Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - June 7

Published on Monday, June 8, 2026

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Software Architecture

Modular Monolith Boundaries Done Wrong by Derek Comartin

.NET

40 Lessons I Learned in 12 Years as a .NET Developer by Anton Martyniuk

Improving C# Memory Safety by Richard Lander

2026 Board Election Candidates by .NET Foundation

New features and Roslyn analyzers for Meziantou.Framework.FullPath by Gérald Barré

C#14 The field keyword by Karen Payne

The Codebase Is the Prompt: Wolverine, Vertical Slices, and AI-Assisted Development by Jeremy D. Miller

What's Coming Next in Visual Studio: Our Microsoft Build 2026 Announcements by Mads Kristensen

Pagination in Entity Framework Core: Why Skip/Take Falls Apart on Hot Tables by Chris Woodruff

Union Types Are Finally Coming to C# by Milan Jovanović

Doing More with GitHub Copilot as a .NET Developer by Wendy Breiding (SHE/HER)

Visual Studio May Update – Plan, Review, Refine by Mark Downie

Higher Performance Dynamic Consistency Boundary Development with Marten 9.0 by Jeremy D. Miller

Software Design

DRY Is the Most Misunderstood Rule in Programming by Milan Jovanović

Roll for Architecture: What D&D Taught Me About Software Design by Barret Blake

REST/APIs

All Devtools Die by Alexander Karan

Azure

Azure DevOps and GitHub: Journeying into the AI Era by Rajesh Ramamurthy

Introducing azure-functions-skills: An AI-Era Workspace for Azure Functions (Preview) by Tsuyoshi Ushio

Azure Cosmos DB Migration Assistant for RDBMS to NoSQL by Sergiy Smyrnov

Announcing General availability of the Azure Cosmos DB vNext emulator by Abhishek Gupta

Software Development

How Microsoft is migrating repositories to GitHub by Poonam Gupta

Things I Think I Think... The New Internet Era by Ted Neward

Stop Joining Tables In Your “Modular” Monolith by Derek Comartin

AI

The 10x AI Delusion & The Real Bottlenecks by Vasudha Prabhala

AI Literacy Is Not Prompt Literacy. Ann Handley Says It's Judgment Literacy by Greg Jarboe

The agent always cost this much by Mark Downie

Research: "What's the Default Language of an LLM?" by Ted Neward

GitHub Copilot app: The agent-native desktop experience by Mario Rodriguez

Databases

How soon is now in PostgreSQL? by Oskar Dudycz

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