codingsoul

March 2016

The natural borders of Azure Cloud Queue: Taking the step to Service Bus

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 […]

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What’s wrong with that: I am not that good in naming classes

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 […]

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What’s wrong with that – robust and unquestionable code

I recently had a session about proper exception handling and, more intensively, defensive programming. As exception handling is one of the most important as well as one of the most unattented tasks of a developer, the session was based on real code from the code base of the products. Don’t get me wrong here: It is not […]

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