George Kosmidis

Microsoft MVP | Speaks of Azure, AI & .NET | Founder of Munich .NET
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The Dark Side of AI: How it Could Threaten the Future of Freely Available, Publicly Available Data

The Dark Side of AI: How it Could Threaten the Future of Freely Available, Publicly Available Data

AI has the potential to negatively impact freely available, publicly available data such as blog posts, code samples, and open source projects. One reason for this is that it can make it easier for people to access this information without having to visit the original source.

Published 2 years ago
Azure Scale Set vs Azure Availability Set

Azure Scale Set vs Azure Availability Set

In this blog post, we will be comparing two important features in Azure: Scale Sets and Availability Sets. Both of these features are designed to help you manage and scale your applications, but they work in different ways and are suitable for different use cases. Understanding the differences between these two features is important if you are planning to use Azure to host your applications.

Published 2 years ago
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Create an Azure Function App for dotnet out-of-proc

Create an Azure Function App for dotnet out-of-proc

Did you know? In-process C# class library Azure Functions will not be supported from .NET 7.0 on! And although you should always target LTS and that gives you almost two years to adapt, the hard stop could require quite a massive rewrite!

Published 2 years ago
Azure Architecture Icons - SVGs, PNGs and draw.io libraries
Secrets management for ASP.NET Core and Azure DevOps

Secrets management for ASP.NET Core and Azure DevOps

In this post we will discover how to handle appsettings.json secrets (like API keys, passwords etc.) in a .NET app and eventually how to deploy a protected app and let Azure DevOps handle the secret replacement.

Published 3 years ago
MongoDB Shell or Compass query with a GUID

MongoDB Shell or Compass query with a GUID

Just a small one for today. Have you ever tried to query MongoDB with a GUID? Well I did and it can be confusing!

Published 3 years ago
C# 10 – What’s new!

C# 10 – What’s new!

C# 10 is here with new and exciting feature with an opt-in approach. In this guide we will go through some of the most important changes that will make your code cleaner, smaller, faster and will hopefully convince you to upgrade now!

Published 3 years ago
.NET 6, A guide for the high impact Breaking Changes

.NET 6, A guide for the high impact Breaking Changes

.NET 6 is the first Long-Term-Support (LTS) version since the “one .NET to rule them all” era, which means it’s plan as future-proof. It includes a tone of improvements and changes that are planned to live long, thing that brought with it a few high impact Breaking Changes. Although there are lower impact braking changes too, this guide will help you identify if any of the important ones really affect you, and provide a suggestion at the same time.

Published 3 years ago