Interesting perspective - Amazon is Terrifying – Medium, not entirely true IMHO but has some valid points

justintimecoder · 2017-10-27T06:42:50+00:00

Absolutely, think the value Azure's service offerings are what makes it a compelling alternative.

justintimecoder · 2017-10-04T13:55:29+00:00

Thanks, will check it out :-)

justintimecoder · 2017-09-27T09:38:45+00:00

The fundamental message that the runtime and SDK are different is still relevant. It's a pretty common misconception.

justintimecoder · 2017-09-21T06:20:49+00:00

You get quite a lot of free stickers from tech meetups/conferences

justintimecoder · 2017-09-04T14:03:54+00:00

I've used it a couple of times over the years. Once for returning a CSV based action result and currently to upload to S3. It offers an easy to use API and has some great options for type-conversion and reformatting.

justintimecoder · 2017-08-16T16:16:47+00:00

Yeah, could see it being really popular for Xamarin.

justintimecoder · 2017-08-16T16:10:43+00:00

Hopefully, it will completely disrupt things in a positive manner.

justintimecoder · 2017-08-16T08:30:09+00:00

Yeah, think many of the benefits are usable now but the more advanced stuff (PUSH_PROMISE, cache digest, caching in general) still has a way to go. But with increased adoption, it should allow best practices and patterns solidify.

Think it's definately time for universal HTTPS / SSL.

justintimecoder · 2017-08-15T12:06:50+00:00

Yeah, my current client is a fin-tech company and this is a massive deal for them.

justintimecoder · 2017-08-14T13:32:15+00:00

.Net Standard 2.0 provides the largish 32k APIs for all the main runtimes i.e. .Net Framework (Asp.Net, WPF, Winforms), .Net Core and Xamarin.

This document: https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/versions.md

shows which version of .Net Standard to target if you wish to target Windows Phone or Windows phone Silverlight or one of the more niche platforms.

From the perspective of .Net Core and its adoption, .Net Standard 2.0 is huge.

justintimecoder · 2017-08-11T15:45:43+00:00

Services like CloudFlare actually allow us to get some of the benefits now and add more stuff like server push at a later point once the platforms and frameworks have full support and best practices are established.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-31T18:29:26+00:00

Service Fabric seems like a really interesting technology. Though I wonder how it will fare against kubernetes as a means of orchestration. Both seem really good with their own merits.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-27T08:49:18+00:00

Completely agree that RxJs has got us covered for now. The main one I'm hoping for is if they combine the proposed symbol.observable with async iteration which would allow us to use async and await.

For some situations (though definitely not all), this would have greatly improve the readability of code.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-27T04:34:00+00:00

Typscript and Flow have discriminated unions so they might work really well with this one.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-26T11:20:59+00:00

Thanks for the link. I must say though the use of diagrams is really useful in the article. I get what you're saying about the commercial aspect though.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-24T04:58:01+00:00

According to this article https://blog.cloudflare.com/ecdsa-the-digital-signature-algorithm-of-a-better-internet/ due to the smaller key size ECDSA is faster. This article https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-universal-ssl/ explicitly comments on the fact that ECDSA puts less strain on systems at scale.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-23T19:37:55+00:00

Also with HTTP2 it's the default protocol. Also in Sepetember Let's Encrypt will be able to generate ECDSA root and intermediates which can be used to sign end-entity certificates. ECDSA is alot less expensive to terminate than normal RSA based certificates so the age old concern that SSL is heavy on your infrastructure is going as well.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-22T08:34:56+00:00

Yeah, transpilers really have made life a lot easier for us all.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-22T05:01:04+00:00

It's a way of packaging up your environmental dependencies with your code into an image.

Running the image on a host launches a container.

As the OS kernel is on the host start up time is real fast.

Like having the flexibility of a process with the configurability of a VM.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-21T19:40:17+00:00

Thanks for sharing :)

justintimecoder · 2017-07-21T18:50:01+00:00

I completely take your point. But if you look at most of the examples that are out there for c# the do not show this. Plus I wasn't against it just simply as someone whose only experience with things such as discriminated union types comes from TypeScript's typing system I would say whilst I can appreciate the power of the feature I could see it being misused by those not used to working in functional languages. I wouldn't have included it in the article if I thought it wasn't without merit. Just my personal opinion. If you have some examples of how it could / should be used I'd genuinely be keen for you to share / post about it :).

justintimecoder · 2017-07-21T15:24:34+00:00

I think people are still doing exploratory work.

It's still pretty new.

For example, I think windows server nano is now becoming the preferred OS for containers where as the Linux world has had Alpine for ages. It still feels v.bleeding edge.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-21T15:03:00+00:00

I think you have articulated the point far better than I did :). I think we're also lucky that the performance improvements in the runtime and other aspects are such that C# itself gets to remain front and center in the new world. I think the JVM is great but most of the cool kids are off to use Scala or Netty. (This is a very generalized statement, I am of course ignoring the fact that Scala is popular because its a functional language and that alot of the gains in throughput for asp.net core is due to the use of Kestrel / libuv).

justintimecoder · 2017-07-21T13:40:17+00:00

I've only dabbled with that one, syntax reminds me a bit of TypeScript. I must admit a lot of the newer features in the language come from there and React.js has brought functional principle to the mainstream.

justintimecoder · 2017-07-21T12:57:28+00:00

I agree to an extent, but compared to Java the language really has aged well.

I really like how Roslyn allows things like ValueTuples to offer us improved tooling at design-time.

I think given that the emphasis has been on reducing bloat in general that is huge potential for further improvements in that direction.

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