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Migrating to Containers using Istio and Kubernetes with Rob Richardson

30 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to move your applications into containers? Carl and Richard chat with Rob Richardson about his work migrating existing applications running in v...

Rockstar with Dylan Beattie

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you heard of Rockstar? Carl and Richard talk to Dylan Beattie about a joke that may have gone too far - or perhaps not far enough? Dylan talks ab...

Securing Microservices with Sam Newman

16 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you secure microservices? Carl and Richard chat with Sam Newman about the complexity that comes with containerization and microservices, and ho...

.NET Core 3 and Beyond with Scott Hunter

09 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Build is over - what did we learn? Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter about the various announcements at Build connection with .NET - including the...

Identity Server Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen

02 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What's the latest for Identity Server? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard chatted with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen about their latest work on ...

Music Technology Geek Out with David Frangioni

25 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Back in February, the fascinating David Frangioni made a trek up to Pwop Studios to geek out with Carl and Richard about music technology. Oh, the sto...

The Modern Developer with Dan North

18 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to be a modern developer? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talked with Dan North about how being a developer has evolved. Th...

Visual Studio Templates with Layla Porter

11 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Templates can make your life better! While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard chatted with Layla Porter about the power of Visual Studio Templates. La...

Still an Impostor with Rob Conery

04 Apr 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Impostor Syndrome is real and pervasive in the development industry - what can you do about it? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talk to Rob Cone...

Azure Functions using Node with Simona Cotin

28 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What can Azure Functions do for you? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talked to Simona Cotin about Azure Functions. You can code Azure Functio...

Instrumenting Software Features with Christine Yen

21 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you measure the success of a feature in your application? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talked to Christine Yen about her experience...

Functional Web Programming using SAFE with Anthony Brown

14 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Build your web site in F#! While in London at the NDC, Carl and Richard talked to Anthony Brown about the SAFE Stack - a complete set of tooling for b...

Building Security Into Your App with Victoria Almazova

07 Mar 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Are you adding security to your application at the end of a development cycle? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Victoria Almazova abou...

CSS Grid with Amy Kapernick

28 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you heard of CSS Grid? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Amy Kapernick about one of the new features in CSS introduced in 2017 on ...

Open Source Home Assistants with Sarah Withee

21 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Have you got a home assistant device? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Sarah Withee about her experience with Mycroft, the open source...

Blazor in 2019 with Steve Sanderson and Dan Roth

14 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What's up with Blazor? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard chatted with Steve Sanderson and Daniel Roth about the latest efforts around running C...

Teaching Experienced Developers with Clare Sudbery

07 Feb 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do developers learn? While at NDC, Carl and Richard talk to Clare Sudbery about her experiences helping developers learn. The conversation digs in...

Migrating to .NET Standard with Rocky Lhotka

31 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you migrate your .NET application to current standards? Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his approach to migrating existing .NET app...

SEO for Developers with Chris Love

29 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Should developers care about search engine optimization (SEO)? Chris Love says yes! Carl and Richard talk with Chris about how SEO impacts consumer-fa...

UX Design for Developers with Billy Hollis

24 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

User Experience Design is on the rise! Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about his latest thoughts and efforts around getting developers to design...

Test Automation with Arnon Axelrod

22 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get into test automation? Carl and Richard talk to Arnon Axelrod about his new book on Test Automation and the concept of the Test Automati...

Kubernetes in 2019 with Jessica Deen

17 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2019, do you know where your containers are? Carl and Richard talk to Jessica Deen about her work with containers and how Kubernetes has come to ...

Span of T in .NET Core 2.1 with Adam Sitnik

15 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make .NET Core go even faster? System.Memory! While at the Update Conference in Prague, Carl and Richard sat down with .NET Core team membe...

Becoming Cloud Native with Vishwas Lele

10 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to be cloud native? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele of Applied Information Sciences about his on-going evolution to be a cloud...

Time Travel Debugging with Omer Raviv

08 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

How do you debug? Carl and Richard talk to Omer Raviv about OzCode Debugging, including its ability to do 'time travel' or 'reverse' debugging - rathe...

The Azure Blockchain Development Kit with Marc Mercuri

03 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to add blockchain to your repertoire? Carl and Richard talk to Marc Mercuri about the Azure Blockchain Development Kit. Blockchain is full of hy...

.NET Foundation Update with Jon Galloway and Beth Massi

01 Jan 2019

Contributed by Lukas

The .NET Foundation is changing! Carl and Richard talk to Jon Galloway and Beth Massi about the changes in the .NET Foundation and what it means to th...

