My Biggest Fear In My Software Engineering Career – Dev Leader Weekly 59
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Course Announcement: Reflection in .NET
I am very happy to announce my latest Dometrain course: From Zero to Hero – Reflection in .NET! This is one of the language features I use heavily in C#, especially when building plugin-based applications. I’ve spent many years using reflection — and yes, I’ve even had situations in REAL professional code where I’ve had to do some scary reflection stuff.
Reflection is incredibly powerful — but we all know that with great power comes great responsibility. My goal with this course is to help you navigate all of the awesome things reflection can do and provide an understanding of the drawbacks as well.
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Weekly Recap
Core Values and Dealing With Clients – Interview With Emily Jowers
It’s all about delivering value to the customer. But do they even know what they want?!
I was fortunate to sit down and chat with Emily Jowers where we talked about her career journey up to staff software engineer.
We chatted through her core values that she aims to embody and promote in software engineering teams — and life in general. We also got a glimpse of how to navigate user requirements between groups of users that are hands-on and hands-off!
Thanks for the great discussion, Emily!
4 Years In Big Tech After Startups – Principal Software Engineering Manager AMA
I had 6 internships — nearly every single one of them at startups.
After that, I spent 8 years at a company as one of the first engineers.
I helped it:
Moving to work at Microsoft was one of the biggest shifts of my life.
It turns out, things are different in Big Tech — so let’s see how!
领英推荐
In this stream, I focused on:
Performance Battle – LINQ Chunk vs MoreLINQ Batch!
You asked for it — I delivered.
What’s the big difference between MoreLINQ’s Batch method and LINQ’s Chunk method?
On the surface: Absolutely nothing.
But can we go… deeper? What will we find when we compare benchmarks for both of these things?
You might be surprised! Now I am not suggesting you use one or the other necessarily, but I’d like to show you the tools for you to be able to decide for yourself.
AI Will Replace Developers… Or Will It? – Interview With Amichai Mantinband
You know it’s right when it fits like a glove.
At least that’s the case for Amichai Mantinband when he stumbled upon computer science! He knew right away that he had found the right career path.
I had a great discussion with Amichai, and we even went into the weeds on AI taking all of our software engineering jobs!
… Well, not quite.
But you’ll enjoy our discussion about the impact of AI on software engineering. That’s for sure!
Huge thanks to Amichai for the interview — Looking forward to further discussions in the future!
As always, thanks so much for your support! I hope you enjoyed this issue, and I’ll see you next week.
Nick “Dev Leader” Cosentino
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