Monday 2024-06-17 Assorted Links
Assorted Links links
Published: 2024-06-17
Monday 2024-06-17 Assorted Links

Assorted links for Monday, June 17:

  1. General Availability of .NET Aspire: Simplifying .NET Cloud-Native Development

    .NET Aspire brings together tools, templates, and NuGet packages that help you build distributed applications in .NET more easily.

  2. .NET Announcements and Updates from Microsoft Build 2024

    Here’s a look at our updates & announcements:

    • Artificial Intelligence: End-to-end scenarios for building AI-enabled applications, embracing the AI ecosystem, and deep integration with cloud services.
    • .NET Aspire: for building cloud-native distributed applications, releasing today.
    • C# 13: Improvements to much loved C# features to make them even better for you.
    • Performance: Reducing memory and execution time with critical benchmarks.
    • Enhancements to .NET libraries and frameworks including ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET MAUI, and more.
  3. We get more useful energy out of renewables than fossil fuels

    A new study by researchers at the UK’s University of Leeds, however, suggests that … renewables already produce more net energy than the fossil fuels they’re displacing. The key to understanding why is that it’s much easier to do useful things with electricity than it is with a hunk of coal or a glob of crude oil.

  4. Docker Documentation Gets an AI-Powered Assistant

    We recently launched a new tool to enhance Docker documentation: an AI-powered documentation assistant incorporating kapa.ai. Docker Docs AI is designed to get you the information you need by providing instant, accurate answers to your Docker-related questions directly within our documentation pages.

  5. FUSE Adds VirtIO-FS Multi-Queue For ~5x Performance Win With Linux 6.10

    With making use of multiple queues, the VirtIO-FS file-system code can be up to 5~5.5x faster for read and write performance.