Monthly Archives: August 2022

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Machine Learning Projects for .NET Developers

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on August 22, 2022

Jeffrey Palermo: The Process of Architecture - Episode 207

This is a special episode. I wanted to interrupt our fabulous stream of expert guests to talk about a topic that I think needs to be talked about, and that is architecture. What is it? What should we think about it, and how do we approach the process of architecture? To derive the verb, how do we go about determining and implementing a fitting architecture? To architect. If you are in this role, what is it that you do? What thought progression do you use? I'll share some thoughts on that from 25-plus years of programming, and then I have a very special announcement at the end, so be sure to check that out.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:19] Architecture is the intersection of the process that we use for software and the structure we want the software to be. Right there in that intersection is where leadership is required.

[4:22] What are the building blocks of architecture, and what is the progression from the smallest building block up to the most complex and large software system?

[9:24] If you're creating a very, very small piece of software, you don't need much architecture.

[11:08] Jeffrey breaks down the term "monolithic" and how it relates to code.

[11:15] If monolithic is bad, isn't "polylithic" bad too?

[15:18] What makes an application an application, and not just a library? An application is greater than a library because it has abstractions, and then it has configurations.

[28:12] Special announcement: new video show is launched! Check out Programming with Palmero.

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on August 15, 2022

Damian Brady: GitHub Actions - Episode 206

Damian Brady is a Developer Advocate at GitHub. He's a developer, speaker, and author specializing in DevOps, MLOps, developer process, and software architecture. Formerly a Cloud Advocate at Microsoft for four years, and before that, a dev at Octopus Deploy and a Microsoft MVP, he has a 20-plus year background in software development and consulting in a broad range of industries. In Australia, he co-organized the Brisbane .Net User Group and launched the annual DDD Brisbane conference.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:45] How does Damian describe the landscape between Microsoft and GitHub?

[4:12] What is it about automated development that jazzes Damian up?

[5:57] Damian describes the lay of the land with GitHub Actions.

[10:39] Does GitHub have a package repository?

[14:19] For your build, you can keep them as just artifacts that are for that particular workflow, or you can create a package and put it into one of those package repositories for later retrieval.

[14:25] Damian talks about the transition to deploying to the first pre-production environment in your chain.

[19:12] What do the non-secret variables look like?

[22:09] To what extent is there still overlap from Azure, and how does it deviate?

[26:22] There are two options: there are actions that are in the marketplace, and then you can also run your own scripts.

[30:10] Damian and his team are building around a pretty core experience where you have a project that you're deploying to multiple environments.

[34:24] How is Octopus Deploy similar? How is it different?

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Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!

Damian Brady On DevOps for Data Science and Machine Learning

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Chris Patterson on Github Actions

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on August 8, 2022

Greg Leonardo: Architecting for Azure - Episode 205

Greg is a Cloud Architect that assists organizations with cloud adoption and innovation and is currently a Public Cloud Architect at AT&T. He has been working in the IT industry since his time in the military and is a developer, teacher, speaker, and early adopter. Greg has worked in many facets of IT throughout his career and is currently the president of TampaDev a community meetup that runs #TampaCC and various technology events throughout Tampa. Greg holds a certification as a Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified Trainer, and is an Azure MVP.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:45] Businesses still struggle with how to manage costs, even with all the new things that have surfaced in Azure.

[3:30] Understanding your cost structures is critical.

[6:20] What does the mindset look like?

[6:43] What the heck is a Microsoft Certified Azure solutions architect expert?

[9:09] The biggest thing that Greg can impress upon architects is that you're not always in control of your own destiny.

[10:01] What is Greg's favorite Diagramming Method or diagramming tool?

[11:52] How does one go about making decisions and projecting what the monthly bill is going to be for a given application?

[16:20] When building a service, Greg tries to start in the serverless arena, and then moves up from there.

[25:13] What is the direction we are heading with Azure?

[28:33] The go-to solutions that Greg has his teams use for just their individual network security for their own computer when they're not in a corporate building.

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Architect Tips — New video podcast!

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Greg Leonardo Takes an Azure Deep Dive

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Jeffrey Palermo 3:00 am on August 1, 2022

Daniel Roth: Blazor Futures - Episode 204

Daniel Roth is a principal product manager on the ASP.NET team working on ASP.NET Core, Blazor, and other web features. He has previously worked on various parts of .NET, including System.Net, WCF, XAML, and ASP.NET. His passions include building frameworks for modern Web frameworks that are simple and easy to use.

Topics of Discussion:

[2:45] Daniel talks about the high points of his career that led him to the ASP.NET team, along with a few changes he has seen in the industry, along the way.

[6:25] The developer ecosystems have been opened up.

[7:40] Daniel talks about Blazor Hybrid.

[9:43] If you have a web app, and you want to just reuse that UI within a native client app, you can have a common set of Blazor components that are used across both.

[10:28] Daniel talks about .NET 7 and how they are taking it to the next level.

[14:46] The Blazor Native Experiment is available through a project called the Mobile Blazor Bindings Project.

[24:03] Jeffrey asks Daniel about his favorite ways that people should be testing the UI level of Blazor Applications.

[27:03] What people should be expecting in the next year.

[34:16] Tooling and debugging is an area we can continue to actively invest in.

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Architect Tips — New video podcast!

Clear Measure (Sponsor)

.NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon!