Data architecture is an area in which the optimal degree of isolation for a SaaS application can vary significantly depending on technical and business considerations. Experienced data architects are used to considering a broad spectrum of choices when designing an architecture to meet a specific set of challenges, and SaaS is certainly no exception. We shall examine three broad approaches, each of which lies at a different location in the continuum between isolation and sharing
We’re excited to share all the new features and improvements in .NET 8 Preview 5! This release is a follow-up to the Preview 4 release. You’ll continue to see many more features show up with these monthly releases. .NET 6 and 7 users will want to follow this release closely since we have focused on making it a straightforward upgrade path.
The resources and tools for learning about the practice of front-end development.
It’s pretty easy to differentiate use cases for Result and exceptions. Whenever the failure is something you expect and know how to deal with – catch it at the lowest level possible and convert into a Result instance. If you don’t know how to deal with it – let it propagate and interrupt the current business operation. Don’t catch exceptions you don’t know what to do about.
This is a defense of the most prolific and dedicated public servant that has graced the world in my lifetime. One man has added hundreds of billions, if not trillions of dollars of value to the global economy. This man has worked tirelessly for the benefit of everyone around him. It is impossible to name a publicly traded company that has not somehow benefited from his contributions, and many have benefited to the tune of billions. In return for the countless billions of wealth that people made from the fruits of his labor, he was rewarded with poverty and ridicule. Now that the world is done taking from him, they are heading to the next step of vilifying him as incompetent.
NetVips is a wrapper for the libvips image processing library. It's a bit like Magick.NET, but typically 8x faster. It's API-stable, supports around 300 image-processing operations, and a good range of image formats is supported.
NuGet package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/NetVips
There's a benchmark here: https://github.com/kleisauke/net-vips/tree/master/tests/NetVips.Benchmarks
Formatted docs, including a tutorial and full API: https://kleisauke.github.io/net-vips/
Blog post: https://jcupitt.github.io/libvips/2018/04/10/libvips-for-dot-net.html
Microsoft Corp. and LinkedIn Corporation on announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn's net cash.
Devart T4 Editor is a powerful Visual Studio add-in for editing T4 templates with syntax highlighting, intellisense, code outlining, and all features of a first-class text editor add-in for Visual Studio. It provides very high performance and makes creating T4 templates easier and faster. As well as ensuring extremely high level of performance, it also speeds up and facilitates the creation of T4 templates.
ASP.NET Core is a completely new web framework for building modern cloud-based web applications. In this presentation learn all about ASP.NET Core and including the latest features and innovations in MVC. You’ll see how you can build applications that run cross-platform on Windows, Mac and Linux via .NET Core. You’ll also see how ASP.NET Core MVC gives you a unified web programming model for building both web UI and web APIs.
