What's going on? 2025-04-05

This was a big week for me. I launched the blog, I spent a lot of time on different ways of architecting my team’s testing, and continuous delivery. I plan on having a lot of great related content around that soon.

In the coming time, we’ll be talking about Azure Configuration Services, and the AZ-204 certification. I’m always happy to hear what’s going on with you, and read things you may find interesting.

Shell-shocked markets brace for more tariff tumult

Investing.com - Since February 19, 2025, the S&P 500 is down 17%. This week had some of the largest drops in the market since the pandemic. A lot of this is tied to the President’s intentions on tariffs, and consumer confidence in the market.

Exploring Generative AI

MartinFowler.com - AI is a big deal in the development community. It is interesting to me to see how there are still a lot of challenges around maintainability of solutions as time goes on. It was great to get a refresher on the types of models, and makes me want to play with different types of AI tools in development.

.NET developers alert: Moq NuGET package exfiltrates user emails from git

synk.io - I get this was nearly 2 years ago, but I came across this and was in a bit of shock. Pulling developer’s emails to a third party is incredibly frustrating. As far as I can tell it’s been removed in all versions since, but NSubstitute will be something to look into. I’d love to hear more about others’ choices for a mocking framework.

What's new in C# 14

Microsoft.com - New features in C# 14 dealing with the field keyword, and partial constructors- both which seem interesting. I feel like the majority of the updates to the language have been syntactical sugars. I always tend to prefer something for a junior dev to be able to quickly read and understand, but that doesn’t mean someone will soon be leveraging these and I need to understand.

An Introduction to Sociotechnical Architecture Patterns

Medium.com - The organization that can quickly iterate itself will beat the teak that fails to evolve, even if they put out a great product. The ability to respond quickly, and have more delivery cycles is important. Social technical architecture patterns help set up the team to efficiently support the business.