Using YARP as an API Gateway and Rate Limiter
In this post, we’re taking a look at YARP (Yet Another Reverse Proxy) as a way to rate limit your APIs by using it as an API gateway. Last week I posted a blog about rate limiting in your C# applicati...
Large World Model (LWM)
Large World Model (LWM) is a general-purpose large-context multimodal autoregressive model. It is trained on a large dataset of diverse long videos and books using RingAttention, and can perform langu...
Backstage and Terraform — A Powerful Combination for Ops and Devs
Even as the DevOps/Platform world is in constant evolution, classical challenges persist in many companies, especially those with extensive adoption of cloud-native technologies. Using Infrastructure ...
The Moirai Programming Language
Moirai is a programming language for server-based real-time computing (RTC). The worst-case execution time (WCET) is calculated for every script before it is executed. Moirai is ideal for multi-tenant...
Architecting AI Apps with Semantic Kernel
With Semantic Kernel, you can easily build agents that can call your existing code. This power allows you to automate your business processes with models from OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Hugging Face, and m...
Auto Instrumenting Python FastAPI and Monitoring with Azure Application Insights — Easily!
Coming from a C# background — I found monitoring my python FastAPI application with Azure Application Insights stupidly difficult. Mainly due to a lack of direct support in Azure or documentation for ...
Restate - Resilience & Durability for Event-driven Applications
Restate provides a durable async/await framework for easily building workflows, event-driven applications, and distributed services in a fault-tolerant manner. With features such as Lambda Workflows a...
R3 - A New Modern Reimplementation of Reactive Extensions for C#
Recently, R3 was released as a new implementation of Reactive Extensions for C#. It is considered the third generation of Rx, with core parts provided as a library common to .NET platforms. The transi...
SlimFaas: The slimest and simplest Function As A Service
SlimFaas is a Function As A Service that allows you to scale to 0 after a period of inactivity, supports synchronous and asynchronous HTTP calls, offers retry functionality, and a Mind Changer REST AP...
Introducing the next generation of Claude 3 - A new standard for intelligence and vision capabilities
Today, were announcing the Claude 3 model family, including Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, which set new industry benchmarks for cognitive tasks. Opus leads in intelligence, outperforming peers in various b...
chispa - Fast PySpark Test Helper Methods with Descriptive Error Messages
chispa provides fast PySpark test helper methods that output descriptive error messages. This library makes it easy to write high quality PySpark code. Fun fact: chispa means Spark in Spanish ;) Insta...
GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation
GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation by Yuheng Li, Haotian Liu, Qingyang Wu, Fangzhou Mu, Jianwei Yang, Jianfeng Gao, Chunyuan Li, Yong Jae Lee. This work proposes GLIGEN, a novel approa...
Microsoft partners with Mistral in second AI deal beyond OpenAI
Microsoft has announced a new multiyear partnership with Mistral, a French AI startup valued at €2 billion. The partnership includes Microsoft taking a minor stake in the company, just over a year aft...
Testing Event-Driven Architectures with OpenTelemetry - The New Stack
Where are you using WebAssembly? Wasm promises to let developers build once and run anywhere. Are you using it yet? At work, for production apps. At work, but not for production apps. I don’t use WebA...
Preview of Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions
We released Distributed Tracing V2 for Durable Functions to help improve observability! Durable Functions enables you to write long-running, reliable, event-driven, and stateful logic on the Azure Fun...
Welcome to PlatformPlatform
# 👋 Welcome to PlatformPlatform Drawing on our expertise building true enterprise-grade products with millions of daily users in highly regulated sectors like healthcare, finance, government, etc., w...
Reacts Next Big Change?
React is often discussed but React Dom, the package that powers it, is not given enough attention. React Dom handles the rendering and placement of components in the DOM. The introduction of React Str...
Dev Container for TypeScript and Express.js
# Dev Container for TypeScript and Express.js This is the complete source code for the article [A Dev Container Template for TypeScript and Express.js](https://manfredmlange.medium.com/a-dev-container...
Implementing Infrastructure for Distributed System with Latest Technologies and Architectures
The main idea of creating this project is implementing an infrastructure for up and running distributed system with the latest technology and architecture like Vertical Slice Architecture, Event Drive...
Introducing the .NET 8 runtime for AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda now supports .NET 8 as both a managed runtime and container base image. With this release, Lambda developers can benefit from .NET 8 features including API enhancements, improved Native Ahe...