If you are like me, when you start a podcast, you rarely go back to find old ones, which may be out of date.  However, some of Yet Another Podcast is worth a listen even now.  Here are some of the best that are still relevant. 

Cloud Computing is currently the hot topic in the developer world these days, and it seems all anyone wants to talk about is the cloud. If you're like me you signed up for something like Windows Azure just to see what the hype was all about. There are a lot of good reasons to move an app to the cloud, but it's still not for everyone. There are some things you need to think about before taking this gamble with your app.  

ASP.NET Core and Blazor futures Q&A | DIS201H

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Join us for a discussion on the future of web development with the ASP.NET Core team. Get the team's perspective first-hand on the roadmap for ASP.NET Core and Blazor in .NET 8 and get all of your burning questions answered. We discuss Blazor, Native AOT, cloud native development, and anything else that you want to ask us about. 

We are excited to announce the release of .NET Core 1.0, ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework 1.0, available on Windows, OS X and Linux! .NET Core is a cross-platform, open source, and modular .NET platform for creating modern web apps, microservices, libraries and console applications.

This release includes the .NET Core runtime, libraries and tools and the ASP.NET Core libraries. We are also releasing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code extensions that enable you to create .NET Core projects. You can get started at https://dot.net/core. Read the release notes for detailed release information. 

Why Serilog? It is easy to set up, has a clean API, and is portable between recent .NET platforms. The big difference between Serilog and the other frameworks is that it is designed to do structured logging out of the box. Another thing I really like about Serilog is that it can be configured via the appsetting.json file alongside configuring through code. Changing logging configuration without touching the codebase is really helpful, especially in the production environment. 

Microsoft Build 2020 session catalog is now live, check out over 600 sessions
Over 600 sessions will happen during Microsoft Build 2020, and you can look through a catalog of all of them now. 

Did you know that when Googlebot is crawling the Web, it runs a version of Chromium behind the scenes and actually runs your JavaScript? This means there are some things to be aware of. 

After looking over the Microsoft landscape over the years, there are a number of directions you can take in your career. Today, I go over "career tiers" of Microsoft technology paths in the IT industry. 

Released: Second Public Preview of Microsoft.Data.SqlClient