.NET Rocks!

By Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell

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.NET Rocks! is an Internet Audio Talk Show for Microsoft .NET Developers.

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.NET Rocks! episodes:

04.18.2024
Programming with Speech and AI with Karl Geitz
Can speech become part of your development workflow? Carl and Richard talk to Karl Geitz about his use of NaturallySpeaking to create software in Visual Studio. Karl talks about using voice to write better, longer comments in his code and...
04.11.2024
Domain Control Plane and Azure with Anthony Eden
How do you manage your DNS? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Eden of DNSimple about his latest product, the Domain Control Plane. Anthony talks about how everyone has DNS—and usually in more than one place. Getting a common view...
04.04.2024
GitHub Copilot Update with Michelle Duke
GitHub Copilot has been out for a few years now - how is it going? Carl and Richard talk to Michelle Duke about what's been happening with GitHub Copilot. Michelle discusses the new features in GitHub Copilot, including Chat, which...
03.28.2024
API Observability with Anthony Alaribe
Do you understand how your APIs are being used? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Alaribe about his experiences dealing with poorly documented APIs that need updates - but no breaking changes! Anthony tells a story about missing a use...
03.21.2024
Aspect-Oriented Programming in 2024 with Gael Fraiteur
How has Aspect-Oriented Programming changed? Carl and Richard talk to Gael Fraiteur of PostSharp fame about his new tool, Metalama. Gael talks about being able to move out of IL and into Roslyn Analyzers to help you get rid of...
03.14.2024
Azure in 2024 with Magnus Mårtensson
It's 2024, how is Azure doing? Carl and Richard chatted with Magnus Mårtensson about his work with customers migrating and operating in Azure. Magnus talks about the waste many organizations have in cloud resources, often by provisioning services with too...
03.07.2024
Modular Monoliths in .NET with Steve Smith
Modular Monoliths strike the middle ground between monoliths and microservices! Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about his work striking a balance between the simplicity of a monolithic set of services and the complexity of breaking everything into microservices....
02.29.2024
The Observability Tipping Point with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites
Has observability hit a tipping point? Carl and Richard chat with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites about the various products and technologies today to make observability a vital part of a successful application. Steve talks about telemetry support hitting a...
02.22.2024
CSLA 8 with Rocky Lhotka
Another version of CSLA? Yes! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his work keeping CSLA up-to-date with the latest .NET features. And now, with .NET 8, CSLA 8 has strong support for Blazor! Rocky talks about getting deep...
02.15.2024
Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden
How do you improve your CSS skills? Carl and Richard talk to Martine Dowden about her new book, Tiny CSS Projects. The book is built around twelve progressively more complex CSS tasks - you can follow along to learn in...
02.08.2024
gRPC Update with Irina Scurtu
What's the latest with gRPC? Carl and Richard chat with Irina Scurtu about her latest work with gRPC. Irina talks about the improved tooling with gRPC, including tools like Postman to help you see what's happening in a gRPC interaction,...
02.01.2024
Hangfire with Sergey Odinokov
How do you handle background tasks? Carl and Richard talk to Sergey Odinokov about Hangfire, his open source project for background job processing in .NET. Sergey talks about his experiences building applications that needed background processing and hoping to find...
01.25.2024
Uno Platform Update with Nick Randolph
What can Uno do for you? Carl and Richard talk to Nick Randolph about the latest from the Uno platform. Nick talks about how Uno has continued to evolve into a broad and effective cross-platform client tool while also adding...
01.18.2024
.NET Aspire with David Fowler
Coming out of .NET Conf, one of the big announcements was .NET Aspire. Carl and Richard talk to David Fowler about his work creating the tools to make building cloud-native .NET applications easier. David discusses the challenge of not re-creating...
01.11.2024
.NET 8 Migration with Jimmy Bogard
How do you migrate to .NET 8? Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his experiences helping teams migrate from .NET Framework 4.8 to more modern versions of .NET. Jimmy talks about the team wanting to be able to...
01.04.2024
Energy in 2023 Geek Out
Let's start 2024 with a conversation about energy! Richard chats with Carl about ongoing developments in power generation around the world. Wind technology is maturing but also hitting size limits. Solar is the fastest-growing power generation source on the planet...
12.28.2023
Space in 2023 Geek Out
Time for the annual Space Geek Out! Richard summarizes many of the important space stories of the past year, including SpaceX's record number of Falcon 9 flights and the first two flights of Starship. The conversation also explores the state...
12.21.2023
.NET Performance with Daniel Marbach
How do you improve the performance of your .NET applications? Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Marbach about his work building high-performance .NET applications and the process he goes through to get them to perform at the level his customers...
12.14.2023
Agile Application Security with Laura Bell Main
It's almost 2024, do we still need to talk about securing our apps? Carl and Richard talk to Laura Bell Main about her ongoing efforts to get everyone involved in creating and operating software to be part of making that...
12.07.2023
Polly V8 with Joel Hulen and Martin Costello
A new version of Polly is out - and it's a special one! Carl and Richard talk to Joel Hulen and Martin Costello about the release of Polly V8. Joel tells the story of Microsoft reaching out about Polly -...
11.30.2023
Applied Large Language Models with Vishwas Lele
How do we put large language models to work? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his work using LLMs with his customers. Vishwas talks about focusing on specific data sets for building LLMs and how size matters -...
11.23.2023
Sustainable Development with Lea Mladineo
How do we make our software greener? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Lea Mladineo about her work in sustainable development. Lea talks about the impact of digital technology on the environment and how, with some...
11.16.2023
React Server Components with Aurora Walberg
How can React Server Components make your website better? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Aurora Walberg about her work with RSC and Next.js 13. Aurora discusses mixing server and client rendering - and server rendering...
11.09.2023
Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova
How do you commercialize open-source products? While at NDC Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Victoria Melnikova about her work with Evil Martians, helping startups make open-source products and make a living at the same time. Victoria talks about various...
11.02.2023
.NET Conf with Jeff Fritz
Are you ready for .NET Conf? Carl and Richard talk to Jeff Fritz about the latest version of .NET coming out - and the online event that celebrates it! Jeff talks about his top ten favorite sessions in the show,...
