Software Development

NPM 5 reworks the cache for speed, but could break existing apps

Other changes target better fault tolerance, garbage collection, and auto-saving

How Cosmos DB ensures data consistency in the global cloud

Microsoft’s new database provides three cutting-edge approaches designed for applications that span geographic regions

How to work with HTTP Range Headers in WebAPI

Range requests enable you to retrieve partial content in lieu of the entire content for improved performance when working with WebAPI over HTTP.

HTML5: Where the core web technology is headed now

The staple of the open web platform, the HTML5 standard is undergoing both incremental and fundamental change

Microservices need to honor contracts

In the ever-expanding era of cloud computing, microservices must adhere to contracts

Amateur web developers can now look to Mavo

The HTML-based platform provides data-management capabilities without needing a back-end server

How APIs can break up your company’s ball of mud

With Collision Conference at a close, check out my conversation on stage with Steve Rosenbush on the value of the API economy.

The high cost and risk of On-Premise vs. Cloud

How to implement a type-safe enum pattern in C#

The strongly typed enum pattern to get around the shortcomings of the enum type and provide a type safe, elegant and flexible way to represent enums in your applications

A full-stack developer is full of something, alright

Most applications we develop are stupidly simple, so almost anyone can do them. Too bad our dev tools don’t work that part of the stack well