When starting to play around with Azure Functions, the lack of dependency injection support was pretty annoying. To overcome that issue I created a small library, Autofac On Functions, based on Azure Functions 1.x. Unfortunately it is not possible to generate a nuget package from these sources. Azure On Function with nuget package available Yesterday I started to […]
The other day a collegue of mine came to me, being pretty enthusiastic. He was amazed about his latest changes to the code. As I am the responsible architect, it is my turn to have a look onto the changes. So we sat together and did so. Usually we create our code via straight rules and best practices. As […]
We need to move people from time to time between products. It can be tough when you move from SSIS/ Sql/ SAP stuff to job-based Excel automation. How can we make a hard task easy? The very first things that developer see are the assemblies and the folder structures. Let me first put some bad examples for assembly […]
Last pull request I’ve opened was some kind of disappointing. When going through the code files, I detected a lot of… questions marks above my head. We do use pull requests for two reasons actually: The need for doing review sessions goes down dramatically The team learns to improve each other while not being upset when anthing […]
Here we go again, need to employ a new guy that is hopefully very smart, intelligent, friendly, enthusiathic, creative, assertive, service-based… and yes, he should be capable of programming ;-). In the last months we did a couple of interviews, and I still adjust the questions and points of interests to check out if the guy at […]
As stated in The natural border of azure cloud queue scalability we experienced pretty relevant issues with Cloud Queues. We believed we solved the issues, though. As a result of too heavy usage of exactly one Storage Account, we devided to split the traffic – which actually really had too much to do – to several accounts to balance the work load. The […]
Quite a while ago I was sitting together with another programmer to review the brand new sources. It was created as a prototype, a proof of concept. The original product has been rewritten for several reasons: The UI shall be completely redesigned The codebase had to be replaced due to bad maintainability and bad performance Yes, certainly if there would […]