Here is a collection of my blog posts and articles.
Clustering is an important functionality in the Internet of Things (IoT). It allows multiple devices to act as one and coordinate the work between themselves. For example, you may have IoT devices that are making real-time audio announcements at the … Continue reading Coordinating IoT cluster with SignalR
This article is a modified introduction to the book The easiest way to learn design patterns. The book is available in digital format at LeanPub and in either Kindle-specific format or in print from Amazon. Design patterns are something that … Continue reading Why every programmer needs to know design patterns (and how to learn them easily)
There are many ways of making money online, whether you do it as your main activity or as a side project. And today, we will be talking about the method that I am most familiar with – publishing online courses. … Continue reading How to make money by creating online courses
You can become a programmer without a formal computer science degree. Around 30% of software developers are self-taught. But you would probably want to know which language to learn first. After all, there are many of them out there. Well, … Continue reading What programming language to learn first – the case against C++
Any major software development framework has in-build localization mechanism. This will allow any app built with it to be able to easily change the language and other culture-specific settings depending on the users’ preferences. You may think that this doesn’t … Continue reading Always make your apps localizable from the start
Programmer, also known as software developer or software engineer, is an in-demand profession that usually pays well. Another good thing about it is that, unlike it is in other skilled professions, you don’t require a formal qualification to become a … Continue reading Why you don’t need maths to become a programmer
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
As someone who is interested in becoming a software developer, you have probably heard that it’s important to learn algorithms. Or maybe you have already started your programming career and haven’t yet encountered a situation where knowledge of algorithms would … Continue reading Why studying algorithms will enhance your programming career
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
Social media is one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century. Facebook allows you to keep in touch with your friends, regardless where on the globe they live. If you have in-demand professional skills, LinkedIn allows you to move … Continue reading How social media is killing your dreams
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