into coding from a young age, and some of his favorite things about coding. He also discusses how the industry has changed since he first began his career.
[6:19] Christian shares the reason behind the premise that every method should get down to no more than five lines of code.
[9:07] What does “collaborate with the compiler” mean in Christian’s book?
[13:38] The process behind changing code by addition, rather than modification.
[22:16] Christian talks about defending the data.
[26:49] Christian’s mental model of spaceship architecture.
[30:04] What extra features does Christian’s book come with?
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Mon, 27 Feb 2023 - 36min - 233 - Christian Wenz: ASP .NET Core Security - Episode 233
Christian Wenz works as a consultant, trainer, and author with a focus on web technologies and is the author or co-author of over 100 computer books. He regularly contributes to various IT magazines and speaks at conferences around the globe. Christian holds a "Diplom" (the German equivalent of a master’s degree) in Computer Sciences, and one in Business Informatics. In his day job, he is one of the founders of the web agency Arrabiata Solutions (http://www.arrabiata.com/) with offices in Munich, Germany, and in London, UK. He also frequently works with development teams to make their applications better performing, more secure, and more reliable.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:51] Has Christian really written over 100 computer books? Christian talks about the books and the high points of technology that he has worked in.
[7:16] What is the OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10 list?
[10:33] You always have to be aware that something may go wrong, and have a security mindset.
[12:05] Again and again, make sure that you understand the fundamentals of web app security, because eventually, you will make a mistake in your code.
[12:30] What is insecure design?
[13:43] Christian talks about the enumeration scheme CWE: common weakness enumeration, which basically assigns a number to each risk or attack.
[17:00] How should people be logging into their web sessions now with .NET7?
[18:31] The major mistake you can make these days is to write your own authentication mechanism.
[23:57] What is Christian’s favorite mechanism today for securing HTTP web services?
[31:05] What are some of the tools Christian always reaches for, and how do we differentiate between static auditing and dynamically auditing an application?
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Mon, 20 Feb 2023 - 39min - 232 - Lars Klint: Microsoft Azure State of the Art - Episode 232
Lars is a Senior Developer Advocate with Pluralsight, author, trainer, Microsoft Azure MVP, community leader, aspiring YouTube host, and part-time classic car collector. He is heavily involved in the space of cloud computing services, especially Azure, and is a published author, solution architect, and writer for numerous publications. He has been a part of the software development community for the past 20 years and co-organizes the DDD Melbourne community conference, organizes developer events with Microsoft, and also runs a part-time car restoration business. He has spoken at numerous technical events around the world and is an expert in Australian Outback Internet.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:24] Lars talks about his early start in programming and the IT industry and his path to his present-day career.
[6:36] As a self-described “nerd that doesn’t mind talking to people,” Lars worked that characteristic into networking over his career.
[8:17] Why did Lars decide to write a book?
[9:40] Lars talks about his book, Microsoft Azure in Action.
[9:57] What part of Azure should developers be using more than less?
[13:00] What ideas have risen to the surface for general internal business application developers?
[16:36] What’s the best way to store and manipulate data?
[21:58] What are some of Lars’s favorite scenarios where you would reach for the queue?
[23:57] How would Lars decipher his architectural decisions on whether to use App Service?
[26:57] What is Lars’s thought process when creating service workers to read from that queue versus creating a second app that is installed into the app service plan?
[30:34] Lars talks about the importance of Application Insights.
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Mon, 13 Feb 2023 - 34min - 231 - Colin Bowern: Deployments and Ops using Octopus Deploy - Episode 231
Colin is the SVP of Product at Octopus Deploy. As a technical product leader, his career has spanned music, health, financial, and technology industries with companies like Microsoft, Johnson Controls, Brink’s, Orion Health, and officialCOMMUNITY. He is passionate about growing product people through his work with the Product Aotearoa community. You can learn more about him at ColinBowern.com.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:23] How Colin got involved in Octopus Deploy.
[5:43] What is the value proposition for Octopus Deploy?
[11:30] Who is Octopus Deploy built for?
[12:52] How do we categorize all the after-deploy activities?
[14:46] How do we get happy deployments?
[18:36] What are some of the themes or categories that have emerged in Runbooks that are universally applicable?
[21:51] What has happened in the DevOps space since 2010 when the term “DevOps Engineer” was first used?
[24:01] Colin talks about infrastructure as code in the cloud.
[30:01] Colin talks about his view on the future of Windows Server and Windows Server Operating System.
[36:28] What is the easiest way for someone to get started in Octopus?
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Octopus Deploy 30 Point Inspection
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Mon, 06 Feb 2023 - 38min - 230 - Philip Japikse: Professional C# in .NET - Episode 230
An international speaker, Microsoft MVP, ASPInsider, MCSD, PSM II, PSD, and PST, and a passionate member of the developer community, Phil has been working with .NET since the first betas, developing software for over 35 years, and heavily involved in the agile community since 2005 as well as a Professional Scrum Trainer. Phil has taken over the best-selling Pro C# books (Apress Publishing), including "Pro C# 10", is the President of the Cincinnati .NET User’s Group (Cinnug.org), and the Cincinnati Software Architect Group, co-hosted the Hallway Conversations podcast (Hallwayconversations.com), founded and runs the CincyDeliver conference (Cincydeliver.org), and volunteers for the National Ski Patrol. During the day, Phil works as the CTO for Pintas & Mullins. Phil always enjoys learning new tech and is always striving to improve his craft.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:22] What were the key points that steered Philip along his career and watershed moments?
[6:42] The importance of having a contract in place for every job.
[8:14] Philip talks about honing his craft and putting himself in rooms with people he admired.
[11:01] What did the Library of Congress have to do with Philip’s book?
[18:00] As the CTO of a private company, what does Philip think about the software executive role?
[19:33] Don’t ask your employees to do anything they’re not willing to do for you. Trust your employees and let them grow.
[24:11] The best leaders don’t have to be in management.
[24:53] What is an NCO, non-commissioned officer?
[27:15] Phil shares his view on object-oriented programming in the modern C#.
[32:19] What is technical debt?
[33:50] Another really nice feature built into Entity Framework core, or EF core, is the idea of concurrency checking.
[37:57] When you refactor, you want the end product to be what you would have made it if you had been going from the beginning.
[42:12] Philip talks about running the Cincy Deliver conference.
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Mon, 30 Jan 2023 - 44min - 229 - Stephanie Herr: Database DevOps with Stephanie Herr - Episode 229
Stephanie Herr is a Product Manager for Database DevOps at Redgate Software. She’s been an instrumental part of every Database DevOps product at Redgate for the past 13 years and has spoken at industry conferences such as DevOps World.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:58] Stephanie talks about taking ideas from her previous working experience into Redgate.
[4:29] What makes the database so different from application development?
[6:23] What patterns work the best and which ones haven’t really panned out?
[9:08] The state-based approach vs. migration approach.
[13:30] How do you categorize all the different things that may need to be deployed or changed?
[14:09] What is static data?
[15:44] What is the latest in the Redgate products that everyone should know about?
