And now for something completely different - I’m hosting a conference in the November 12-13th in Mountain View, California called Access to {AI}.
...Developers Who Can Build Things from Scratch
There’s lots of different types of developers you’re going to need to work with over the span of your career in the software business, but the one I want to talk about today is the kind you need when you’re trying to build something new.
Finding a developer who can...
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Akka.NET Request for Contributors: Akka.Cluster
The next major milestone for Akka.NET is Akka.NET v1.1, the primary focus of which is a...
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Visual Studio ProTip: Copying Binaries on Pre and Post-Build Macros
Last year I had to spend a fair amount of time working on C and C++ projects in Visual Studio 2013, and one of the tasks that I had to learn how to do was use Visual Studio’s pre-build and post-build events to copy all of my dependent DLLs into the final output folder for my applications.
In C# we take the ability to do this for granted - if we need to add a reference to another project in our Visual Studio solution we just Add Reference –> Projects –> [Project Name] and boom, we’re all set. Visual Studio will automatically copy our dependent binaries into our final /bin/[Release|Debug] folder automatically.
In C/C++ - hell no. You have to do this all yourself!
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Real-time Marketing Automation with Distributed Actor Systems and Akka.NET
This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on July 23rd, 2014. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it. I shut down MarkedUp in November, 2014.
The MarkedUp team has had experience developing SDKs, high-performance APIs, working with Cassandra / Hadoop, and service-oriented software for several years. However, when we started laying out the blueprint for MarkedUp In-app Marketing we knew that it would require a radically different set of tools than the traditional stateless HTTP APIs we’d been used to developing for some time.
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Helios 2.0 Development Diary 2 - Channels, Config, and the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern
Picking up where I left off in the previous Helios 2.0 diary entry… After clearing the decks of all of any code I wasn’t 100% certain we’d be keeping, I began writing new code.
IChannel, IChannelConfig, and more
I immediately began by porting Netty’s Channel...
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Cassandra, Hive, and Hadoop: How We Picked Our Analytics Stack
This is an archive of a blog post I wrote for the MarkedUp Analytics blog on February 19th, 2013. It’s been a popular post and I’m posting it here in order to preserve it.
When we first made MarkedUp Analytics available...
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Scalability Lessons we can Learn from Voat
Last weekend I found voat.co on the /r/dotnet subreddit, one of the places I frequent for news and happenings related to...
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Talking about Akka.NET and the Actor Model on Hanselminutes and .NET Rocks
I’ve done a bit of a “press tour” for Akka.NET since we released Akka.NET v1.0 at the beginning of April and I wanted to share a couple of the interviews I’ve done in the .NET community since.