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.NET ↑ Top ↓ Community
.NET Blog
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/
Latest Posts
Visual Studio Blog
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-22 Are You Getting Everything You Can from Your Visual Studio Subscription?
- ›2026-10-21 Compare today’s code with an earlier commit
- ›2026-10-19 Organize and revisit tabs with the keyboard
- ›2026-10-15 Stop waiting on a failed build
- ›2026-10-14 New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What We Learned at VSLive! San Diego
Visual Studio Magazine
https://visualstudiomagazine.com
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-23 Infragistics Commits Engineers to Blazor's .NET 11 Development
- ›2026-10-23 GitHub Adds API Controls for Enterprise Copilot Model Availability
- ›2026-10-23 Microsoft Shows C# Developers How to Bring Their Own Models to GitHub Copilot SDK
- ›2026-10-23 GitHub Previews Package Firewall to Block Malicious npm Dependencies
- ›2026-10-23 Java Champions Say GitHub Copilot Speeds Development, But Verification Remains Essential
ASP.NET Core documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/
.NET API browser
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/
.NET API Catalog
https://apisof.net/catalog
.NET Source Browser
https://source.dot.net
https://sourceroslyn.io
https://referencesource.microsoft.com
Book of the Runtime
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/design/coreclr/botr/README.md
https://jurakovic.github.io/runtime/ (GitHub)
Awesome .NET / .NET Core
https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet
https://github.com/thangchung/awesome-dotnet-core
C# documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/types/
C# language reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/built-in-types
Threading in C# | Joseph Albahari
https://www.albahari.com/threading/
C# in Depth | Jon Skeet
https://csharpindepth.com/articles/
https://jonskeet.uk/csharp/
SQL Server ↑ Top ↓ Community
Technical Documentation
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/databases/databases
Transact-SQL reference (Database Engine)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-reference
SQL projects
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sql-database-projects/sql-database-projects
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/sql-server-data-tools-sdk-style
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sqlpackage/sqlpackage (GitHub)
Microsoft SQL Server Blog
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/blog/ (GitHub)
Latest Posts
- ›2026-09-29 SQLCon Barcelona 2026: Advancing SQL with greater control, scale, and intelligence
- ›2026-09-29 SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available
- ›2026-08-13 What’s next for SQL? Performance, scale, AI, and developer productivity at the European SQL Community Conference
- ›2026-07-14 SQL Server 2016 end of support is here: Plan your next steps
- ›2026-03-18 FabCon and SQLCon 2026: Unifying databases and Fabric on a single data platform
Azure SQL Devs’ Corner Blog
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/ (GitHub)
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-15 Canada’s 2026 time zone updates: guidance for Microsoft SQL
- ›2026-10-06 Try SqlClient’s new connection pool for faster parallel connections
- ›2026-10-06 Upcoming SQL and AI Events to Put on Your Calendar
- ›2026-10-06 PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Connections
- ›2026-10-02 Data API builder 2.1.5: JSON and Vector Data Type Support, and More
Azure SQL Blog
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/category/azuredatabases/blog/azuresqlblog/ (GitHub)
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-23 Managing security with Database Hub in Fabric: From signals to action
- ›2026-10-23 Public Preview: Alerts for Azure SQL Database in Database Hub, powered by Fabric Activator
- ›2026-10-22 Modern Query Editor for Azure SQL Database is now generally available
- ›2026-10-21 Managed Instance link with failover groups (limited preview)
- ›2026-10-21 Make Estate yours: Focus on the databases and issues you own in Database Hub
Markus Winand | SQL Indexing and Tuning
https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog
Latest Posts
- ›2024-12-10 Index Usage For EXTRACT(YEAR FROM …), YEAR(…) etc.
