Web Notes

These days each product reaching market is labelled as top quality - no matter if it`s a toy or a car or an application. Everyone talk about quality, quality is everywhere and at the same time quality by nature is a tricky thing to define and measure. To give you an example, imagine a two new brand cars from a two different car manufacturers like for example BMW and Fiat. Dealers of both brands will tell you that their cars are top quality and in fact that is true! The problem starts when you try to understand what top quality means for both car manufacturers - what are their standards of quality. What Fiat can consider as top quality might be completely not acceptable for BMW. From client perspective what really important is to understand how to measure quality in a standards driven way. As an example let's compare a European car safety performance assessment rating for both brands (NCAP is rated from 1 to 5 stars where 5 stars is given for most safety cars). In this rating ca...

A few months ago I decided to learn a big data. This sounds very complex and of course it is. All these strange names which actually tells nothing to person who is new in these area combined with different way of looking at data storage makes entire topic even more complex. However after reading N blogs and watching many, many tutorials today I finally had a chance to try to write some code. As in last week I managed to setup a Hortonworks distribution of Hadoop today I decided to connect to it from my .NET based application and this is what I will describe in this post. First things first I didn`t setup entire Hortonworks ecosystem from scratch - I`d love to but for now it`s far beyond my knowledge thus I decided to use a sandbox environment provided by Hortonworks. There are multiple different VMs available to download but in my case I`ve choose a Hyper-V. More about setting this environment up you can read here . Picture 1. Up and running sandbox environment. Now whe...

In today post I want to describe how to optimize usage of a ADO.NET SqlDataReader class by using multi-threading. To present that lets me introduce a problem that I will try to solve.  Scenario : In a project we decided to move all data from a multiple databases to one data warehouse. It will be a good few terabytes of data or even more. Data transfer will be done by using a custom importer program. Problem : After implementing a database agnostic logic of generating and executing a query I realized that I can retrieve data from source databases faster that I can upload them to big data store through HTTP client -importer program. In other words, data reader is capable of reading data faster then I can process it an upload to my big data lake. Solution : As a solution for solving this problem I would like to propose one of a multi-thread design pattern called Producer/Consumer . In general this pattern consists of a two main classes where: Producer class is res...

Today I want to cover a very common scenario about how to create a HTTP client for a WebAPI 2 service. To present my implementation I will be using one of a Task<T> extension method that I described recently on my blog. Let`s start from defining an API service. In this example it udes a REST based WebApi service with the following implementation.   [ AllowAnonymous ]     public   class   CityController    {         ///   <summary>         ///  The city repository.         ///   </summary>         private   readonly   ICityRepository  cityRepository;         ///   <summary>         ///  Initializes a new instance of the  ...