Go or GoLang is an open source programming language. It’s a server-side C like language created by Google. I won’t take much or your time to introduce you to the language, but here is a short summary why it’s worth trying. Go is open-source, but backed up by Google and used by big companies (Google, […]
How to receive a request as an XML in ASP.Net MVC Controller? This is a question that I got at my work when integrating with third-party service. MVC Controller is not ideal for such request handling, but that was the task I got, so let’s get to it. This is an XML that I need […]
I want to make 1000 requests! How can I make it really fast? Let’s have a look at 4 approaches and compare their speed. Preparations In order to test different methods of handling requests, I created a very simple ASP.Net Core API, that return user by his id. It fetches them from plain old MSSQL […]
Microsoft Orleans is a developer-friendly framework for building distributed, high-scale computing applications. It is a perfect solution for processing a large amount of data quickly. It shows it strengths especially when you need to use a storage while processing the data because it keeps a state in memory so save or update state operations are very fast. […]
Azure CosmosDB table API is a key-value storage hosted in the cloud. It’s a part of Azure Cosmos DB, that is Microsoft’s multi-model database. It’s a globally distributed, low latency, high throughput solution with client SDKs available for .NET, Java, Python, and Node.js. Interesting thing is that Microsoft guarantees that for a typical 1KB item read […]
Both relational and non-relational databases represent rather wide variety of possibilities and implementations but I’ll focus on the main differences between the two. First of all, it is about how data is managed. In relational databases you can use SQL, that is simple and lightweight language for writing database scripts. Non-relational databases do not support […]
Microsoft Orleans is a developer-friendly framework for building distributed, high-scale computing applications. It does not require from developer to implement concurrency and data storage model. It requires developer to use predefined code blocks and enforces application to be build in a certain way. As a result Microsoft Orleans empowers developer with a framework with an […]
For some time now we can observe how new .Net Core framework is growing and become more mature. Version 2.0 was released in August 2017 and it is more capable and supports more platforms then it’s previous releases. But the biggest feature of this brand new Microsoft framework is its performance and it’s ability to […]
Handling big files can be a problem when sending it through web. Simple REST calls are enough for small or medium files, but it’s limitation is a size of a request, that cannot be larger then 2GB. For files larger than that, you have to send or download file in chunks or as a stream. […]
Recently at work I came across a difficult error, that gives an error message, that would lead me nowhere. The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x800703E3. I’ll give you more context – error occurs in the micro-service that serves big files across the web with REST interface. Service was working perfectly […]