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UPDATE (31-08-2017):  This article is superseded by the new article Cosmos DB Async Querying & Streaming.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

Large Projects

There is something about large projects that you'll never find, hence never learn, in smaller projects. The complexity, both technical and in terms of people dynamics, creates an all new set of challenges.

I read the article I Survived an ERP Implementation – Top 10 Gems of Advice I Learned the Hard Way at the beginning of the...