Years ago, I joined a group of consultants that were building a cloud-based health insurance quoting application. Due to the increasing popularity of the new platform among the network of insurance agents, it was obvious there were areas of performance that were lacking. Rather than relying on best guesses, we spent a sprint to focus […]
When you create a new Azure Web App for a new .NET Core application, you’ll notice that you need to select the appropriate Runtime stack and Operating System. You’ll probably also notice that if you select “.NET Core 3.1 (LTS)” for the Runtime stack, the Operating System can be “Linux” or “Windows”. However, if you […]
“Prove it.” How many times did you say or hear that as a kid? How often do you hear it these days? As software engineers, we love theorizing about “optimal solutions” and how X is so much better than Y. Oh, yeah? Prove it. This is where load testing comes into play. Let’s face it: […]
