Maximizing the power of logs as your application scales
Logs can provide much more than debugging and troubleshooting for your application. Read more to see how logs can be used for metrics, alerts, experiments, and more.
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How I Self-Published a Programming Book and Lived to Tell About It
About a month ago I released my first book. Besides the actual writing, there are a ton of things involved in publishing a book. There’s the book cover, editing, book formatting, publishing to a marketplace, creating a landing page, and promoting the book. I’ll tell you how I did all those things for better or worse.
Assembly Versioning and DLL Hell in C# .NET Framework: Problems and Solutions
In this article, we’ll talk about what exactly is DLL Hell, how these kinds of problems can occur, and the best ways to dealing with them.
5 Productivity Tips in Visual Studio That You Should Know
If you’re like me, then you’re addicted to productivity tools. That’s one of the reasons why I love Visual Studio—it has an endless amount of productivity tricks. This post is going to show five such tricks that help in my work every day.
Understanding How Assemblies Load in C# .NET
We are constantly dealing with libraries and NuGet packages. These libraries depend on other popular libraries and there are a lot of shared dependencies. With a large enough web of dependencies, you’ll eventually get into conflicts or hard situations. The best way to deal with such issues is to understand how the mechanism works internally.
Continuous Delivery with Feature Flags (toggles) is More Difficult Than it Seems
What happens if you’re working on something that lasts much more than one sprint? Maybe 3 sprints or 10. Are you going to work on a separate branch, ending with a huge merge? Are you going to run automated tests on that branch? This matter is not that simple, as I recently experienced.
9 Must Decisions in Web Application Development
So you’ve decided to create a web application? Great, welcome to a world without any easy choices. There is a vast amount of different great technologies in every step you are going to make. And for every option, you will find a notable company that used it with great success. We’ll go through 9 must decisions you have to make…
13 Things that Keep Us Motivated as Software Developers
I’ve been developing software for 10 years now. Every now and again I wonder what it is that makes me tick. What’s the element that makes me come to want to go work in the mornings. In other words, what is it that motivates us as software developers?
Class Instantiation Guidelines in Object Oriented Languages: When to choose Singleton, Static, Extension methods or Dependency Injection
I’d like to tackle an old dilemma: Class instantiation. Which pattern do you use to create a class? Do you always use a new statement? Do we still need to use Singleton or Factory? Should we always use dependency injection? How about static classes, are they truly evil?
Most Popular & Profitable Companies in .NET Development space in 2019
With a rough estimate of over 3 million .NET developers, creating development tools for them is a huge market. There are several big players that are competing for that income. These companies provide productivity tools, profilers, VS extensions, UI Controls and more. We’ll see which companies are the biggest players, how they fare against each …
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