This week I gave a talk on Cloud Design Patterns at the Ottawa .NET Community. I wanted to share the sides here and will most likely write on articles on the topic using real world examples. Samples in C# and node.js, in AWS and Azure. For the talk I went through, what Cloud Design Patterns […]
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Redis Lua Scripting Redis provides a way to extend its functionality on the server side by providing support for Lua Scripting. If you are coming from a relational database world, you already know that you can use Stored Procedures to extend functionality of your relational database. Now, you may also know that some people do […]
In May 2017 I did a talk in Ottawa .NET User Group on Introduction to Microsoft Bot Framework, it was a interesting turnout and lots of conversation on what a bot can do for a business and how to use them. Below you will find the slides for my talk on Microsoft Bot Framework. The […]
Last week I did a presentation on Xamarin Dev Days here in Ottawa, the presentation was on Introduction to Xamarin, unfortunately my demo did not work, the demo gods were not with me that day 🙁 The demo code uses Microsoft Cognitive Service Bing Search to search for images to display on a mobile phone. […]
Redis provides a way to use Pipeline Batching to send messages to Redis but first we must understand that Redis uses tcp request response protocol, some may know it as client server model. If you are coming from a web http world, you will have no issue understanding client server, where the browser acts like […]
Redis Pub Sub, somehow may sound weird that it provides such a functionality since when you think of Redis the first thing that comes to mind is of a cache key value store. But indeed Redis does allow us to use the messaging paradigm by using channels to publish messages and for subscribers to listen […]
I was invited to Sprott School of Business – Carleton University for an introduction to the class on Xamarin what Microsoft platform offers for mobile development. Below you will see my sides that were present by me and Ahmed Al-Assad a fellow MVP. A special thanks to Alex Ramirez for the invitation to speak to […]
Docker for .NET Developers Last week I was presenting at the Ottawa IT User Group for .NET Developers on Docker for .NET Developers. We covered what docker is, how it fits into microservices, overview of using docker as a .NET Developer etc Topics that we covered were What is Docker Images and Containers Docker vs […]
Redis HyperLogLog is used for calculating the cardinality of a set or non mathematically speaking it is a probabilistic data structure used to count unique values. Basically it is an algorithm that use randomization such that it can provide an approximation of the number of unique elements in a set by just using a constant […]
Json Web Token JWT have performance overhead? I wanted to find out if using jwt token during authentication of a web application creates any performance issue. But what are Jwt Tokens you may ask? JSON Web Token (JWT) is an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting information […]