- ›2019-04-30 Index INCLUDE Clause: How it works and when to use it
- ›2018-07-31 Upcoming Training: SQL Performance Kick-Start and modern SQL
- ›2017-11-13 Spanish Translation and Other News
- ›2017-11-06 Big News In Databases: Cloud Wars, IBM’s Renaming Insanity, Three Major Releases
Development ↑ Top
Engineering Fundamentals Playbook
https://microsoft.github.io/code-with-engineering-playbook/ (GitHub)
Trunk Based Development | Paul Hammant
https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com (GitHub)
Conventional Commits
https://www.conventionalcommits.org (GitHub)
Agile, Software Delivery | Martin Fowler
https://martinfowler.com/agile.html
https://martinfowler.com/delivery.html
Continuous Delivery | Jez Humble
https://continuousdelivery.com
The Twelve-Factor Manifesto
https://github.com/twelve-factor/twelve-factor
https://www.12factor.net (GitHub)
Producing Open Source Software | Karl Fogel
https://producingoss.com/en/index.html (book)
Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers
http://minifesto.org
Design Guidelines ↑ Top
C# conventions
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/identifier-names
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions
https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/docs/coding-guidelines/coding-style.md (coding guidelines)
Framework Design Guidelines
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-guidelines/
Library Guidance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/library-guidance/
REST API Guidelines
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/api-design
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/azure/ConsiderationsForServiceDesign.md
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/azure/Guidelines.md
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines/blob/vNext/graph/GuidelinesGraph.md
Additional Resources
https://github.com/microsoft/api-guidelines
https://github.com/microsoft/typespec
https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/
Clean Code for .NET / .NET Core
https://github.com/thangchung/clean-code-dotnet
Refactoring | Martin Fowler
https://refactoring.com
Refactoring Guru
https://refactoring.guru/refactoring/catalog
https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns/catalog
Design Patterns | DevIQ
https://deviq.com/design-patterns/design-patterns-overview (GitHub)
Architecture ↑ Top
Azure Application Architecture Fundamentals
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/
.NET Architecture Guides (books, archives)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/modern-web-apps-azure/ (book)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/microservices/ (book)
Azure Well-Architected Framework
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/well-architected/
GitHub Well-Architected Framework
https://learn.github.com/well-architected/library/overview/ (GitHub)
Enterprise Web App pattern for .NET
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/…/reliable-web-app/dotnet/guidance
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/…/modern-web-app/dotnet/guidance
Microservices Architecture Style
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/guide/architecture-styles/microservices
Cloud Design Patterns
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/
Software Architecture, Microservices | Martin Fowler
https://martinfowler.com/architecture/
https://martinfowler.com/microservices/
Catalog of Patterns of Distributed Systems | Unmesh Joshi
https://martinfowler.com/articles/patterns-of-distributed-systems/
Architecture | DevIQ
https://deviq.com/architecture/
Modular Monoliths | NimblePros
https://modularmonoliths.com
Chris Richardson | Microservices.io
https://microservices.io
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-22 Architecting for uncertainty - part 5: DevOps defines how a fast-flow organization works
- ›2026-10-15 Architecting for uncertainty - part 4: Team Topologies organizes for fast flow
- ›2026-10-12 What is a pattern, and what isn't?
- ›2026-10-07 Architecting for uncertainty - part 3: GenAI as an amplifier
- ›2026-09-29 Architecting with LLMs and other ML models: use plain old code when you can, a model when you must
Mark Richards | Software Developer To Software Architect
https://developertoarchitect.com/lessons/
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-16 Lesson 225 - Architecture Narrative Act One (November 2, 2026)
- ›2026-10-04 Lesson 224 - Creating an Architecture Narrative (October 5, 2026)
- ›2026-09-05 Lesson 223 - Approaches For Legacy Migration (September 7, 2026)
- ›2026-08-02 Lesson 222 - Transactional Sagas and Atomicity (August 3, 2026)
- ›2026-07-06 Lesson 221 - Introduction to Transactional Sagas (July 6, 2026)
Software Architect Roadmap
https://roadmap.sh/software-architect (GitHub)
Clean Architecture Reference Applications / Solution Templates
https://github.com/ardalis/CleanArchitecture
https://github.com/jasontaylordev/CleanArchitecture
https://github.com/alex289/CleanArchitecture
https://github.com/dotnet/eShop, eShopLite, eShopSupport (archives: eShopOnWeb, eShopOnContainers)
https://github.com/NimblePros/eShopOnWeb
Additional Examples
https://github.com/fullstackhero/dotnet-starter-kit
https://github.com/ivanpaulovich/clean-architecture-manga
https://github.com/evolutionary-architecture/evolutionary-architecture-by-example
https://github.com/Youbiquitous/project-renoir (book)
https://github.com/jbogard/ContosoUniversityDotNetCore-Pages
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/ise/next-level-clean-architecture-boilerplate/
AI ↑ Top ↓ Community
Anthropic Engineering
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-13 Redesigning source control at Anthropic
- ›2026-05-25 How we contain Claude across products
- ›2026-04-23 An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
- ›2026-04-08 Scaling Managed Agents: Decoupling the brain from the hands
- ›2026-03-25 How we built Claude Code auto mode: a safer way to skip permissions
Agentic Patterns
https://www.agentic-patterns.com (GitHub)
Humanist AI Code of Conduct | Microsoft AI
https://microsoft.ai/code-of-conduct/
Blogs & Sites ↑ Top
Below are only selected blogs. The full list is available here.
