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Software Development podcast hosted by Dan Clarke (@dracan on Twitter). Slightly bias towards .NET and Azure, but covering lots of other topics such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, productivity, the list goes on!
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Naming things is hard! - with Nick Cosentino
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In this episode, I was joined by Nick Cosentino (DevLeader on the socials) to chat about refactoring code. We also discussed various other things, like automated testing, and how AI might affect us as developers, and much more! For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here…
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In this group episode, I was joined by Carl Sargunar, Lotte Pitcher, Carole Rennie Logan, and Callum Whyte, to discuss the Umbraco community and CMS! We chatted about the amazing community around Umbraco, as well as the features of the CMS itself. It definitely made me want to reach for Umbraco next time I need a CMS! For a full list of show notes,…
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Modular Monoliths - with Steve "ardalis" Smith
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In this episode, I was honoured to be joined by Steve “ardalis” Smith to chat about Modular Monoliths! We discussed the benefits of going down the Modular Monolith route instead of moving to microservices. We also chatted about how MediatR can help with this, and also about creating online courses. For a full list of show notes, or to add comments …
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Live Panel Discussion at DDD South West 2024
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This was the first episode we’ve done which has been recorded live with an audience! It was hosted at the DDD South West conference in Bristol (UK), and I was joined by a panel of speakers. After introductions, I kicked off the conversation with a question about AI - and then we went from there, taking further dev-related questions from the audienc…
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Serverless, AWS, and .NET - with James Eastham
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In this episode I was joined by James Eastham to initially to chat about AWS and Serverless with .NET… but we ended up covering a whole lot more! We chatted about OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, Rust, and our Dometrain courses too! James Eastham is a Senior Cloud Architect at Amazon Web Services and content creator. He has over 10 years of experience in…
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C# and Blazor - with Mads Torgersen, Dan Roth, and Scott Hunter!
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In this episode, I was honoured to be joined by Mads Torgersen, Dan Roth, and Scott Hunter!!! 🤯 We chatted about Blazor in .NET 8; C#12 interceptors, C#13, C#36 (you have to listen 😉), source generators, discriminated unions, AOT, and Stephen Toub’s performance blog posts! Mads, Dan, and Scott all work for Microsoft, and are heavily involved in .NE…
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GitKraken - with Justin Roberts and Eric Amodio
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In this episode, I was joined by Justin Roberts and Eric Amodio to chat about the GitKraken Git client. We chatted about its features, and also what it’s been like working on it. We also spoke about the GitLens VS Code client. Justin is the Senior Director of Product at GitKraken, and has been leading the design of the GitKraken Git Client. Eric is…
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In this episode, I was joined by Gary Ewan Park to chat about Chocolatey, and what it’s been like as a developer working on it. Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows, and it’s a tool that I’ve used for many years - so really enjoyed chatting with Gary about it! Gary is a Principal Software Engineer at Chocolatey Software and Microsoft Visual …
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Speed mentoring and the power of Community - with Mia Gordon
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In this episode, I was joined by Mia Gordon to chat about speed mentoring! I was recently invited to a speed mentoring event that she organised, and it was such a fun event and great idea and concept - that I invited her onto the show to chat about it! We also spoke about the power of community, and how big a difference it can make to your career a…
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Platform Engineering and IaC - with Shahid Iqbal
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In this episode, I was joined for a second time by Shahid Iqbal, this time to chat about Platform Engineering and Infrastructure as Code! We discussed what Platform Engineering means, and also different IaC tools. And Shahid’s undying love for Pulumi! 😂 Shahid is a Principal Platform Architect at Auror based in Auckland NZ, and is also an Azure MVP…
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In this episode I was honoured to be joined by Scott Hunter to chat about the announcements from .NET Conf 2023! The main areas we discussed were C#12 features, the new .NET Aspire, C# Devkit, Native AOT, and also touched a bit on Blazor. As always - it’s an exciting time to be a .NET developer! For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - p…
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Hexagonal Architecture - with Valentina Cupać
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In this episode, I was joined by Valentina Cupać to chat about Hexagonal Architecture. We discussed what Hexagonal Architecture is, how it can help us build better software, and the difference between it and other similar architectures, such as Clean and Onion Architecture. Valentina is a Technical Coach at Optive, helping development teams deliver…
