Mar 23 2022
![Improving C# Performance with Span<T>]()
Whenever I have some free time on my hands I love making our helpdesk app faster. The newest C# and .NET Core releases come with so many performance oriented features that I've been waiting to play with, specifically the new datatype called Span<T>
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Jan 15 2022
![SQL is the most long lasting skill in tech]()
In January 2020, right before COVID hit, a question has popped up at the HackerNews front page:
"Which technology is worth learning in 2020?"
Dec 31 2021
![Cross-Post: Migrating a 1TB database from Win to Linux with no downtime]()
For those of you who don't follow our company blog, we've just published another "tech porn" story on migrating a huge database from Linux to Windows with no downtime. Check it out.
Jun 29 2021
![Speeding up a huge multi-tenant SaaS database]()
Here's a little story of how we sped up our SaaS backend with a one-liner magic silver bullet
Apr 22 2021
![Reasons NOT to upgrade ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core (but you will have to anyway)]()
I know, I know, .NET Core is the future of .NET, and "cross-platform blah-blah", and "high-performance and scalable blah-blah", and also "microservices!!! containers!!!" etc. Even more - I understand that's it's inevitable. But still. Consider this an angry post on what's wrong with upgrading from ASP.NET Framework to ASP.NET Core:
Apr 15 2021
![System.Drawing vs SkiaSharp benchmark]()
This is a ridiculously short post for .NET devs looking to compare System.Drawing
with SkiaSharp
(the fastest open-source alternative).
Apr 12 2021
![What selling to Enterprises REALLY looks like]()
BIGTECH: Hello, we would like to buy an on-premise version of your software.
ME: Oh! Cool, here is the payment link
Mar 22 2021
![Generating product ideas - mixing vertical and horizontal]()
Generating product ideas via meshing or "multiplying" two existing products into one - is a popular creativity exercise. They even teach this at Stanford, at the product innovation course. But as with all techniques - it's tricky.
Mar 3 2021
![Debugging websites on Smart TVs]()
So when MS announced IE11 is about to die - I thought my suffering was over. Boy was I wrong.
Jan 31 2021
![We're off Google Analytics - here are the alternatives we tried]()
I've been looking for a Google Analytics replacement since forever. For three reasons mostly: