Contents tagged with .NET
-
CosmosDb and Client Performance
CosmosDb is the "planet scale" document storage (I love that term) schema-less (NoSQL) system that is offered by Microsoft Azure. It offers guaranteed performance based on how much throughput you select when provisioning it. This is measured using "Request Units" (RU's). It aims to offer virtually unlimited scalability and throughput through the use of partitioned collections spread across a series of high performance storage hardware (SSD's).
-
"Easy Auth" / App Service authentication using multiple providers
App Service authentication is a feature in Microsoft Azure that allows extremely easy setup of authentication using either:
-
CacheAdapter 4.2.0 Released
The latest version of cache adapter has now been released and is available via Nuget or you can download the source code here.
-
Cache Adapter 4.1 Released
The latest version of cache adapter has now been released and is available via Nuget or you can download the source code here.
-
CacheAdapter 4.0 released with Redis support.
My 'Glav.CacheAdapter' package has recently had a major release and is now at version 4.0. If you are not familiar with what this package does, you can look at previous posts on the subject here and here. In a nutshell, you can program against a cache interface, and via configuration, switch between ASP.Net web cache, memory cache, Windows Azure Appfabric, memcached and now redis.
-
CacheAdapter 3.2 Released
I am pleased to announce that my 'Glav.CacheAdapter' package has recently been updated to 3.2 (we skipped 3.1 for a few reasons).
-
Owin, Katana and getting started
This article describes an emerging open source specification, referred to as Owin – An Open Web Interface for .Net, what it is, and how this might be beneficial to the .Net technology stack. It will also provide a brief, concise look at how to get started with Owin and related technologies. In my initial investigations with Owin and how to play with it, I found lots of conflicting documentation and unclear ways of how to make it work and why. This article is an attempt to better articulate those steps so that you may save yourself lots of time and come to a clearer understanding in a much shorter time than I did.
-
Debugging Pain–End to End
We had an issue recently that caused us some time and quite a lot of head scratching. We had made some relatively minor changes to our product and performed a release into staging for testing. We released our main web application as well as our custom built support tool (also a web app).
-
CacheAdapter minor update to version 2.5.1
For information on previous releases, please see here.
-
Writing an ASP.Net Web based TFS Client
So one of the things I needed to do was write an ASP.Net MVC based application for our senior execs to manage a set of arbitrary attributes against stories, bugs etc to be able to attribute whether the item was related to Research and Development, and if so, what kind.