Introducing the Daily Design Pattern

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Introducing the Daily Design Pattern

Lately I've been on something of a design patterns kick, from realizing that patterns are tools, not goals to developing and recording an extensive course for my employer and my fellow programmers at my current employer. It's been enlightening, to say the least.

What is Serverless Computing? Exploring Azure Functions

"Serverless Computing" doesn't really mean there's no server. Serverless means there's no server you need to worry about. That might sound like PaaS, but it's higher level that than.

PerfIt: Windows performance monitoring for ASP.NET Web API actions

Windows performance monitoring and Eevent Tracing for Windows (ETW) instrumentation for .NET (including ASP.NET Web API).

You're using HttpClient wrong and it is destabilizing your software

I’ve been using HttpClient wrong for years and it finally came back to bite me. My site was unstable and my clients furious, with a simple fix performance improved greatly and the instability disapeared.

9 Visual Studio Productivity Tools

In this episode we explore 9 features of the Visual Studio Productivity Tools 2015.