[21:41] Stephanie talks about the change report and the process behind caching best practices.
[23:10] What is Sequel Fluff?
[26:28] Stephanie talks about the integration with Sequel Monitor.
[27:46] Are the Azure services completely covered?
[30:35] Where does Stephanie see Database DevOps going?
[32:33] Stephanie shares an exciting new announcement!
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Mon, 23 Jan 2023 - 36min - 228 - Brian Lagunas: Modern Web - Episode 228
Brian Lagunas is a Microsoft MVP, a Microsoft Patterns & Practices Champion, leader of the Boise .Net Developers User Group (NETDUG), board member of Boise Code Camp, speaker, trainer, and Pluralsight author. He can be found speaking at a variety of developer events around the world. His talks always involve some form of markup (XAML or HTML), as well as how to build well-architected applications with Prism. In his spare time, he authors courses for Pluralsight, blogs, livestreams about various technologies, and manages the Prism Library. The easiest way to find Brian is on Twitter at @BrianLagunas.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:43] What triggered Brian to go from the Army into programming?
[5:49] Brian started in Java because that’s how new .NET was.
[8:22] What is Reveal, and how many code bases do you have to reach all those places?
[12:37] What is Brian’s thought about using Blazer vs. JavaScript vs. Typescript?
[15:20] How do we bridge the gap between using NPM and Blazer Applications?
[17:31] How does Brian think about the different levels of unit tests of these different types of code, and then what classifications do you create in your test libraries?
[21:47] What is App Builder?
[24:39] What’s the track record of App Builder? Is it already mainstream?
[30:20] What Brian’s team is focused on now is getting that initial application built, generated, out the door, and ready for the developer to implement the logic.
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Mon, 16 Jan 2023 - 37min - 227 - Marco Rossignoli: Automated Code Coverage Measurement - Episode 227
Marco Rossignoli is a Dev at Microsoft on the .NET Test Platform and Code coverage team. He's also the co-maintainer of the Coverlet Collector NuGet package, which has over 100M downloads.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:15] Jeffrey talks about the architect forums he’s hosting and facilitating in 2023. You can register here.
[2:53] Marco talks about how he got into code coverage.
[6:44] Why is code coverage even useful to measure?
[12:40] How does Coverlet work and how is it different from the old ones? How do you run it?
[20:30] Is there any difference in how it works between Azure Pipelines or GitHub Actions or TeamCity?
[21:40] With multiple test suites running, how does Coverlet support pulling all the results together so that you get the one number of code coverage?
[23:40] Report generator merges all of the reports.
[25:16] What exactly is Cobertura?
[26:02] Marco shares why he is excited about Coverlet and the many opportunities it gives us in the future.
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Mon, 09 Jan 2023 - 32min - 226 - A 2023 Happy New Year and 2022 Review - Episode 226
Happy New Year to all here in 2023. It’s going to be a great year. It’s a great time to be a programmer. A great time to be building with .NET; you are going to do great things this year. You have what it takes. You are smart, you have great tools, and you have a great team. You are a great leader. This episode is going to be all about remembering what happened this past year at the podcast.
Topics of Discussion:
[1:15] Jeffrey talks about the architect forums he’s hosting and facilitating in 2023. You can register here.
[1:46] Huge announcement in Microsoft Developer news including:
- Android apps on Windows 11
- ARM processors getting big investments
- Microsoft Dev Box — in preview — dev workstation in the cloud
- Power Pages websites
- Large SKU app service; up to 256GB RAM available for those who need it
- Azure Arc, the new name of Hybrid Azure. And a single-node Azure Stack for remote locations but the programming model of Azure — looking forward to testing it at the right time.
- Azure Container Apps tooling got better, and it became ready for prime time. Every team should be looking at this.
- .NET 7 released.
[4:11] What might the default application stacks and environments look like on the platform in 2023?
- Windows 11
- Visual Studio 2022 w/ ReSharper
- .NET 7
- Onion Architecture
- Blazor for interactive applications
- .NET service workers for back-end jobs and queue listeners
- Entity Framework with Azure SQL — add on other storage services as per application.
- Azure App Service for hosting while prototyping Azure Container Apps.
- Application Insights with the Open Telemetry NuGet packages.
- Azure Pipelines paired with Octopus Deploy (keep an eye on GitHub Actions as they fill out support for scenarios you need).
- NordVPN for developer workstation work-from-home or remote Wi-Fi.
[9:11] When it comes to developer workstations, desktop computers are still giving the most bang for the buck with power, and only a few laptops do the job really well. I have not reviewed all computers, and there are a lot out there. I can vouch for Alienware R series desktops. Liquid-cooled, so they are really quiet, even under full load. Dell Precision laptops are amazing for software engineers. I really wanted to love the Lenovo P1, but the fan was just too loud when it was under load. And we all know that cooling is so important in laptops. When a laptop gets too hot, your BIOS will slow down the processor to keep it from burning up. Then you no longer have a fast processor. And video calls use a good deal of processor, surprisingly — or not. For super mobile laptops that you can use for programming, I really do like the Microsoft Surface Laptop. I wanted to like the Surface Studio laptop, but they inverted the cooling and the battery placement, so it’s very uncomfortable on my lap and my wrists unfortunately under load. The wrist wrest gets really hot. Normally the battery is under the wrist rest, but Microsoft swapped it on this one, so it’s not fun using it as a laptop on your lap or even on a desk while hot and under load.
[13:11] Highlighting some past episodes that will be interesting:
- Highlighting some past episodes over the year that might be interesting.
- With Microsoft Orleans providing a new implementation of the Actor design pattern, we have a two-part series interview with Aaron Stannard, the creator of Akka.NET, episodes 172 and 173.
- On the IoT front, Wilderness Labs has been trucking along creating system-on-a-chip options that run .NET natively and easily. I interviewed founder and CEO Bryan Costanich.
- For those educating themselves for a career in software engineering, my interview with Henry Quillin might be useful. He talks about a programming internship and his education journey, his work earning his Eagle Scout, and how he became a working programmer even as he is just starting university.
- More on embedded. Kevin Kirkus was with us in episode 186. He runs a testing team at Intel doing automated testing for their Xeon processor line. The design necessary for testing in this specialized environment gives us all plenty to think about.
- For team leaders out there, I interviewed Mark Seemann. He wrote a recent book, Code That Fits In Your Head. He talks about the principles that are in the book. I subsequently bought and read the book, and I wish I had this book earlier in my career. Would have saved me a great deal of time.
- On distributed systems, Udi Dahan is always a fascinating gentleman to listen to. Check out episode 192. As the founder and CEO of Particular Software, and the creator of NServiceBus, he is one of the world’s leading experts on distributed systems, microservices, and messaging architectures.
- Time-tested ideas are continually useful. I had the pleasure of interviewing Philippe Kruchten. He worked at Rational Software back when they were at the forefront of the software process in the 1990s. He published a paper outlining a framework for emergent, agile architecture. He didn’t call it that. He called it the 4+1 Architecture, but only because it predated the agile manifesto. If you are an architect, and you aren’t aware of this approach to architecture, give episode 195 a listen.
