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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In .NET | C# | Azure | Service Fabric
- Posted 14/02/2020
Is Azure Service Fabric still relevant in 2020
This is a question that comes up very often today - is [Azure Service Fabric](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/service-fabric/) still relevant in 2020? Is…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Docker | .NET | C#
- Posted 31/01/2020
Getting started with Docker management from .NET
There are times when you need to manage [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) infrastructure from .NET/C# - probably not an every day task, but…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In LINQPad | UI
- Posted 14/01/2020
Building User Interfaces with LINQPad
# Building User Interfaces with LINQPad [LINQPad](https://www.linqpad.net/) is awesome! This is an extremely lightweight tool for writing quick code snippets…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Azure
- Posted 07/01/2020
Using ARM Templates in C# Integration Tests
I'm working on a storage abstraction library [Storage.Net](https://github.com/aloneguid/storage) and one of the things it promises is identical behavior of different…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Cloud | Storage
- Posted 12/12/2019
Implementing Data Transform Sinks in Storage.Net
A really cool feature that saw the light today in [Storage.Net](https://github.com/aloneguid/storage) is what I call (at least for now) **[Transform…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Apache Parquet
- Posted 23/04/2019
Parquet.Net is "dead"
If you've ever wondered why there are not many updates to [parquet-dotnet](https://github.com/aloneguid/parquet-dotnet) project is it's because it's "dead". Not literally,…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Kubernetes
- Posted 18/02/2019
Setting up FTP server on Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure doesn't have a managed FTP service, which I needed today to simulate integration with legacy systems. However, it's…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Kubernetes
- Posted 15/02/2019
Deploying Azure Functions with Application Insights via ARM
Recently I've started playing with Azure Function for real, end-to-end, pushing it to the limits, but that's another conversation. My…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Apache Parquet | C# | Performance
- Posted 25/10/2018
Parquet.Net 3.2.0 Released
Parquet 3.2.0 is released which marks a new stage in powerful capabilities of serializing C# classes to parquet files. Serialization…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In C#
- Posted 16/10/2018
Buffer Memory Pools in .NET
*System.Buffers* is a relatively new addition to C# ecosystem. It's one of the helper parts for .NET runtime to improve…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Productivity
- Posted 10/10/2018
Making Windows Terminal Pretty
Modern Windows 10 terminal is pretty and more powerful than it's previous versions, you get proper copy-paste support, line wrapping,…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In C# | Apache Parquet | Parquet.Net | Big Data
- Posted 03/10/2018
What's coming in Parquet.Net 3.1
[Parquet.Net](https://github.com/aloneguid/parquet-dotnet) is about to be released in the following few days. Since v3.0 was pushed to the public, it saw…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Software Architecture
- Posted 15/03/2018
Decomposition Techniques in Software Architecture
Decomposition is an important part of software architecture process. Especially if your system is relatively large, however this is not…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In C# | Microsoft Azure | Automation | Azure Monitor | Azure Resource Manager
- Posted 08/01/2018
Using Azure Monitor Programmatically
Azure Metrics enables you to gain visibility into the performance and health of your Azure workloads. Metrics (or performance counters)…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Azure Service Fabric
- Posted 02/01/2018
Configuring Auzre Service Fabric with Environment Variables
[Configuring Azure Service Fabric applications](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-fabric/service-fabric-manage-multiple-environment-app-configuration) was always a bit of a pain. I'm not entirely sure why, is this because…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Microsoft Azure | Azure Service Fabric
- Posted 17/10/2017
Azure Service Fabric Course
I'm happy to announce that I've published the first [Pluralsight](https://www.pluralsight.com/) course [Understanding the Programming Models of Azure Service Fabric](https://app.pluralsight.com/library/courses/azure-service-fabric-programming-models/table-of-contents). This…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Big Data | Apache Parquet
- Posted 28/07/2017
Apache Parquet on .NET
## Preamble If you are in Big Data, you know about [Apache Parquet](https://parquet.apache.org/) format. It's a de facto standard for…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Architecture | Version Control | .NET
- Posted 23/03/2017
NuGet Versioning Hell
In this post I'd like to point out why proper versioning of your .NET assemblies is important and how easy…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In PowerShell | Scripting
