Miha Jakovac Coding and Development
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I am used to working from home or remotely and using tools to make my work more productive and easier. We are using communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams, collaboration, planning and shipping tools like Azure DevOps, tools for remote programming like Visual Studio 2019 Live Share, etc. Yesterday we had an online meetup…
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Recently I went deep with the load testing with the special tool called Bombardier! It’s a command-line tool for running HTTP load tests and boy it’s a nice tool. First some basics. If you check Wikipedia you can find this definition: “Load testing generally refers to the practice of modeling the expected usage of a…
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Developing, testing and upgrading your Web APIs can be a challenge. Luckily for us, there are many tools we can use to make our development more productive, our deployments safer and feeling better as custodians of our apps. In this short post I would like to introduce you to the testing with Postman. Postman is…
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From RFC 7519 page, JWT token is a compact, URL-safe mean of representing claims between two parties. It’s an encoded JSON object which is passed with the HTTP request to the protected HTTP API. If you are developing a modern cloud services, you are probably using some sort of OAuth2 authentication flow to authorize users…
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Have you ever wanted to run scheduled tasks within a running Windows Service? I do from time to time, and the discovery of this library made a life a lot easier. I’ve come across Quartz.NET, which gives you a rich job scheduling system. Quartz.NET is a pure .NET library written in C# and is a…
read more Sequence diagram is a very useful tool for representing a sequence of interactions between objects, modules or processes. I am using it mostly to represent HTTP interactions between REST APIs or Web Services. It’s very easy to understand within your team and with your stakeholders. There are many good books about Unified modeling language UML,…
read more A while ago we developed a solution for our customer, where PDF documents were automatically processed and imported to a document system. The core of the process is to analyze every page of the document, read codes (bar codes, qr codes) and merge pages together to create a final document, which is then imported to…
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Azure CosmosDB is a scalable, distributed, highly responsive and cloud based database service. It boasts with low latency and pricing based on the usage. You are billed on hourly basis by provisioning total Request units (RU) per second for Azure CosmosDB database or collection. RUs can be described as a rate-based currency for throughput presented…
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Development and testing of Windows Services is a bit cumbersome. You can not run them from Visual Studio as you can Windows Form or Web application, but there is a trick that can help to improve the development experience. Normally I have some scripts to install, uninstall, start and stop Windows service. There is also…
read more We use Azure Storage service with most of our cloud projects. It offers a convenient way to store binary objects like images, videos, documents, etc and is very flexible with redundancy and more. Azure Storage is very useful in combination with Azure Functions, where you need to run the function when a file is saved…
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