Redis is an amazing, in-memory, data structure store that is used by many large applications as an underlying data store as well as a high performance Cache. Redis is a single threaded client, which means only one request can be processed at a time. To facilitate better Redis development, there are several important items we need to consider: 1. Don’t … Read More
How We Used Akka.Net to process thousands of installments instantly
Akka.Net is a toolkit to build highly distributed, event driven applications using .NET. Originally written for Java/Scala, this community managed project for .NET is not just a top-notch port, but a great source code reference to those who want to learn the art of writing high quality code. We were required to write a Software that allowed users to make … Read More
SaaSKit – Dependency Injection of Tenants
A few weeks ago, I started using SaaSKit for an ASP.NET Web API 2.0 based Application. As you know, ASP.NET Web API2.0 doesn’t seem to be supposed by SaaSKit and majority of the articles etc. revolve around the new ASP.NET Core. While this is great, we were working on an application that would take months to migrate over to ASP.NET … Read More
Our Azure Stack Of Love
Microsoft Azure has taken great strides in offering high quality, Enterprise-grade solutions for building Cloud-based applications from the ground-up. We at HyperTrends have been privileged to work with Azure for over 5 years now and have identified the various components that will make your application a first-class Cloud citizen. That’s right! Read on to see how this little San Diego … Read More
The Magic of User Stories in Agile Software Development
“As a User, I want to search for Blog Articles on the blog from a quick Search Textbox on the top navigation so that I can get to the articles I want faster. Given that I am logged in as a User, I should see a Search Text box prominently placed in the Top Navigation. Upon entering Search Criteria, an … Read More
Evolution into DDD – An Introduction
Over the last few years, we’ve run into scenarios that have led us down into a deep exploration phase on some of the “so-called” best practices in building quality software. We have diligently followed the best practices as recommended by Microsoft and other giants only to find serious shortcomings when applications get massive. As we started going down the rabbit … Read More
Unit Test Assertions made easy using Shouldly
Assertions in Unit Testing are often cumbersome to write. Majority of our TDD code is full of Assertions to ensure that Unit Tests meet the criteria specified in the business rules. Here’s a typical example of a Unit Test using good ol’ Assert. If you think this is boring, you’re not alone. Not only is it cumbersome, it doesn’t flow … Read More
Introduction – How to write clean code?
One of the biggest challenges in Software development is the practice of writing clean code. Writing clean code is like having great sex, you will not know anything about it until you’ve personally experienced it. There, we said it! The sad state of the industry is that there’s no pragmatic guide to writing clean code. Clean Code mastery comes through tremendous … Read More
DateAdd functionality in MongoDB
When developers build systems that service users in multiple timezones, reporting needs to take into account the tenant’s time zone to accurately produce data in the tenant’s time zone. As developers, the safest bet involves storing dates in UTC format. If they are not stored in UTC (for legitimate reasons I won’t get in here), then we make sure we have … Read More
HyperTrends performs a massive Mongo Rewrite to accommodate new C# Driver
HyperTrends, a leading Software Development Agency in San Diego servicing customers all over Southern California just finished performing a massive upgrade to rewrite all MongoDB code to work with the new C# Driver. The old MongoDB/C# driver did not provide an async operations either. The new driver provided improvements over almost all aspects of MongoDB. It took HT about 300 … Read More