From Chaos to Clarity: The Essential Role of Architectural Decision Records (ADRs)

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Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) are crucial for documenting key decisions in software projects, preventing miscommunication, and ensuring transparency. By using ADRs, teams can avoid repeating mistakes, foster collaboration, and provide valuable historical context for future developers.

How to Modernize an Enterprise Application to .NET 8 and Lose 75% of the Code 👑

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The current software development challenge for Microsoft developers, is getting large .NET projects into .NET 8 (soon to be .NET 9). Modernizing the codebase is crucial as developers need efficient code, maintainable code and a scalable app. At SSW we have been on this migration journey for a bunch

NDC Sydney 2024 – so many Microsoft Heavyweights!

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NDC Sydney 2024, had a lot of huge speakers. There were some Microsoft heavy hitters in attendance including Scott Hanselman, Damien Edwards, and David Fowler, as well as international rockstars like Keynote speaker David Whitney and .NET Rocks presenter Richard Campbell and more. There were a lot o