.NET Rocks!

Sergey Odinokov, Creator of Hangfire, talks about his experiences building applications that needed background processing. They discuss different processing options, state management, and the challenging problem of building and maintaining an open-source project over a decade.

What can Uno do for you? Carl and Richard talk to Nick Randolph about the latest from the Uno platform. Nick talks about how Uno has continued to evolve into a broad and effective cross-platform client tool while also adding integrations for design and continuous integration. The conversation digs into the challenge of getting from design to development and how the Figma Plugin makes it easier to take designer Figma docs and make them into actual code in Uno. There are also wizards for helping you add Uno UX testing into your CI/CD pipeline and much more. It's an open-source project, so you can take Uno out for a spin today!

David Fowler, Creator of tools to make building cloud-native .NET applications easier, discusses the challenges of cloud-native apps, the benefits of being in a container, and the simplicity of Aspire in taking advantage of being cloud-native.

How do you migrate to .NET 8? Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his experiences helping teams migrate from .NET Framework 4.8 to more modern versions of .NET. Jimmy talks about the team wanting to be able to use ASP.NET Core in their applications as the incentive to make the migration in the first place. The conversation digs into landing on .NET 6 to make migration easier but then wanting to move quickly to later versions to take advantage of the latest features. And no dead-drop migrations - using a reverse proxy to operate the two applications side-by-side so that over months, everything moves across while remaining functional - a great story of migration!

Discussion on ongoing developments in power generation including wind technology, solar power as the fastest-growing source, new concepts in power storage, hydrogen power projects, geothermal energy, and small modular nuclear. Thoughts on COP 28 and progress towards safer power. Happy New Year!

In this annual Space Geek Out, the podcast covers space stories like SpaceX's record number of Falcon 9 flights and Starship's first two flights. They also discuss the International Space Station, moon missions, Crisis in Cosmology due to the James Webb Space Telescope, and recent measurements and discoveries made by the telescope.

Expert Daniel Marbach shares insights on improving .NET performance with profiling and benchmarking. Tools to help are mentioned. Anecdotes on geek outs, iPhone security, and passion for message-based systems are discussed. Memory inefficiency issues, impact of memory allocations, and performance optimizations like value tasks and benchmarking are explored.

It's almost 2024, do we still need to talk about securing our apps? Carl and Richard talk to Laura Bell Main about her ongoing efforts to get everyone involved in creating and operating software to be part of making that software secure. Laura talks about committing one hour of each sprint to security and how, over time, those small efforts can build up to excellent secure guardrails that make our software more resistant to exploitation. Don't push security issues off to someone else - we can all help!

A new version of Polly is out - and it's a special one! Carl and Richard talk to Joel Hulen and Martin Costello about the release of Polly V8. Joel tells the story of Microsoft reaching out about Polly - because it is heavily utilized inside of Azure and at cloud scale, it needed further optimization. The results are a very high-performance library focused on resilience as a whole - with lots of smart defaults so that you can write even less code to have even more resilient applications!

How do we put large language models to work? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his work using LLMs with his customers. Vishwas talks about focusing on specific data sets for building LLMs and how size matters - things are simple when the source data is small, but as it grows, you need more complex tools to be able to allow the LLM to perform. Lots of cautionary tales and ideas on how to get great results from these new automation tools!