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Calling all .NET developers! Dive into the heart of modern .NET technology with us. We are the go-to podcast for all .NET developers worldwide; providing an audio toolbox for developers who use modern .NET. Our show, previously known as The .NET Core Podcast, is all about keeping you up-to-date and empowered in this ever-evolving field. Tune in for engaging interviews with industry leaders, as we discuss the topics every .NET developer should be well-versed in. From cross-platform wonders to cloud innovations, we're here to ensure you're armed with the knowledge to excel with the modern .NET technology stack. Join us on this exciting journey, where learning, growing, and connecting with fellow developers takes centre stage. Let's embrace the new era of .NET together!

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June 12, 2026Episode 2155 min

Beyond the Chatbot: AI-Enabled .NET MAUI Apps with Codrina Merigo

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "The common definition of AI is a chatbot. And this is&helip; So something we haven't really mentioned is that .NET MAUI it's an evolution of Xamarin, which was the previous name and the previous platform for cross-platform development. And as a Xamarin developer, I was just, you know, adding the chatbot to an application was really an offline one."— Codrina Merigo Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we are joined by Codina Merigo to talk about the cross section of .NET MAUI and AI, her new book "AI-Enabled Apps with .NET MAUI", and some of the scenarios where you might want to include AI in your applications. "To get privacy by design nowadays is really impossible. So if you need to really have something disconnected from the internet maybe you'll need a tiny offline model that just, I don't know, does speech-to-text."— Codrina Merigo Along the way, we discuss the differences between local (on device) AI models and the frontier (online) models, we talk about where models really help with the accessibility of your applications, and we talk about where you can go to get started learning about this new world.. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. So let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/beyond-the-chatbot-ai-enabled-net-maui-apps-with-codrina-merigo/ Useful Links: Codrina Merigo on: LinkedIn Bluesky X (formerly Twitter) GitHub AI-Enabled Apps with .NET MAUI Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

May 29, 2026Episode 201 hr 4 min

Aspirifying the Enterprise: Building Modern Apps with Aspire with Joydip Kanjilal

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "It is providing you a… unified stack, a cloud ready stack for building distributed applications where the configuration… you can say the configuration files that we usually maintain, like YAML files, XML files, json files. So it is generally taken care of those nitty gritties."— Joydip Kanjilal Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, Joydip Kanjilal returned to the show to talk about Aspire and where it fits in the modern enterprise application stack. We also talk about how Aspire isn't just for microservices or nanoservices, it will work quite well with modular monoliths, too. As long as your application code isn't highly coupled. "Maintaining large scale distributed systems requires deep visibility into… how the services are interacting, how the services are behaving over a period of time. So that helps enterprises to understand how the applications are behaving. If something goes wrong, what went wrong? Why is it that the application is not being able to scale? why is it not… able to handle, more you know, requests in a specific period? What are the security loopholes and everything?"— Joydip Kanjilal One side note: we recorded this episode shortly before Aspire was rebranded from ".NET Aspire". So if you're listening in wondering, "wait. That's not what it's called," please bear with us because we both used the old branding for half of the episode. Let's hope that the PM for Aspire, Maddy Montaquila, doesn't notice. Sorry Maddy. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/aspirifying-the-enterprise-building-modern-apps-with-aspire-with-joydip-kanjilal/ Useful Links: Joydip's website Joydip's blog Joydip's GitHub Joydip's newsletter Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

May 15, 2026Episode 191 hr 5 min

Simplicity First: Why Complexity Is Not Sophistication with Chris Woodruff

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "A lot of people go to conferences and they do conference-driven development. They come back with all these great ideas. And you know what? I'm guilty. I speak at conferences and I give lots of ideas. But they're ideas and you don't have to take every idea and apply it when you get back to the office."— Chris Woodruff Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Chris Woodruff to talk simplicity, which is his overarching philosophy when it comes to working with code; whether that's developing, architecting, or interacting with decision makers: simplicity matters. "Simplicity also reflects in cost. Because I've found all these studies that say that most companies that start putting solutions out on the cloud pay a lot more than they should."— Chris Woodruff Along the way, we talked about how simplicity goes further than the code we write and into how we choose to host our applications, either in the cloud or on prem. Arguably, most of the time, an application which has a simpler architecture will be cheaper to host. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/simplicity-first-why-complexity-is-not-sophistication-with-chris-woodruff/ Useful Links: Chris' blog Chris on Bluesky Chris on LinkedIn Simplicity First Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

May 1, 2026Episode 181 hr 5 min

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Benchmarking, Hot Paths and the Chainsaw of Unsafe Code with Szymon Kulec