News ↑ Top
Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/news
AI ↑ Top ↑ Official
Simon Willison
https://simonwillison.net
https://github.com/simonw
Peter Steinberger
https://steipete.me
https://github.com/steipete
Steve Yegge
https://steve-yegge.medium.com
https://github.com/steveyegge
Denis Stetskov | From the Trenches
https://techtrenches.dev/archive
Addy Osmani
https://addyosmani.com/blog
https://github.com/addyosmani
Mario Zechner
https://mariozechner.at
https://github.com/badlogic
Wes McKinney
https://wesmckinney.com/archives
https://github.com/wesm
Latest Posts
- ›2026-08-12 How Kenn is doing Agentic Engineering
- ›2026-08-09 The Clanker Constitution
- ›2026-02-17 The Mythical Agent-Month
- ›2026-02-02 Announcing msgvault: lightning fast private email archive and search system, with terminal UI and MCP server, powered by DuckDB
- ›2026-01-20 From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics
.NET ↑ Top ↑ Official
Steve Smith | Ardalis
https://ardalis.com/blog
https://blog.nimblepros.com
https://github.com/ardalis
Latest Posts
- ›2026-08-19 How to Set Up T3 Code and Tailscale on Windows and Phone
- ›2026-08-18 Top 10 Ways to Reduce .NET Memory Usage in Kubernetes
- ›2026-06-29 Why Care About Agent Authored Code Quality
- ›2026-04-21 Setting Up Claude Code Agent Teams With Wsl2 and Tmux on Windows
- ›2026-04-17 Optimizing AI Agents with Progressive Disclosure
Scott Hanselman
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/
https://github.com/shanselman
Latest Posts
- ›2026-08-27 Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits
- ›2026-08-23 Migrating a Synology NAS to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 with Robocopy, SMB Multichannel, and Surprising Performance Traps
- ›2026-02-09 Is the craft dead?
- ›2026-02-04 The danger of glamourizing one shots
- ›2025-11-28 Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions
Andrew Lock | .NET Escapades
https://andrewlock.net
https://github.com/andrewlock
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-20 An introduction to Compact Binary Object Representation (CBOR) in .NET
- ›2026-10-06 Stripping extra dependencies in .NET NativeAOT apps using linker substitutions
- ›2026-09-22 Experimental support for Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) in ASP.NET Core: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 8
- ›2026-09-15 Understanding Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC)
- ›2026-09-01 The pain of serializing unions and closed class hierarchies with System.Text.Json: Exploring the .NET 11 preview - Part 7
Stephen Cleary
https://blog.stephencleary.com
https://github.com/StephenCleary
Mattias Karlsson | devlead
https://www.devlead.se
https://github.com/devlead
Steven Giesel
https://steven-giesel.com/archive
https://github.com/linkdotnet
Adam Sitnik | .NET Performance and Reliability
https://adamsitnik.com
https://github.com/adamsitnik
Latest Posts
- ›2023-01-13 Profiling .NET on Linux with BenchmarkDotNet
- ›2019-03-22 Profiling .NET Code with PerfView and visualizing it with speedscope.app
- ›2019-01-10 Profiling Concurrent .NET Code with BenchmarkDotNet and visualizing it with Concurrency Visualizer
- ›2018-11-14 Sample performance investigation using BenchmarkDotNet and PerfView
- ›2018-09-28 Profiling .NET Code with BenchmarkDotNet
Bart Wullems | The Art of Simplicity
https://bartwullems.blogspot.com
https://github.com/wullemsb
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-21 Reducing the size of your authentication cookie with ITicketStore
- ›2026-10-20 Napkin math: know what your system should do before you measure it
- ›2026-10-19 Using the ADFS userinfo endpoint instead of allatclaims
- ›2026-10-16 Getting all your claims in the ID token with the ADFS allatclaims scope
- ›2026-10-15 Getting visual explanations from your coding agent with the show-me skill
Damien Bowden | Software Engineering
https://damienbod.com
https://github.com/damienbod
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-12 Use multiple schemes in an ASP.NET Core Web application
- ›2026-09-01 Using multiline Parameters for Aspire and ASP.NET Core with user secrets and Azure default deployments
- ›2026-08-17 Use Aspire to implement and deploy the BFF security architecture
- ›2026-08-10 Implement BFF using Auth0, Angular and ASP.NET Core
- ›2026-07-27 Implement SAML as an external provider in an ASP.NET Core Identity application using Duende as an OIDC server
Shay Rojansky
https://www.roji.org
https://github.com/roji
Latest Posts
- ›2023-05-19 Queryable PostgreSQL arrays in EF Core 8.0
- ›2021-11-09 When “UTC everywhere” isn’t enough - storing time zones in PostgreSQL and SQL Server
- ›2021-10-09 Mapping .NET Timestamps to PostgreSQL
- ›2021-08-16 Query parameters, batching and SQL rewriting
- ›2021-07-11 EF Core 6.7 Update Performance Improvements
Barret Blake | Barret Codes
https://barretblake.dev/posts/development/
https://github.com/barretb
Latest Posts
- ›2026-09-23 AI Wrote the Code. Now Who Owns the Architecture?
