Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - March 1

Published on Wednesday, March 4, 2026

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Software Architecture

Fencing Tokens and Generation Clock in .NET: Stop Zombie Leaders From Writing by Chris Woodruff

Coupling Should Be Weighed, Not Counted by Vlad Khononov

.NET

Visual Studio February Update by Mark Downie

Recording metrics in-process using MeterListener by Andrew Lock

On Debugging Problems by Jeremy D. Miller

Validating Benchmarks in .NET by Philippe Vaillancourt

Is it faster to index into an array or use switch statement for lookups? by Jiří Činčura

Azure

Updates to Team Calendar extension by Dan Hellem

Azure DocumentDB: A Fully Managed MongoDB-Compatible Database by Khelan Modi

Azure SDK Release (February 2026) by Ronnie Geraghty

Azure Developer CLI (azd) - February 2026: JMESPath Queries & Deployment Slots by PuiChee (PC) Chan

AI

From idea to pull request: A practical guide to building with GitHub Copilot CLI - The GitHub Blog by Ari LiVigni

What's new with GitHub Copilot coding agent - The GitHub Blog by Andrea Griffiths

Vector Data in .NET - Building Blocks for AI Part 2 by Jeremy Likness

Multi-agent workflows often fail. Here's how to engineer ones that don't. by Gwen Davis

Turns out Generative AI was a scam by Gary Marcus

We mourn our craft by Nolan Lawson

Using AI responsibly means knowing when not to use it by Sam Illingworth

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