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "The first measurement could be actually someone from the, so-called business, stating that, "oh gosh, this is so slow." That would be like the coarse grained measurement that you can sometimes receive for free"— Szymon Kulec Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Szymon Kulec to talk about systems programming in .NET. But that's just the surface level detail of what we talk about. We do a deep-dive into some of the corners of .NET and C# that a lot of engineers hardly ever get the chance to cover. This is more than your standard, surface level conversation about C# and .NET. "Maybe sometimes you will actually create a thread. Something that you don't do nowadays in .NET, because you know what you are doing and you want to own the specific thread for or your own specific purpose."— Szymon Kulec Along the way, we talked about how developers who are using C# and .NET should think about learning the deeper levels of the language and how things work under the covers. Knowing how the JIT works with your code will help you to write more performant code, for sure. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/measure-twice-cut-once-benchmarking-hot-paths-and-the-chainsaw-of-unsafe-code-with-szymon-kulec/ Useful Links: Szymon on LinkedIn Szymon's blog Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

April 17, 2026Episode 1747 min

Context Is Everything: Getting the Most from GitHub Copilot with Joydip Kanjilal

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "Artificial intelligence is nothing new. It enables machines to simulate human cognitive functions such as reasoning, learning, problem solving and all using algorithms and vast data data sets to recognise patterns. And then it makes predictions and performs, you know, language processing, image recognition, and all those stuff."— Joydip Kanjilal Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Joydip Kanjilal to talk about GitHub Copilot, agentic workflows for developers, and the benefits (and drawbacks) of having an AI agent help you write code. Note that I didn't say, "write all the code for you," because an AI agent is simply helping you to be more productive. "You want to you know, convert, I mean uh migrate a legacy application to a modern-day enterprise application, there will be a lot of redundant code that you will otherwise have to write. So that all that code can be automatically generated by Copilot, provided you have provided the right context."— Joydip Kanjilal Along the way, we talked about the importance of the context that you give to an AI agent, security best practises (spoiler: you wouldn't give a new junior the keys to teh castle on day one, do the same with your AI agents), and the most important things to remember when using AI agents. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/context-is-everything-getting-the-most-from-github-copilot-with-joydip-kanjilal/ Useful Links: Joydip's website Joydip's blog Joydip's GitHub Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

April 3, 2026Episode 161 hr 4 min

IoT and .NET nanoFramwork: Andy Clark on Building Beyond the Limits

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "But I was looking for something that I could give to some of my team members as prize for a hackathon that they completed and I basically I didn't want to didn't want to force them down that route of having to solder their own stuff. So I found um a little board with a a display on it um and various other capabilities um and then and realised that I could put the nano framework on it."— Andy Clark Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Andy Clark to talk about .NET Nanoframework, how he came to find out about it (pro tip: there's a wonderful circular moment in the episode, see if you can spot it), and why he chose to look into embedded systems in the first place. "IAnd I think it's the the same kind of applies to software which is if you're doing the same things over and over again you almost kind of blinker yourself into working in particular ways."— Andy Clark Along the way, we talked about the importance of both constraints on software design, and in looking around at what other systems and frameworks do and use. We also took a walk down memory lane for me, as what we were talking about reminded me of my college days. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/iot-and-net-nanoframwork-andy-clark-on-building-beyond-the-limit/ Useful Links: Andy's Website .NET Nanoframework M5Stack boards .NET Nanoframework docs for ESP32 Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

March 20, 2026Episode 1559 min

From Zero to 3D: Ben Bowen on TinyFFR's Rapid .NET Rendering

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "For me it's born out of, I mean the old phrase right, that necessity is the mother of invention. And I want to make games actually, but I think there's a missing middleware in the industry at the moment for certain types of game developers."— Ben Bowen Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Ben Bowen to talk about TinyFFR - a cross-platform library for .NET which allows developers to render 3D models. TinyFFR came from Ben spotting that there is a gap in the Games Development tools market: somewhere between 3D modelling software and a full-blown game engine. "I, personally, believe that a library or software middleware is only really as good as the documentation that comes with it. You probably drive away 90% of the potentially interested parties if you're just saying to them, 'hey, if you want to learn how to use this, you'd better go spelunking through the source code or looking at examples."— Ben Bowen Along the way, we talked about the importance of really good quality documentation. And it should come as no surprise to you that we talked about this because the documentation for TinyFFR is fantastic. Seriously folks, when you're done listening to this episode, go check out Ben's Hello Cube tutorial for TinyFFR and you'll see what I mean. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-zero-to-3d-ben-bowen-on-tinyffrs-rapid-net-rendering/ Useful Links: TinyFFR Ben's links: Website Bluesky Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

