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Quote of the Day

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”
-- John F. Kennedy

Software Development

EventBridge Storming — How to build state-of-the-art Event-Driven Serverless Architectures

Many More Much Smaller Steps – First Sketch

Service Ports: Finding a Loosely Coupled Utopia with Event-Driven Serverless

Developer Tools / Libraries

Going Beyond With Advanced Infrastructure as Code Use Cases

Autonomous EventCatalog for documenting EventBridge Events

Business

Startup Make-Believe

Leadership/Management

Managing superstars can drive you crazy

Why Team Leaders Give Up

Professional Development

The Impact of Self-Reflection on Productivity

Personal Development

6 Productivity Techniques Which Won’t Burn You Out

DotNet

Fake It Til You Make It…To Production

Quote of the Day

“It is better to have one person working with you than three people working for you.”
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Software Development

Write Clean Code to Reduce Cognitive Load

The Right Way To Do the API Is Always Negotiated in the Moment

Easy becomes complex

Developer Tools / Libraries

Azure Developer CLI (azd) – November 2023 Release

Visualize Entity Framework Relationships and Additional Query Analysis in ReSharper 2023.3

Create a Pull Request with Summary Difference View Available in GA

Debug Output Filter

Why I Prefer Trunk-Based Development

AI

Embedded Speech is now generally available

The Programmer Gap

Amazon will host free ‘AI Ready’ courses in an effort to attract new talent

New Samples Calling OpenAI from Blazor and MAUI

Introducing Windows AI Studio | Microsoft Ignite 2023

Leadership/Management

In-Depth: How To Prevent High-Performing Teams From Burning Out

The powerful method to make your team Great

The Questions Doc

Web and Cloud Development

Announcing TypeScript 5.3

gRPC vs. REST

Where fetch data in your Blazor components

Seeing Code Execution Differently At The API Gateway

DotNet

Trimming a Fake Object by Mark Seemann

If you’re going to crash on an unhandled exception, you may as well do it sooner rather than later

How To Use EF Core Interceptors

The theory behind the IHttpFilter interface

Database

Importing Flat Files into Azure SQL DB

Strategies for queries against bit columns

Quote of the Day

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Software Development

What are Business Rules? It’s not this.

OKRs in Software Engineering

Developer Tools / Libraries

A Walkthrough of Adopting Infrastructure as Code

An Efficient Design-to-Code Handoff Process Using Uno Platform For Figma

AI

10 Things Developers Want from AI Code Assistants

Business

Code quality: Is this indicator of a well-run software business going overlooked by investors?

Are You Selling a Shovel – Or a Way to Dig a Hole?

Web and Cloud Development

Introducing .NET Aspire: Simplifying Cloud-Native Development with .NET 8

6 security best practices for cloud-native applications

Adding flexibility to authentication with Microsoft Entra External ID custom extensions

DotNet

A more flexible and enhanced way of logging in .NET 8