Top Links
- Free eBook – Dapr for .NET Developers (Rob Vettor, Sander Molenkamp & Edwin van Wijk)
 - Sysinternals 25th anniversary event: October 14, 2021 (Heather Poulsen)
 - Say hello to Hot Chocolate 12! (Michael Staib)
 - Welcome to the new Whiteboard! (Ian Mikutel)
 - Microsoft Store: More apps, more open (Giorgio Sardo)
 
Web & Cloud Development
- How to Handle Data Duplication in Data-Heavy Kubernetes Environments (Augustinas Stirbis)
 - Govern your data wherever it resides with Azure Purview (Rohan Kumar)
 - Replacing jQuery with Vanilla ES6 (Aaron T. Grogg)
 - Announcing: Azure credits for open source projects (Carol Smith)
 - React Class Component vs. Functional Component: How To Choose/What’s the Difference (David Adeneye Abiodun)
 - Top 5 Reasons to Start Learning JavaScript at College (Janus Atienza)
 - Efficient Web Services with Marten V4 (Jeremy D. Miller)
 - Docker Defends Desktop Pricing, Says Support Led to Faster Features (Mike Melanson)
 - Getting Started with Go and InfluxDB (Alexandre Couëdelo)
 - Exploring the code behind WebApplicationBuilder: Exploring .NET Core 6 – Part 3 (Andrew Lock)
 - Exploring serverless with a nebulous app: Deploy the same app to App Engine, Cloud Functions, or Cloud Run (Wesley Chun)
 - Using Modern Image Formats: AVIF And WebP (Addy Osmani)
 - Node v14.18.0 (LTS) (Michaël Zasso)
 - How We Build Micro Frontends With Lattice (Michael Possumato, Nick Tomlin, Jordan Andree, Andrew Shim & Rahul Pilani)
 - Handling Transient Errors in Durable Functions (Tomasz Pęczek)
 
WinUI, .NET MAUI & XAML
- Using the Windows Community Toolkit DataGrid with WinUI 3 and Entity Framework Core (Diederik Krols)
 - Latest Telerik UI for .NET MAUI Release: ListView and Other New Components, Support for macOS and Preview 8 (Yoan Krumov)
 
Visual Studio & .NET
- Compress Strings With .NET and C# (Khalid Abuhakmeh)
 - Gitpod Launches VS Code Browser Server (Kay Ewbank)
 - ReSharper 2021.3 Starts Early Access Program! and Rider 2021.3 Early Access Program Has Launched! (Alexander Kurakin)
 - ReSharper C++ Starts 2021.3 EAP (Elvira Mustafina)
 - Is C# Getting Too Complex? (Michael Moreno)
 - The code worked differently when the moon was full (Scott Hanselman)
 
Design, Methodology & Testing
- The 15 best DevOps tools for 2021 and beyond (Anna Monus)
 - Grouping Assertions in Tests (Steve Smith)
 - How to See Business Agility: Adaptable and Resilient Management Actions (Johanna Rothman)
 - SemVer versioning: how we handled it with linear interval arithmetic (Julian Thome)
 - How Trello Makes Communication Better For Slack Users (Kat Boogaard)
 - WFH assumptions based on faulty data (Mark Downie)
 - How We Take On Time Tracking Challenges On GitHub For Enterprises (Tyler Hakes)
 - 4 Forecasts for the Future of Developer Relations (Kevin Casey)
 - GitHub Enterprise Server 3.2 is now generally available (Maya Ross)
 
Mobile, IoT & Game Development
- Swift 5.5 Extends Concurrency Support, Enums, Property Wrappers, and More (Sergio De Simone)
 
Podcasts, Screencasts & Videos
- The Stack Overflow Podcast 379: Become a better coder…with this one weird click (Ben Popper)
 - Infra as Code in Action: Tagging strategy | Ep 4 of 4-episode series | The DevOps Lab (April Edwards & Chris Maneu)
 - SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances in Azure | Data Exposed (Anna Hoffman & Javier Villegas)
 - Building an Online Ticket Store with Blazor WebAssembly – Webinar Recording (Maarten Balliauw)
 - DevOps for JavaScript ft. Will Button – JavaScript Jabber 502 (Aimee Knight, AJ O’Neal & Steve Edwards)
 - Do DevOps Engineers Need to Know How to Code? – Adventures in DevOps 086 (Charles Max Wood, Jillian Rowe & Will Button)
 - All Things TypeScript ft. Wycliffe Maina – Adventures in Angular 326 (Armen Vardanyan & Subrat Mishra)
 - Advocate For Yourself (Part 2) – Adventures in .NET 088 (Caleb Wells, Shawn Clabough & Wai Liu)
 - Microsoft Cloud Show Episode 428 | All the Surfaces (Andrew Connell & Chris Johnson)
 - FreeCodeSession – Episode 302 (Jason Bock)
 
Community & Events
- Docker Captain Take 5 – Francesco Ciulla (William Quiviger)
 - Developer Ecosystem Survey 2021: Raw Data Available (Anastassiya Sichkarenko)
 - The redesigned Partner Center experience is here (Dan Rippey)
 - Join Kotlin Heroes: Episode 8! Practice Round to Be Streamed by tourist (Ksenia Shneyveys)
 - Student Ambassador community voices: Our coding lives (MS Student Developer Team)
 - Empowering resilient communities and accelerating our collective impact with #BuildFor2030 (Rodney Clark)
 - 60+ Free STEM Resources and Opportunities for BIPOC, AAPIs, and Allies (Columbia Engineering Boot Camps)
 
Database
- SQL SERVER Agent Missing from SSMS (Pinal Dave)
 - How multiple writes and reads are handled in Azure Cosmos DB (Daniel Krzyczkowski)
 
SharePoint & MS Teams
- The Great Reshuffle and how Microsoft Viva is helping reimagine the employee experience (Seth Patton)
 
Miscellaneous
- Amazon Announces New Alexa Devices and Services (Paul Thurrott)
 - No joke—you can buy our copy/paste keyboard right now (Ben Popper)
 - Redesigned Paint app for Windows 11 begins rolling out to Windows Insiders (Brandon LeBlanc)
 - How do I Install Windows supplemental fonts on Windows 10? (Elizabeth Greene)
 - Deep dive review of Surface Laptop Studio & Surface Pro 8 (Frank Buchholz)
 - Amazon’s automotive efforts appear to be taking a pit stop (Ian Carlos Campbell)
 - Microsoft Surface Pro 8 4G LTE variant delayed until next year (Sanuj Bhatia)
 
More Link Collections
- The Morning Brew #3321 (Chris Alcock)
 - .NET App Developer Links – 2021-09-29 (Dan Rigby)
 
The Geek Shelf
 Git for Programmers: Master Git for effective implementation of version control for your programming projects (Jesse Liberty) – Referral Link