Visual Studio 2022 64-bit: First Impressions

Visual Studio has been a 32-bit process (`devenv.exe`) for 20 years. This meant it was capped at 4GB of RAM, regardless of your machine specs. VS 2022 is finally 64-bit. Why it matters I opened a massive solution with 1,600 projects (Orchard Core). In VS 2019, it would crash with OOM (Out Of Memory). In […]

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Dapr v1.0: Building Microservices for Any Cloud

Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) hit v1.0 recently. Having deployed it in production on Kubernetes, I can say it lives up to the hype. It separates the Application Logic from the Infrastructure Plumbing via the sidecar pattern. The Sidecar Architecture Your code looks like this: You don’t reference Redis SDK. You don’t reference Cosmos DB SDK. […]

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