7 October 2021

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Describe the hat your wearing

Software companies require people from different disciples to run. Developers write code. Business people communicate specs to the…

Open Source in Everyday Life

We often don't realize but open-source projects play a huge role in our life. Today, in this article, I am going to talk about how we use open-source technologies in our everyday life and what would happen if they didn't exist 😱. Some Examples Let ...

Linearizability

Distributed/networked systems employ data replication to achieve availability and scalability. Consistency is concerned with the question o...

Fundamentals of Computing with .NET

This Spring I had a programming mentorship through the F# Software Foundation with the talented Onur Gumus who showed me a number of functional programming concepts using F#. In addition, we also had a lesson on the fundamentals of computing in general, and I …

A "Simple" Recipe for Startup Execution

Has this ever happened to you? Scrolling through your feed, you notice someone raising a trillion dollars for her company. You realize that this huge and inspiring business is the exact same idea you thought of years ago and almost started working on. Not only…

Time to Say Goodbye

A subject that many executives feel incredibly uncomfortable addressing is their ultimate departure. Nothing lasts forever. The average tenure of non-founding executives seems to revolve around thr…

Lightning Round

An assortment of topics that don’t quite deserve their own dedicated blog post.

Object Storage Name Generator

Companies HATE HIM. With one little known trick this developer BEATS major cloud companies

A catalog of wealth-creation mechanisms

One of the guest lecturers aboard the ship [1] (Donald Gibbs, of Pearl-Harbor conspiracy-theory infamy) gave a very interesting talk a few ...

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Why We Moved From Pony To Rust — Wallaroo

Wallaroo delivers pushbutton productionization of ML models today, but that wasn’t always the case. Our new Rust-based platform recently handled millions of inferences a second of a sophisticated ad-targeting model with a median latency of 5 milliseconds, and …

.NET Blog

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Mads Torgersen On C# 10

Mads comes back on show 200 (!) to talk about all things C# 10, which will be released November 2021.

Debugging coroutine handles: The Microsoft Visual C++ compiler, clang, and gcc

How compilers implement coroutines is an implementation detail which is subject to change at any time. Nevertheless, you may be called upon to debug them, so it’s nice to know what you’re looking at. The C++ language requires that any coroutine be resumable fr…

Do not use AWS CloudFormation

Several years ago I actually cared about the differences between AWS CloudFormation and Terraform. Namely, that Terraform did not provide…

Twitch source code leaked online

Fingers 'server config' error that allowed 'malicious third party' to peruse files

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.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.

Top Challenges of Automated End-to-End Testing

Automated end-to-end tests help you build and maintain high-quality applications. See which challenges affect end-to-end testing and learn how to overcome them.

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Solution Filters in Visual Studio

Got a large solution with hundreds of projects? Join PM Kira Weiss as we check out how Solution Filters allow you to selectively choose which subset of projects get loaded in order to improve Visual S

ASP. Net web app Migration to Azure App Services using Azure Migrate and PowerShell Scripts

Azure Migrate is your central place in the Azure portal that provides a unified experience to discover, assess, and migrate your servers, databases, and web apps to Azure. We have recently announced the preview of at-scale, agentless discovery, and assessment …

The Tech Worker Handbook

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Responsible Tech Playbook

Those of us developing software don’t need to be told what a big impact it’s had on humanity this century. I’ve long maintained that this places a serious responsibility on our profession. Whether asked to or not, we have a duty to ensure our systems don’t deg…

Ghostbin

Ghostbin is a website where you can store and share text online.

Bitcoin is a Ponzi

Investing in bitcoin (or any crypto with similar protocol) checks all these items. The investors are all those who have bought or will buy bitcoins; they invest by buying bitcoins, and cash out by selling them. The operators are the miners, who take money ou…

Update on recent VoIP attacks: What should I do if I’m attacked?

Because of the sustained attacks we are observing, we are sharing details on recent attack patterns, what steps they should take before an attack, and what to do after an attack has taken place.