10.26.2023
Observability Engineering with Charity Majors
What is observability engineering, and why do you need some? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard recorded a .NET Rocks Live with Charity Majors, one of the founders of Honeycomb. Charity talked about her experiences trying to understand...
10.19.2023
bUnit Update with Egil Hansen
What's the latest with bUnit? Carl and Richard chat with Egil Hansen about his excellent testing library for Blazor. Egil digs into the ongoing improvements being made in Blazor and how bUnit can support those changes without having to rewrite...
10.12.2023
Data Sharding with Oren Eini
What is data sharding, and why do you need it? Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini about his latest work on RavenDB, including the new data sharding feature. Oren talks about the power of sharding a database across multiple...
10.05.2023
Kubernetes Tooling with Annie Talvasto
How do you make Kubernetes easier to use? While at the Copenhagen Developers Festival, Carl and Richard talked to Annie Talvasto about her work with Kubernetes and the Cloud Native Compute Foundation. Annie talks about the easy and hard ways...
09.28.2023
Azure and GitHub with April Edwards
Azure and GitHub - better together? While at the Copenhagen Developer Festival, Carl and Richard talked to April Edwards for a special .NET Rocks Live. April talked about how Azure and GitHub work well together, discussing Azure DevOps and GitHub...
09.21.2023
Data Science and UX with Grishma Jena
Data Science and UX should be the best of friends! While at the Copenhagen Developer Festival, Carl and Richard talked to Grishma Jena about her work in data science at IBM - and working closely with the UX teams to...
09.14.2023
IoT Development using Particle Photon with Colleen Lavin
What can you do with a Particle Photon? While in an aluminum Airstream trailer in a thunderstorm at the Copenhagen Developers Festival, Carl and Richard talked to Colleen Lavin about her work with the Particle Photon IoT device - and...
09.07.2023
Mediatr with Jimmy Bogard
How about some in-process messaging with no dependencies? Carl and Richard chat with Jimmy Bogard about his work with MediatR, a simple mediator pattern implementation in .NET. Jimmy talks about how MediatR emerged from his work with customer applications having...
08.31.2023
Applied Large Language Models with Brian MacKay
How can a large language model help your application? Carl and Richard talk to Brian MacKay about his work with large language models, including ChatGPT - and others! Brian talks about how LLMs continue to evolve and the limitations they...
08.24.2023
Minimal Architecture with Jeremy Miller
How much architectural ceremony is enough? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Miller about his minimal approach to architecture when building software, including his products Wolverine and Marten. Jeremy talks about how good tooling can simplify architecture, ultimately by writing...
08.17.2023
Chocolatey in 2023 with Gary Ewan Park
How is Chocolatey evolving? Carl and Richard talk to Gary Ewan Park about the latest with the open-source Windows package management solution. Gary discusses some of the differences between the various package managers for Windows these days, including WinGet. Each...
08.10.2023
Leveling up your Architecture Game with Thomas Betts
How's your architecture game? Carl and Richard talk to Thomas Betts about being a better architect. Thomas focuses on the key aspect - communication! An effective architect can talk to all the stakeholders in the language of the stakeholder, whether...
08.03.2023
The Ethics of Large Language Models with Amber McKenzie
Large Language Models like GPT-4 are all the rage - how do we use them well? Carl and Richard talk to Amber McKenzie about the challenges and concerns around LLMs, especially regarding the data involved. Amber talks about the risks...
07.27.2023
Modular Monoliths with Layla Porter
Microservices or Monoliths? Carl and Richard talk to Layla Porter about choosing a middle ground between microservices and monoliths, with modular monoliths. Layla talks about the pushback from the community around microservices and the insistence that there is "one right...
07.20.2023
Multi-Model Data Stores with Ted Neward
Databases continue to evolve! Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward about multi-model data stores - which, these days, are most databases! Ted talks about how SQL and NoSQL are not that different - it's only a query engine. But...
07.13.2023
Fluent Assertions with Dennis Doomen
What can we do to make testing easier? Carl and Richard talk to Dennis Doomen about Fluent Assertions, an open-source set of extension methods to help write better tests. Dennis talks about working on Fluent Assertions for over a decade...
07.06.2023
Scaling a Monolith with Derek Comartin
How do you scale a monolith? Carl and Richard talk to Derek Comartin about his blog posts and YouTube series around scaling a monolith. Derek talks about the tendency for folks to want to split a monolith into microservices without...
06.29.2023
Going Full Time on Open Source with Shaun Walker
Can you quit your job and work full-time on your open-source project? Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker about his recent move to focus on Oqtane, the open-source application framework and CMS he has been developing for the past...
06.22.2023
Azure Developer CLI with Savannah Ostrowski
How do you get your app running in Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Savannah Ostrowski about Azure Developer CLI (azd), an open-source tool to help developers using .NET, Javascript/Typescript, Python, Java, and more to get deployed into Azure. Savannah...
06.15.2023
Building Apps using OpenAI with Mark Miller
How can OpenAI help you program faster? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about his experiments with OpenAI and CodeRush. Mark talks about the power of building agents to analyze code to write comments and tests - in parallel...
06.08.2023
OpenTelemetry with Laïla Bougriâ
What can OpenTelemetry do for you? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard talked to Laïla Bougriâ about her experiences with the open-source library that can help give you more insight into the behavior of your applications. Laïla talks...
06.01.2023
No Free Lunch in Machine Learning with Jodie Burchell
When it comes to machine learning, there is no free lunch! While at Techorama in Antwerp, Carl and Richard talked to Dr. Jodie Burchell about her experiences working with machine learning models, including the large language models that drive tools...
05.25.2023
PHP and WebAssembly with Jakub Míšek
The power of .NET means PHP can run in the browser efficiently! Carl and Richard talk to Jakub Míšek about PeachPie using WASM. Jakub talks about how easy it was to deploy PeachPie, the .NET implementation of PHP, into WebAssembly,...
05.18.2023
Immutable Architectures with Michael Perry
What's an immutable architecture, and why do you want one? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Perry about his book The Art of Immutable Architecture and the power of historical models. Michael talks about different designs for immutability, the ability...
05.11.2023
Entity Framework Tooling with Erik Ejlskov Jensen
How do you do more with Entity Framework? Carl and Richard talk to Erik Ejlskov Jensen about his work contributing to Entity Framework and creating tools to make Entity Framework easier to use. Erik talks about how EF has continued...

