Reading Notes #638

Welcome to Reading Notes —a curated dive into the latest and greatest in programming, cloud, and AI. From mastering multithreading with Azure to exploring GitHub Copilot's productivity potential, this collection is brimming with knowledge. Let's unravel what's new, innovative, and worth your attention!

Cloud

• Azure Functions – Part 1 (Jesse Liberty) - Quick launch of a series about Azure Function.

• How to Multistream Using Azure, Azure VM, MonaServer 2, and FFmpeg with OBS Studio (Maho Pacheco) - That's a very cool idea! This post also made me understand better how those things work.

Programming

• Dapr v1.15 is now available (Dapr project maintainers ) - This new release is anticipated by the community with new features and many bug fixes

• Building a CRUD API with ASP.NET Core Web API and PostgreSQL (M. Oly Mahmud) - This is a nice step-by-step tutorial with all the code snippets required to get started.

• .NET Aspire 9.1 is here with six great new dashboard features, and more! - .NET Blog (Maddy Montaquila) - Learn more about many dashboard updates in this post like the grouping, theme, localization and logs management.

AI

• Let's Learn .NET: GitHub Copilot Event - .NET Blog (James Montemagno) - A new cool event is coming up to improve our productivity. Learn how to use copilot as a developer.

• Claude 3.7 Available for Visual Studio - Having options is interesting, I should try Claude to see the difference.

Sharing my Reading Notes is a habit I started a long time ago, where I share a list of all the articles, blog posts, and books that catch my interest during the week. 

If you have interesting content, share it! 

~frank

Reading Notes #301

Programming

• Botwin offers an interesting alternative option for routing with ASP.NET Core (Scott Hanselman) - Interesting “addon” for web dotnet project, it’s something that worth some more time.
• Writing Precompiled Azure Functions in Visual Studio 2017 – Visual Studio Magazine (Jason Roberts) - Good little post that introduces the new Azure Function project part of Visual Studio. Sweet!

Data

• ASP.NET Core Identity and PostgreSQL (Mark Rendle) - Nice quick fix.
• Avoiding circular dependency errors in DAX (Alberto Ferrari) - Very interesting post that explains how to avoid (or understand why we have) circular references.
• Put your databases on autopilot with a lift and shift to Azure SQL Database (Lindsey Allen) - This post shares the different type of SQL Database available for us in Azure and briefly explains when each of them is at his best.
• Why data modeling is important in #powerbi (Marco Russo) - Interesting thoughts about data modeling.

Miscellaneous

• My First Year as an MVP, part 1 (Jen Kuntz) - Interesting post. It feels soooooo familiar, and yet so far now. I look forward to meeting you in March fellow Canadian MVP.