about 1 month ago
- Quick experiment few shotting vs using rules with little LLMs...
5 months ago
- Over the last year or so of using Dotnet Aspire I’ve had a lot of successes, including getting other teams to also adopt Aspire within their solutions. When you stick to the well trodden path a lot of things just work, e.g.: Creating local instances of things like SQL Server and...
8 months ago
- Azure OpenAI Deployments are a way to deploy and manage your OpenAI models in Azure. However examples in the dashboard and documentation use the AzureOpenAI sdk. This is fine if you plan to stay within Azure but can be a pain if you plan to switch between other OpenAI...
9 months ago
- Programmable Voice as a Service (e.g. offered by the likes of Twilio and various competitors) has been around for a long time, it allow you as a developer to make/receive phone calls and then control them programmatically via an API. Azure Communication Services (ACS) is...
12 months ago
- Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover one section from this week’s from last...
about 1 year ago
- JetBrains Rider has garnered attention as a modern, cross-platform IDE, especially for .NET developers. However, Visual Studio remains the reigning heavyweight in the development world, thanks to years of evolution and refinement. While Rider offers impressive features, there...
- A few weeks ago, I wrote a [guide on how to deploy React Native iOS app to TestFlight from Azure DevOps pipeline](/blog/how-to-deploy-react-native-ios-to-testflight-from-azure-devops-pipeline). Once you and testers in your team have made sure that the app is working by...
- When you develop an iOS app, Android app, or a cross-platform app using React Native in a company, there is one thing you need to implement as soon as possible to save you tons of troubles in the future: **the CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipeline to...
almost 2 years ago
- Hello to C# Advent 2023 readers This post is part of C# Advent 2023 series, there’s loads of great content that’s worth checking out from a wide range of authors Azure Durable Entities have been around for a while, initially there was some good fan fare but it’s probably fair to...
- 👋 Hi, this is Gergely with a bonus, free issue of the Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. In every issue, I cover topics related to Big Tech and startups through the lens of engineering managers and senior engineers. In this article, we cover three out of seven topics from today’s...
about 2 years ago
- In a previous job, I found that a coworker was spending a full work week building an excel spreadsheet from our Azure DevOps data, so I spent about an hour writing a small program to replace his entire job. This triggered an arms race between myself and the coworker where they...
- Last night on the The Changelog news postcast they mentioned PageFind a nifty library for adding search to static websites. The search provided out of the box from the theme I use for my blog was a bit average so I thought I’d have ago at integrating PageFind - there were a...
- A little while ago now, my team at work was looking at improving the performance of a FHIR Server API. Thanks to Azure Workbooks, we’ve already been able to identify a bottleneck with the underlying data storage resource - CosmosDB. Now, as we explore options to enhance...
over 2 years ago
- Released in June 2022 VS Code “Edit Sessions”, later on in November 2022 renamed to “Cloud Changes”, is a little-known feature that allows you to sync your uncommitted changes between multiple instances of Visual Studio Code, either on the web or on the desktop. Hosting a git...
- At the height of the dot com bubble, Yahoo was printing money from selling ads. Enticed by Yahoo’s success, more money was invested in startups. These startups, in turn, bought ads on Yahoo. Many of these startups failed when the bubble burst, and Yahoo’s market capitalization...
- There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options. Originally published 16 May 2023. There are plenty of tools to choose from aside from Copilot and ChatGPT. Here are the most promising ones worth checking...
- Past a certain point, web applications outgrow a single server deployment. Companies either want to increase their availability, scalability, or both! To do this, they deploy their application across multiple servers with a load balancer in front to distribute incoming requests....
over 3 years ago
- With 2022 well underway I’ve realised it isn’t too late to set a couple of personal development goals for the remainder of the year. Last year I was working in the infrastructure team at DrDoctor. Over the course of the year I learnt many valuable things: Bicep (infrastructure...
almost 4 years ago
- Earlier this year I decided I wanted to get back into blogging, and nothing screams getting back into blogging then changing the platform you’re using! I had been a long time user of Wordpress and blogged regularly from 2013 to 2016 and figured adopting a new platform is exactly...
about 4 years ago
- Lately I have been building a socket server for one of my clients, this has taken the form of a Windows Service since there is no Azure PaaS offering that allows you to accept raw TCP socket connections. The socket server is for an IOT device to send raw TCP packets to for...
almost 5 years ago
- Putting time and effort into developing Azure ARM templates for infrastructure deployment pays off in the long term, especially when all teams across an organisation adopt the same patterns. Recently at DrDoctor we’ve been developing an approach to generating boilerplate...
almost 6 years ago
- How the biggest cloud companies deliver the worst value...
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