Fiodar Sazanavets

It's funny how those people who are complaining about the last night's South Park episode and are calling for the show to be cancelled and those who used to complain about the lack of free speech and the prevalence of cancel culture are the same people.

Happy Independence Day, my American friends!

The good news is that, to celebrate it, @manningbooks.bsky.social reduced the price of all its books by half. This includes my .NET Aspire book that you can get here:

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The easiest way to connect .NET Aspire to any database There are many ways you can integrate databases with .NET Aspire.

Did you know that, in .NET Aspire, there's an easy way of connecting your distributed application to an existing database? Moreover, it's the same way for any database type, whether it's SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or even a NoSQL variety, like MongoDB.

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Machine Learning for C# Developers Create production quality machine learning models in C# without leaving the .NET ecosystem.</b> Machine Learning for C# Developers</i> teaches you how to build powerful machine learning (ML) models u...

The machine learning book can be found here:

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.NET Aspire Made Easy Write distributed apps naturally on your local machine using .NET Aspire!</b> .NET Aspire radically simplifies the process of building distributed applications! With this powerful tool, you can desig...

The .NET Aspire book can be found here:

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I am currently writing two .NET books:

- Machine Learning for C# Developers
- .NET Aspire Made Easy

Both are currently discounted, and the discount will remain until Monday the 26th of May. So don't miss your chance to grab them really cheap!

#dotnet #machinelearning

Deal of the Day Manning is an independent publisher of computer books, videos, and courses.

For today only, my book, "Machine learning for C# developers" is on offer. You can get it with 45% off via the link below:

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Surviving and thriving as a software developer in the age of AI Since artificial intelligence and large language models became advanced enough to gain the ability to write code, many developers started to panic.

As promised, I wrote an article debunking the idea that AI will replace software engineering jobs. Well, it will replace some developers. I explained what kind of developers are in danger.

fiodar.substack.com/p/surviving-...

So, apparently, the newly appointed pope has a degree in math. So, not only he understands sin, but he understands cos too.

I've got a suggestion to make democracies populist-proof.

Before any election, you need to pass and exam proving that you know how the thing you are voting on works.

It's free and you can take it as many times as you need to. But you aren't allowed to cast your vote until you pass this exam.

I've seen quite a lot of actual comments like this from Brexit voters in the UK.

"I don't like the outcome of Brexit and I blame the remainers for not explaining it properly."

Dude, we did. Only that you didn't listen.

.NET Aspire Made Easy Write distributed apps naturally on your local machine using .NET Aspire!</b> .NET Aspire radically simplifies the process of building distributed applications! With this powerful tool, you can desig...

You can get it here:

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My .NET Aspire book is now available in the Manning store!

For the time being, the first six chapters have been published on the Manning platform after a makeover. It's already discounted, but if you use the MLsazanavets3 promo code, you will get a further 50% off.

Machine Learning for C# Developers Create production quality machine learning models in C# without leaving the .NET ecosystem.</b> Machine Learning for C# Developers</i> teaches you how to build powerful machine learning (ML) models u...

It's available here: www.manning.com/books/machin...

If you are a C# developer and want to get into machine learning and AI, you don't have to learn Python.

The .NET ecosystem has its own very powerful set of tools that happens to be severely underrated.

I am currently in the process of writing a book on it, which is available in early access.

The easiest way to get into the Big Tech Big Tech, and especially companies like Microsoft, Google, Meta, Netflix, etc.

I regularly write articles where I share my insights on working in IT.

In today's article, I talk about the most reliable way of getting a software engineer job in Big Tech. It contains some concrete actionable steps.

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Probably just any standard web development framework, like Angular, connected to a Web API. Or if it's a very low interactivity scenario, then maybe not even Web API.

Thanks for the insight. It's helpful.

To be honest, for a low-interaction scenario, I probably wouldn't even use Blazor.

Is any of you using static server-side rendering mode in #Blazor? If so, I'm curious to know the benefits of it.

To me, it doesn't seem to have any. Buttons don't work (unless it's something very simple), certain lifecycle events don't work, JavaScript interop doesn't work.

#dotnet

Five ways to boost your IT career in 2025 Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone!

In my first newsletter of the year, I am giving you some actionable tips on how to boost your career in IT.

#softwaredevelopment #softwareengineering

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.NET Aspire Made Easy Unlock the full potential of distributed application development with .NET Aspire, the groundbreaking technology that has transformed the .NET ecosystem. This comprehensive guide walks you through eve...

The book is available here: leanpub.com/dotnet-aspir...

OK folks, I've good news regarding the progress of my Aspire book on LeanPub.

It's now 13 out of 15 chapters done. Almost there! And while it's still in early access, it's still half the price, so grab your copy while it costs peanuts!

Yes. Still actively using it. Why?

Was 2024 a good year for software engineers? At the beginning of 2024, I attempted to make some predictions on how the year will turn out for software engineers.

At the beginning of 2024, I made some predictions about the software engineering industry. In today's newsletter, I assess how many of these predictions came true.

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.NET Aspire Made Easy Unlock the full potential of distributed application development with .NET Aspire, the groundbreaking technology that has transformed the .NET ecosystem. This comprehensive guide walks you through eve...

The book can be found here:

leanpub.com/dotnet-aspir...

I have finally added a new chapter to my .NET Aspire Made Easy book, which is available for early access on Leanpub. This chapter explains how to scale Aspire apps and deploy them to production.

Grab your copy now while it's still cheap. #dotnet

The quickest way to become a senior software engineer Getting to a senior position in software engineering is equivalent to getting a black belt in a martial art.

Becoming a senior software engineer is a very major milestone in someone's technical career. In today's issue of my newsletter, I tell you the quickest path to it.

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Wasn't it 2016?

Architecting self-coordinating IoT systems for reliability and resilience with .NET and SignalR In the previous article, I described how I used SignalR to coordinate clusters of Internet of Things (IoT) devices so that only one device in the cluster could do a specific task at a time.

For any of you who thought that SignalR is only good for real-time chat applications, you'll be surprised how many cool things you can do with it 🙂

In today's article, I tell you how I and my team used SignalR to build a self-coordinating IoT system.

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I'm happy to announce that my app SQL Data Purger, is now available in the Microsoft store and it's free for the first 30 days!

Currently, it only works with SQL Server and only runs on Windows, but Linux version and support for other SQL databases are coming soon.