Wednesday Shorts #2

3 Hand-Picked Reads About .NET, Azure, Data, AI/ML, And Technology Every Wednesday.

#1 - Microsoft Fabric and Databricks : Are They Really into War With Each Other?

With Microsoft announcing public preview of their unified data and analytics platform, the question that everyone would have in their mind is how does Databricks compare with Fabric and then how both integrate with each other considering both proclaiming themselves as unified data analytics platform.

#2 - TimeProvider and ITimer: Writing Unit Tests with Time in .NET 8 Preview 4

Time plays a critical role in software applications. Tracking time zones and testing time-dependent flows bring challenges to developers. The first part of the article covers the history of .NET Date and Time structures, including existing issues and challenges in time calculation. The second part reviews new .NET 8 Preview 4 abstractions that improve dependency injection and unit testing.

#3 - Failing fast in .NET

Have you ever spent hours investigating a bug by researching the exception details, only to find out that the exception thrown had nothing to do with the issue? In this article, Roko Kovač explains the concept of failing fast in .NET, the motivation behind it, and why it helps solve these issues.