Dmitry Baraishuk
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I am a partner and Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) at a custom software development company Belitsoft (a Noventiq company) with hundreds of successful projects for US-based startups and enterprises. More info here.
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Belitsoft’s Guide to .NET Aspire: Benefits and Implementation Overview
.NET Aspire turns a multi-service system into something teams can start, observe, and deploy with one command. New hires are productive within minutes because every project follows the same startup and logging pattern. During outages, clear traces cut diagnosis time, and uniform settings prevent configuration drift between environments. Aspire relies on open standards, so you keep full control over where telemetry goes and can swap orchestration tools later without touching business code. It runs only during development, adds negligible runtime cost, carries no license fee, and can be removed service by service if priorities change.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft's Guide to Blazor Web Development
Belitsoft has published a new guide for technology leaders working with Blazor. It covers proven patterns for state management, security, authentication, and role-based UI, walkthroughs on forms, APIs, JavaScript interop, debugging, automated tests with bUnit and Playwright plus CI/CD and cloud deployment checklists. Future roadmap insights for .NET 10 are included.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft's Guide to Cloud-Native .NET Applications on Azure
CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and CIOs are continually challenged to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing applications that meet changing business demands. Azure provides a unified platform for both greenfield .NET development and legacy modernization. This overview explores proven architecture patterns, key Azure services, and deployment practices that support resilient, cloud-native application delivery, that can handle high traffic and unexpected failures.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Forbes: How to Automate Training Programs to Develop Employees' Leadership Skills
The global annual budget spend for leadership development and training is estimated to be over $50 billion. Personal leadership development in organizations helps improve business results by up to 25%. This number surges when leadership training is delivered not only to seniors but also to middle and junior specialists.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Human Brain Cell Computer Is Here
Biological computing is emerging as a credible experimental alternative to conventional electronics as researchers look for methods that cut energy use while delivering new forms of information processing. A collaboration between the Australian startup Cortical Labs and the UK synthetic biology company bit.bio has produced a laboratory device called CL1 that illustrates the current state of the field.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Explains Text-to-Speech Breakthrough with AI Brain Implant
Twenty years ago, the late physicist Stephen Hawking relied on a single cheek-muscle twitch to tell the world what he was thinking. A tiny sensor in his glasses noticed that twitch, moved a cursor across a virtual keyboard, and let him build words one letter at a time. When he finally finished a sentence, a speech box read it out in that famous metallic voice. The process worked, but it produced only about one word per minute. It also stripped away everything that makes speaking feel human – tone, pauses, humor, even the right to interrupt someone mid-conversation. That slow, flattened style of communication became the benchmark that researchers set out to beat.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Explains the Debate Around Whether to Keep Investing in Agentic AI
Agent-based artificial intelligence systems, often called “agentic AI,” let software watch what is happening, decide what to do next, and carry out actions without a person steering every step. Large firms began piloting this idea in 2023 and 2024. By early 2025, it became clear that many pilots would not survive to full production. Gartner now predicts that more than 40 percent of all current agentic AI projects will be canceled or abandoned by the end of 2027.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft sees a rise in full-stack developer hiring in 2025 (UK, USA, Canada)
Belitsoft is a nearshore partner UK organisations trust when they need to save on custom software development spend. The need for full-stack software developers is booming this year (2025) in big tech hubs such as the UK, the US, and Canada. Startups and large tech firms alike want engineers who can handle both the user-facing side of an app (front end) and the behind-the-scenes side (back end). This report looks at which companies are driving the rush for talent, how salaries are climbing, the abilities employers want most right now, and how full-stack jobs compare to front-end, back-end, and data-focused positions.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Announces an Ultimate Guide to Hiring Senior .NET Developers
The teams that hire high-caliber .NET developers test candidates on the actual stack and environment they’ll be working in (same tools, same workflows), use structured interviews that expose thinking under pressure, bring in future teammates to vet for fit and collaboration, and they don’t delegate hiring to people who won’t have to work with the hire.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Devstral – AI for Software Testing and Autonomous Software Engineering
On May 21 2025, Mistral AI and All Hands AI jointly unveiled Devstral, an agentic large-language model purpose-built to automate software-engineering tasks. In benchmarking, Devstral outperformed every other open-source model, demonstrating a margin of improvement. The model is distributed under the permissive Apache 2.0 license, so developers and organizations can adopt, modify, and deploy it freely. Devstral signals the next phase of open-source LLMs: not just competent completion models, but fully-agentic systems that can plug into CI/CD pipelines and deliver patches. Because the model already "understands" standard test runners and VCS commands, scaffolds need far less prompt-engineering.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Reveals a Playbook for Improving .NET Application Performance in 2025
CTOs and Engineering Managers are under constant pressure to align engineering with business goals – cutting cloud costs, speeding up release cycles, and keeping applications responsive. That means making sure software is not just functional, but fast, scalable, and efficient. .NET remains the backbone for many enterprise systems across various domains, from e-commerce and finance to healthcare and IoT. When .NET apps run better, the entire business does too: fewer slowdowns, better UX, more reliability where it counts. With .NET 8/9/10 rolling out, and modern cloud/hardware architectures shifting fast, yesterday’s tuning tricks may no longer apply. What worked in 2022 might cost you in 2025. This guide focuses on updated, forward-looking performance strategies – practical ways to reduce technical debt, improve system behavior, and future-proof your .NET applications.
By Dmitry Baraishuk6 months ago in 01
