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A breakthrough year for modernization, AI‑assisted development, Agentic AI development, and platform innovation 2025 was one of the most significant years yet for Java at Microsoft. From the arrival of OpenJDK 25 as the newest Long‑Term Su Link to article: …
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It has been an absolutely outstanding year of content for .NET from creators around the globe sharing their passion for .NET and the .NET team giving insight into the latest and greatest in the world of .NET. From events, live streams, and plenty of on-demand content dropping on the .NET YouTube nea Link to article: …
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Hey friends! I'm super excited to share a new tool I've been working on that solves a problem I bet many of you have faced: how do you quickly compare two PDF documents to see what changed? Enter PDF Diff!Landing page for PDF Diff Link to article: …
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Closing the door on another year. Here are some random links. Mesmerizing: Wintergatan - Marble Machine, a musical instrument that uses 2000 marbles. It's like that Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251231-01/?p=111952
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A customer was using the v2 task_sequencer class we developed some time ago. (Here's the Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251231-00/?p=111950
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Happy Christmas and happy new year! I know it's been a while since I last posted anything here, but thought I'd revive my tradition of writing another year in review post. Pluralsight Part of the reason for me not having as much time for blogging is that I created three new Pluralsight courses this year, bringing my …
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2025 was a big year for .NET developers. We kicked things off with early .NET 10 previews, kept momentum with steady tooling and runtime improvements, and wrapped it all up with the launch of .NET 10 in November. 🚀 .NET 10 .NET 10 was the headline event of the year: the latest Long Term Support (L Link to article: …
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A little while ago, I wrote about the use of color-keyed overlays to render video smoothly. The idea is that the CPU itself p Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251230-00/?p=111944
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A web-based drag-and-drop builder for oh-my-posh that makes creating beautiful terminal prompts actually fun! Link to article: https://montemagno.com/introducing-oh-my-posh-visual-configurator-finally-a-drag-and-drop-terminal-theme-builder/
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This post shows you how to migrate your self-managed MLflow tracking server to a MLflow App – a serverless tracking server on SageMaker AI that automatically scales resources based on demand while removing server patching and storage management tasks at no cost. Learn how to use the MLflow Export Import tool to …
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This post demonstrates how to solve this challenge by building an AI-powered website assistant using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Link to article: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/build-an-ai-powered-website-assistant-with-amazon-bedrock/
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Regular readers of this blog may remember the giant traditional Swedish Yule Goat erected annually in the Swedish town of Gävle. The Gävle Goat ( Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251229-01/?p=111929
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A customer wanted to write a process that could detect that it is nearing its job memory limit. Now, if you were asking about system memory limits rather than job memory limits, you would use the CreateMemoryResourceNotification to create a "low memory" notification. As noted in the documentation, this …
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If you're using self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, you might have noticed they can be surprisingly CPU-intensive, even when idle. A closer look reveals that a single runner can peg a CPU core at 100% utilization. This isn't a bug in your workflow; it's a deliberate design choice in the runner's sleep mechanism. The …
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This excerpt discusses enhancing Microsoft .NET application performance by minimizing network calls. The author emphasizes client-side caching with Spargine’s InMemoryCache, which drastically improves responsiveness and scalability for costly operations like reflection. While significant speed gains are noted, …
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Learn how to build a high-performance cache from scratch in .NET, moving from a simple ConcurrentDictionary to an optimized keyed-locking system. This deep dive explores how to master concurrency patterns like double-checked locking to protect your APIs and improve application scalability. Link to article: …
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We introduced TeamCity Pipelines in March 2024 to make CI/CD setup simpler and more intuitive, without limiting what teams can build and automate. Pipelines brought a new workflow focused on a more guided configuration experience, including a visual editor with drag-and-drop dependencies, YAML for defining building …
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Commenter Shawn wondered why we are so worried about memory access semantics. Back in my day, we just used full barriers everywhere, and I didn't hear nobody complainin'. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251226-00/?p=111919
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Microsoft Azure resource naming conventions are one of those “small” DevOps and cloud infrastructure management disciplines that quietly determine whether your cloud estate stays governable at 50 resources—or collapses into entropy at 5,000 resources. In this article, you’ll build a repeatable, region-aware naming …
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I ran across a promotion from a hotel. Join us for the holidays with this promotion code. But if you read down to the fine print, it also says Limited number of rooms available for each date. May not be valid during holiday Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251225-01/?p=111916
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