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Keeping control of your AI environments, tools, and data, is becoming a more complicated process with each new feature rollout. This post dives into some specific pieces of information based on the current information available. with GitHub Copilot and governance.

Learn how batching, clustered-key ranges, supporting indexes, and production monitoring made a large Azure SQL data purge predictable without overwhelming the application.

Background services are amazing, and the systems that provide built-in resiliency are even better! However, it is incredibly important that your solutions are architected in a manner that actually ensures that the resiliency doesn't create a risk of duplication or other issues.

AI tools are exploding; some are better at one task than another, so teams try to work with multiple. How do we apply this concept and ensure everyone shares a common understanding without duplicating a crazy amount of instructions that may not be properly maintained? Let's explore some options.

GitHub Copilot can now export agent telemetry with OpenTelemetry. This post takes a deep dive into that: what the traces may reveal, what data to protect, and how to start monitoring information responsibly.

EntityFramework Core can write incredibly complex queries for you, with great ease, most of the time. However, for complex situations, it may be necessary to create views to help ensure that you get the right data, in the right structure, and at the right time. Let's dive into this process and how to approach the situation with a structured process that is repeatable.

Mobile application development presents a number of challenges that we don't see in other places, a lack of direct access to the environments in which things happen. So how do we take a reported issue and pin-down the root cause so that we can resolve it quickly, and with sound justification that we did in fact resolve the issue?

With proper planning and consideration, .NET 11 RC 1 introduces the ability to go live in production with Microsoft support for production workloads. Is it a risk you should take? Is it valuable to do so this early, with the production release 2 months away? Let's discuss!

.NET 8 and .NET 9 reach end of support on November 10th, 2026. If you haven't made the move to .NET 10 yet, this post has a number of tips & checklist items to help you get your upgrade planned, tested, and deployed to .NET 10 before the deadline.