Bot Framework Adventure Games with Edwin van Wijk and Sander Molenkamp

27 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What can you do with the Bot Framework? How about make old-school 8-bit adventure games? While at UpdateConf in Prague, Carl and Richard chatted with ...

Merry Christmas, Rory Blyth

25 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Merry Christmas! For your Christmas listening pleasure, Carl and Richard chat with former .NET Rocks co-host Rory Blyth. Rory chats a bit about what h...

Node Development Panel from DevReach

20 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What's new in Node development? While at DevReach in Bulgaria, Richard moderated a panel of David Neal, Brandon Satrom and Tara Manicsic about their e...

Top Azure Security Fails with Karl Ots

18 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What can you do wrong with Azure security-wise? Lots! While at Update Conference in Prague, Carl and Richard talked to Karl Ots about all the things t...

State of Mobile Development Panel from DevReach

13 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build a mobile app in 2018? Or should you? Richard moderates a panel from DevReach in Bulgaria with Sam Basu, Jen Looper and Jo Franchetti ...

IoT and Edge Computing with Jared Rhodes

11 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What can edge computing do for you? While at the Update Conference in Prague, Carl and Richard chatted with Jared Rhodes about his work building Inter...

The Source Control of Windows with Ed Thomson and Jill Campbell

06 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Windows represents the single largest Git source control library in the world at 300GB - but what does it take to work on it? Carl and Richard talk to...

Dependency Injection with Steven van Deursen

04 Dec 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What's your dependency injection solution? Carl and Richard talk to Steven van Deursen about his work building SimpleInjector and why there seem to be...

Morality of Software Development with Bill Buxton

29 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Is there a morality to software development? Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft Principal Researcher Bill Buxton about his thoughts on what software c...

More Akka.NET with Aaron Stannard

27 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You need more actors in your life! Carl and Richard talk to Aaron Stannard about the latest around Akka.NET, an open source actor model framework that...

Superconductor Geek Out

22 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

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Containers in Windows Server 2019 with Elton Stoneman

20 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Windows Server 2019 has shipped and Windows containers have improved! Carl and Richard talk to Elton Stoneman about the changes that have come with Se...

Cross-Platform CI/CD Automation Using Nuke with Matthias Koch

15 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Looking for some build automation options? Carl and Richard talk to Matthias Koch about his open source project called Nuke - as in Nu-Make. Matthias ...

Modern UX Thoughts with Heather Wilde

13 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How are user experiences evolving? Carl and Richard talk to Heather Wilde about her work with UX in a number of capacities, including helping to creat...

Building for the Cloud using Pulumi with Luke Hoban

08 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build out your cloud infrastructure? Carl and Richard talk to Luke Hoban about Pulumi, a start-up making open source software that helps yo...

Web Performance Tools in 2018 with Benjamin Howarth

06 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Web performance is still important - what are you doing to keep your sites fast? Carl and Richard talk to Benjamin Howarth about his current approach ...

Azure Durable Functions with Maxime Rouiller

01 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Functions are ephemeral and stateless - right? What if they weren't? Carl and Richard talk to Maxime Rouiller about durable functions in Azure. Maxime...

IoT and .NET with Bryan Costanich

30 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Is .NET ready for the Internet of Things? Carl and Richard talk to Bryan Costanich about the current state of IoT and how his startup Wilderness Labs ...

PostgreSQL on Azure with Craig Kerstiens

25 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for a different database? Carl and Richard talk to Craig Kerstiens about his work with PostgreSQL. The conversation starts out with a little bit...

AI and the Singularity with Agustinus Nalwan

23 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Call it an impromptu Geek Out! While at NDC Sydney, Carl and Richard talked to Agustinus Nalwan about his work with artificial intelligence technology...

Coding Haskell and F# with Daniel Chambers

18 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for some functional thinking? While at NDC in Sydney, Carl and Richard chatted with Daniel Chambers about his experiences in functional programm...

Securing your Dependencies with Nina Juliadotter

16 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to make an application resilient to exploits? Caring about more than just the code you wrote! While at NDC in Sydney, Carl and Richa...

Embedding Power BI with Peter Myers

11 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What can PowerBI do for you? While at NDC in Sydney, Carl and Richard talked to Peter Myers about Microsoft's modern data analytics tool. The conversa...

Coding in Q# with John Azariah

09 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Start programming quantum today! While at NDC in Sydney, Carl and Richard talked with John Azariah about Q# and the Quantum Development Kit that he ha...

