Month: January 2020

Reactive Systems: Actor Model and Akka.NET

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Building concurrent applications is hard. Building distributed applications is hard. And building robust resilient applications is also hard. Making use of the Actor model using Akka.NET makes these things easier. There are many things to consider when building reactive systems. The Reactive Manifesto describes the general characteristics of such system at https://www.reactivemanifesto.org/ and Akka.NET adheres … Read more

Git up your App

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I was once invited to give training to developers of a reputed company regarding application designs and architectural concerns utilizing various technology stacks in areas of both front-end and back-end development. Though the overall training sessions went well but one thing we struggled with was sharing of code, there were some hands-on-exercises and some starter … Read more

.NET Core – Cross Platform Code

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.NET Core is cross platform and in this short post I will describe a simple method to detect the underlying operating system on run-time. There are situations, when we want to run a different piece of code based on the Operating System. This capability could be useful in various scenarios e.g. I wanted to obtain … Read more

JavaScript Module System

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Separate and Abstract code in its own scope, making it accessible and included again! That’s the thing which JavaScript module systems help us to achieve. JavaScript applications tend to grow fast and without any kind of structure in-place, it would be very hard to keep a cleaner code-base. Traditionally different techniques like IIFE, Revealing Module … Read more