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There's a big difference between a team that uses pull requests and a team that gets value from pull requests. The difference is in the details: how b...
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When you run a Monte Carlo forecast, you get multiple dates with different confidence levels. 50%, 80%, 90%, 99%. What do these mean? And which one sh...
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Here's something most teams miss: most branching problems aren't actually branching problems. They're symptoms of something else. The version control ...
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This is it - the final video in the C# for Beginners series! We're talking parallel programming: how to actually use all those CPU cores sitting in yo...
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You know async and await. Now let's talk about what separates beginner async code from production-ready async code. ValueTask, CancellationToken,...
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