To GIT or not To GIT

GIT, the one that vanquish them all. Gee… I can't get my head around that product!

I spent an entire 5 months project using it and I still don't get it. True, I used it with the proverbial 10 feet pole, with the minimal subset of features and with no integration into Visual Studio (thanks to a weird Network...

Skype Translator Infographic

Microsoft just published an infographic about how Skype works its automatic speech recognition and translation (also known as Startrek universal translator).

I saw a demo of that technology 2 years ago, having an English and German speakers talking to each other but I didn't think it was that close to productization.

It...

DocumentDB Async Querying & Streaming

UPDATE (31-08-2017):  This article is superseded by the new article Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming.

Working with the .NET client SDK of Azure DocumentDB, I couldn’t find a way to query the store asynchronously.

***This post relates to the version 0.9.1-preview of Microsoft Azure DocumentDB Client Library. If you work with another major version, this might not...

Description of your REST API: Swagger & RAML

About a year ago I did a post about WADL. I hope you didn’t build a billion dollars business model around that initiative because it hasn’t left the ground yet :(

WADL, or Web Application Description Language for the initiated, was aimed to be what WSDL is for SOAP Web Services but for REST.

You see, the thing with...

Scaling a Multi-Tenant Application with Azure DocumentDB

Following the release of Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft NoSQL document-oriented fully managed database, in preview mode, there was initial curiosity. Now we are starting to see more focused questions: how does it scale, can it expose OData, how would I go about architecture my department app around it as the back-end, etc. .

John Macintyre, Program Manager for Azure...