Microsoft Ignite: Day 5

Microsoft Ignite: Day 5

Read my summary of all Ignite days: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 What You Should Know   So here we are at the last day of Ignite. Yesterday was a great night – Microsoft closed the Universal Studio park just for the Ignite attendees, and it was awesome! The photo […]

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Microsoft Ignite: Day 3

Microsoft Ignite: Day 3

Read my summary of all Ignite days: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 What You Should Know   Welcome to the third installment of my Microsoft Ignite review! And today, surprisingly, we’ll discuss the 3rd day of Ignite. So these are the sessions I’ve been in, and what I think of […]

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Microsoft Ignite: Day 2

Microsoft Ignite: Day 2

Read my summary of all Ignite days: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 What You Should Know So after the first, exciting, day, arrived the second one. It was a very enjoyable one, with strong emphasis on the development aspects of Azure. Application Dev Keynote with Scott Hanselman Before diving into […]

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Microsoft Ignite: Day 1

Microsoft Ignite: Day 1

Read my summary of all Ignite days: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 What You Should Know   This year I’ve decided to attend Microsoft Ignite, the largest Microsoft event for developers and IT people. Ignite is a 5-days event (with another pre-event workshop day), that takes place in Orlando, FL. […]

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REST API Design – The Course!

REST API Design – The Course!

REST API is the most popular Web API out there. Almost every self-respecting web site has one. It is widely used to expose data, enable data manipulation, perform various actions, and lots more. What’s more – implementing REST API is extremely easy. No matter what is your primary development platform – you’ll probably be able […]

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The Complete Guide to Becoming a Software Architect – The Course!

The Complete Guide to Becoming a Software Architect – The Course!

Wow, this is exciting… After ~8 months of planning, researching, writing, designing, recording and editing, I’m so proud to announce my flagship course is finally online! This course, The Complete Guide to Becoming a Software Architect, contains all that is needed for you to become a great software architect. The Course Image The Course Image […]

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Build vs Buy – Not So Fast…

Build vs Buy – Not So Fast…

We’ve all been here before. A new feature should be implemented in the system we’re working on, and the team is divided: Some say – “well, that’s not so hard, let’s develop it!” Some say – “guys, there is already a tool that does this, let’s use it!” So we’ve all learned that in the […]

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The Fallacy of GraphQL

The Fallacy of GraphQL

In The Beginning… History tends to repeat itself. And the question is, of course, can we learn from it? Now, that might be interesting, but totally unrelated to Software, right? Wrong! It’s quite easy to see that trends in the software industry tend to repeat, and that they come in waves. Every time we, the […]

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Micro Services – A Brave New World?

Micro Services – A Brave New World?

Where Are We Now? Micro Services are all the rage right now. Everywhere I go, every architectural discussion I’m taking part in, every conference I’m registering, is flooded with Micro Services. “How to migrate your monolith (read: pathetically old and outdated) application to a Micro Services architecture?” “Kubernetes vs Mesos vs Consul – Let the […]

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