Ben Brandt

Software Engineer, Father, Husband

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@Azure @OpenAI Is Azure down for you too?

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@lukevz Looks like maybe it is on the way?
https://t.co/7WzakenZAf

[Paul Bailey @pizzapanther]

My first book: Async Patterns in Django

Now available on Amazon.

https://t.co/hGcQoEegls

#django #python #programming

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

BTW, this link is broken because MS completely delisted this video. Was revisiting my old post after listening to this amazingly thought-provoking talk:
Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype https://t.co/LizhZ8GZxU by @justinsheehy
https://t.co/SQZpxjf5qP

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

One of the funniest things I've ever seen... trying to use #GitHubCopilot in a live coding session at #MSbuild2023.

https://t.co/N36T0cZ642

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@egrootenboer @egrootenboer Any word on when the 1MB limitation will be lifted for ASB Partitioned Premium namespaces?
https://t.co/u8yCFpmeQ6
https://t.co/fBuaRoiEUW

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@ParticularSW @AzureFunctions The link seems to be broken. Is this the correct link?
https://t.co/fVfz4B3Q6D

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@stephenbering @ParticularSW @AzureFunctions I think this is the proper link:
https://t.co/fVfz4B3Q6D

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@mdnoga @azurekubernetes @Azure If I am told that in our test environment, when GET /widget/1 is hit it is returning B, but it should be returning A. If the test environment is locked down and I can't access the test DB locally, would Bridge to K8s still help me debug and solve the problem more quickly?

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@mdnoga @azurekubernetes @Azure One of the first things any of my service bus handlers or API controller actions will do is query a database based on the action input. Then it will do some domain logic and do some combination of returning a result, publishing an event, or storing a result to the DB.

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@yot88 @vkhorikov Thanks for the update!!!

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@yot88 @vkhorikov @vkhorikov Is this something you'd want to update as a correction in your newsletter post here?
https://t.co/zvSjuF5cKW

You can also just reply and let me know I'm wrong, I wouldn't mind! :-)

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

@yot88 @vkhorikov Hi @yot88! The infographic is excellent, but it looks like there is a typo for the definition of Stub. I think it should read: "Help to emulate in-coming interactions"

We do not actually want to "examine" the behavior of the stub, right? Would you be able to update?

[Paul Bailey @pizzapanther]

Created a small utility to check up on your remote teams in Zulip to make sure they haven't dropped off the map. https://t.co/6ep9uin0fZ

In a remote world it's harder to tell if someone mysteriously disappears. This tool helps to give you a heads up. @zulip

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

https://t.co/AtB65DiQ8r

[Miles Cranmer @MilesCranmer]

@filippie509 Great video. I found this meme resonated with me – although I think the ratio is even understated!

Copilot seems best used for boilerplate, "fuzzy copying", and text data preprocessing. I find in-line completions are *usually* safe too.

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

One of the funniest things I've ever seen... trying to use #GitHubCopilot in a live coding session at #MSbuild2023.

https://t.co/N36T0cZ642

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

This is now my autoreply response to anyone that justifies that maybe Copilot would be great for new programmers, just learning to code.

[Ben Brandt @BBrandtTX]

Today's tale of woe:
Contractor asks Azure support to transfer billing ownership of our Production Subscription.
Azure support instead transfers Sub to their Tenant.
Production AKS instance gets very unhappy by this unsupported change.
Building out a new Production AKS instance.

[Chris Gillum @cgillum]

This is awesome - Building serverless durable orchestrations in Python just got dramatically easier! Congrats to the team on delivering this improved dev experience!

[Chris Gillum @cgillum]

For those using Durable Functions in the .NET Isolated worker, a fix was released that addresses a pretty serious resource leak. Please upgrade when you can. Details in the release notes: https://t.co/u3tE8JVkXc