Networking Basics

Its been a while that docker or container technologies are threatening the way we are delivering software. Cloud platforms are offering the capabilities which were only possible for the powerful and rich (ok, may be I could have written “were hard to get”). Networks, their administration and management are being abstracted away and the software … Read more

Node – RED

Node RED is powerful, extensible, graphical programming environment. It’s a flow based modelling tool which make it easy to create event-driven applications in a simple & intuitive ways. Its built on top of NodeJS and provides a browser based editor for wiring flows together. Node RED development environment is actually a web page running on … Read more

Reactive Systems: Actor Model and Akka.NET

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