- For the Blazor developers, I had Steve Sanderson on in episode 202. Steve is the original designer of Blazor, which has become the new default web application on .NET. He shared about the future of Blazor and WebAssembly.
- Because there is so much going on in this space, Daniel Roth also joined me to discuss more Blazor Futures.
- GitHub Actions is being talked about quite a bit. While loads of people are using it for builds, people are scratching their heads about where it fits in regarding deployments. Damian Brady, on the GitHub team and a former employee of Octopus Deploy, sheds light on this in episode 206.
- Scott Hunter joined me in episode 211. He announced his new role at Microsoft running more of Azure development and .NET. He shared quite a bit behind the scenes regarding Microsoft’s strategy there.
- For the UX people. Mark Miller is the Chief Architect of DevExpress, the big UI components company. He has a brilliant user experience mind, and I was able to get him talking in episode 212.
- Telemetry. We all need it to keep our software stable in production. The Serilog and AutoFac maintainer, Nicholas Blumhardt, joined me to discuss the fundamentals of modern logging and telemetry. Check out episode 217 for that.
- More on the testing front, Eduardo Maltez, a software engineer doing some really interesting full system test work shares his thoughts on what makes tests reliable, stable, and fast — and how to fight brittle tests. Episode 224.
- We closed out the year on the security front. With LastPass getting hacked and now Rackspace having a hacking-induced major outage, we all need to take action. Troy Vinson, a multi-certified security professional and certified ethical hacker, gave his perspective on the Rackspace breach and what every .NET team should learn from it.
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Mon, 02 Jan 2023 - 18min - 225 - Troy Vinson: Learning From the Rackspace Security Breach with Troy Vinson - Episode 225
Troy Vinson is a Principal Software Architect at Clear Measure as a CISSP (Certified Information System Security Professional). He is an experienced leader, architect, and problem-solver in Information Systems Security and Software Development technologies and has spent the majority of his career integrating computer science, information science, and cognitive science to assist in software development and the management of information.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:39] Is Troy a Certified Ethical Hacker? If so, what does that mean, and what does he see in the divide of focus between security and programming?
[5:08] What do we know about the Rackspace security breach?
[7:37] How many hosted exchange customers does Rackspace have?
[11:01] Having a contingency plan in place and a recovery plan is very important.
[14:07] What’s the most basic way that someone could start doing this for themselves?
[21:08] Non-malicious use is also a protection against malicious use.
[26:09] What is email protection, and how do you use it?
[28:24] What should development teams be thinking about, security-wise, for their custom applications?
[32:54] The importance of having a software bill of materials so that you have a policy about which software can be used.
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Microsoft Security Engineering
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Mon, 26 Dec 2022 - 37min - 224 - Eduardo Maltez: Full-system testing using Selenium - Episode 224
Eduardo Maltez is a Software Engineer at Clear Measure. He has extensive experience in .NET, including Blazor, SignalR, Azure Service Bus, SQL Server, and all kinds of automated testing. Earlier in his career, he apprenticed under Jeffrey Palermo and is currently building automated full-system tests for a large and complex software ecosystem at one of his clients.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:09] How Eduardo got into programming and the steps he took to make it a full-time career.
[8:04] How Eduardo makes the decision in his head when he needs to use Selenium vs. other tests.
[10:52] Eduardo talks about ShoWorks and the technology components behind it.
[16:27] What does it mean when a test is brittle, and what do you do to make tests that are not brittle?
[18:41] When a test is brittle, it means you can’t really rely on that test. Brittle tests are unreliable tests, in the end.
[23:36] How do you know when to stop a unit test?
[25:44] What are Educardo’s go-to methods for finding the right DOM element?
[33:26] When it comes to rough edges around Selenium itself, it’s not necessarily something that doesn’t work, but it’s something that definitely always causes just a sudden road bump in the test cycle.
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Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - 37min - 223 - David Pine: NET Content Development - Episode 223
David Pine works in Developer Relations at Microsoft, focusing on .NET and Azure developer content. He is recognized as a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and is a Twilio Champion. David focuses on the developer community, actively seeking opportunities to share knowledge through speaking engagements around the world. David advocates for open-source, the .NET Foundation, C#, TypeScript, SignalR, Reactive Extensions, Azure, and .NET. He's a founding member and co-host of the On .NET Live show. Follow David on Twitter at @davidpine7.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:41] What were the high points along David’s career that steered him in the direction of Microsoft, and how has that evolved?
[4:46] Jeffrey’s background in music and how he got into it.
[8:20] Does David believe that the age of the JavaScript SPA front end for .NET developers is over?
[10:32] David discusses his role as a technical writer, with more on the content developer side.
[11:36] David’s show On .NET Live celebrates .NET developers from all over the world.
[12:40] Microsoft has been doing a lot of work recently with GitHub actions. How do we monitor their different versions and use them to the best of our abilities?
[21:17] What level of maturity is Microsoft’s Orleans, and why does David like using it?
[27:10] What are some new samples coming out?
[30:05] What exactly is “globbing”?
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GitHub Actions. NET SDK: Hello from the GitHub Actions: Core .NET SDK
Learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/orleans/
Learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fundamentals/
Learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/devops/github-actions-overview
Learning Blazor (davidpine.net) Davidpine.net/blog/learning-blazor/
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Mon, 12 Dec 2022 - 31min - 222 - Jeff Fritz: Evolving Cloud Architecture - Episode 222
Jeff Fritz is an experienced developer, technical educator, and PM on the .NET team at Microsoft. He founded The Live Coders team on Twitch, and regularly livestreams builds of websites and fun applications. You can follow Jeff for more .NET, .NET Core, and Visual Studio content on Twitch and Twitter at @csharpfritz.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:41] Jeff talks about surviving the .com bomb and his background as a longtime web developer and technical educator.
[3:57] What have been some of the recent developments that Jeff and his team are most excited about at Microsoft?
[5:45] Jeff talks about how the application has been growing and how he’s had some bumps in the road.
[7:40] How to make video clips searchable and discoverable on the web.
[12:12] What made Jeff go for MySQL instead of serverless Azure SQL?
[18:01] What’s the duration of the journey from the first line of code to enterprise patterns?
[21:09] As we grow applications, we need to figure out a better way to show people what happens when you make a mistake, and to help them through the growth.
[27:13] How do you know what’s going to happen at a certain level of production?
[22:48] Does Jeff really believe we’re going to end up at Kubernetes?
[32:27] Re-architecting your database architecture.
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Mon, 05 Dec 2022 - 36min - 221 - Brady Gaster: Orleans - Episode 221
Brady is a Principal Program Manager on the Azure Developer Experience team at Microsoft where he works on Orleans, SignalR, microservices, APIs, and integration with Azure service teams in hopes to make it exciting for developers who work on .NET apps to party in the cloud!
Topics of Discussion:
[4:17] Moving around a lot gave Brady a lot of insight into all the different ways that we can benefit developers and all the different opportunities we have to make things better.
