Weekly Recap

This week covers GitHub Copilot CLI workflows and permissions, MCP clients and servers in C#, and practical modular monolith design and testing. Plus, dig into production Roslyn analyzers and engineering leadership lessons on team culture, tech leads, and better questions.

This week covers GitHub Copilot CLI workflows and building Roslyn analyzers in C#. Plus practical guides to modular monoliths, MCP transports, production Serilog, NuGet debugging, AI's impact, and engineering leadership.

This week covers NuGet packaging from metadata and local testing through private feeds, versioning, and automated publishing. Plus practical guides to monolith architecture, MCP servers and clients in C#, Serilog, Roslyn analyzers, AI agent workflows, and senior engineering leadership.

This week wraps up the C# Visitor pattern series with real-world examples, best practices, a decision guide, and step-by-step implementation, plus a complete guide to logging in .NET with ILogger, Serilog, and OpenTelemetry. There's also deep HttpClient in .NET 10 coverage on observability, resilience, streaming, and DNS handling, along with practical guides to creating and understanding NuGet packages.

This week goes deep on Entity Framework Core -- relationships, LINQ querying, performance tuning, testing strategies, and how it compares to Dapper -- plus HttpClient and IHttpClientFactory patterns in .NET. There's also a full run of C# design patterns covering Visitor, Interpreter, and Memento, alongside new videos on debugging, AI in your development workflow, and engineering leadership.

This week digs into Entity Framework Core from setup through CRUD operations and schema migrations, plus a deep run on the Memento pattern and other C# design patterns like Interpreter and Mediator. New videos cover tackling tech debt, build vs buy decisions, and growing into senior and leadership roles.