Historically, .NET Framework was a Windows-only software development framework. In fact, many developers who don’t regularly work with it still believe that .NET and its languages, such as C#, are only available on Windows. It all changed in 2016 when … Continue reading Differences between .NET, .NET Core, and mono

Microsoft has spent a lot of time and effort developing its main functional language, F#. Over time, it has been given many cutting-edge features and tooling, far better than anything available in any other language on the .NET platform. This has … Continue reading Why you should care about functional programming

Test-driven development (TDD) is all the hype these days, especially if you frequent LinkedIn and various software development community forums. It’s almost like a religion these days. Many TDD evangelists will keep saying that it’s the best thing since sliced … Continue reading Why TDD is severely overhyped (and why you should still try it)

.NET developers who are new to AWS Lambda functions often struggle to figure out how to test them locally. The documentation is somewhat sparse or it proposes excessively complicated ways of doing this. For example, there are articles and YouTube … Continue reading The easiest way to run and debug .NET AWS Lambda locally

In your software development career, you will have to spend a lot of time finding bugs in the code and figuring out why it doesn’t do the thing it’s supposed to do. This is what the process of debugging is … Continue reading The art of scientific debugging

ASP.NET Core is the main web application development framework in .NET, which is the core software development platform of the Microsoft stack. It comes with various application templates that would allow developers to build any kind of web application. For … Continue reading The easiest way to learn ASP.NET Core

On the most fundamental level, a web application consists of client-side code and markup, server-side code, and a database. Many small websites and small-to-medium enterprise-level browser-based applications consist of nothing other than these components. However, on its own, this basic … Continue reading How big data web applications are built

Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) and Structured Query Language (SQL) associated with them represent a mature technology that existed for over 30 years. However, a group of data storage technologies based on a completely different paradigm, collectively known as NoSQL, … Continue reading When NoSQL is a better choice than RDBMS and when it’s not

In the previous article, we had a look at how to scale a SignalR hub by using Redis backplane. But you can also scale your hubs by using Azure SignalR Service. And this is what we will have a look … Continue reading Scaling out a SignalR hub with Azure SignalR Service

You can run a single monolithic instance of a server application only if the number of clients accessing your application doesn’t exceed a couple of thousand. But what if you expect hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of clients to … Continue reading How to scale out a SignalR back-end by using Redis