Practical Microservice Development with Dapr
Practical Microservice Development with Dapr is a comprehensive guide that covers various aspects of developing microservices using Dapr, a portable, event-driven runtime that simplifies building micr...
React Labs: What Weve Been Working On - February 2024
In React Labs posts, we write about projects in active research and development. We’ve made significant progress since our last update, and we’d like to share our progress. React Compiler is no longer...
Introducing ASP.NET Core metrics and Grafana dashboards in .NET 8
Metrics report diagnostics about your app. .NET 8 adds over a dozen useful metrics to ASP.NET Core, including HTTP request counts and duration, number of active HTTP requests, route matching results, ...
@react-three/fiber
react-three-fiber is a React renderer for threejs. Build your scene declaratively with re-usable, self-contained components that react to state, are readily interactive and can participate in Reacts e...
Our Vision for .NET 9
Welcome to .NET 9! We’re at the beginning of another annual release cycle, following the successful launch of .NET 8 a few months back. Our most important focus areas for .NET 9 are cloud-native and i...
Using default interface methods for performance gains in IHeaderDictionary
In this post, Andrew Lock discusses how default interface methods in C# 8 can be used to improve performance. He shows a pull request to ASP.NET Core that optimizes specific usages of the interface. D...
Copilot in GitHub Support is now available!
We’re excited to announce the general availability of a powerful new AI tool designed to help you find answers to your GitHub-specific questions in a fast, self-directed way. Copilot in GitHub Support...
Introducing Pkl, a programming language for configuration
We are delighted to announce the open source first release of Pkl (pronounced Pickle), a programming language for producing configuration. Pkl is designed to provide a blend between a static language ...
IAsyncEnumerable performance benefits | Damirs Corner
Asynchronous streams (i.e., the IAsyncEnumerable interface) were one of the new features in C# 8. However, it didnt get as much attention as some others. Even today, the feature is rarely used and not...
Build accessible and functional Sidenav with Chakra UI
Every web app on the internet has some kind of navigation that allows users to quickly navigate through different pages. In this blog, we will cover how to build a responsive and accessible sidenav wi...
Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe | Lex Fridman Podcast #404

The conversation is about the concept of assembly theory and the complexity of objects in the universe. The chemist from the University of Glasgow, Lee Cronin, explains that every star in the sky like...
Programmer’s Apprentice Season 2: Future Directions in AI-assisted Coding • Erik Meijer • YOW! 2023

The speaker begins by discussing the future of programming and proposes that the current generation of developers may be the last to actually write code. They introduce the concept of Hintons Nightmar...
10 Microservices Design Patterns for Developers
Consider using these popular design patterns in your next microservices app and make organization more manageable. Microservices solve issues with monolithic architectures by having each microservice ...
Tmds.ExecFunction
Tmds.ExecFunction is a library that makes it simple to execute a function in a separate process. This can be interesting for writing tests that require a separate process, or running some code with a ...
Test Driven Development with C# - from Padawan to Jedi - Scott Sauber - NDC Porto 2023

In this talk, Scott discusses test-driven development (TDD) with C, focusing on guiding net developers who may be new to TDD. He clarifies that although the talk assumes the audience hasnt seen TDD be...
Why is it so Hard to Create a Great Platform-as-a-product? • Nicki Watt • GOTO 2023

Nikki Wat, the CEO and CTO of open Credo, a software development consultancy based in London, discusses the challenges of creating distributed architectures, cloud-native systems, data solutions, and ...
Epic: Eventing Framework in .NET 9
This issue captures issues related to the eventing framework work area in .NET 9. Issues and categorizations are grouped under the Epic label. The milestone for this work is 9.0.0.
Current State of C# Platform Support in Godot 4.2
With the recent release of Godot 4.2, projects that use C# can now export to Android and iOS. Let’s take a look at the current platform support for C# projects and what to expect from future releases ...
Zed is now open source
Were excited to announce that Zed is now an open source project. The code for Zed itself is available under a copyleft license to ensure any improvements will benefit the entire community (GPL for the...
Enhancing Language Models with Task-Agnostic Scaffolding
We introduce meta-prompting, an effective scaffolding technique designed to enhance the functionality of language models (LMs). This approach transforms a single LM into a multi-faceted conductor, ade...