March 6, 2026Episode 1456 min

From YAML Chaos to C# Clarity: Mattias Karlsson on Cake Build

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "So it essentially is a build orchestration framework. So it doesn't replace the .NET CL or MSBuild or whatever you're using today. It doesn't replace GitHub Actions or Azure pipelines. What it does is that it reduces the complexity of those things"— Mattias Karlsson Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Matthas Karlsson to talk about Cake (aka C# Make), the build orchestrator built entirely in .NET. "Like, you need to evaluate and see what works for you. Because, like, if you have an open source project and all you do is dotnet pack, then it might be too complicated."— Mattias Karlsson Along the way, we talked about what a build orchestrator is, why you might consider one (and when it might be too complex to have one), the recent single file application changes to .NET (i.e `dotnet run file.cs`), and talk about why it's important to have multiple tools in your development toolbox. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/from-yaml-chaos-to-csharp-clarity-mattias-karlsson-on-cake-build/ Useful Links: Cake Build Mattias' links: Website LinkedIn Bluesky Mastadon Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

February 20, 2026Episode 131 hr 3 min

The Paper Cuts Microsoft Actually Fixes: A Deep Dive into .NET 10 with Mark J Price

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "There's so much that we can talk about with. NET 10 and related things like C# 14. So I'm going to try and focus on a few of the highlights that are personal highlights for me So let's start with the language actually, C# 14."— Mark J Price Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by Mark J Price to talk about some of our favourite things in .NET 10 and his new four-part book series on, quite literally, everything .NET. Mark is one of the most prolific authors in the .NET space at the moment, and his new book series is shaping up to be a fantastic resource. "One of the things that I've always appreciated with Microsoft and their culture is that they have a very strong requirement that thing things are as backwards compatible as possible."— Mark J Price Along the way, we talked about the recent changes to the STS (aka Standard Term Support) lifecycle for .NET, brining more support to the odd numbered versions of .NET and giving companies more time to migrate from one version to the next. We also covered a very important point when it comes to either STS or LTS towards the end of the episode: essentially, keep your runtimes up to date, folks. This episode marks the fifth appearance of Mark on the show. Mark has been a wonderful collaborator over the years, and long may that continue. We joke about the fact that Mark deserves an award for the guest with the most episodes, but maybe he does deserve an award. Unless someone out there is willing to beat his record, of course. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/the-paper-cuts-microsoft-actually-fixes-a-deep-dive-into-net-10-with-mark-j-price/ Useful Links: Mark's Books: C# 14 and .NET 10 – Modern Cross-Platform Development Fundamentals Real-World Web Development with .NET 10 Apps and Services with .NET 10 Tools and Skills for .NET 10 Mark on GitHub Packt Publishing Discord .NET Pro newsletter Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.

February 6, 2026Episode 121 hr 0 min

Jody Donetti on Creating FusionCache and Collaborating with Microsoft on HybridCache

Strategic Technology Consultation Services This episode of The Modern .NET Show is supported, in part, by RJJ Software's Strategic Technology Consultation Services. If you're an SME (Small to Medium Enterprise) leader wondering why your technology investments aren't delivering, or you're facing critical decisions about AI, modernization, or team productivity, let's talk. Show Notes "The idea is that you get you have some sort of source. It's called usually the single source of truth, which is usually a database. In the case of web caching is the remote server that is the authoritative uh source of truth."— Jody Donetti Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem. Today, we're joined by to talk about FusionCache, caching in general, and what in-memory, distributed, and hybrid caching are. Note: hybrid caching ins't the same as the Microsoft library HybridCache. "That's the first problem. The second problem is that by using a distributed cache directly, you pay the price of network calls and deserialization every single cache call that you make."— Jody Donetti Along the way, we talked about open source development, how Jody got started with working in the open, and that listeners should never be scared of working in the open. If you're building something for fun or to learn (rather than to give back or create the next big open source library), then let people know in the readme. Before we jump in, a quick reminder: if The Modern .NET Show has become part of your learning journey, please consider supporting us through Patreon or Buy Me A Coffee. Every contribution helps us continue bringing you these in-depth conversations with industry experts. You'll find all the links in the show notes. Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET. Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-8/jody-donetti-on-creating-fusioncache-and-collaborating-with-microsoft-on-hybridcache/ Useful Links: Jody's courses on Dometrain FusionCache HybridCache Supporting the show: Leave a rating or review Buy the show a coffee Become a patron Getting in Touch: Via the contact page Joining the Discord Remember to rate and review the show on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or wherever you find your podcasts, this will help the show's audience grow. Or you can just share the show with a friend. And don't forget to reach out via our Contact page. We're very interested in your opinion of the show, so please get in touch. You can support the show by making a monthly donation on the show's Patreon page at: https://www.patreon.com/TheDotNetCorePodcast. Music created by Mono Memory Music, licensed to RJJ Software for use in The Modern .NET Show. Editing and post-production services for this episode were provided by MB Podcast Services.