9 September 2021

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The Fog of Random

An inside look at the Fog of Lost in Random

AWS SIGv4 and SIGv4A — shufflesharding.com

In the time it takes to read this sentence, the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service will handle several billion requests. Pretty close to every one of those requests is authenticated using the AWS SIGv4 protocol, before IAM authorization policy is…

Running My Business From an iPad

Earlier this year, I decided to get an iPad as a more portable work device. I haven’t owned an iPad since the first generation models back in 2010,...

Fix My Code

Engineering alone can't fix what's wrong with the internet.

Weekly Update 260

I Got AirTags; The Aussie COVID Thread; Czech Republic on HIBP; Burning off Fingertips and Biometrics

~60x speed-up of Linux

I’ve recently been using cargo-flamegraph to profile syndicate-server.

ASP.NET 6.0 Minimal APIs - Why should you care? - Ben Foster

The response to ASP.NET 6.0 Minimal APIs has been fairly mixed. In this post I attempt to address some of the questions and concerns raised by the community and explain why Minimal APIs are an important step forward for ASP.NET.

Data Consistency Between Microservices

In a system where many users are collaborating concurrently it can be difficult to manage data consistency between microservices. Do you need consistency? M...

.NET Conf 2021

Join the .NET Conf 2021 free virtual event November 9-11 to learn about the newest developments across the .NET platform, open source, and dev tools. Mark your calendar!

Creating Pivot indexes in RavenDB

I got an interesting question by email and I thought that this is worth a post. The question was whatever RavenDB can handle Pivot tasks. Consider the case w...

GraphCMS, GraphQL, and Nextjs - Let's Build A Static Site

I tried out a new headless CMS in GraphCMS, and it was really easy to work with. In this video, I'll show you how to set up data models, create data, allow p...

Ordering asynchronous updates with coroutines, part 4: Bowing out, explicit version

Last time, we looked at the “Everybody tries, but only one wins” pattern, in which everyone calculates a result, but only the last one gets to save it. While this does work, we noted that there’s an inefficiency: Every calculation runs to completion,

How Docker broke in half

The game changing container company is a shell of its former self. What happened to one of the hottest enterprise technology businesses of the cloud era?

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

Refactoring to Value Objects

One of the most common refactorings I find myself suggesting to my clients these days is to introduce value objects into their domain model and entities. Here's a quick overview of how that works.

New Improved Attach to Process Dialog Experience

With Visual Studio 2022, we promise to bring new tooling to improve the inner loop productivity and debugging experience. In addition, we have several exciting debugging updates, and the new attach to process dialog experience is one of them. We have added com…

Apples in MAUI

Let’s take a look at some common stumbling blocks for .NET MAUI development on MacOS and ways to get around for a smooth developer experience.

Windows 11: The Optimization and Performance Improvements

The Windows 11 team gives an exclusive look at the Windows 11 performance optimizations, improvements to the Windows servicing model and orchestration engine, as well as policy management and the rationale behind Windows 11 system requirements. Steve Dispensa,…

Ship / Show / Ask

Ship/Show/Ask is a branching strategy that helps teams wait less and ship more, without losing out on feedback.

OSS Power-Ups: CliWrap | The .NET Tools Blog

Join us Thursday, 23rd September 2021, 16:00 - 17:00 CEST (10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST or check other timezones) for our free live webinar, OSS Power-Ups: CliWrap, with Alexey Golub. Register now and get

Does Ivermectin Cause Sterility in Men?

One study purportedly found that 85% of men who were given the anti-parasitic were sterile following the research period.

MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

For the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created. The demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the…