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Saturday December 6th

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How the Microsoft SQL team is investing in SQL tools and experiences - Microsoft SQL Server Blog

Explore Microsoft's SQL tooling updates, AI integration, and roadmap for SSMS, VS Code, and DevOps innovations. Learn mo...

Friday December 5th

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"Classic" .NET Domain Events with Wolverine and EF Core

I was helping a new JasperFx Software client this week to best integrate a Domain Events strategy into their new Wolveri...

Thursday December 4th

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Unlock GitHub Copilot's Full Potential: Why Every Repo Needs An AGENTS.md File | Build5Nines

AI-assisted development has rapidly transformed how engineers write code, collaborate, and ship software. GitHub Copilot...

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.NET Conf 2025 Recap - Celebrating .NET 10, Visual Studio 2026, AI, Community, & More - .NET Blog

NET Conf 2025 is over, but you can catch up with all the announcements and fun with video recordings, slides, demos, and...

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Security Surfaces

An important concept in Usable Security is whether a given UI represents a "security surface." Formally, a security surf...

Wednesday December 3rd

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Introducing Data Ingestion Building Blocks (Preview) - .NET Blog

Announcing the preview of open, modular data ingestion building blocks in .NET, empowering developers to build scalable ...

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AutoMapper 16.0.0 and MediatR 14.0.0 Released with .NET 10 Support

With the release of .NET, we've released updated packages of AutoMapper and MediatR targeting .NET 10 (and all supported...

Tuesday December 2nd

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Recent updates to NetEscapades.EnumGenerators: [EnumMember] support, analyzers, and bug fixes

In this post I describe some recent changes to the NetEscapades.EnumGenerators source generator, including support for [...

Monday December 1st

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Domain-Driven Design Misconceptions

Domain-Driven Design misconceptions often come from treating DDD like a checklist of patterns. It's focusing entirely on...

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Cross-Platform Age Verification in .NET MAUI Applications - .NET Blog

Learn how to implement age verification in your .NET MAUI apps with our new cross-platform sample supporting Google Play...

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Welcoming Babu Annamalai to JasperFx Software

Starting today, Babu Annamalai is taking a larger role at JasperFx Software (LLC) to help expand our support coverage to...

Sunday November 30th

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F# Weekly #48, 2025 - #FsAdvent starts Dec 1st.

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Gazelle (A Fast Engine for Structural Engineerin...

Saturday November 29th

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Exploring Squirrly Apache Flink Performance Issues through Continual AI-Driven Evaluation

Last month, I wrote up a blog post discussing a three-phase cycle (profile, analyze, improve) for leveraging LLMs and ot...

Friday November 28th

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Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions

Mac Tahoe (in Beta as of the time of this writing) has this new feature called ...

Thursday November 27th

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Terraform + Azure Multi-Region Naming Convention Across Azure Regions, Resources, And Terraform Modules | Build5Nines

Imagine this: your application goes down in a major Azure region outage. DNS traffic shifts to the secondary region as d...

Wednesday November 26th

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.NET Day on Agentic Modernization Coming Soon - .NET Blog

Join us live on December 9 to explore the newest, most practical ways to modernize your .NET apps with Azure, AI, and po...

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The Worst Security Vulnerability in Akka.NET - And How to Fix It

Tuesday November 25th

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Exploring the .NET boot process via host tracing

In this post we enable host tracing and use that to understand how a .NET app boots up via the dotnet muxer, hostfxr, an...

Monday November 24th

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Minimal APIs, CQRS, DDD... Or Just Use Controllers?

Controllers are old hat. Or are they? Minimal APIs, CQRS, DDD are all the patterns you should be using, right? Not reall...

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Visual Studio - Built for the Speed of Modern Development - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio will adopt the Modern Support Lifecycle as a continuously updated IDE designed to deliver innovation as so...

Sunday November 23rd

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Infinite scale: The architecture behind the Azure AI superfactory - The Official Microsoft Blog

Today, we are unveiling the next Fairwater site of Azure AI datacenters in Atlanta, Georgia. This purpose-built datacent...

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How To Automate Azure Naming Conventions With The Build5Nines/naming/azure Terraform Module | Build5Nines

Naming resources in Azure shouldn't feel like deciphering ancient hieroglyphics. Yet, without a solid standard, names ca...

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F# Weekly #47, 2025 - F# 10 & last #FsAdvent slots

Welcome to F# Weekly, A roundup of F# content from this past week: News Introducing F# 10 - .NET Blog Introducing C# 14 ...

Saturday November 22nd

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How Do You Fix 70% Data Loss Across 1 Million Concurrent Connections?

A case for why you should consider purchasing an Akka.NET Support Plan for your organization.

Thursday November 20th

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Reinventing how .NET Builds and Ships (Again) - .NET Blog

An exploration of how .NET evolved from a distributed build system to Unified Build, dramatically reducing complexity an...

Wednesday November 19th

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Supercharge Your Test Coverage with GitHub Copilot Testing for .NET - .NET Blog

Boost your testing workflow with GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, available now in Visual Studio. Automatically generate...

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Defensive Technology: Ransomware Data Recovery

In a prior installment we looked at Controlled Folder Access, a Windows feature designed to hamper ransomware attacks by...

Tuesday November 18th

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