Reading Other People's Code with Patricia Aas

04 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you read other people's code? While at NDC Sydney, Carl and Richard talked to Patricia Aas about the fine art of studying code you haven't writ...

Making Bots with Adam Stephensen

02 Oct 2018

Contributed by Lukas

You need a bot for that! While at NDC in Sydney, Carl and Richard talked to Adam Stephensen about his experiences building bots. The bot craze has die...

Neural Net from Scratch using LINQPad with Joe Albahari

27 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can you build a neural net from scratch? While at NDC in Sydney, Carl and Richard talked to Joe Albahari about using LINQPad to create neural nets fro...

SignalR with Anthony Chu

25 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

SignalR is updated! Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate Anthony Chu about the latest updates to SignalR - including a version ...

Testing the SPA with Dan Wahlin

20 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you test a single page application? Carl and Richard talk to Dan Wahlin about cypress.io, Dan's favorite new open source library for testing an...

Azure DevOps with Donovan Brown

18 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Time to rub a little DevOps on it! Carl and Richard talk to Donovan Brown about the state of DevOps at Microsoft - including some important changes! T...

Node and IoT with Suz Hinton

13 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Internet of Things keeps evolving! Carl and Richard talk to Suz Hinton about her on-going work in the IoT space, including joining Microsoft! It's...

The Intelligent Edge with Kevin Scott

11 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What's an Intelligent Edge? Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft EVP and CTO Kevin Scott about his work in software with Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft ...

Code Security with Gabriel Torok

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you protect the source code you ship in your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Gabriel Torok, who has led PreEmptive Software for years an...

The Redux Dance Craze with Ward Bell

04 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Redux Dance Craze is on! Carl and Richard talk to Ward Bell about how Redux has becoming a key player in state management for UX stacks in modern ...

Windows Compatibility Pack with Immo Landwerth

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Migrating .NET applications to .NET Core? The Windows Compatibility Pack can help! Carl and Richard talk to Immo Landwerth about the Windows Compatibi...

Coding on Twitch with Jeff Fritz

28 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What the heck is Twitch, and why would you want to code on it? Carl and Richard talk to Jeff Fritz about his experiences building a TwitchTV livestrea...

The Nine Knights of Azure with Adam Cogan

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How should developers get started with Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Adam Cogan about his nine knights of Azure - in order, a set of services in Azu...

Xamarin Essentials with James Montemagno

21 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Xamarin keeps evolving - are you using the latest? Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about his on-going work making life easier for Xamarin de...

AI for Earth with Jennifer Marsman

16 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can Artificial Intelligence help protect the Earth? Jennifer Marsman says yes! Carl and Richard talk to Jennifer about her new role working with Micro...

Building Hololens Apps using Unity with Jimmy Engstrom

14 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How are applications being built for Hololens? While on the Modern Web Tour in Munich, Richard chatted with Jimmy Engstrom about his work building sof...

MVVM Light with Laurent Bugnion

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Back at the beginning of WPF, before Silverlight, there was MVVM Light. While on the Modern Web Tour in Zurich, Richard sat down with Laurent Bugnion ...

Learning UX with Jessica Engstrom

07 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to add UX to your skills? While in Berlin at the Telerik Modern Web Tour, Richard interviews Jessica Engstrom on how developers can add UX skill...

Progressive Web Apps for Mobile Development with Matt Netkow

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

So many ways to build mobile apps - what works best for you? Carl and Richard talk to Matt Netkow about the past, present and future of PhoneGap and h...

C++ in 2018 with Kate Gregory

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2018, do you know where your C++ is? Carl and Richard talk to Kate Gregory about the resurgence she sees in C++ - but why? Kate talks about a num...

GraphQL with Cory House

26 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

GraphQL continues to evolve - should it be in your toolbox? Carl and Richard talk to Cory House about how he's been working with GraphQL. Cory talks a...

It's a Container World with Ben Hall

24 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Containerize all the things! Carl and Richard talk to Ben Hall about his on-going work with software in containers. Ben talks about Docker being prett...

Supervolcano Geek Out

19 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

We've all heard of volcanoes - but what's a supervolcano? Time for a Geek Out! Richard starts out with a discussion on the core concepts behind our un...

Node on Azure with John Papa

17 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Azure loves Node! Carl and Richard talk to John Papa about running JavaScript on the server side, in the cloud and otherwise. John talks about the too...

