I’m Nick Cosentino, the creator of Dev Leader. I’m a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft by day and a software engineering content creator by night! My journey in software engineering and leadership has been fueled by a passion for continuous improvement and a drive to empower teams with trust, transparency, and candor.

Here at Dev Leader, I share insights and experiences from my diverse background, spanning startups, small businesses, and big tech. I’ve been writing code for 20+ years and professionally creating software for 15 years now. I’d love to share my experiences with you!

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05/25/2024
13 minute read

Feedback is Deeper Than You Think - Dev Leader Weekly 45

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss why feedback is important at all levels of engineering AND how it works two ways.

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05/20/2024
12 minute read

Dapper And Strongly Typed IDs - How To Dynamically Register Mappings

How can we use Dapper and strongly typed IDs from the StronglyTypedId package? Let's see if we can generalize the guidance from the original author!

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05/18/2024
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Developer Burnout - Dev Leader Weekly 44

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss developer burnout and what you can do about it in your career!

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05/14/2024
5 minute read

How To Use IServiceCollection in Console Applications - What You Need To Know

How can you use an IServiceCollection in console applications to get dependency injection? Is this a viable option if you don't want to use Autofac?

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05/11/2024
9 minute read

Imposter Syndrome and YOU - Dev Leader Weekly 43

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss imposter syndrome and how it affects you as a software engineer.

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05/04/2024
12 minute read

The Best Software Engineers Are Replaceable - Dev Leader Weekly 42

Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss the idea of the best software engineers being replaceable but indispensable.

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05/03/2024
14 minute read

Autofac ComponentRegistryBuilder in ASP.NET Core - How To Register Dependencies (Part 3)

Learn how to use Autofac ComponentRegistryBuilder in ASP.NET Core! We'll see how we can move closer to getting the C# plugin architecture support we want!

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05/02/2024
14 minute read

Autofac ContainerBuilder in ASP.NET Core - What You Need To Know (Part 2)

Learn how to use Autofac ContainerBuilder in ASP.NET Core to wire up dependency injection. I'll explore what we can and cannot do with this approach!

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04/30/2024
13 minute read

AutofacServiceProviderFactory in ASP.NET Core - Problems With Dependency Injection (Part 1)

Learn how to use AutofacServiceProviderFactory in ASP.NET Core for dependency injection! This article explains how to set it up along with the pros and cons.

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04/29/2024
8 minute read

Break into Big Tech - My Journey from Startup to Microsoft

This article is a high-level view of my career journey going from startups to Big Tech -- landing a principal software engineering manager role at Microsoft.

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Level Up Your Software Engineering

Feedback is Deeper Than You Think - Dev Leader Weekly 45

Dapper And Strongly Typed IDs - How To Dynamically Register Mappings

Developer Burnout - Dev Leader Weekly 44

How To Use IServiceCollection in Console Applications - What You Need To Know

Imposter Syndrome and YOU - Dev Leader Weekly 43

The Best Software Engineers Are Replaceable - Dev Leader Weekly 42

Autofac ComponentRegistryBuilder in ASP.NET Core - How To Register Dependencies (Part 3)

Autofac ContainerBuilder in ASP.NET Core - What You Need To Know (Part 2)

AutofacServiceProviderFactory in ASP.NET Core - Problems With Dependency Injection (Part 1)

Break into Big Tech - My Journey from Startup to Microsoft