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Trying the Azure SignalR service

Jun 14, 2019

Totally unexpectedly I ran into something "new" in Azure: the Azure SignalR service. It's been out there for a while, but somehow I haven't come across it (to be fair, it is now one of the better-marketed services of Azure). According to the documentation,

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Countdown to C# 8: Making the Azure Storage API better with IAsyncEnumerable

Akos Nagy

Mar 28, 2019

C# 8 is just around the corner — and with that, this post will review the last, currently publicly available feature of the new language version: asynchronous streams. If you are interested in my take on the other two, currently available features, check out my posts on them here: * Non-nullable reference

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AZ-202 (AZ-203?) passed: Microsoft Azure Developer Certification Transition

Akos Nagy

Feb 9, 2019

A while back I posted about passing the 70-777 Cosmos DB beta exam. Last year I also received voucers to try the new role-based Azure certification exams. Since I have already passed the original 70-532 for developers, I decided to take on the new AZ-202 transition beta exam. Well I

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Next level serverless apps with Azure Blobs

Akos Nagy

Nov 6, 2018

I've always been a huge advocate for (and fan of :) ) serverless apps. People often misjudge the concept: serverless doesn't mean that there is no server. I mean, what else would serve requests for the relatively primitive client side? There is a server. Maybe there is even

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LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 3

Akos Nagy

May 12, 2018

In my last post and the one before that I was writing about the process of releasing a new version of my LinqPad CosmosDb DataContext Driver. Those were the two important steps to make before the actual update of the driver — and now, it's finally here. If you

LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 2

Akos Nagy

May 9, 2018

In my latest post I described my first steps to update my LinqPad Cosmos Db driver The whole idea was to show how the "backend" of my new and updated driver can be used as a standalone component. This makes updating and maintaining the component much better and

LinqPad CosmosDb Data Context Driver Update - Part 1

Akos Nagy

May 7, 2018

A while back I created a CosmosDb data context driver for LinqPad. Originally, I found the request on uservoice and I thought I'd give it a try. The end result was pretty OK, I guess. People started using it; I mean, this is not the "next big

Using Cognitive Services from Excel via PowerQuery

Akos Nagy

Apr 25, 2018

I have a client that I regularly consult with about various .NET application development tasks. One time they were describing me a particular piece of software that supports product logistics. One part of the process is that products are basically assembled on a conveyor belt. They also showed me the

dotNet Falcon update

Akos Nagy

Mar 26, 2018

You might have noticed that in the last few months I haven't put out as many posts as I usually do. Well, here's a post explaining why (or rather, trying to make some excuses). I am working on a couple of things (stay tuned for other

Want to become a meetup speaker? Here's what you need!

Akos Nagy

Aug 17, 2017

I'm not just a software engineer, I'm also a teacher of software engineering. I feel obligated to share my knowledge with anyone who's in need of it, and, in the process, furthering my own understanding of technology and software engineering. That's why

StackOverflow Adventures: DocumentDb and inheritance

Akos Nagy

Mar 27, 2017

I stumbled upon this question on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42858166/deserialize-json-into-multiple-inherited-classes/42858968#42858968 Here's the gist of it: OP wanted to store instances of different descendants of a class in DocumentDb and then read them back — but it wasn't working. So what's

StackOverflow Adventures: DocumentDb response chunking

Akos Nagy

Mar 17, 2017

Not long ago I stumbled upon this interesting question on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42600008/how-to-get-more-than-100-query-results-with-azure-documentdb-rest-api The asker used the REST API of Azure DocumentDb to query some data, but they could only get back the first 100 documents. If they used the .NET SDK, they could get all

Azure Automation Job for Index Maintenance

Akos Nagy

Feb 14, 2017

Indices are good (yes, technically that is the plural form of index). They help you when you search for things - and that's mostly what databases are all about. But indices are only good if they are maintained. When you do your inserts and deletes, indices can become

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