[6:30] The people in Docs hack all the time.
[7:01] What is Orleans?
[11:40] What’s the best database to use for distributed applications?
[21:10] Open telemetry gives us the capability of being able to trace messages that go from one end of your system all the way to the other end of your system through multiple silos and multiple clients.
[22:08] The three pillars of observability: logging, distributed tracing (which is really where open telemetry shines), and then metrics.
[26:02] How does the traceability side of open telemetry apply to Azure?
[28:02] What else should we know about Orleans?
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“Brady Gaster on SignalR and More”
Brady Gaster Rock Paper Orleans
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Mon, 28 Nov 2022 - 31min - 220 - Matthew Renze: Developing Your AI Strategy - Episode 220
Matthew Renze is a data science consultant, author, and public speaker. He is the founder of Renze Consulting, an AI consulting company that has trained over 400,000 software developers and IT professionals. His clients range from small tech start-ups to Fortune 500 companies. He is also the President of Serenze Global, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving access to technology education for under-represented individuals by empowering the next generation of tech community leaders. Matthew is currently working on his Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence with a Data Science specialization at Johns Hopkins University. He currently has double degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy with a minor in Economics from Iowa State University. He is a Microsoft MVP in AI, an ASPInsider, and an author for Pluralsight, Udemy, and Skillshare. His interests include AI, ML, data science, mindfulness, technology education, and tech community leadership.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:37] How Matthew got into software development and rebranded himself as a data science consultant before going independent as a consultant. Now, he is in the process of rebranding as an AI consultant, rather than a data science consultant, still with a foundation in data science.
[4:41] What exactly is AI?
[6:23] Matthew discusses what a traveling salesman is.
[9:15] Matthew sorts out the difference between AI and ML for us.
[10:35] Artificial intelligence typically includes a bunch of other tools, in addition to machine learning.
[11:11] We now have more enhanced versions of machine learning that fall under the umbrella of AI, like deep learning, and reinforcement learning, which are all built on top of the idea of machine learning.
[12:12] What are the levels of education that should exist within an organization?
[14:49] What can be automated now that used to not be able to be automated?
[19:03] How GitHub co-pilot can help.
[20:14] What is an AI Factory, and why are people arguing over it?
[21:32] If we can eliminate our busy work, we can essentially get models built quicker, get data science done quicker, and get things automated quicker.
[22:20] The DevOps platform.
[27:40] One of the biggest questions that remain with AI is if we end up with more jobs created as a result of artificial intelligence than are eliminated by it.
[31:32] Okay, let’s say how to pronounce data correctly.
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“Matthew Renze on Data Science for Developers”
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Mon, 21 Nov 2022 - 33min - 219 - Donovan Brown: Microservices DevOps - Episode 219
Donovan Brown is a Partner Program Manager in the Azure CTO Incubations team at Microsoft. The Incubations team focuses on forward-looking development and innovation to facilitate the development of new projects and ideas. Before joining Microsoft, Donovan spent seven years as a Process Consultant and a Certified Scrum Master. Donovan has traveled the globe helping companies develop solutions using agile practices in many industries. Donovan is an avid programmer, often finding ways to integrate software into his other hobbies and activities.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:02] Donovan talks about the high points of his career and what led him to work in the Azure CTO incubations team at Microsoft.
[7:14] What are the differences in a DevOps environment for microservices from an interior application?
[9:49] There can be pure and perfect pipelines for microservices, but there's a whole bunch of gray there.
[12:25] Microservices are as small as they can be but no smaller.
[14:22] Donovan shares that what he is thinking about is which of these do I need to scale independently of everything else, and how can he then write it in such a way that it works.
[18:44] Donovan shares why he calls himself “test aware.”
[25:57] How do you decide if a microservice needs to scale separately from the rest of the application?
[31:02] When Donovan thinks of Web3, the first thing that pops into his mind is blockchains.
[32:18] To Donovan, the technology is about the blockchain that underlies it, the ability to write smart contracts that live on that blockchain, and being able to democratize a lot of things that today are centralized through the people who do our authentication for us and who own our data.
[34:53] What’s the current state of DevOps, and where are we on the Web3 curve? Donovan talks about the need to educate yourself about it, and to make sure you listen to a diversity of opinions.
[41:35] NFTs can actually be used for really clever use cases that a lot of people just haven't seen yet.
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How to Use Azure DevOps Services with Donovan Brown
Donovan Brown at MS Ignite 2022
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Mon, 14 Nov 2022 - 44min - 218 - Dave McKinstry: The Evolution of DevOps - Episode 218
Dave McKinstry. Dave is a Director at GitHub helping to drive the FastTrack program. Prior to GitHub, he worked as a Program Manager with the Azure DevOps Services Community Team — connecting with partners and customers, spreading modern practices, and helping developers succeed with DevOps and Azure. Prior to his position at Microsoft, he has been in software services and technical sales for over 30 years. As a consultant, principal consultant, co-owner, and manager, he has always helped people efficiently build better software. He loves what he does as a technologist and enjoys being a part of today's rapid technology evolution.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:05] Dave talks about getting into consulting, and then finding his way to Azure DevOps before joining Microsoft, and ultimately GitHub.
[4:27] What is the difference between Microsoft and GitHub? How do they do things differently?
[7:57] The evolution of DevOps and how it has evolved over time from the start to now.
[9:53] Why DevSecOps is redundant. Security has to be part of everything we do. So security is every engineer and every product owner. For anyone working in your company, security is part of their job.
[11:00] Dave discusses Inner Source.
[15:05] Having cultural trust is extremely important. Can you trust the people that you have working for you to do the best work they can for your organization? If the answer is no, there are probably other problems, other things to worry about.
[16:08] You can see the code of anything external that’s been shared, but there are a lot of organizations with multiple software teams who just don’t automatically give their own employees even read access to the repositories of the other team.
[21:50] Microsoft has kind of done some things to strengthen GitHub, like hosted build agents and others, and then GitHub does things that strengthen Microsoft.
[30:05] Where does Dave think the industry is headed in the future?
[31:51] Regardless of how big the company is, developers should be better empowered.
[32:03] Plug for GitHub Universe.
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Dave McKinstry on Integrating Azure DevOps and the Culture of DevOps - Episode 005
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Mon, 07 Nov 2022 - 33min - 217 - Nicholas Blumhardt: Structured Logging - Episode 217
Nicholas Blumhardt is the Founder/CEO at @datalust_seq, core maintainer for #Serilog, founder of @AutofacIoC, and long-ago .NET PM at Microsoft. He resides in Brisbane, Australia.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:25] Nicholas talks about what got him into structured logging.
[7:09] As a consultant, what surprised Nicholas about structured logging?
[7:57] Rather than just being able to easily pass the logs that he was already writing, Nicholas could think about building something that was more like a developer interface for the app.
[10:07] A lot of people associate the tooling and technology with DevOps, but if you dig back into why we originally set out on that path, it was much more about the practices.
[11:10] Building your systems so that they are easier to run and diagnose issues is really where it’s at.
