Spark Tips. Optimizing JDBC data source reads - In this blog post, we will discuss how to optimize reading from JDBC data sources in Spark. By default, JDBC data sources load data sequentially using a...

Apache Kafka is a messaging system designed for scalability and speed, originally built to distribute datasets created by large social networks. While it is not a typical broker like JMS or AMQP, it r...

Chris Klogg, an expert in Microsoft platform development at a company called Active Solution, holds a talk introducing ASP.NET beyond the introduction. He explains he started in classical ASP and has ...

The session introduces Dapper, a technology for building distributed applications. The speaker emphasizes that building distributed applications is challenging due to the complex architecture and the ...

In this presentation, Joe, a Pluralsight author and consultant, discusses the building of a microservices architecture based on ASP.NET Core. He provides a brief introduction to the topic and explains...

Charles Hoskinson is the founder of Cardano, co-founder of Ethereum, a mathematician, and a farmer. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: - Gala Games: https://gala.games/lex - All...

The speaker has created diagrams as codes 2.0, which is aimed at helping create architecture diagrams, in a bid to solve communication issues that arise when teams struggle with visualizing architectu...

The presentation is on domain-driven design and how to use refactoring techniques to slowly refactor an existing code base towards an actual domain model. The speaker explains how teams new to domain-...

Elon Musks third appearance on the Lex Friedman podcast begins with some light-hearted banter before turning to the importance of the SpaceX launch on May 30th, 2020. Musk discusses his love for human...

Mark Seaman gave a talk on software development productivity, addressing the problem of developers feeling less productive than theyd like to be, with managers and stakeholders believing they arent as...

The speaker introduces himself as having worked in various industries, including for Muller Dairies, and as being a film fan with no agenda. He then delves into the history of functional programming, ...

The session focuses on implementing event solution strategy on Azure and how it can be used in event sourcing. The speakers discuss their experiences with implementing Cosmos DB Asia and how it is a g...

In this talk, Ian Cooper introduces the concept of owning and managing synchronous APIs, which involve events or messages. He emphasizes the importance of handling admin tasks for APIs and encourages ...

Sanofi, a pharmaceutical company, presented a report on how they used microfrontends to improve development practices and increase agility in a heavily regulated industry. The company has a digital mi...

In a conversation with Lex Friedman, Neil Stephenson, a legendary science fiction writer, discussed various topics, including history, technology, human nature, and the lessons he draws from World War...

Silvio McCauley, a computer scientist at MIT and founder of the cryptocurrency company Algorand, explains blockchain as a decentralized common database, which allows anyone to write an entry in a page...

Stephen Wolfram, computer scientist, mathematician and founder of Wolfram Research, discusses the concept of complexity in nature and how it inspired him to seek a scientific basis for complicated str...

Mike Amundsen, an internationally known author and speaker on network architecture, web development, and technology, has written a book titled RESTful Patterns and Best Practices for APIs Cookbook. Th...

Ardalis.Specification is a base class package that includes tests and support for adding specifications to a DDD model, as well as a default generic Repository base class with support for EF6 and EF C...

Caching data from the database closer to the application can greatly improve performance. However, before you start implementing cache at the application level, it’s important to ask yourself many dif...