Blog posts on .NET Software Development, C#, and Debugging on Michael's Coding Spot

A year ago I was celebrating 15 years in the .NET ecosystem and 30 years as a Windows user.

I’ve spent countless hours using some issue tracking software or another in my career, especially when in leadership roles.

Originally posted in Obics.io Observability vendors have been billing companies per data volume or per node count for many years.

Let’s admit it, the popular desktop email clients suck for power users.

Originally posted in Obics.io The observability world is changing in very interesting ways.

Originally posted in Obics.io In a world where writing code became as fast as your thought, you would think it would be an equalizer among software developers.

Originally posted in Obics.io We set out to build an automated incident response solution.

Originally posted in Obics.io I moved from Windows to Linux 1 month ago, after using Windows for the last 30 years (and developing software 15 years).

Originally posted in Obics.io If you’re not careful, logging costs can rise up to staggering amounts.

Originally posted in Obics.io The Brilliant New Hire With No Memory While LLM coding agents are extremely smart, they are pretty stupid about your own project.

Originally posted in Obics.io I have been hearing of developers who run dozen agents in parallel and create 40 pull requests a day, but I never quite believed it myself.

Originally posted in Obics.io So, you’re trying to understand why your DataDog metrics bill is so high and you can’t figure it out?

Originally posted in Obics.io Windows might not be what the cool kid use these days, but I’ve been using it for software development for the last 15 years and have gotten some kick-ass projects done on it.

Originally posted in Obics.io Understanding DataDog pricing sometimes feels like you need a PhD on the matter.

If you’re new to the observability space, it’s easy to get lost in a sea of terms.

Once upon a time, I wrote a book about debugging in .NET .

When talking about big tech, we usually mean five specific companies known as the Big Five or GAFAM.

Changing APIs is a common problem for library authors.

We had a ton of stuff go down in the world of C# .NET this year.

Software companies come in many sizes.

LINQ is one of my favorite features in C#.

Premature infrastructure is a peculiar behavior pattern that I witnessed in every single tech company I worked for.

Do you ever feel like a million tasks are looming over you at any given moment?

The more I work in software development, the more I love working with the command line.

We all know the value of debugging.

Steve Jobs was a genius product guy.

I don’t know about you, but I hate using the mouse.

The annual Microsoft Build 2023 conference just occurred and it came with a truckload of announcements.

I don’t think I have to make the point of how important tools are.

C# has been through a lot of change in the last decade.

Disclaimer: This blog post was written by a protein-based intelligence. in a previous blog post , I showed you how to use PostgreSQL in C# with Npgsql, Dapper, and Entity Framework Core.

Disclaimer: This blog post was written by a human, with no AI-generated text Have you ever considered the concept of the proof of concept?

One of the most used databases these days is PostgreSQL (aka Postgres).

Disclaimer: This blog post was written by a human, with no AI-generated text.

We continue on our path to make a web application using C# and .NET.

We have a pretty great ecosystem for C# and .NET.

Node.js is probably the most popular backend technology in the industry.

I’ve been a .NET software developer for my entire career, and I love it.

I don’t know about you, but I’m obsessed with shortcuts.

Azure Virtual Machines and App Services are the two basic pillars of Azure cloud services.

After 6 years of hosting my blog in WordPress , I ported it to Hugo , a static site generator.

The Best C# .NET Web Application Tech Stack: Deploying to Azure We’re continuing our journey to go over the best modern web technologies by Microsoft for building a web application.

Did you notice that Microsoft announces a new and amazing web development framework each year?

There are so many different ways to create a web application today, it’s staggering.

I had the opportunity to interview Oren Eini , the CEO of RavenDB , a NoSql database created in C#.

Everything has its limit, right?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been battling with performance problems all my career.

One of the most impressive productivity tools in .NET development is ReSharper .

Today’s users expect the best experience possible, and that means top-notch performance.

I think we can all agree that logs are pretty damn important.