[12:25] Structured logging is just one tool in the tool belt to achieve observability.
[13:54] What other tools does Nicholas use to gain observability?
[17:09] What is Serilog and how does it serve as an interface for structured logging?
[29:51] Why is Seq useful and why should listeners give it a try?
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Mon, 31 Oct 2022 - 36min - 216 - Isaac Abraham: Farmer for Azure Deployments - Episode 216
Isaac Abraham is an. NET MVP and a .NET developer since .NET 1.0 with an interest in cloud computing and distributed data problems. He is the author of Get Programming with F# and is the director of Compositional IT. He specializes in consultancy, training, and development, helping customers adopt high-quality, functional-first solutions on the .NET platform.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:12] Isaac talks about getting into Software Dev, how he sought to work in a small space where he could learn hands-on about .NET development, and how he has been doing that ever since.
[4:22] How has the landscape changed?
[5:00] Isaac got into Azure during the early days.
[6:59] How is consulting different?
[13:20] What exactly is Farmer, and how do we use it?
[16:44] Does it matter which .NET language the nougat package is pulled into?
[18:29] An F# project can exist nicely in a Visual Studio solution with other C# projects.
[19:59] With Isaac’s unabashed opinion on Farmer, does he prefer having one project that has all of the infrastructure code for both with all the components that are deployed in the application, or does he prefer referencing pharma from the different applications and distributing that logic?
[29:48] Isaac does use Azure Client, but ironically, it’s only to deploy the templates that Farmer generates.
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Get Programming with F#: A guide for .NET developers
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Mon, 24 Oct 2022 - 35min - 215 - Ted Neward: Getting the Most Out of In-Person Conferences - Episode 215
Ted is a self-described geek who takes great pride and joy in making other geeks into bigger and better (and hopefully more highly rewarded) geeks. Having recently stepped into a management role, Ted has been looking for more and more ways to leverage his skills as a “force multiplier” across his entire team to not only better the team itself — but the entire organization as a whole.
Topics of Discussion:
[5:04] Microsoft is probably going to look for ways to do the summit in person, but the pandemic has shown us we can also use remote options for those that don’t want to or can’t travel.
[6:14] Ted discusses some tools that make getting the information at conferences easier and more accessible.
[13:15] We all want to find that tribe; to find that group of people where we feel like we fit in.
[23:10] Ted talks about why he doesn’t love that a lot of conferences are kind of trying to combine professional development and family vacation.
[25:10] Remember that you are at a professional event, and you represent your company. Don’t lose sight of why you are there.
[28:20] What Ted has been playing with these days.
[34:56] The problem with low-code solutions is that they’re designed for hobbyists.
[40:26] The emergence of low-code and no-code tools.
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http://www.lolcode.org/ — lolcode: transpiler, compiler
https://github.com/justinmeza/lci
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane/source/MUMPS-MDH/MumpsTutorial.pdf
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Mon, 17 Oct 2022 - 48min - 214 - Alvin Ashcraft: Windows SDKs - Episode 214
Alvin Ashcraft has over 27 years of programming experience in the healthcare, financial, and manufacturing industries. He is a Content Developer for Microsoft, creating docs for Windows developers on Microsoft Docs. He has authored a book for Packt Publishing titled Learn WinUI 3, and has just published his second book, Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6, out now.
Alvin is one of the founders and organizers of the TechBash developer conference held annually at the Kalahari Resort in Pocono Manor, PA. In his previous life, he worked for consulting firms as a software developer. During those years Alvin developed solutions for clients in the manufacturing, financial, and healthcare industries. Alvin is a blogger, technology geek, family guy, and former Microsoft MVP. He has a wonderful wife and three amazing daughters.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:18] How Alvin got started with his blog, and how blogging made RSS a thing.
[5:48] What exactly does NewsBlur do for you?
[10:10] Are we overstating it when we say that people who work in development need to become expert users of all the frameworks and tools they intend to use?
[12:20] Alvin talks about the inspiration behind his new book, and why he chose parallel programming and concurrency as the topics.
[16:35] Okay, what is it really like having TechBash at the beautiful Kalahari resort?
[22:00] What does the future hold for Windows development?
[24:03] How else can we best be prepared for the future?
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The Documentation landing page on MS Learn: Learn.microsoft.com/docs/
The landing page for Windows developer docs: Learn.microsoft.com/windows/apps/
A list of sample apps and samples repos for Windows developers
Parallel Programming and Concurrency with C# 10 and .NET 6 book
Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32
Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs
Github.com/MicrosoftDocs/sdk-api
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Mon, 10 Oct 2022 - 26min - 213 - Rob Richardson: Web Services in .NET 6 - Episode 213
Rob Richardson is a software craftsman who is building web properties in ASP.NET, Node, React, and Vue. He’s a software developer, a community leader, a mentor, and the business owner of Richardson & Sons. Additionally, Rob is a Microsoft MVP; a published author; a frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events; and a diligent teacher and student of high-quality software development.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:25] Rob starts us off with a cool trick to remember how many days of the month there are.
[5:25] Rob talks about why he invested in getting really good at unit testing and integration testing.
[5:50] What is the big “wow” factor that developers should not miss with .NET6?
[8:35] With minimal APIs, is it different capabilities, or have they mapped all of the capabilities of web API down into those extension methods that you can use?
[10:25] What is the difference between authorization and authentication?
[17:25] What’s Rob’s preferred mechanism for internal private web services?
[21:30] Where Raspberry APIs really shine.
[22:08] Rob tells us about a very cool talk he has coming up.
[27:03] DevContainers is such a magical thing.
[28:02] Rob is digging deep into GitHub actions, and he is starting to build out custom GitHub action tasks for interesting things.
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Mon, 03 Oct 2022 - 29min - 212 - Mark Miller: The Science of Great UI in Software - Episode 212
Today’s guest is Mark Miller, a seven-year C# MVP with strong expertise in decoupled design, plug-in architectures, and great user interfaces. He is the Chief Architect of the IDE Tools division at Developer Express, as well as the visionary force behind productivity tools like CodeRush. Mark is a top-ranked speaker at conferences around the world and has been creating tools for software for almost four decades. On top of all that, Mark also streams live C# and typescript coding and design on Twitch.TV/CodeRushed!
Topics of Discussion:
[2:45] Mark lives in Spain without speaking Spanish.
[4:09] Over the recent months, they have made DevExpress free for everyone.
[9:49] How did CodeRush start?
[11:37] Products like CodeRush typically are leaders in innovating new features that are often incorporated into the IDE.
[12:09] Intellicode is a brilliant innovation.
[17:08] Mindset tips on using features to make your product better, and to make the important function available where the user is.
[21:49] Mark shares the key to winning long-term in the IDE world — discoverability.
[26:03] You want it to be easy for your customers to discover how to use the app, and what features are in the app.
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“Mark Miller on Developer Productivity — Episode 37”
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Mon, 26 Sep 2022 - 45min - 211 - Scott Hunter: Microsoft’s Azure & .NET Strategy- Episode 211
Topics of Discussion:
[2:27] What are some things happening and that have happened at Microsoft that we may not be aware of?
