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David Fowler
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David Fowler
@davidfowl
Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, Creator of NuGet, SignalR, ASP.NET Core, Aspire and Barbadian 🇧🇧, Tennis Player, Father, other half @symonefowler
Redmond
Joined January 2009
- I’ve been holding onto this news for over a week, I’ve been promoted to Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft! I feel the need to buy a monocle now 🧐.
GIF - 15 years 3 IVF cycles, 12 embryo transferred, 3 kids 1 house 2 cars (well one SUV) 0 dogs and cats, 1 dead goldfish (Symone’s fault) ♾️ ❤️ Happy Anniversary @symonefowler!
- I'm now convinced there should be an entire university course on how to work in an existing code base (notice I didn't use the word legacy). The end goal being to make a change to it without breaking the functionality. This would be a senior course. CS401 Software Refactoring.
- .NET 8 is going to be a bombshell of a release 🔥. There are a TON of improvements but one of the things I'm most excited about is better out of the box metrics for our http and networking stack. We're also looing to ship grafana default dashboards #dotnet
- Get rid of l33t code interviews, have people debug some code instead. Debugging skills are highly underrated.
- In a meeting with 5+ Principal black engineers at Microsoft 😍.
- The new baby arrived safely! He and mom are doing well!
- Your .net code does not need 15 projects with a class per command and query. You don’t need an interface for everything either. It’s amazing to read extremely simple samples using .net vs node vs go. It seems our ecosystem is attracted to complexity... #dotnet
- C# doesn’t get enough credit for creating async/await 🥲
- I’m pretty happy the “brilliant jerk” stereotype is dying in tech… you don’t need to be an asshole to get ahead.