- ›2026-09-18 Your PC Is a Build Agent: Part 2
- ›2026-08-27 Multi-Tenant .NET, Part 4: Moving Day
- ›2026-08-25 Your PC Is a Build Agent: Self-Hosted GitHub Actions in Docker Desktop
- ›2026-08-20 Multi-Tenant .NET, Part 3: Separate Buildings (Database per Tenant)
Barry Dorrans | Ramblings from a .NET Security PM
https://idunno.org
https://github.com/blowdart
Latest Posts
- ›2026-08-03 Group your Dependabot Updates
- ›2026-06-14 Is your .NET vulnerability report going to get a CVE?
- ›2026-06-08 When is a guid not a guid?
- ›2026-03-30 Protecting your .NET app from Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities.
- ›2025-12-08 Generating SBOMs in NuGet packages with Microsoft.Sbom.Targets
SQL Server ↑ Top ↑ Official
Erik Ejlskov Jensen | .NET Data Access and more
https://erikej.github.io
https://erikej.blogspot.com
https://github.com/ErikEJ
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-16 sqlpackage can now skip Windows users and other Azure incompatible objects when exporting a .bacpac
- ›2026-10-15 From .sqlproj to production: generate a well documented Azure DevOps pipeline for your SQL Database Project
- ›2026-10-08 The SQL Project preplan script - the missing step in DACPAC publishing
- ›2026-09-13 DacDeploySkip update: simpler CI and publish profile support
- ›2026-09-04 The SSMS extension ecosystem is growing up: list, acquire and maintain extensions with ease
Uwe Ricken | SQL Server Blog
https://www.db-berater.de/sql-server-blog/
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-24 Update Statistics from Replicated Database
- ›2026-10-20 SQL Server Forced Parameterization: When It Improves Performance and When It Doesn’t
- ›2026-10-16 Nonfoldable User Defined Functions
- ›2026-10-08 CTE vs temp table performance in SQL Server. Hidden costs and real workload impact!
- ›2026-08-06 Partition a big table with zero downtime
SQLPerformance.com
https://sqlperformance.com
Brent Ozar
https://www.brentozar.com/blog/
https://github.com/BrentOzarULTD
General ↑ Top
Martin Fowler
https://www.martinfowler.com/recent-changes.html
Gergely Orosz | The Pragmatic Engineer
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com
Latest Posts
- ›2026-10-22 The Pulse: Anthropic builds its own source control system
- ›2026-10-15 The Pulse: new trend of building “internal vibe-coding apps” at tech companies
- ›2026-10-08 The Pulse: Firebase’s global outage & poor response
- ›2026-10-01 The Pulse: RoR creator sparks new “death of coding by hand” debate
- ›2026-09-24 The Pulse: a new trend of CPU shortages
Andrew Wulf | The Codist
https://thecodist.com
Latest Posts
- ›2026-03-16 Why Buying An Apple II+ In 1979 Changed My Life
- ›2025-10-22 That Time I Trashed The Company Mainframe, And The Lesson I Learned
- ›2025-10-06 Verizon's I'm A Teapot Error And Other Technology Fails
- ›2025-09-17 Why Is Xcode So Antagonistic To Reduced Vision?
- ›2025-07-27 What Is A Good Programmer?
Greg Wilson | The Third Bit Blog
https://third-bit.com/blog/
https://github.com/gvwilson
samwho
https://samwho.dev/blog
https://ngrok.com/blog/author/sam-rose
https://github.com/samwho
Sean Goedecke
https://www.seangoedecke.com
https://github.com/sgoedecke
Swizec Teller
https://swizec.com/blog
https://github.com/swizec
Systems & Data ↑ Top
Salvatore Sanfilippo | antirez
https://antirez.com
https://github.com/antirez
Brendan Gregg | Systems Performance
https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/
https://github.com/brendangregg
Bryan Cantrill | The Observation Deck
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org
https://github.com/bcantrill
Daniel Stenberg | curl, open source and networking
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/
https://github.com/bagder
Martin Kleppmann
https://martin.kleppmann.com/archive.html
https://github.com/ept
Latest Posts
Management ↑ Top
Matheus Lima | Terrible Software
https://terriblesoftware.org
https://github.com/matheusml
Will Larson | Irrational Exuberance
https://lethain.com
https://staffeng.com
Edmond Lau | The Effective Engineer
https://www.effectiveengineer.com/blog
Latest Posts
- ›2026-06-05 Relationships Are Systems — What Engineering Taught Me About Partnership
- ›2020-03-24 How to Stay Happy, Healthy, and Productive During a Pandemic
- ›2020-03-19 Help Me Celebrate My Five-Year Anniversary
- ›2018-03-09 What Does It Mean to Be an Effective Tech Lead?
- ›2018-01-30 My New Adventure: Leadership Development for People in Tech