The art of simplicity

In our Azure Data Lake Storage we have data stored in parquet files. Reading this data in PowerBI is not that hard. In this post I'll walk you through the steps to get this done. Start by opening PowerBI and click on Get data from another source . Choose Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 from the list of available sources and click on Connect . Enter the url of your Azure Data Lake Storage and click on OK. Now you get a list of available files found in the data lake. We don’t want to use these files directly but transform them, so click on Transform Data . This will open up the Power Query editor .  Click here on Binary next to the parquet file we want to extract. This will add an extra step to our Power Query that parses the parquet file and extracts all the data. Click on Close & Apply to apply the changes to our query and start using the results. That’s it! More information Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 - Power Query | Microsoft Learn Analyze data in Az

Starting from 6.8 , NuGet will audit PackageReference packages and warn you if any have known vulnerabilities similar to what NPM does when using npm install . This works when using dotnet restore: And also when using Visual Studio: Nice! More information Auditing package dependencies for security vulnerabilities | Microsoft Learn

Git offers a wide range of possibilities to discard local changes. In this post I like to share some of the available options. Before I dive into the details, it is important to make the distinction between untracked and tracked files. From the documentation : Git has something called the "staging area" or "index". This is an intermediate area where commits can be formatted and reviewed before completing the commit.   Untracked files live in the git working directory but are not managed by git until you stage them. Tracked files Here are some options to discard changes in tracked files: Discard Changes in a Specific File: If you want to discard changes in a specific file, you can use the following command: git checkout -- filename This will replace the changes in the specified file with the last committed version of that file. Discard Changes in All Modified Files: To discard changes in all modified files in the workin

If you don’t know what the JSON source generator is, I suggest to first check this older post before you continue reading. Still there? OK! Today I want to focus on some improvements in the JSON source generator that were introduced with the release of .NET 8. Although the JSON source generator is a great (performance) improvement, it couldn’t handle some of the more recent language features like required members and init-only properties . If you tried to use these features in combination with source generators you get the following warning before .NET 8: Starting from .NET, full support for required and init members has been added and the code above will just work:

Mirrored queues have been a feature in RabbitMQ for quite some time. When using mirrored queues messages are replicated across multiple nodes providing high availability in a RabbitMQ cluster. Each mirrored queue has a master and one or more mirrors, and messages are replicated from the master to its mirrors. Mirrored Queues operate on synchronous replication, meaning that the master node waits for at least one mirror to acknowledge the receipt of a message before considering it successfully delivered. This impacts performance and can result in throughput issues due to the synchronous nature of replication. Certain failure scenarios can result in mirrored queues confirming messages too early, potentially resulting in a data loss. Quorum queues Quorum Queues are a more recent addition to RabbitMQ, introduced to address some of the limitations posed by Mirrored Queues. They use a different replication model based on the Raft consensus algorithm. In this model, each queue is repli

If you want to see how .NET and C# evolved over time, check out the updated overview created by nietras : Check out his post for more details and a PDF version of the image above.