You're starting a new project with Apache Kafka. Before setting up broker parameters and writing producers and consumers, what questions should you ask yourself? To ensure a smooth start, I have prepared the following checklist/questionnaire.
Powerful search tools as externalized cognition, and how mine work.
Does not apply if you like spam. No, not that one.
How to Be Happier Without Really Trying summarizes a lot of the tactics I take in my own life to be happier (errr, more tranquil). This post does a good job summarizing Epicurean philosophies Live For Pleasure: Not the frat party kind. Prize tranquility. W…
Solely optimizing for task cycle-time is a short-term thing.
Ideas to help Software Engineers of any level grow and learn new things.
Now that interest rates are back at historically normal levels, bonds look a lot more interesting. Bonds let you grow your wealth and produce income while taking on modest levels of risk. “Modest levels of risk” is not the same as risk-free, of course. So let'…
Data News Summer Edition — Design the fancy data stack to explore the Tour de France data.
This is the first post in a series on coding up algorithms for constructing automata from regexes.
In the realm of software development, crafting code that remains maintainable, flexible, and scalable stands as an utmost priority. And when delving into the concept of scalability, I'm considering not only the system's load capacity but also your ability to m…
Quite a few casual games browser extensions request access to all websites. I look into some of these extensions which you should obviously avoid.
AIWhispr takes a modular design approach, recognising that 4 distinct functions are coordinated to drive a scalable semantic search engine. This approach helped us quickly scale up to build a demo which processes over 1 million askubuntu.com posts downloaded …
Remember that the origins of Impostor Syndrome come from a healthy place.
Back to: Part I
In the fast-paced world of software engineering, an industry characterized by an average tenure between 1-2 years1, the notion of seniority has always been somewhat fluid. It is an environment where you’re expected to go from “new grad” to “senior” within 3…
Avoid calling yourself, or anyone else, 'junior'.
YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to perfor…
Microsoft announced a new foundational certification one day before careers site Dice cited advice to become a C# developer.
For two samples \(\mathbf{x} = ( x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n )\) and \(\mathbf{y} = ( y_1, y_2, \ldots, y_m )\), the Hodges-Lehmann location shift estimator is defined as follows: \[\operatorname{HL}(\mathbf{x}, \mathbf{y}) = \underset{1 \leq i \leq n,\,\, 1 \leq...
Kris Moore is the Vice President of Engineering for iXsystems. Kris is an experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the computer softwa...
Are you a .NET developer and you are excited about the latest features coming to .NET and C# but you have concerns regarding the support for your apps you bu...
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The new version of .NET Upgrade Assistant is available in Visual Studio Marketplace with feature updates and .NET MAUI improvements!
Do you like watching videos to learn about new and existing Visual Studio features? Then you should check out the Visual Studio Toolbox show!
In this video, we analyze the most used commands in the Terraform world.Access all courses: https://courses.devs.school
Neuroscience, Pharmacy Professor Jaime Ross’ study finds ‘widespread’ infiltration, potential for serious health consequences, including Alzheimer’s.
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RavenDB is a multi-primary database, which means that it allows you to write to multiple nodes at the same time, without needing synchronization between them...
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A popular path to protected mode.
Today, we're excited to showcase Meter, a provider of Internet infrastructure, is leveraging the Tenant API integration for DNS filtering to help their clients enforce acceptable Internet use policies
Companies see huge server savings with Elixir.
In ASP.NET Core 8, Microsoft added a new authentication handler named BearerToken. In this blog post, I will explain how it works and its purpose. This handler is part of a bigger push by Microsoft to simplify authentication in ASP.NET Core, but in this blog p…
In this article, we will explore how to get JSON array using IConfiguration with GetSection, GetChildren, and Get methods in ASP.NET Core
Following consensus on: #2580 (review) This PR phases out the precompiled per final consensus made in #2580
In this post, I'll share a list of features that some of you may not know. From small gems to large features that you probably haven't seen.
Creating an API to share or sell? Here are the steps you need to take in writing the documentation and why it matters.
Dive into the world of .NET unit tests with this comprehensive guide. Understand the qualities of effective unit tests, and explore the best naming conventions that make your test code readable and maintainable.
How about almost 30 new components! And complete re-implementations of the Icon and Emoji components and logic. And, of course, (some breaking) changes and fixes to the rest of the already existing extensive set of components. Let's dive in, we got a lot to co…
REST API Localization for .NET
Clean Architecture provides a standard way to avoid tight coupling and external dependencies in complex software applications. The Ardalis.CleanArchitecture.Template NuGet package provides a useful starting point for solutions that wish to use this approach fo…
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As a developer there are a lot of small tasks you need to do as part of your coding, debugging and testing activities. DevToys is an offli...
The first time I realized it was possible to get a process to run some extra little code I had written, it felt like the ultimate cheat code. My first attempt was a little patch for Civilization 2 to fix some high CPU usage. Then I discovered that you could in…
EI023: AI Processing Services (Part 12)
The Portuguese-language spyware app has been used to compromise over 76,000 devices to date, the leaked data shows.
What programming languages does GitHub Copilot support?Damian Brady explains how most, if not all, languages are supported.Learn more: https://msft.it/60529zaGk
72-year-old Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++ (first released in 1985). 38 years later, he gave a short interview for Honeypot.io (which calls itself "Europe's largest tech-focused job platform") offering his own advice for life: Don't overspecialize. Don't be…
Are you ready for the latest enhancements and improvements in ASP.NET Core? Microsoft is gearing up...
Flaky Tests is one of the most dangerous things to your testing culture. That’s why you should Delete them if you will not fix them.💎 Be a Patreon to get th...
Zero-Knowledge Proof research at the UC Berkeley Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence
Tiancheng Xie, University of California, Berkeley
Ulrich Haböck, Polygon Labs