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With a lack of control and power to specify what hardware is required when publishing your app has left Frank in a predicament. We discuss what Apple could do to improve this for developers.

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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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Here are some interesting articles, blog posts, videos, podcasts, and GitHub repositories I’ve run into over the last week (April 22, 2024 - April 28, 2024)

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure - Other Software Dev - Tech and Science - Leadership - Project Management / Agile - Social Media - Non-Tech / Random - Videos - Podcasts - GitHub Repos

My Favorite Links from the Week

• FTC bans all new non-compete clauses and strikes down most existing agreements - Lisa Stiffler
• Tales from the .NET Migration Trenches - Authentication - Jimmy Bogard
• Why we suck at estimating software projects - Nick Hodges
• Let your brain settle down - Robin Copple
• The gift of ambition - DHH
• A quick look back at Windows 3.1 which hit the RTM stage 32 years ago this week - John Callaham

Microsoft / Dotnet / Azure

• Wolverine’s New PostgreSQL Messaging Transport - Jeremy D. Miller
• Will Visual Studio Be Migrated to .NET Core and Become Multi-Platform?
• Hacking together an AsciiMath parser for .NET - Andrew Lock
• Enhance your .NET Testing #8: Contract tests with Verify - Pierre Belin
• Does readonly make your code faster? - Steven Giesel
• Don’t Do This With Extension Methods - Adam Storr
• Mastering SOLID Principles in C#: A Practical Guide - A. Yohan Malshika
• Refactor your C# code with primary constructors - David Pine
• Dev Home 0.13 is out with improved widgets and new Windows customization - Taras Buria
• What’s new for .NET in Ubuntu 24.04 - Richard Lander
• How to Create a Zip File in Memory in C# - Matjaz Prtenjak

Other Software Development

• How GitHub Actions can turn your code into a Docker daemon - Andrew Coleman
• Today I Learned: LibYear - Cameron Presley
• Async APIs - don’t confuse your events, commands and state - David Hope
• The guide to Git I never had. - Jake Page
• Securing millions of developers through 2FA - Mike Hanley
• Explaining Trunk Based Development - Mahesh Mallikarjunaiah

Technology and Science

• Get Better at Using Prompts With Deliberate Practice: One technical writer’s little experiment - Diana Cheung
• Ten Amazing Facts About Tornadoes, Explained - Catherine Duncan
• What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction - Colin Marshall

Leadership

• What to Focus On in 1-on-1s
• How to calculate the real ROI of offshore consulting
• The Tarzan Method - James Stanier

Project Management / Agile

• Short Answers to Your Big Questions about User Stories - Mike Cohn
• WIP is waste - Jared Turner

Social Media

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Non-Technology / Random

• Nothing this week; more coming soon

Videos

• What are the chances of YOU existing? A biologist explains
• Azure Update - 26th April 2024 - John Savill
• Adam Savage’s Weird Staplers Collection!
• GenAI in the Enterprise w/ Michael Eaton, Principal Consultant

Podcasts

• Software As An Art - Multithreaded Income Episode 36 with Jamie Wright

GitHub Repos

• https://github.com/Cysharp/Ulid
• https://github.com/jonwagner/Insight.Database
• https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh
• https://github.com/SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe
• https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet
• https://github.com/shouldly/shouldly
• https://github.com/microsoft/go-sqlcmd
• https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS
• https://github.com/kant2002/MetadataDumper

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