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The countdown to Microsoft Build 2025 is on! Calling all .NET developers: prepare for an exciting lineup of .NET and C# content. Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, there’s something for everyone to dive into and enjoy. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to learn and connect with the rest of the .NET and Microsoft community. Join us either in-person in Seattle or from the comfort of your own home on May 19-22. ...
This post is to announce that I have finally released the 1.0.0 version of the NetEscapades.AspNetCore.SecurityHeaders project. This version addresses some longstanding requests for extra functionality, updates the supported target frameworks, and obsoletes some old behaviours. Many of these changes were introduced in preview versions, the 1.0.0 includes only minimal changes compared to the previous 1.0.0-preview.4 package. In this post I provide a quick overview of the library, and then discuss the major changes made in this release, compared to version 0.24.0. ...
Cloudflare is not just another technology company. It’s a mission-driven force, committed to helping build a better Internet; one that is faster, safer, and more resilient. That mission is more critical than ever as organizations worldwide navigate an increasingly complex digital landscape, rife with cyber threats, regulatory challenges, and the need for scalable, cost-effective solutions. In EMEA, that mission has special significance. The region is a patchwork of diverse markets, industries, and regulatory environments. It demands a partner-centric approach, one that empowers businesses of all sizes to harness Cloudflare’s comprehensive connectivity cloud platform to protect, connect, and accelerate their operations. That’s why I joined Cloudflare as VP of EMEA Partnerships. ...
I’m digging out of a reading backlog after last week’s full-time conference program. Today’s reading list has some remaining Cloud Next content, but also other interesting tidbits. [blog] DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication. Let’s do this. The potential for things like this seems enormous. [article] Google mobilizes partners to drive agentic AI across clouds. I like that our agent-to-agent protocol has buy-in across SaaS vendors and implementation partners. It’s not an engineering-focused spec; it’s about solving real problems. More here. ...
As we conclude Developer Week 2025, we’re proud to reflect upon the capabilities we’ve added to our developer platform. It’s so rewarding to deliver products, features and tools that help developers build smarter and ship faster, and even more so hearing your responses throughout the week! Our VP of Product, Rita Kozlov, kicked off Developer Week 2025 discussing the ever-evolving landscape of development, particularly in the age of AI. AI is no longer just a buzzword or a trope for a science-fiction future — in the realm of modern development, it’s a core tenet (and utility) of how we build, innovate, and solve problems. It’s influencing how and how frequently we ship code, as well as enabling anyone to write it. ...
Top Links Choosing a framework to build a native app on Windows with .NET (Matt Lacey) Key Features of .NET Aspire 9.2: Enhance Your Microservices Part 1 (Christian Nagel) Host remote MCP servers in Azure Container Apps (Anthony Chu) What the heck is MCP and why is everyone talking about it? (Cassidy Williams) INotifyPodcastChanged Episode #2 – Resources to learn about Windows Development (Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme) Introducing sub-issues: Enhancing issue management on GitHub (Shaun Wong) ...
In the world of DevOps and Developer Experience (DevXP), speed and efficiency can make a big difference on an engineer’s day-to-day tasks. Today, we’ll dive into how Slack’s DevXP team took some existing tools and used them to optimize an end-to-end (E2E) testing pipeline. This lowered build times and reduced redundant processes, saving both time and resources for engineers at Slack. The Problem: Unnecessary Frontend Builds For one of our largest code repositories (a monolithic repository, or monorepo), Slack has a CI/CD pipeline that runs E2E tests before merging code into the main branch. This is critical for ensuring that changes are validated across the entire stack for the Slack application: frontend, backend, database, and the handful of services in between. However, we noticed a bottleneck: building the frontend code was taking longer than expected and occurred too frequently, even when there were no frontend-related changes. Here’s the breakdown: ...
View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, incident.io: We’ve just raised $62M at incident.io to build AI agents that resolve incidents with you. See how we’re pioneering a new era of incident management. https://go.incident.io/blog/incident.io-raises-62m Scaling Nextdoor’s Datastores: Part 4 In this part of the Scaling Nextdoor’s Datastores blog series, we will see how the Core-Services team at Nextdoor keeps its cache consistent with database updates and avoids stale writes to the cache. ...