What's .NET Rocks! about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

.NET Rocks! episodes:

Programming with Speech and AI with Karl Geitz

Domain Control Plane and Azure with Anthony Eden

GitHub Copilot Update with Michelle Duke

API Observability with Anthony Alaribe

Aspect-Oriented Programming in 2024 with Gael Fraiteur

Azure in 2024 with Magnus Mårtensson

Modular Monoliths in .NET with Steve Smith

The Observability Tipping Point with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites

CSLA 8 with Rocky Lhotka

Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden

gRPC Update with Irina Scurtu

Hangfire with Sergey Odinokov

Uno Platform Update with Nick Randolph

.NET Aspire with David Fowler

.NET 8 Migration with Jimmy Bogard

Energy in 2023 Geek Out

Space in 2023 Geek Out

.NET Performance with Daniel Marbach

Agile Application Security with Laura Bell Main

Polly V8 with Joel Hulen and Martin Costello

Applied Large Language Models with Vishwas Lele

Sustainable Development with Lea Mladineo

React Server Components with Aurora Walberg

Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova

.NET Conf with Jeff Fritz

Observability Engineering with Charity Majors

bUnit Update with Egil Hansen

Data Sharding with Oren Eini

Kubernetes Tooling with Annie Talvasto

Azure and GitHub with April Edwards

Data Science and UX with Grishma Jena

IoT Development using Particle Photon with Colleen Lavin

Mediatr with Jimmy Bogard

Applied Large Language Models with Brian MacKay

Minimal Architecture with Jeremy Miller

Chocolatey in 2023 with Gary Ewan Park

Leveling up your Architecture Game with Thomas Betts

The Ethics of Large Language Models with Amber McKenzie

Modular Monoliths with Layla Porter

Multi-Model Data Stores with Ted Neward

Fluent Assertions with Dennis Doomen

Scaling a Monolith with Derek Comartin

Going Full Time on Open Source with Shaun Walker

Azure Developer CLI with Savannah Ostrowski

Building Apps using OpenAI with Mark Miller

OpenTelemetry with Laïla Bougriâ

No Free Lunch in Machine Learning with Jodie Burchell

PHP and WebAssembly with Jakub Míšek

Immutable Architectures with Michael Perry

Entity Framework Tooling with Erik Ejlskov Jensen