Things That Caught My Attention Last Week - October 19

Published on Thursday, October 22, 2026

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Open-source

Software Architecture

Background Job Retries: Prevent Duplicate Business Operations by Mitchel Sellers

Sharing is (not always) caring. PgBouncer pooling modes in practice by Oskar Dudycz

.NET

TypeSafe Jev .NET SDK 0.7.0: Experimental Images and Bounding Boxes by Laurent Kempé

Cloudflare Tunnel: Self-Host Behind CGNAT and Hide Your IP by Milan Jovanović

AI has moved the bottlenecks in software development by Jeremy D. Miller

Introducing dotnetup: A toolchain manager for .NET by .NET Team

Stop waiting on a failed build by Visual Studio Blog

Discriminated Unions in C# 15: A Turn Is Exactly One Thing | NimblePros Blog by Sarah Dutkiewicz

New Tools, New Workflows and the Value of the Visual Studio Subscription: What We Learned at VSLive! San Diego by Visual Studio Blog

Human Prose from Human Evidence: SeekStorm, RRF and C# (English) by Scott Galloway

C# IFormattable Interface by Karen Payne

Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 by .NET Team

.NET and .NET Framework October 2026 servicing releases updates by .NET Team

Durable Task in the Real World: What Problems Does It Actually Solve? by .NET Team

REST/APIs

Nobody Is Forecasting The Transactional API Economy by Kin Lane

Azure

AI Agents: Meet the Azure Cosmos DB vNext Emulator - Azure Cosmos DB Blog by Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Azure MCP Server 3.0 stable release: More tools. More possibilities by Azure SDK Blog

October Patches for Azure DevOps Server by Azure DevOps Blog

Software Development

Building a static newsletter archive by Cassidy Williams

GitHub availability report: September 2026 by The GitHub Blog

GitHub’s model for secret detection: Finding more secrets with less noise by The GitHub Blog

AI

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase by The GitHub Blog

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