Securing your NextJS Web Application with AWS Amplify and Cognito
Learn how to secure your NextJS application with AWS Amplify and Cognito in this tutorial. AWS Amplify is an open-source library that manages AWS services like Cognito while NextJS is an open-source f...
Verify - Simplify Assertion of Complex Data Models and Documents
Verify is a snapshot tool for assertion of complex data models and documents. It simplifies the assertion process and stores serialized results in a file to match the test name, and compares it agains...
Going from Architect to Architecting: the Evolution of a Key Role
Software architecture has evolved significantly over time, moving away from a command and control approach to a coaching and mentoring role. In this article, the authors explore the challenges of tran...
5 New MVC Features in .NET 7
Many new features were introduced in ASP.NET Core in .NET 7, including route groups, filters, and minimal APIs. However, MVC controllers were not forgotten, and this post discusses the new MVC feature...
AWS is changing: Announcements at AWS re:Invent show a kinder, gentler Amazon, ready to integrate its own services and third-party data sources.
AWS made a host of new services announcements at re:Invent 2022. AWS Chief Evangelist, Jeff Barr, summarized the most impactful announcements, but then they proceeded to spend more than 2,700 words hi...
Dont Fail Publishing Events! Event Driven Architecture Consistency

Consistency is crucial when working with event-driven architecture to ensure that relevant events are published when making state changes. This is because events are first-class and driving workflows ...
Generic Math Extended Example - C# 11 Feature
C# 11.0 Generic Math is a powerful extension to the already capable generic types system present in C#. This blog post explains the changes needed to add this neat feature, including new interfaces an...
Mapping Event Type by Convention
Events are a vital part of Event-Driven Architecture, representing business facts that happened in our system. To integrate business workflow steps, we need to define the mapping between the code type...
Testing asynchronous processes with .NET Channels for efficient and reliable concurrency
Learn how to use .NET Channels to handle multi-threaded concurrency in a performant and reliable manner. This article discusses how to catch all handled events and forward them to EventListener using ...
Amazon RDS - PostgreSQL for .NET Developers
PostgreSQL, an open-source database with advanced performance features such as multi-version concurrency control, is a valid alternative to traditional relational databases and NoSQL databases. It als...
Azure Visualizer, aka AzViz
Azure Visualizer aka AzViz is a PowerShell module that automatically generates Azure resource topology diagrams by just typing a PowerShell cmdlet and passing the name of one or more Azure Resource Gr...
Introducing Central Package Management - The NuGet Blog
Managing dependencies for multi-project solutions can prove to be difficult as they start to scale in size and complexity. In situations where you manage common dependencies for many different project...
Announcing ComputeSharp 2.0 – run C# on the GPU with ease through DirectX 12 and D2D1!
ComputeSharp 2.0 is a .NET library that enables running C# code in parallel on the GPU through DX12, D2D1, and dynamically generated HLSL compute shaders. This library is designed to make GPU computin...
FeatBit - feature flags management platform
FeatBit is a scalable, fast, and 100% open-source feature flags management platform that enables teams to ship software safer and faster, measure the impact of features’ rollouts, run A/B tests to imp...
Securing a .NET Azure Function with Azure AD
In this tutorial, learn how to secure Azure Functions with Azure AD using the Microsoft.Identity.Web library to validate tokens and authorize access. The tutorial includes a sample project available o...
Using Azure Functions Middleware to Access ClaimsPrincipal in Azure Static Web Apps
Learn how to access client principal data in Azure Static Web Apps using Azure Functions middleware. This functionality provides authentication-related user information that can be accessed directly o...
Frozen collections in .NET 8
In this article, Steven Giesel discusses the new area where the dotnet team is working on Frozen collections in .NET 8. He goes on to explain what frozen collections are and how they work. Steven furt...
How to Make the Fastest .NET Serializer with .NET 7 / C# 11, Case of MemoryPack
In this article, Yoshifumi Kawai explains how to create a fast and practical serializer with the release of MemoryPack. MemoryPack is a new C#-specific serializer that performs much faster than other ...
A Primer on Distributed Systems Observability
Explore the complexities of modern distributed systems architectures with this informative post by Boris Zaikin. Discover what makes a good observability platform and what the observability subsystem ...
Microsoft Power BI and Python: Two Superpowers Combined - Real Python
Microsoft Power BI is a data analysis and visualization tool used for business intelligence, now with the ability to script with Python. Learn how to install and configure the Python and Power BI envi...