- Posted 03/10/2016
My PowerShell Journey
I've never been a fan of command line. I still think it's just too much hassle, typing bores me, I'm…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In .NET | C# | Azure Pipelines
- Posted 06/02/2020
Perfect .NET CI/CD with Azure Pipelines
Every time I start a new .NET library on [GitHub](https://github.com/) and want to publish it I'm struggling with CI. Most…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Dapr | Service Fabric | Go
- Posted 27/01/2020
Implementing Custom Dapr State
Today I'd like to describe the way you can add your own [implementation of state](https://github.com/dapr/docs/blob/master/concepts/state-management/state-management.md) to [Dapr](https://dapr.io/). If you don't…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Linux | Ubuntu
- Posted 08/01/2020
Upgrading Ubuntu to next Major Version
If you're using Ubuntu GUI, the upgrade process is pretty much trivial - launch **Software Updater** utility and it's done.…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In PowerShell
- Posted 18/12/2019
Customising PowerShell Prompt
PowerShell is extremely customisable. One of the things you can customise is the **prompt** (the place where you type commands…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Kubernetes
- Posted 24/04/2019
Kubernetes is not your friend
[Kubernetes](https://kubernetes.io/). There is so much noise about this system in the industry, from leaders to devops and developers. Everyone seems…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Kubernetes
- Posted 20/03/2019
Browsing Git History in VS Code
VS Code has no built-in functionality for browsing git history, as I've discovered today. However, [this awesome extension](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.githistory) adds it,…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Kubernetes
- Posted 16/02/2019
This developer's life
You should listen to [This Developer's Life](http://thisdeveloperslife.com/) podcast series by Scott Hanselman. It is life-changing.
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Kubernetes
- Posted 14/02/2019
Integrating Serilog with Azure Functions and Application Insights
Serilog traditionally doesn't have support for Azure Functions, however there is an awesome [Sink Project](https://github.com/serilog/serilog-sinks-applicationinsights) that I now maintain that…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In C# | Java | Python | Apache Parquet
- Posted 17/10/2018
Reading and Writing Parquet Files in Different Languages
## Python In python, the easiest option is to use [fastparquet](https://fastparquet.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) package. If you're using *conda* simply type: ```powershell conda…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Microsoft Azure | Azure Service Fabric
- Posted 11/10/2018
Common Problems installing Service Fabric locally
Since Service Fabric released a few updates to their SDK user have frequently seen problems that local cluster won't start.…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In C# | Apache Parquet | Parquet.Net | Big Data
- Posted 09/10/2018
What's new coming to Parquet 3.1.2
v3.1.2 will be the next minor release of Apache Parquet for .NET and is mostly around improving row-based utilities. It's…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Pluralsight | Azure Service Fabric
- Posted 02/10/2018
Azure Service Fabric Rocks!
I'm really excited to release a new course on **Azure Service Fabric** called "Using Azure Service Fabric in Production". It's…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Big Data | Apache Parquet | Parquet .NET
- Posted 07/03/2018
What's wrong with Parquet.Net v2
[Apache Parquet for .NET](https://github.com/aloneguid/parquet-dotnet) has come a long long way since the original idea in June 2017 (the first commit…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In C#
- Posted 03/01/2018
How to Extract a ZIP Archive in Parallel
These modern days .NET Plarform has a built-in support for ZIP archives in [System.IO.Compression Namespace](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.compression(v=vs.110).aspx). I find it exciting as…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Docker | Containers
- Posted 28/11/2017
Docker for .NET Core Developers - from Zero to Hero
I've decided to write this post as I'm seeing a lot of developers having diferent opinions about [Docker](https://www.docker.com/) and as…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Microsoft Azure | Azure Key Vault
- Posted 01/08/2017
Creating Azure Key Vault for programmatic access
Azure Key Vault is a wonderful technology I've just discovered. I'm only looking at secrets as of now as this…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In Automation | VSTS
- Posted 10/04/2017
How to get a free unlimited VSTS build server
Did you know [Visual Studio Team Services](https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/) (formerly known as TFS) are great? Just two years ago I wouldn't consider…
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- By Ivan Gavryliuk In ASP.NET Core | Architecture
- Posted 08/03/2017
Creating a simple Blog Engine
We used to have a blog on **WordPress** for some time and wordpress is OK. My only problem was that…
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