.NET for Apache Spark empowers .NET developers to participate in the world of big data analytics. In this episode, Jeremy chats with Michael Rys to discuss some of the new features and capabilities available in this release
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.NET Marketing Manager Beth Massi previews .NET Conf: Focus on Windows, a free livestream event focusing on how to move your Windows desktop apps forward to .NET 5. Come join us Feb 25, 2021.
Check out the agenda and speakers at https://focus.dotnetconf.net/.
dotnet-monitor is a command line tool that makes it easier to get access to diagnostics information in a dotnet process.
In the episode, Rich is joined by Sourabh who explains to us the importance of gathering application diagnostics and also gives us a demo of how to run dotnet-monitor in Kubernetes
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Jon Wood explains Latent Dirilecht Allocation (LDA) in ML.NET.
Jon Wood shows us how to use the new SQL Data Loader in ML.NET Model Builder to load in training data.
He also creates an Azure SQL database and load the data from an F# script.
F#! 
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Tim Corey walks us through the WebAPI improvements in .NET 5.
In this video, we are going to look at the integration of OpenAPI into the project, how it works, and then why it is so important. We will also look briefly at NSwag and how to use it to generate API clients for our other applications using OpenAPI.
Tim Corey explores five new features of C# 9.0 in this video.
With Schema stitching, developers can create a unified GraphQL schema from multiple underlying GraphQL APIs.
This has the benefit of reducing multiple data queries for data in a single request from one schema.
In this episode, Jeremy chats with the author of Hot Chocolate, Michael Staib, about how .NET developers can implement GraphQL schema stitching with Hot Chocolate.
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Caching can make your website run faster, it can improve your desktop application, and it can reduce the stress on your database.
Basically, if you figure out caching, you can dramatically improve how well your application scales. In this video, we are going to look at how to use Redis to quickly and easily cache our data. I think you will be shocked by how easy this turns out to be.
Tim Corey shows us how to get started.