Wolverine — the event-driven messaging and HTTP framework for .NET — provides a rich, layered set of options for validating incoming data. Whether you are building HTTP endpoints or message handlers, Wolverine meets you where you are: from zero-configuration inline checks to full Fluent Validation or Data Annotation …

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A deep dive into why Codex Security doesn’t rely on traditional SAST, instead using AI-driven constraint reasoning and validation to find real vulnerabilities with fewer false positives. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/why-codex-security-doesnt-include-sast

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At Qodana, we’re always looking for ways to make our code quality platform more useful for development teams. Whether you’re using it to automate code reviews, enforce quality gates in CI, or monitor the health of your codebase, your feedback plays a vital role in helping us improve our product and how we provide …

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Learn to generate text embeddings with Semantic Kernel in C#. Covers ITextEmbeddingGenerationService, OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, and cosine similarity. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/15/text-embeddings-with-semantic-kernel-in-c-a-practical-guide-to-itextembeddinggenerationservice

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Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss whether developer career fulfillment depends on believing in your company's mission -- and why understanding the "why" behind your work makes all the difference. Link to article: …

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Singleton design pattern in C#: complete guide with code examples, thread-safe implementation, when to use it, and best practices for creational design patterns. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/15/singleton-design-pattern-in-c-complete-guide-with-examples

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String manipulation is crucial in modern applications, significantly impacting performance and memory usage in .NET. learn how to achieve nearly double the speed and zero memory allocations when a count is required from a regular expression. Link to article: …

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Build multi-agent orchestration with Semantic Kernel in C#, including ChatCompletionAgent, vector stores, and plugin patterns. Plus C# design patterns including Singleton, Decorator, Strategy, and Prototype! Link to article: …

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Master the Semantic Kernel vector store in C# with Azure AI Search, Qdrant, and InMemoryVectorStore for RAG and semantic search. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/14/semantic-kernel-vector-store-in-c-azure-ai-search-qdrant-and-beyond

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Master the decorator design pattern in C# with practical code examples, best practices, and real-world use cases for flexible object extension. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/14/decorator-design-pattern-in-c-complete-guide-with-examples

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Seven approaches to bulk-updating rows in PostgreSQL from .NET using Dapper and EF Core, from naive per-row updates to binary COPY. Each step cuts down on round-trips or removes dynamic SQL entirely. Link to article: https://www.milanjovanovic.tech/blog/optimizing-bulk-database-updates-in-dotnet

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We are releasing patches for our self‑hosted product, Azure DevOps Server. We strongly recommend that all customers stay on the latest, most secure version of Azure DevOps Server. The latest release, Azure DevOps Server, is available from the Link to article: …

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Build an AI task planner with Semantic Kernel in C# using KernelFunctionFactory, Kernel.InvokeAsync, KernelArguments, and structured JSON pipelines. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/03/13/build-an-ai-task-planner-with-semantic-kernel-in-c

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We keep doing this thing where we solve a problem, celebrate the victory, then realize we've created three new problems we didn't even know existed. Remember when manually configuring servers was the bottleneck? So we built containers. Great! Now we're orchestrating thousands of them. Remember when monolithic …

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In this post, we explain how P-EAGLE works, how we integrated it into vLLM starting from v0.16.0 (PR#32887), and how to serve it with our pre-trained checkpoints. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/p-eagle-faster-llm-inference-with-parallel-speculative-decoding-in-vllm/

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When a hosted AI agent crashes, azd now shows you the status and streams live logs—right from the CLI. What's new? The azure.ai.agents extension adds two commands: Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sdk/azd-ai-agent-logs-status

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A new eBook by David McCarter offers software engineers practical strategies for effectively navigating the recruiting process. It emphasizes understanding recruiter dynamics, identifying high-quality recruiters, and avoiding common pitfalls. The guide aims to empower engineers to make informed career decisions and …

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This release is a patch release to fix a thread deadlock and security issue. From the release notes:Thread DeadlockThanks to @t0m-4 for reporting this issue, which due to Microsoft deprecating some of the "sync" APIs for decryption, led to potential thread starvation and locking issues. The Link to article: …

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Last time, we looked at how the 80386 performed stack probing on entry to a function with a large local frame. Today we'll look at MIPS, which differs in a few ways. ; on entry, t8 = desired sta Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260313-00/?p=112138

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Last week marked the fruition of almost a year of hard work by the entire PyCharm team. On March 4th, 2026, we hosted Python Unplugged on PyTV, our first-ever community conference featuring a 90s music-inspired online conference for the Python community. The PyCharm team is a fixture at Python conferences globally, …

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