AWS, Serverless, .NET MAUI and Async/Await with Brandon Minnick

Matt Goldman and Liam Elliott sit down with Brandon Minnick — AWS Developer Advocate, former Xamarin and Microsoft engineer, and lead maintainer of the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit — for a conversation that ranges from serverless .NET to Xamarin migrations to what makes async/await easy to get wrong.

What you’ll learn

• Serverless .NET on AWS — Native AOT, cold starts, and running ASP.NET Core on Lambda
• Xamarin to .NET MAUI migrations — Brandon’s perspective from maintaining the Community Toolkit through the transition
• The Community Toolkit and its markup library — where XAML gives way to a C# markup approach
• Breaking changes in OSS — lessons from Rx.NET on managing them without alienating users
• Async/await best practices — including why async void keeps catching people out
• Brandon’s own projects — GitTrends, Punday, and his upcoming .NET MAUI course

Listen to the full episode for the beer pairing and the full tour of AWS, MAUI, and async pitfalls.