In this episode, Abel and Jeremy who us how to apply feature flags to our code and deployments using Azure App Configuration. [01:44] - What are feature flags used for?[04:57] - Using App Configuration for feature flags[18:05] - Automating feature flags[18:54] - How to manage feature flag? Useful Links Azure App Configuration docsUse feature flags in an ASP.NET Core appAdd feature flags to an ASP.NET Core app

GitHub Actions makes it easy to automate all your software workflows. You can build, test, deploy your application right from within GitHub In this episode, Jeremy and Abel show us how to configure and trigger a GitHub action against the Tailwind Traders web application. [02:06] - Inspecting the Tailwind Traders website[03:45] - Trigging a GitHub action[05:52] - Configuring a GitHub action[08:14] - Inspecting the action result Useful Links GitHub ActionsGitHub Actions documentationHost and deploy ASP.NET Core

When you are processing gigs or terabytes of data, it's important to have resources that will help you scale to fit your data processing needs. In this episode, Brigit Murtaugh joins us again to show us how Azure Synapse can help us power our .NET for Apache Spark data processing jobs. [01:55] - Azure?[03:30] - Which Azure service do you choose?[T04:52} - Running on Azure Synapse[11:35] - Inspecting Spark job results[13:00] - Using Notebooks tin Azure Synapse[16:59] - Using ML.NET with Apache Spark Useful Links .NET for Apache Spark.NET for Apache Spark documentation.NET for Apache Spark 101 videos.NET for Apache Spark on GitHubAn Introduction to DataFrame

.NET for Apache Spark empowers developers with .NET experience or code bases to participate in the world of big data analytics. In this episode, Brigit Murtaugh joins Rich to show us how to start processing data with .NET for Apache Spark. [01:01] - What is Apache Spark?[02:33] - What are customers using Apache Spark for?[03:50] - What did we create .NET for Apache Spark?[06:30] - Exploring GitHub data[T15:012] - Considering data processing in the real world[18:26] - Analyzing continuous data streams Useful Links .NET for Apache Spark.NET for Apache Spark documentation.NET for Apache Spark 101 videos.NET for Apache Spark on GitHubAn Introduction to DataFrame

The Microsoft Graph Toolkit is a collection of web components powered by the Microsoft Graph that work with any web framework and on all modern browsers. In this episode, Nikola Metulev comes on to showcase how quickly you can get started. [01:54] - What is Microsoft Graph and Graph Toolkit?[03:22] - What backends does the Graph Toolkit work with?[04:09] - Getting started with the Graph Toolkit[10:18] - Adding additional components[16:51] - Building on the web components standards[18:20] - Integrating the Graph Toolkit components with ASP.NET Useful Links Microsoft Graph Toolkit PlaygroundMicrosoft Graph Toolkit on GitHubMicrosoft GraphMicrosoft Graph Explorer

DocFX is an open source, static site generator that can produce documentation from source code as well as Markdown files. In this episode, Den Delimarsky comes on to show us how to get started with using DocFx to create our down documentation. [00:49] - What does the Microsoft Docs team work on?[01:44] - What does DocFX do?[03:11] - Where to get started?[04:08] - Creating a new DocFx project with the CLI[12:42] - What are some other uses for DocFx? Useful Links DocFx websiteMicrosoft Docs.NET Docs

Who doesn't appreciate good BBQ? Well, maybe some people don't but we do! In this episode, Cam Soper comes on to show us another one of this home projects. Cam tells us the story of how a Raspberry PI, a chat bot, and a little .NET Core allows him to control his smoker and make great BBQ! [00:34] - Kansas City BBQ[01:52] - Building the PID controller[03:35] - Exploring the components[04:31] - Light it up[07:00] - Creating the Skype bot[10:42] - The Bot commands[12:16] - Further resources Useful Links Project Inferno - Wood pellet smoker powered by .NET CoreBot Framework.NET Core Guide

Who doesn't love a good DIY (Do It Yourself) IoT project? There are so many interesting things that we can do with a few components and a little creatively. In this episode, Cam Soper comes on to show us how he automated his home with .NET Core, Hubitat, and Azure with his open source project called Puppet. [01:00] - Taking a look at the setup[02:29] - Triggering Hubitat events[05:15] - Using .NET for interaction [08:52] - The motivation behind Puppet[13:35] - Running your own Puppet server Useful Links Puppet - A .NET Core framework for automating Hubitat ElevationBot Framework.NET Core Guide

Instrumenting your applications without installing a SDK or. changing code has become even easier with Azure Monitor. In this episode, Michael Milirud returns to show us how we can use codeless application monitoring to capture telemetry whether you're on-premises, using serverless, hosting on VMs or even running on Kubernetes. [00:40] - Quick overview of application insights[02:27] - What is codeless monitoring?[06:02] - What is being collected?[07:58] - Enabling coddles monitoring[14:47] - What's on the roadmap? Useful Links Enable agent based monitoringOverview of Azure DevOps ProjectsAzure Monitor Overview

Channels enable a producer to safely pass data over to a consumer along with the appropriate notifications in both directions. In this episode, Stephen Toub chats with Rich about the what, why and how of using the System.Threading.Channels library. They walk us through a simple demo of using channels and also discuss the various strategies at our disposal. [00:55] - What are channels used for?[01:35] - Creating a basic channel implementation[09:15] - Moving to System.Threadding.Channels[11:34] - What are the benefits of using the System.Threadding.Channels?[14:11] - What are some of the available back pressure strategies?[20:58] - Working with varying number of producers or consumers[21:54] - What are the merits of Channels compared to Pipelines?[23:35] - Can channels be used out of process scenarios?[24:30] - Can channels be used with pub/sub[25:28] - What's next for channels? Useful Links An introduction to System.Threading.ChannelsSystem.Threading.Channels NuGet packageSystem.Threadding.Channels on GitHub