[7:25] Scott talks about some of the upcoming developments he is excited about that will make using the cloud in the future even better.
[9:00] Scott’s favorite part of that whole journey was that reboot, learning from the shifts and the ebbs of the industry and, asking how to make .NET the right product for that next wave.
[12:20] Scott also talks more about Microsoft's strategy with Azure & .NET.
[27:41] Scott gives a preview of the Azure Dev CLI.
[30:52] What is the difference in strategies between Azure and .NET, and how do we bring those together?
[36:59] What are the big things that we need to put on our calendar for this fall?
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Mon, 19 Sep 2022 - 39min - 210 - Rocky Lhotka: CSLA - Episode 210
Rockford Lhotka is the creator of the widely used CSLA .NET open-source development framework. He is the author of numerous books and regularly speaks at major conferences around the world. Rockford is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP. He is co-chair of Visual Studio Live!, and the chair of the Cloud & Containers Live! Conferences. Rockford has worked on many projects in various roles, including software architecture, design and development, network administration, and project management. Over his career, he has designed and helped to create systems for bio-medical manufacturing, agriculture, point of sale, credit card fraud tracking, general retail, construction, and healthcare.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:00] How an arcade game led Rocky to his career in software architecture, design, and development.
[5:05] What is CSLA, and what problems does it solve?
[8:40] Rocky defines business logic and what is not considered business logic.
[17:11] Rocky discusses his object-oriented approach, and inspiration from computer science Professor David West.
[19:25] A function library is where each rule is a function or a procedure.
[20:58] Rocky thinks that using object-oriented concepts is the way to go.
[23:51] Rocky’s preferred naming convention is to use a verb in the name.
[28:20] CSLA tries as much as possible to give you this home for business logic and then also provides some buffer between your business logic and everything from Windows Forms all the way up through Blazer.
[30:00] How does CSLA like to be used?
[31:00] The CSLA framework is geared around an architecture where you have, at the center, this business logic layer, and below that you have a data access layer, and above that, you have an interface control layer.
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Mon, 12 Sep 2022 - 38min - 209 - Steve Smith: Domain-Driven Design and Architecture - Episode 209
Steve works with companies that want to avoid the trap of technical debt by helping their teams deliver quality software quickly. Steve and his team at NimblePros have been described by clients as a “force multiplier,” amplifying the value of existing development teams. Steve’s client list includes Microsoft, Quicken Loans, Celina Insurance, and many other satisfied customers. And he also offers career coaching to developers through Dev better.com.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:20] What is onion architecture?
[4:07] Steve discusses Domain-Driven design.
[5:15] Domain-Driven Design is all about how to take big complicated problems in software, and break them up into smaller pieces that we as developers can isolate, think about, design, test, and then construct together in a modular fashion with other pieces.
[6:00] The key concepts of Domain-Driven Design.
[9:13] How and why DDD came about.
[12:28] Why Steve thinks about it in terms of having a bounded context per application that you deploy.
[16:33] Historical records of things should always be duplicate data. There should be a snapshot of the data at that time.
[17:06] Where should people begin if/when they are new to the book?
[17:54] What exactly is clean architecture?
[23:01] Steven talks about having one infrastructure project where there are all these dependencies versus multiple.
[24:09] Steve names the three main projects.
[30:49] Very mature and high-stakes professions have chosen to put constraints on themselves, and with positive effect. How can we take this into architecture and design?
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Mon, 05 Sep 2022 - 35min - 208 - Mathias Brandewinder: Math and Machine Learning using .NET - Episode 208
Mathias Brandewinder enjoys solving challenging business problems with software engineering and applied mathematics techniques, and some creativity. His current focus is on functional programming with F#, machine learning, and data science, and on putting them together to help companies make smarter decisions with their data. He loves teaching and mentoring, and is a regular speaker at conferences and community events all over the world. A former Microsoft F# MVP, he holds an MS in Operations Research from Stanford, an MS in Economics from University of Paris X, and an MBA from ESSEC.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:15] Mathias talks about how his love of math got him into programming.
[5:57] Mathias discusses what intrigued him about F# and the scripting environment.
[6:29] What about when a computer’s version of a number doesn’t really line up with the math version of a number?
[11:51] What issues does F# help more than C#?
[15:22] What is Mathias’s favorite charting component for .NET?
[18:27] What inspired Mathias to write his book, Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers, and is there a new book on the horizon?
[20:09] Mathias is here to say math can be genuinely fun!
[24:03] Jupiter appears to be an on-the-fly evaluator of code that runs on a server somewhere through the browser.
[29:13] What other math-related libraries should we be aware of, and what are some other resources we can check out?
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Five obscure charting tips with Plotly.NET
Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers
Get Started with OR-Tools for C#
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Mon, 29 Aug 2022 - 31min - 207 - Jeffrey Palermo: The Process of Architecture - Episode 207
This is a special episode. I wanted to interrupt our fabulous stream of expert guests to talk about a topic that I think needs to be talked about, and that is architecture. What is it? What should we think about it, and how do we approach the process of architecture? To derive the verb, how do we go about determining and implementing a fitting architecture? To architect. If you are in this role, what is it that you do? What thought progression do you use? I’ll share some thoughts on that from 25-plus years of programming, and then I have a very special announcement at the end, so be sure to check that out.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:19] Architecture is the intersection of the process that we use for software and the structure we want the software to be. Right there in that intersection is where leadership is required.
[4:22] What are the building blocks of architecture, and what is the progression from the smallest building block up to the most complex and large software system?
[9:24] If you’re creating a very, very small piece of software, you don’t need much architecture.
[11:08] Jeffrey breaks down the term “monolithic” and how it relates to code.
[11:15] If monolithic is bad, isn’t “polylithic” bad too?
[15:18] What makes an application an application, and not just a library? An application is greater than a library because it has abstractions, and then it has configurations.
[28:12] Special announcement: new video show is launched! Check out Programming with Palmero.
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.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
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Mon, 22 Aug 2022 - 31min - 206 - Damian Brady: GitHub Actions - Episode 206
Damian Brady is a Developer Advocate at GitHub. He's a developer, speaker, and author specializing in DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 20-plus year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:45] How does Damian describe the landscape between Microsoft and GitHub?
[4:12] What is it about automated development that jazzes Damian up?
[5:57] Damian describes the lay of the land with GitHub Actions.
[10:39] Does GitHub have a package repository?
[14:19] For your build, you can keep them as just artifacts that are for that particular workflow, or you can create a package and put it into one of those package repositories for later retrieval.
[14:25] Damian talks about the transition to deploying to the first pre-production environment in your chain.
[19:12] What do the non-secret variables look like?
[22:09] To what extent is there still overlap from Azure, and how does it deviate?
[26:22] There are two options: there are actions that are in the marketplace, and then you can also run your own scripts.
[30:10] Damian and his team are building around a pretty core experience where you have a project that you’re deploying to multiple environments.
[34:24] How is Octopus Deploy similar? How is it different?
