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Chris, Jess, and Todd chat about enterprise messaging patterns. Is it a good practice to put a message bus or a queue in between your web server and your middle tier services? Can message buses be overkill? What’s the best way for your loosely-coupled containerized services to communicate with one another? Did Todd actually say that there’s some benefits to building a monolith? We asked all these questions, but you’ve got to listen to see how many of them we actually answered… or how many answers we actually got right.

Jess and Chris chat about not just using NuGet to download Microsoft’s and other Open Source libraries from NuGet.org, but creating your own custom NuGet packages to help version and distribute your own components, without ever leaving your firewall!

Todd, Chris, and Jess chat about using Git in their day-to-day lives. Jess thinks it’s the best thing since the CPU, but Todd thinks it’s just the shiny new toy that’s no better than TFS. Meanwhile, Chris thinks that GitFlow is the most overly-complicated process he’s ever seen. What do you think?

What’s the best way for a developer to provide true “value”?

What does “DevOps” really mean when you’re not up on stage demoing the latest DevOps product or working at Netflix, Etsy, or Facebook? To find out, we ask Andy Schwam (@schwammy), a development manager, architect, and coder who has lived and breathed the concepts of “DevOps” in the real world… and lived to tell about it. What’s myth and what works? What’s hard and what’s easy? Andy takes us behind the scenes and tells us what it takes to transform an existing error-prone manual deployment to a highly-reliable, repeatable, and automated process.