As our industry has embraced the new strategies for handling the production workloads which include containers (Read as K8s) or Serverless (Read as Functions As A Service), the developers don’t have the luxury of unlimited computing resources on the production environments. Those days are gone where it was easy to…

On September 23 2019, Microsoft announce the release of .Net Core 3 and C#8 in a virtual online conference. These two are the major releases. In this post I shall be talking about C#8 enhanced feature of pattern matching, why this because I love functional programming and pattern matching is…

Any technology that let developer to concentrate on what they are good at (coding) without being bogged down by other nuances like deployments and doing baby sitting of the servers. Serverless is such a technology which empowers the developers. I wont go in detail of this as there is a…

Anytime and every time I would be always in favor of opting a managed service from the cloud provider (PaaS => Platform as a Service) rather then me doing a baby sitting of servers and managing hardware on my own (IaaS => Infrastructure as a Service). Recently I was asked…

Serverless is no more a tech buzzword. Many enterprises are embracing it in a BIG way. Microsoft Azure has great offerings of Serverless services in the form of Azure Functions , Azure Durable Functions and Logic Apps. Infact all these offerings from Azure has make life of a developer very…

I had a privilege to be invited by Agile Testing Alliance , Vadodara chapter to talk about Asp.net Core 1.0 . It was very interactive sessions and the participants asked some really good questions. Here is the synopsis of my talk What is Asp.net Core ? It is a lean stack from Microsoft to develop…

Xamarin as a product has always delighted me. Imagine writing cross platform native mobile apps with your favorite programming language, C#. As a developer you feel proud that your code is running on more than billion devices world wide. To add icing on the cake frameworks like MvvmCross and CrossLight…

Security runs in my blood. After extensively working on cryptography on .net platform and have developed couple of mission critical apps. I was given the other challenge for an LOB app in WinRT platform. One of the requirements of the app was of cryptography. …

INTRODUCTION — LightSwitch as a technology/tool has always impressed me.I was quite fascinated that how this super cool technology enables us to avoid all that plumbing code and concentrate on the real core busines s logic. In a true sense it supports Rapid Application Development. I was already familiar with the Silverlight…