Nick Cosentino

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Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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Getting Started: AI for .NET Developers
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Getting Started: AI for .NET Developers

Get started with integrating AI into your .NET applications effectively using the latest LLM best practices.

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Getting Started: Building .NET Applications on AWS
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Getting Started: Building .NET Applications on AWS

Learn how to build and deploy .NET applications on AWS using CDK, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, and more.

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What's new in C# 14
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What's new in C# 14

This guide covers every new C# 14 feature, explains its benefits, and provides practical code examples to help you navigate how you can use them.

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Let's Build It: AI Chatbot with RAG in .NET Using Your Data
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Let's Build It: AI Chatbot with RAG in .NET Using Your Data

Build a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) chatbot that can answer questions using your data.

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From Zero to Hero: SignalR in .NET
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From Zero to Hero: SignalR in .NET

Enable enterprise-grade real-time communication for your web apps with SignalR.

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Deep Dive: Solution Architecture
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Deep Dive: Solution Architecture

Master solution architecture and turn business needs into scalable, maintainable systems.

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Migrating: ASP.NET Web APIs to ASP.NET Core
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Migrating: ASP.NET Web APIs to ASP.NET Core

A step-by-step process to migrate ASP.NET Web APIs from .NET Framework to ASP.NET Core.

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Getting Started: Caching in .NET
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Getting Started: Caching in .NET

Let's make the hardest thing in programming easy for .NET software engineers.

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From Zero to Hero: Testing with xUnit in C#
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From Zero to Hero: Testing with xUnit in C#

Learn how to test any codebase in .NET with the latest version of xUnit, the industry-standard testing library.

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Create a ChatGPT Console AI Chatbot in C#
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Create a ChatGPT Console AI Chatbot in C#

This walkthrough is your hands-on entry point to create a basic C# console application that talks to ChatGPT using the OpenAI API.

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