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Damian Brady On DevOps for Data Science and Machine Learning
Chris Patterson on Github Actions
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Mon, 15 Aug 2022 - 37min - 205 - Greg Leonardo: Architecting for Azure - Episode 205
Greg is a Cloud Architect that assists organizations with cloud adoption and innovation and is currently a Public Cloud Architect at AT&T. He has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Greg has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is currently the president of TampaDev a community meetup that runs #TampaCC and various technology events throughout Tampa. Greg holds a certification as a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and is an Azure MVP.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:45] Businesses still struggle with how to manage costs, even with all the new things that have surfaced in Azure.
[3:30] Understanding your cost structures is critical.
[6:20] What does the mindset look like?
[6:43] What the heck is a Microsoft Certified Azure solutions architect expert?
[9:09] The biggest thing that Greg can impress upon architects is that you're not always in control of your own destiny.
[10:01] What is Greg’s favorite Diagramming Method or diagramming tool?
[11:52] How does one go about making decisions and projecting what the monthly bill is going to be for a given application?
[16:20] When building a service, Greg tries to start in the serverless arena, and then moves up from there.
[25:13] What is the direction we are heading with Azure?
[28:33] The go-to solutions that Greg has his teams use for just their individual network security for their own computer when they're not in a corporate building.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Greg Leonardo Takes an Azure Deep Dive
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Mon, 08 Aug 2022 - 31min - 204 - Daniel Roth: Blazor Futures - Episode 204
Daniel Roth is a principal product manager on the ASP.NET team working on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and other web features. He has previously worked on various parts of .NET, including System.Net, WCF, XAML, and ASP.NET. His passions include building frameworks for modern Web frameworks that are simple and easy to use.
Topics of Discussion:
[2:45] Daniel talks about the high points of his career that led him to the ASP.NET team, along with a few changes he has seen in the industry, along the way.
[6:25] The developer ecosystems have been opened up.
[7:40] Daniel talks about Blazor Hybrid.
[9:43] If you have a web app, and you want to just reuse that UI within a native client app, you can have a common set of Blazor components that are used across both.
[10:28] Daniel talks about .NET 7 and how they are taking it to the next level.
[14:46] The Blazor Native Experiment is available through a project called the Mobile Blazor Bindings Project.
[24:03] Jeffrey asks Daniel about his favorite ways that people should be testing the UI level of Blazor Applications.
[27:03] What people should be expecting in the next year.
[34:16] Tooling and debugging is an area we can continue to actively invest in.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
“Daniel Roth On Web Development With .Net 6”
“Egil Hansen on Blazor Testing with bUnit”
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Mon, 01 Aug 2022 - 40min - 203 - Kendall Roden: Azure Container Apps - Episode 203
Kendall is a Senior Product Manager for Azure Container Apps based out of Austin, TX. When she’s not working, Kendall enjoys being outdoors, teaching spin classes, and hanging out with her cat, Koda.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:46] Kendall talks about starting in consulting and building her skill set in customer empathy and understanding the pain points that developers are experiencing.
[4:13] Even if it makes you uncomfortable, lean in as much as you can to opportunities for technical training.
[7:16] What interested Kendall in working on things that are more in running applications vs. doing frameworks for building applications?
[8:09] Even if you’re in operations at an organization, your overall objective is to help developers be more productive and focus on what’s making the company money and help them operate on what their core value proposition is for their customers.
[11:35] Kendall discusses Azure Container Apps and starts with App Service.
[21:02] Is Kendall working on Windows adapting containers?
[24:02] Do you have more control in container apps than you do in App Service, or does that limitation still stay the same?
[30:45] Kendall forecasts the future of container ops adoption and that we will see more and more cohesiveness in terms of the Azure portfolio.
[31:40] What does the pricing model look like?
[41:54] Kendall would recommend at least starting with the Azure Architecture Center.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Kendall Roden on Microsoft Cloud
Youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5rXtjltSImRsDw-sqr3wUDyG_IwlV_HN
Azure Container Apps discord server
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Mon, 25 Jul 2022 - 44min - 202 - Steve Sanderson: The future of Blazor and WebAssembly - Episode 202
Steve Sanderson is working as a developer for Microsoft in the team that brings you the ASP.NET technology stack, IIS, and other web things. Previously he developed .NET software as a contractor/consultant for clients in Bristol and beyond, plus wrote some books for Apress, such as Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework. From time to time, he speaks at user groups and conferences and recently has been running a bunch of training courses on topics such as C#, SQL Server, and of course ASP.NET MVC. Steve has been instrumental in some very visible projects. He started the Knockout.js project in 2010, an early javascript UI framework. He also designed the Azure Portal architecture that anyone using Azure uses daily.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:07] Steve talks about the main steps that got him into Microsoft and his role in Blazor.
[9:04] How does running SQLite in Blazor work?
[13:35] Are there limitations on how long we can have it live between browser sessions?
[15:36] Maui has been the biggest focus for the Blazor team throughout .NET.
[22:36] What is the path of WebAssembly in the family of technologies?
[23:11] What is WASI?
[33:03] What does Steve see in the future and how might we be able to bridge more divides?
[35:36] Steve mentions the different services to check out.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Steve was a guest on the Azure DevOps Podcast back in episode 106 in September of 2020.
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Mon, 18 Jul 2022 - 39min - 201 - Greg Young: CQRS and EventSourcing- Episode 201
Greg Young is an independent consultant and serial entrepreneur. He has 10-plus years of varied experience in computer science from embedded operating systems to business systems and he brings a pragmatic and often unusual viewpoint to discussions. Greg coined the term “CQRS” (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and it was instantly picked up by the community who have elaborated upon it ever since. He’s a frequent contributor to InfoQ, a speaker/trainer at Skills Matter, and also a well-known speaker at international conferences.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:24] Greg talks about being poached from university and his path to computer science, starting in the lottery and horse racing systems.
[7:25] Greg defines CQRS at the base level.
[9:24] What is event sourcing?
[11:25] How does it look in database technology?
[19:19] How does asynchronous processing work with event sourcing?
[22:44] Greg talks about causation ID and correlation ID.
[26:49] If someone is running on Azure, what technology would be associated with the stream of event sourcing?
[27:27] When you’re event sourcing, your events are your concept of truth.
[28:15] What’s the relationship between event sourcing and CQRS?
[31:16] How has Greg’s method of explaining these concepts changed over time?
[31:36] When you teach something, you both get a better understanding of the thing that you’re teaching, and you get a better understanding of how to teach it to somebody.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Greg Young YouTube
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Mon, 11 Jul 2022 - 38min - 200 - Tomas Petricek: Cultures of Programming - Episode 200
Tomas Petricek is a lecturer at the University of Kent and a partner at fsharpWorks. He believes that the most fundamental work is not the one solving hard problems, but the one that offers new ways of thinking. He follows this belief in his academic research on programming systems and the history and philosophy of computing, but also in his writing on functional programming and in his F# training and consulting.
Before joining Kent, Tomas did a Ph.D. on context-aware computations at the University of Cambridge, worked on F# tools in Microsoft Research, and built novel tools for data exploration at The Alan Turing Institute.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:19] The Turing Institute, and a little bit more about Alan Turing.
