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Dew Drop – June 10, 2025 (#4436)

Top Links TechBash 2025 Early Bird Registration Extended 3 Weeks – Check Out This Week’s Featured Speaker from Microsoft (TechBash Team) GitHub for Beginners: Code review and refactoring with GitHub Copilot (Kedasha Kerr) What’s New in Angular 20? (Mydeen S N) You can now try Microsoft’s new Start menu for Windows 11 (Tom Warren) Next edit suggestions available in Visual Studio GitHub Copilot (Simona Liao) WWDC 2025: all the news from Apple’s annual developer conference (Allison Johnson) ...

How GitHub engineers tackle platform problems

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> In my spare time I enjoy building Gundam models, which are model kits to build iconic mechas from the Gundam universe. You might be wondering what this has to do with software engineering. Product engineers can be seen as the engineers who take these kits and build the Gundam itself. They are able to utilize all pieces and build a working product that is fun to collect or even play with! ...

How Lyft Uses ML to Make 100 Million Predictions A Day

Database Benchmarking for Performance: Virtual Masterclass (Sponsored)Learn how to accurately measure database performance Free 2-hour masterclass | June 18, 2025 This masterclass will show you how to design and execute meaningful tests that reflect real-world workload patterns. We’ll discuss proven strategies that help you rightsize your performance testing infrastructure, account for the impact of concurrency, recognize and mitigate coordinated omission, and understand probability distributions. We will also share ways to avoid common pitfalls when benchmarking high-performance databases. ...

Partial Keyframes

CSS Keyframe animations are so much more powerful than most developers realize. In this tutorial, I’ll show you something that completely blew my mind, a technique that makes our keyframe animations so much more reusable and dynamic! 🤯 Keep reading.

SQL and NoSQL Query langauge support come to ReSharper!

ReSharper’s query language support for SQL and NoSQL provides C# developers with a more convenient way to work with SQL and NoSQL code directly in Visual Studio with ReSharper, supporting multiple SQL dialects beyond just T-SQL. It includes syntax highlighting, code analysis, auto-completion, and quick fixes to boost efficiency and catch issues early. Based on DataGrip The SQL and NoSQL support now available in ReSharper integrates with Visual Studio’s SQL editor. Visual Studio runs the query, but ReSharper is the tool that helps you write it. Whether you’re doing DBA work or just querying a database, query language support in ReSharper goes along with your workflow just like other beloved JetBrains tools. Additionally, the query language features include formatting and quick fixes to give you a smooth and low-friction development experience. All these features are made possible because of the integration between ReSharper and DataGrip! ...

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Daily Reading List – June 9, 2025 (#564)

I’m back! Sort of. Vacation is over, and now I’m in Sweden for customer meetings and local events. I’ve got a pile of links to read through, but we’ll chip away at it together. [article] It’s not your imagination: AI is speeding up the pace of change. These Mary Meeker reports are always interesting to read. I haven’t gotten through all of it yet, but it reaffirms things I thought I knew. Direct link here. ...

Dew Drop – June 9, 2025 (#4435)

Top Links AI-powered Relight and Search now available in Microsoft Photos (Yvonne Hsieh) Debuting new enhanced controls for picture-in-picture in Microsoft Edge (Patrick Brosset) Michael Washington: The Nature Of Data – Azure & DevOps Podcast Episode #353 (Jeffrey Palermo) Apple’s WWDC 2025: How to Watch and What to Expect (Reece Rogers) ROG Xbox Ally Handhelds Revealed: Experience Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Gears of War: Reloaded and More – Wherever You Go (Joe Skrebels) This is how Microsoft is combining Windows and Xbox for handheld PCs (Tom Warren) ...

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Our New Book, Mobile System Design Interview, Is Now Available

Our new book, Mobile System Design Interview, is available on Amazon! Check Out Now Book author: Manuel Vicente Vivo 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞?- An insider's take on what interviewers really look for and why. - A 5-step framework for solving any mobile system design interview question. - 7 real mobile system design interview questions with detailed solutions. ...