Practice Makes (Almost) Perfect: Behavioral Interviews – Dev Leader Weekly 55

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Weekly Recap

Parameterized Jobs and Dependency Injection With Quartz.NET

Scheduled jobs in Quartz NET are boring. What can you do without any dependencies or parameters?!

Don’t worry. We can spice things up.

In this video, we’ll look at:

• THREE ways to pass parameters into jobs
• How to leverage built-in dependency injection for dependent services
• Moar Quartz awesomeness!

Let’s dive in and see what options are available to us in our ASP NET Core apps!

Plugin Architecture in C# – Principal Software Engineering Manager AMA

This was an AMA livestream! I focused on:

• My newsletter points regarding Plugin Architectures in C#
• Jumping into articles/posts from LinkedIn & Reddit
• Answering YOUR questions

Quartz NET Best Practices – Merged Job Data and Serialization

Quartz NET is a POWERFUL job scheduler… But you know what they say…

With great power, comes great complexity!

Something like that, right?

This video explores two best practices from the Quartz documentation:

• Using the merged job data collection
• Handling serialization of complex objects

What are your tips for using Quartz effectively?

License To Code With The People Whisperer – Interview With Taha Hussain

I laughed FAR more than I have in any interview so far. But I also managed to pocket more lessons along the way.

In this interview with Bond, James B… wait. Wait no. That’s the infamous Taha Hussain !

Taha was an absolute pleasure to talk with for this interview. Truly, I spent so much time laughing and being engaged by his amazing story-telling.

But it’s not just some fictional tale — These are lessons from Taha’s impressive career journey:

• Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
• Senior Director
• Head of Engineering

And now — Career Coach.

You’re going to love this one. Thanks so much, Taha!

Job Keys And Bulk Scheduling – Quartz NET Best Practices

Job scheduling systems like Quartz NET are powerful but come with a level of complexity just by the nature of what they do.

Fortunately, the Quartz team has offered some guidance!

This video explores two best practices from the Quartz documentation:

• Using static JobKeys for reusability
• How to schedule jobs in bulk

What are your tips for using Quartz effectively?

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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