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 software, at all layers of the application stack. He has worked in front-line support, database administration, backend development and now works with some of the biggest companies in the world architecting systems using AWS technologies. James produces content on YouTube, focused on building applications with serverless technologies using .NET, Java, and Rust.

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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 .NET. Mads is the Lead Designer of C#, Dan is Product Manager on the ASP.NET Team for Blazor, and Scott is the VP of Product, working on the Azure Dev Experience team.

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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 the CTO, and also the creator of GitLens for VS Code, and previously a VS Code developer at Microsoft.

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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 Studio and Development Technologies MVP and GitHub Star.

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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 and life.

Mia is a Full Stack Developer at Ministry of Justice Digital and Technology. She’s an ex event-manager, who then switched careers to software development. So she has tons of experience in organising events like these speed mentoring sessions!

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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!

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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 quality software with TDD and Clean Architecture. She also the runs the Tech Excellence community.

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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 Docker course on Dometrain, and we chatted about my experience doing this, as well as Nick’s story and motivations behind building Dometrain.

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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!

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