[6:01] How can we distill 70 years into something understandable in a reasonable period?
[8:52] What were the early cultures of programming?
[14:00] Fortran programming and how ALGOL was designed by a sort of more academic crowd as a universal programming language.
[15:00] We hear some well wishes from listeners and past guests for the 200th episode! Thank you!
[21:27] Tomas discusses hacker culture and how the term programmer has changed over the years.
[26:06] Tomas’s prediction on where the culture of programming is going next.
[27:03] The amazing ad for a programming system called Flow-Matic.
[29:22] Why we need escape hatches is because there is a fundamental flaw with no-code and low-code approaches.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
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Mon, 04 Jul 2022 - 42min - 199 - Daniel Vacanti: Measuring Agile Software Teams - Episode 199
Daniel is a 20-year software industry veteran who got his start as a Java Developer/Architect. He has spent most of the last 15 years focusing on Lean and Agile Practices. In 2007, he helped develop the Kanban Method for knowledge work. He even managed the world’s first project implementation of Kanban that year and, ever since, has been conducting Kanban training, coaching, and consulting. As the co-founder and CEO of ActionableAgile, Daniel provides industry-leading predictive analytics tools and services for any Lean-Agile process.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:19] Daniel explains why he feels as though the right curriculum is not yet taught in college.
[8:00] It’s important to bridge your conversations both in terms of the risk and your ability to deliver on a date in terms of risk. Then, you can have a conversation about what you want to do as a business to mitigate the risks and also accept that they are there in the first place.
[10:14] Daniel explains his more data-informed approach when asked how long something is going to take. Jeffrey asks, but how do we find the data that helps us make informed decisions in the first place?
[14:43] What are those numbers that give the right visibility?
[16;03] The four aspects every manager of a software team should have at their disposal and be monitoring:
- Work in progress Throughput Cycle Time The age of items that they are working on right now
[19:00] Our ability to come up with ideas is always going to outstrip our ability to execute them. That’s why backlogs grow over time.
[21:49] Daniel explains the method to go from using Azure DevOps to having numbers at your disposal, and what are the two important pieces of data that you need?
[24:41] How does the ActionableAgile tool help when every team board is totally different?
[28:44] If your engineering practices are continuous, your process should be continuous as well.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Daniel's previous interview: “Daniel Vacanti On ActionableAgile”
Daniel's latest book: When Will It Be Done?
LinkedIn: danielvacanti
Twitter: @danvacanti
Email: Daniel@ActionableAgile.com
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Mon, 27 Jun 2022 - 38min - 198 - Andrew Lock: Web Applications in .NET6 - Episode 198
Andrew Lock is a senior software engineer at Datadog, working out of Devon, in the UK. He is a Microsoft MVP, Author of ASP.NET Core in Action, and has an active blog all about his experience working with .NET and ASP.NET Core.
Topics of Discussion:
[3:35] Andrew discusses the high points in his programming career that steered him to work with .Net6.
[5:30] Andrew walks us through all the .NET frameworks and demystifies the overwhelm around all the options.
[9:38] Andrew’s favorite method at the moment for web applications on top of .NET is Razor Pages.
[12:53] Does anyone really want web applications?
[15:31] Andrew explains his philosophy and experience and guidance on testing.
[19:18] Is there any kind of structure or pattern that people should be thinking about to keep the classroom lessons not overflowing?
[26:16] What web applications would Andrew recommend?
[30:19] The topic of custom applications and components comes up.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
ASP.NET — email jeffrey@clear-measure.com for a chance to win a free copy of ASP.NET Core in Action from Andrew Lock.
— available book discount code: — Permanent discount code for Manning publications (35% off I believe), for all listeners, podazdev19
Andrew Lock | LinkedIn | Github | Endpoints
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Mon, 20 Jun 2022 - 34min - 197 - Nick Orlowsky: Deciding to Major in Computer Science - Episode 197
Nick is a rising Sophomore college student at The University of Texas in Austin, TX. He’s majoring in computer science and knew from a much earlier age that programming would be his career calling. He was a leader in his high school computer science classes and even competed in the Microsoft ImagineCup competitions, UIL competitions, Hackathons, and much much more. He works for various companies on programming projects during schooling and is currently spending this summer programming for Home Depot corporate.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:35] Nick talks about how he got into computer programming and how he knew that programming would be his career calling.
[5:53] Nick talks about stacking his high school curriculum with computer science classes.
[8:50] What type of technology classes are offered at Nick’s college in computer science, and what type of classes are required vs. optional?
[12:28] Did Nick have to ramp up on new tech stacks, or did he already know the ones he uses now?
[15:02] Nick talks about the skills he thinks computer science majors need to be successful.
[19:55] It’s easy to get distracted in general, but coding is so much more fun than just watching YouTube or scrolling on social media.
[22:52] Nick learned typing from Typing.com.
[25:57] What is Nick’s 10-year plan and what languages or tools is he dabbling in now?
[27:12] The larger the project becomes, the more impossible it is to do it without a team.
[27:49] Nick gives his advice to young and aspiring computer science majors and programmers. Find something you want to build, and take a couple of months to work on that.
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
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Mon, 13 Jun 2022 - 29min - 196 - Aaron Palermo: Zero Trust Networking - Episode 196
Aaron is a DevOps engineer, solution architect, and all-around cybersecurity expert. He works for a global cybersecurity services company, is a member of the Cloud Security Alliance, and is a co-author of the up-and-coming Software Defined Perimeter Specification Version 2. Since last time (episode 18), Aaron was 1.5 years overseas supporting the Army and moved back to the U.S. last year to join Appgate as a Senior Solutions Architect.
Topics of Discussion:
[4:11] What types of things has Aaron observed that programmers don’t typically gravitate towards, but they need to give some attention to in just the overall IT and security space?
[9:42] Should developers be thinking about zero trust just for their production environments, or should they be thinking about it for their own working environments, as well?
[13:30] Is there a standard set of tags that someone could use from day one?
[15:15] A core tenet of Zero Trust is Enterprise Identity Governance.
[17:35] Do the cloud providers already have this mechanism of automatically discovering via tags and/or is there something that needs to be added to what they provide?
[22:36] What are the pros and cons of working with smaller vs. bigger companies?
[24:41] What does Aaron see for the future?
Mentioned in this Episode:
Architect Tips — New video podcast!
Clear Measure (Sponsor)
.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer’s Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!
Jeffrey Palermo’s Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events!
Appgate — The leader in Zero Trust Network Access solutionsEO 14028 — Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity Presidential memo on Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles CISA’s focus on Zero Trust — 508 search results CISA’s Zero Trust Maturity Model document NIST — Implementing Zero Trust Architecture Cloud Security Alliance — Software Defined Perimeter and Zero Trust Platform One — “An official DoD DevSecOps Enterprise Services team for the DoD” leveraging CNAP for secure remote access to cloud resources. Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Native Access Point (CNAP) Reference Design (RD)Want to Learn More?
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