Issue: 2022 - January/February

Rod explores some of the things that have inspired his career.

Sahil discusses Git and how to get started with Git; love it or hate it, it works and we all use it for source control. Learn some Git tips and tricks to use it better.

Paul continues his series on how to make your MVC applications more fun to build and more comfortable for your users. Learn to write Web API calls that you can call from the application to avoid post-backs.

Software development is complicated. Mike talks about dealing with complexity on teams, and how teams can work together better to manage those giant piles of new ideas with catchy names.

Bilal continues his series on the PHP Laravel framework by connecting the app to a local MySQL database, involving the Google Cloud SQL service, and then running a Laravel database migration from the Cloud Build workflow.

Kafka is an open-source high throughput, low latency messaging system for distributed applications. Joydip shows you how it’s what you’ve been waiting for.

Rod shows you how CSV is anything but old news.

Controller-based APIs have been around for a long time, but .NET 6 changes everything with a new option. Shawn shows you how it works.

John revives his old series with an interesting study of Tasks so you can take your .NET feature to the next level.

Peter explains how to automate load balancing, scaling, and more, using Kubernetes’ primitives and container technology.

John uses the Agile movement to explain why simple is better.