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In this episode, I was joined for the second time by Nick Chapsas! This time, we chatted about his new Dometrain teaching platform. Nick started off creating courses on his own website, nickchapsas.com, which he’s recently rebranded to Dometrain and reached out to other authors to also create courses - myself included! I’ve recently released a Dock…
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In this episode, I was joined by the host of The Modern .NET Show, Jamie Taylor to chat about both .NET and podcasting! We also chatted about various other things like productivity, remote working and life balance, supporting junior developers, and plenty more! For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - please see the website here…
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In this episode, I had great fun chatting with Laïla Bougriâ about NServiceBus and how it can help with your distributed architecture. From its support for observability (including OTel) and dashboarding, to sagas and pub/sub. Even zombie and ghost messages! (spooky!). And as has been known to happen on this show - we did end up going on a tangent …
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RavenDB Database Internals - with Oren Eini
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In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Oren Eini about RavenDB and diving deep into the world of database internals. We explore the intricacies of how databases work under the hood and discuss the challenges - especially around performance. Oren Eini, also known as Ayende Rahien, is the Founder and CEO of RavenDB, a leading NoSQL docu…
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Cleaning your Big Ball of Mud using CQS - with Matt Hunt
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In this episode, I was thrilled to be joined by Matt Hunt to chat about using the CQS pattern to improve your codebase quality and help avoid writing those ‘Big Ball of Mud’ code-bases that sadly we see way too often in our industry! CQS (Command Query Separation) is a pattern that states that a method should either be a command that performs an ac…
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We Are .NET - with Tim Cadenbach and Matthias Jost
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In this episode, I was joined by both Tim Cadenbach and Matthias Jost to chat about the exciting new .NET community - We Are .NET! At its core, it’s a community portal aggregating and presenting videos, blogs, twitch, and other feeds of any creator with .NET content. However, it’s not just content aggregation though - and is becoming a rapidly grow…
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In this episode, I was joined by Steve Gordon to chat about the Elastic Stack, and his work on the Elasticsearch .NET client. Steve is a senior engineer at Elastic, maintaining the .NET client libraries. He’s a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, speaker, and blogger, and user-group organiser. For a full list of show notes, or to add comments - plea…
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In this episode, I was joined by Ian Cooper to chat about the Brighter and Darker frameworks. Brighter is a framework for building messaging applications with .NET and C#. It can be used with an in-memory bus, or for interoperability in a microservices architecture allowing out of process messaging via a wider range of middleware transports. And Da…
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In this milestone 50th episode (🥳🎉🍻) - I was joined by David Wengier to chat about how .NET’s hot reload works! We covered how the metadata in dotnet assemblies work, and how hot reload manipulates this data in various ways in memory to do its thing. We also touched a bit on the whole hot-reload dotnet drama thing! 🤫🙈 We had quite a fun chat afterw…
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In this episode, I was joined by Mattias Karlsson to chat about Cake! Nope, not the food - something _even better_! Cake is a build orchestration tool where your builds scripts are written in C#. There are tons of addons for most tasks you can think of, and it's easy to write your own. And you can run these all locally just like you would on the bu…
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In this episode, I was joined by Isaac Levin that chat about… way too many things to put in an episode title, that’s for sure! 😂 We decided to not have a particular topic in mind - and just chat and see where the conversation took us! We ended up talking about podcasting, working remotely and the pandemic, general career stuff, public speaking, con…
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Application Security - with Tanya Janca
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In this episode, I was joined by Tanya Janca to chat about Application Security (or AppSec for short!). We chatted about various topics - from security topics and training, to her book and online community, to public speaking! Tanya is the founder and CEO at We Hack Purple, which is an online learning academy, community and weekly podcast that revo…
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In this episode, I was joined again by Joseph Woodward to geek out on Vim! Joe joined us on the last episode to talk about the Go programming language - and as we’re both huge fans of Vim, we decided to stay on and record a second episode chatting about it! In it, we talk about both the Vim way of using the keyboard (Vim keybindings), and also Vim …
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