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Learn how to use hosted services and background workers with Needlr, including automatic discovery of IHostedService and BackgroundService implementations. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/21/hosted-services-with-needlr-background-workers-and-lifecycle-management
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Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#! Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/21/weekly-recap-20260220
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Modular Monolith tells you how to split the system into modules. But it says nothing about how to organize code inside each module. Vertical Slice Architecture fills that gap, and the combination is incredibly powerful. Link to article: …
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In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI saw dramatic improvements to core infrastructure offerings along four dimensions: capacity, price performance, observability, and usability. In this series of posts, we discuss these various improvements and their benefits. In Part 1, we discuss capacity improvements with the launch of …
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In 2025, Amazon SageMaker AI made several improvements designed to help you train, tune, and host generative AI workloads. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed Flexible Training Plans and price performance improvements made to inference components. In this post, we discuss enhancements made to observability, model …
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We’ve just released the next minor update for IntelliJ IDEA 2025.3 – v2025.3.3. You can update to this version from inside the IDE, using the Toolbox App, or using snaps if you are a Ubuntu user. You can also download it from our website. Here are the most notable updates: To find out more details […] Link to article: …
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Data API builder (DAB) supports multi-source configurations Data API builder (DAB) connects to your database with a safe REST or GraphQL endpoint. But DAB is not limited to just one database. Using a multi-source configuration, you can connect to more than one database simultaneously. Learn more about Data A Link to …
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Based on Docker’s State of Agentic AI report, a global survey of more than 800 developers, platform engineers, and technology decision-makers, this blog summarizes key findings of what's really happening as agentic AI scales within organizations. Drawing on insights from decision-makers and purchase influencers …
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At re:Invent 2025, AWS Transform unveiled an enhanced .NET developer experience in Visual Studio that is customizable, transparent, iterative, and collaborative. Our customers have asked for more insight into transformation activity and the ability to steer transformations. Developers can now benefit from editable …
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In this post, you’ll use a six-step checklist to build a new MCP server or validate and adjust an existing MCP server for Amazon Quick integration. The Amazon Quick User Guide describes the MCP client behavior and constraints. This is a “How to” guide for detailed implementation required by 3P partners to integrate …
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For two decades, I've Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260220-01/?p=112076
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Suppose you want to distinguish between dismissing a dialog by pressing ESC and dismissing a dialog by clicking the Close button. One suggestion I saw was to call GetAsyncKeyState(VK_ESCAPE) to check whether the ESC is down. In general, any time you see GetAsyncKeySt Link to article: …
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We share our AI model’s proof attempts for the First Proof math challenge, testing research-grade reasoning on expert-level problems. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/first-proof-submissions
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Go developers can now confidently write modern Go code using the AI agents Junie and Claude Code. We at JetBrains have just released a new plugin with guidelines for AI agents that ensure they use the latest features and follow best Go practices compatible with your current version of Go, as specified in go.mod. You …
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Learn how to implement Builder pattern in C# with a complete step-by-step guide. Includes code examples, best practices, and common pitfalls to avoid. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/20/how-to-implement-builder-pattern-in-c-stepbystep-guide
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Introduction: The Problem Agentic systems have some discretion in the parameters they send to tooling, but there are cases, such as experimentation, when you need 100% adherence to a set of parameters. In practice, this tension exists because modern LLM-based agents are optimized for semantic correctness and …
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The author emphasizes the utility of CodeRush by DevExpress for refactoring, particularly its feature for embedding images in source code. Using Mermaid's flow diagrams, the author illustrates complex methods visually, enhancing code comprehension. Despite limitations in image handling, the combination of Mermaid and …
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Let’s call a spade a spade. Some enterprises are already using AI agents, but very few can explain their impact on business performance. Metrics such as DORA, SPACE, and developer experience indicators captured through third-party platforms offer insight into delivery velocity and developer quality of life, but it is …
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We're thrilled to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework has reached Release Candidate status for both .NET and Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/semantic-kernel/migrate-your-semantic-kernel-and-autogen-projects-to-microsoft-agent-framework-release-candidate
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We're happy to announce that Microsoft Agent Framework is now in Release Candidate status for both .NET and Python. Release Candidate is an important milestone on the road to General Availability — it means the A Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/microsoft-agent-framework-reaches-release-candidate …
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