Category: BACKEND

Introduction

When .NET Framework was released 16 years ago, it served as a general application development platform for Windows desktop and Web applications.Shortly after, the .NET Compact Framework was released as a subset of the .NET Framework that fit the footprint of smaller devices, specifically Windows Mobile. The idea behind that was to separate code base from the .NET Framework and it included the entire vertical: a runtime, a framework, and an application model on top. Ever since that, this subsetting was repeated many times with: Silverlight, Windows Phone and Windows Store. This lead to fragmentation because the .NET Platform isn’t a single entity but a set of platforms, owned by different teams, and maintained independently.

Why should we write tests?

Many young and less experienced developers think that writing test is a waste of time, and unnecessary work. But everyone who has experience with a big/long-term project, does not share that opinion. Firstly, with a test you can ensure that your code works as it expected with given inputs, and secondly every later change of your code will be easier and safer, tests will warn developer if developer breaks a functionality.

Not so long ago, a software development project for a large global chain of furniture stores appeared in our company. It was up to us to choose the technologies and architecture that would be used in the Backend. After a detailed reading of the documentation, experiences of other developers, and tutorials on the Internet, we finally decided to develop the software in the microservice architecture on the .NET Core 2.0 platform. The application was hosted on Amazon Web Services using Docker containers. The team that worked on the Backend was delighted with the choice of architectural solution and modern technologies, so we’ve decided to describe and explain in this blog the advantages that modern technologies have over the traditional solutions.

Utility classes (or helper classes), “structures” that have only static methods, which as design is very popular in Java world (as well as in C#, Ruby, Python worlds) as they can provide usual functionalities that are used everywhere in a simple manner.

1.    What is Dropwizard

We’re all witnessing raising popularity of Microservices architecture. In Microservices architecture Dropwizard takes very important place. It is a framework for building RESTful Web Services, or better say – a set of tools and frameworks for building RESTful Web Services.

Microgrids represents a basic “building block” in the implementation of the next generation smart grid infrastructure and will become finals of the deregulation process and fundamental shift in the delivery and provision of the electric energy.

Event tracing for windows

Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) represents specialized and highly optimized structured, strongly typed logging mechanism for recording useful information for debugging purposes, state monitoring, profiling, tracing or data mining.

What does NoSQL practically means?

NoSQL is an attractive abbreviation for “Not Only SQL”, which means that it’s not a relational database, so there is no relation between the classic data tables.

Until recently, relational databases were the only option, however, over the past few years nosql bases are becoming increasingly used

Often we choose inertia of known technology, but it is not always a good choice. When you planning a new project, it is preferable to assume that the most important developments of the same, as well as its use, which are the specific features that are important to us.

Previous years machine learning has given quite good results in facilitating certain businesses, predicting events and brought big savings in various areas. The computer is now possible to learn to operate a fairly large number of jobs almost as effective as a man. Although we are still quite far from strong machine intelligence, which would be comparable to a man’s, many jobs can be delegated to machines, without fear that they will she do worse than men.