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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss rewrites, refactors, and the constant inaccurate optimism as developers. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/08/over-optimism-of-rewrites-in-software-engineering-dev-leader-weekly-126
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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/2026/02/08/weekly-recap-20260208
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Understand the differences between Abstract Factory and Factory Method patterns in C# with code examples, use cases, and guidance on when to use each pattern. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/08/abstract-factory-vs-factory-method-pattern-in-c-key-differences-explained
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The CountryPhonePostalInfoRepository provides an efficient solution for validating phone numbers and postal codes globally, addressing the complexities of varying formats and rules. It offers a centralized API for reliable country-specific validation, enhancing data integrity in applications while simplifying …
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Compare Needlr's source generation and reflection strategies for dependency injection in C# to choose the right approach for AOT, performance, and flexibility. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/07/source-generation-vs-reflection-in-needlr-choosing-the-right-approach
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User preferences and settings are fundamental components of modern web applications. When developing SharePoint Framework (SPFx) solutions, the ability to store and manage user-specific configurations across devices and sessions becomes crucial for delivering personalized experiences. This article explores a robust, …
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This blog post summarizes changes to the vcpkg package manager as part of the 2025.12.12 and 2026.01.16 registry releases and the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/whats-new-in-vcpkg-nov-2025-jan-2026
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Today, we're announcing structured outputs on Amazon Bedrock—a capability that fundamentally transforms how you can obtain validated JSON responses from foundation models through constrained decoding for schema compliance. In this post, we explore the challenges of traditional JSON generation and how structured outputs …
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In this post, we demonstrate how to use the CLI and the SDK to create and manage SageMaker HyperPod clusters in your AWS account. We walk through a practical example and dive deeper into the user workflow and parameter choices. Link to article: …
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When Anthropic released their Agent Skills framework, they published a blueprint for how enterprise organizations should structure AI agent capabilities. The pattern is straightforward: package procedural knowledge into composable skills that AI agents can discover and apply contextually. Microsoft, OpenAI, Cursor, and …
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In this post, we explore the Amazon Nova rubric-based judge feature: what a rubric-based judge is, how the judge is trained, what metrics to consider, and how to calibrate the judge. We chare notebook code of the Amazon Nova rubric-based LLM-as-a-judge methodology to evaluate and compare the outputs of two different …
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Applications often need access to data without needing access to everything. Social Security numbers, email addresses, and phone numbers are common examples. Storing them is required. Exposing them broadly is not. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers like SQL MCP …
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Last time, we had figured out how to prevent the version 5 ListView Win32 common control from resizing columns, but we noticed that the cursor st Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260206-00/?p=112045
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Master the Abstract Factory design pattern in C# with complete code examples, real-world scenarios, and practical implementation guidance for creating families of related objects. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/02/06/abstract-factory-design-pattern-in-c-complete-guide-with-examples
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OpenAI shares its approach to AI localization, showing how globally shared frontier models can be adapted to local languages, laws, and cultures without compromising safety. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/our-approach-to-localization
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Sometimes applications need to remove data without actually losing it. Soft delete keeps rows in the database while making them invisible to normal application access. This is especially valuable when exposing a database to an AI agent through MCP servers like SQL MCP Server, where safety and reversibility matter. Lea …
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Learn how to integrate Keycloak with your .NET 10 API using Docker, Swagger UI with OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code flow, and JWT validation. Link to article: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/integrate-keycloak-with-aspnetcore-using-oauth-2
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Associa collaborated with the AWS Generative AI Innovation Center to build a generative AI-powered document classification system aligning with Associa’s long-term vision of using generative AI to achieve operational efficiencies in document management. The solution automatically categorizes incoming documents with …
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In this post, you will learn how to configure and use Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings for media asset search systems, product discovery experiences, and document retrieval applications. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/a-practical-guide-to-amazon-nova-multimodal-embeddings/
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