Health Check Infrastructure | Toby Churches | SSW Rules

One broken API can bring your entire application down — and you might not know until your users are already impacted. In this video, Tony Churches from SSW shows how to proactively monitor your application’s health using infrastructure health checks in ASP.NET Core. Learn why hope is not a strategy, and how you can build confidence in your system’s reliability.

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Do you take Penetration Testing seriously? | Rob Thomlinson & Oliver Judson | SSW Rules

Penetration testing (or “pen testing”) is a crucial step in securing networks, applications, and devices from cyber threats. In this video, Oliver Judson, a principal penetration tester from Mercury ISS, joins Rob from SSW to discuss what penetration testing is, why businesses should care, common vulnerabilities, and essential tools for sysadmins and developers.

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Creating Multi-Language AI-Powered Apps w/ Rust, Python & Blazor | TJ Gokken | SSW User Groups

Let’s do some polyglot programming. We’ll create a modern system diagnostics tool called HAL (Hardware Assistant that Learns). We’ll combine Rust’s system-level performance, Python’s AI capabilities with AutoGen, a multi-agent framework, and Blazor’s modern web interface into a cohesive application.
Key Takeaways:

Inter-process communication between Rust, Python, and .NET
Understand when and why to use different languages in AI applications
Learn to implement Microsoft’s AutoGen for multi-agent AI systems

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