We all need some regular relaxation to avoid burnout. Downtime is a brain break from all the internal processing that our minds do daily and even helps to improve productivity. Read more › The ...

How do you modernize a .NET application? While at NDC Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Mark Rendle about his work on Visual Recode, a tool for migrating WCF apps to gRPC, and dug into the broader story ...

Jon talks to David Ortinau about .NET MAUI. Download / Listen: Herding Code 246: David Ortinau on .NET MAI Link: Introducing .NET MAUI – One Codebase, Many Platforms (.NET blog) Transcript: Jon: Hello, ...

We haven't finished the Site Reliability Engineering book yet as we learn how to monitor our system while the deals at Costco as so good, Allen thinks they're fake, Joe hasn't attended a math class in ...

When you replace a running legacy system with a new system, it can be tempting to do it all at once. However, doing so courts disaster and makes the process much more painful than it has to be. Even ...

What can web components do for you? Carl and Richard talk to Jemima Abu about her work with web components. Jemima talks about the projects she is currently working on, and how UI web components make ...

Our very own Cynthia Kreng, who is a PM in the Worldwide Customer Success Unit focused on Developer acceleration, talks to us about one their first offerings in API Management.   Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode424.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/UusIj1ikvLM Resources: Repo: ...

Incredibly pleased to have one of the pioneers in Agile programming: Robert “Uncle Bob” Martin. Uncle Bob is known for, among other things, his SOLID principles of development. He is the ...

Whether you are a manager, team lead, or executive you will lead several types of people during your time in leadership. From the too reliant who comes to you for everything to the grizzled veteran who ...

How do you know your open source is secure? Carl and Richard talk to Jillian Ratliff about security practices on your own code, and the open-source code you depend on. Jillian talks about some of the ...

We say "toil" a lot this episode while Joe saw a movie, Michael says something controversial, and Allen's tip is to figure it out yourself, all while learning how to eliminate toil.

Kyle Teegarden, a Senior PM in the DevDiv group, gets us re-acquainted with the Redis offering on Azure and discusses all the latest features including the Enterprise tier. Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode423.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/xKA-w7Icn00 Resources: Azure ...

While it's nice to be able to pull in packages to do various things in our projects, we need to think long and hard about how we are going to maintain those dependencies over time, in particular in how ...

How are extensions in Visual Studio changing? Carl and Richard talk to the extension master himself, Mads Kristensen. With over 150 extensions in the Marketplace, Mads has a lot of experience building ...

Thomas Stringer is a Software Engineering Lead in the Open Service Mesh team at Microsoft and he gives us insights into the OSM add-on for AKS and tells us why that makes applications on AKS so much ...

Just like there are multiple ways to use a computer there is more than one way to use your mind. Many different ways exist to focus your thoughts from study and meditation to creating mind maps. Understanding ...

When should you pivot your startup? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his experiences with Abbot - the chatbot designed to work within Slack. Phil talks about starting with Abbot focused on ChatOps, ...

Welcome to the morning edition of Coding Blocks as we dive into what service level indicators, objectives, and agreements are while Michael clearly needs more sleep, Allen doesn't know how web pages ...

The team talks with Pujitha and Sidhanshu about Project Flash, an initiative to improve VM availability monitoring that allows for immediate actions and trend analysis at scale.   Media File: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode421.mp3 YouTube: https://youtu.be/c7vXz-tjQAA Resources: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/advancing-azure-virtual-machine-availability-monitoring-with-project-flash/  https://aka.ms/flashblog   Other ...

Your database is probably the most valuable part of your application, and it can be terrifying to think of it falling apart. Yet, that is just a day in the average developer's life in many companies. Read ...

How do you do Infrastructure-as-Code? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Klug about his experiences with different IaC approaches. Chris talks about using HashiCorp's Terraform - one of the original IaC ...

I’m joined by James Montemagno, Principal Lead Program Manager for .NET Community at Microsoft, and the most enthusiastic person I know. James is the author of the .NET Presentations – .Net ...

.visx files are magic as far as I’m concerned. Mads takes us through their history and how they have become much easier to create.  vsixcookbook.com Yet Another Podcast is available wherever you ...

Microsoft MVP, Director of Solution Architecture at WTW and all things Azure expert, Sam Cogan, joins us for an in-depth discussion on Infrastructure as Code. He shares his views and give us valuable ...

Understanding how you think will help you to improve your ability to learn, understanding how others think will guide you in utilizing their talents to compliment your own. Whether it's creative thinking, ...