Leading C# with Mads Torgersen

12 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Time for a chat with the leader of C#! Carl and Richard talk to Mads Torgersen about where C# has been and where it's going. Mads discusses some of th...

Software Extensibility using Serverless Tech with Glenn Block

10 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Serverless technology can extend your applications! Carl and Richard talk to Glenn Block about his work at Auth0 and building out WebHooks. Glenn talk...

Writing Visual Studio Extensions with Mads Kristensen

05 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Want to extend Visual Studio? Carl and Richard talk to Mads Kristensen about what its like to build Visual Studio extensions - and how he's now respon...

.NET Core in Action with Dustin Metzgar

03 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

.NET Core in Action! Carl and Richard talk to Dustin Metzgar about his new Manning book, .NET Core in Action. Dustin talks about the challenge of writ...

Developer Security in Azure with Daniel Piessens

28 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How can Azure help your applications be secure? Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Piessens about his experiences using various features of Azure to secu...

ML.NET with John Alexander

26 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Put machine learning into your .NET app! Carl and Richard talk to John Alexander about ML.NET - a set of libraries that Microsoft has been using inter...

Handling Faults using Polly with Dylan Reisenberger

21 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you handle faults in your application? Carl and Richard talk to Dylan Reisenberger about Polly, the open source library (now part of the .NET F...

The Evolution of the .NET Framework with Kathleen Dollard

19 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The .NET Framework continues to evolve! Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen Dollard about her work at Microsoft - helping to provide tooling and new fea...

Antifragility in Software Architecture with Barry O'Reilly

14 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Everything fails eventually - how do you recover? Carl and Richard talk to Barry O'Reilly about building anti-fragile systems. Anti-fragility is the p...

Microsoft Buys GitHub with Phil Haack

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft acquires GitHub! What does this mean? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about what's going to change and what isn't - starting with, at le...

Open Sourcing Uno with Francois Tanguay and Jerome Laban

07 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Where has Uno been all your life? Carl and Richard talk to Francois Tanguay and Jerome Laban about Uno - the open source cross-platform UX library bas...

Essential C# with Mark Michaelis

05 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

C# is not done - there's more to come! Carl and Richard talk to Mark Michaelis about his work on Essential C# 7 which digs into the new bits in the 7....

Azure Tooling for Visual Studio with Paul Yuknewicz and Andrew Hall

31 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Azure is good - but tooling makes it great! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard talked to Paul Yuknewicz and Andrew Hall about the latest tool...

Visual Studio for Mac Update with Mikayla Hutchinson

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

More news from Build - the release of Visual Studio for the Mac 7.5! Carl and Richard talk to Mikayla Hutchinson about the latest features coming for ...

Life on Other Planets Geek Out

24 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Could there be life on other planets? Time for a Geek Out! Richard chats with Carl about Fermi's Paradox, Drake's Equation and all the latest science ...

MSIX with Andrew Clinick

22 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Desktop installation needs to get better! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard talked to Andrew Clinick about MSIX, the next generation install...

Windows Sets with Raymond Chen and Jason Watson

17 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Tabs for Windows apps? While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard talked to legend Raymond Chen and Jason Watson about the upcoming Sets capabilities...

Writing High Performance .NET Core Code with Ben Watson

15 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

.NET Core is fast, but does how you write code in .NET Core help with performance? Carl and Richard talk to Ben Watson about the 2nd Edition of his HI...

MFractor Update with Matthew Robbins

10 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

MFractor grows up! Carl and Richard talk to Matthew Robbins about the progress he's made over the past 18 months (since his last show) on MFractor - n...

Announcing .NET Core 3 with Scott Hunter

08 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh from Build (actually recorded before Build) - a new version of .NET Core! Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter about the announcement of .NET C...

Constraints Liberate with Mark Seemann

03 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Do constraints liberate? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Seemann about the very constraints that developers often argue against - pointing out how those...

RavenDB V4 with Kamran Ayub

01 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Where do you store your objects? Carl and Richard talk to Kamran Ayub about the latest version of RavenDB. Kamran talks about his experiences implemen...

Building UI on the Web using Ooui with Frank Krueger

26 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build your web UI? Carl and Richard talk to Frank Krueger about his work on Ooui (pronounced whee), an open source project for implementing...

Blazor and WebAssembly with Rocky Lhotka

24 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Blazor is getting some buzz, but is it really useful? Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his thoughts around how Blazor uses WebAssembly (WAS...

Clean Architecture with Steve Smith

19 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to have clean architecture? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about his work on an e-book and template for clean architecture usi...