.NET Rocks!

Discussing the advantages of Modular Monoliths in .NET, balancing simplicity and complexity, performance benefits, evaluating tools, and managing shared resources. Exploring transitioning from microservices, challenges with databases, scalability options in cloud computing, communication strategies, and architectural decisions for efficient team collaboration.

Exploring the observability tipping point with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites, discussing telemetry support, sending telemetry to enhance application understanding, the importance of cloud-native development, and advancements in open telemetry for better solutions in the industry.

Rocky Lhotka talks about updating CSLA to support Blazor in .NET 8, discussing server vs. client-side rendering, challenges with mixed render modes, and transitioning to the cloud. Also, they touch on skill development through deliberate practice, optimizing applications with WebAssembly, and using Blazor Maui for cross-platform app development.

Martine Dowden, author of the book Tiny CSS Projects, joins Carl and Richard to discuss improving your CSS skills. They explore the architecture of styling, updating styles version-to-version, and the practical applications of CSS. Learn how to level up your CSS game!

Irina Scurtu discusses the improved tooling with gRPC, including using Postman for interactions and decoding binary data. The conversation also covers the complexities of metadata, supporting multiple platforms and type systems, for fast and flexible communications.

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!