by Chad Michel | Aug 17, 2021 | Our Engineering
AWS has a lot of great services, but one of the most useful is also one of the least sexy: a basic user management service called Cognito. Cognito provides authentication for users in the cloud. For those of us used to the Azure world, think Azure B2C but with a less... 
by Russ Guill | Aug 13, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending August 13, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. ... 
by Chad Michel | Aug 10, 2021 | Technology
We have covered a lot of history in this series so far. We have covered many incremental improvements to C# and .NET. Things such as Auto-Implemented Properties were improvements, but they felt like incremental improvements to the language (although I think that one... 
by Russ Guill | Aug 6, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending August 6, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. ... 
by Brian Zimmer | Aug 4, 2021 | Leadership
The recent news cycle has been relentlessly documenting the effects of the pandemic on our workforce and attempting to predict where we all go from here. Almost every business leader I’ve spoken with recently has this as a concern. And it’s no wonder, given the sheer... 
by Chad Michel | Aug 3, 2021 | Technology
.NET 3 was a pretty big change, maybe the most significant change since the creation of Microsoft .NET Framework. It was fundamentally changed in ways that brought in many amazing features into the language. Here I will cover WPF, WF, WCF, and Auto-Implemented... 
by Russ Guill | Jul 30, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending July 30, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. This... 
by Chad Michel | Jul 27, 2021 | Our Engineering
AWS Lambdas are, from a technology perspective, a lot like Azure Functions. They provide a simple and cost-effective way to host code in the cloud, and they can respond to a variety of events such as HTTP requests or queue triggers. Azure DevOps is a platform for... 
by Russ Guill | Jul 23, 2021 | DPL Reading List
Each Friday, we share a curated list of articles we found during the past week. Here’s the list of the new and interesting ones we found for the week ending July 23, 2021. If there’s an article you think we should read, let us know in the comments below. Japan... 
by Doug Durham | Jul 22, 2021 | Leadership
Note: This post was originally published on Doug’s website on July 20, 2021. Last week, I had the privilege to give the opening keynote at the 2021 Nebraska.Code() conference. My topic was Musings on Developer Maturity and Growth where I laid out a model...