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development—5 min read
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By Rudi
It's Aspire in space, definitely all about the lofty goals.

Using .NET Aspire to deploy to Azure, safely

.NET Aspire is a new cloud framework for your applications but it comes with some caveats.
development—4 min read
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By Rudi
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Using .NET Cosmos DB SDK with Native AOT and System.Text.Json

An very much experimental look at stripping down the Cosmos DB SDK for .NET to what's actually needed to compile and run with .NET Native AOT.
development—8 min read
Rudi Visser's Head
By Rudi
What I think is a pretty cool logo. You probably don't.

Using the REPR Pattern on .NET Native AOT with Reaper

If you love FastEndpoints but want something more minimal, just like we did, you might enjoy trying out Reaper.
development—13 min read
Rudi Visser's Head
By Rudi
Pretty sure we're at peak performance now given the look of that car.

Super Efficiently Reading Multiple Document Types from Cosmos DB (.NET SDK) - Part 2

A deeper dive on how to retrieve multiple different types of documents from Azure's Cosmos DB using GetItemQueryStreamIterator. A follow on from using GetItemQueryIterator<JObject>.
development—16 min read
Rudi Visser's Head
By Rudi
It's astonishing the amount of strange advice given on the internet for integrating and using Cosmos DB.

Efficiently Reading Multiple Document Types from Cosmos DB (.NET SDK) - From Review

How to retrieve multiple different types of documents from Azure's Cosmos DB with the .NET SDK v3 from a performance standpoint using GetItemQueryIterator. A story from Code Review.
business—3 min read
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By Rudi
"An eco-conscious programmer at work." It does look like he's a carved tree covered in grass, but whatever.

A look at what we've done so far

A look back at what we did in 2022, and why operating a business that is good for people & planet is not new to us.
life—4 min read
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By Rudi
I present Dall-E's "People celebrating the new tax year in front of HMRC offices". For what it's worth, I don't think they got much wrong.

Happy new tax year!

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