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.NET Language understanding in .NET applications There is an increasing emphasis on natural user interfaces in modern applications. In this article, I am going to present a tool for natural language understanding in .NET applications, in the form of Microsoft’s LUIS.
Android MotionLayout: A new way to create animations on Android Oh, no! A new animation framework for Android, again? We have quite a few already, do we really need a new one? We'll take a look at the previous approaches we used to create animations in our applications, and then get started with MotionLayout!
SSIS Finding the most common words and phrases in a song with SSIS – Part 1 Have you always wanted to know which words or phrases are most commonly used by your favorite singer or band? Or are you curious about the same question about your
Android Better Custom Views with Delegates Introduction Reusable UI components are all the rage these days. Everyone and their dog has their own design system and their set of components that their apps are built up
Android Managing your local work in Android Studio Modern software development relies on Version Control Systems, as many developers manage their codebase and track changes with them. Being the de facto standard of VCSs, Git is used everywhere
kubernetes Study guide for the Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) exam Kubernetes is one of the hottest new technologies today and its rapidly growing ecosystem (or platform, if you will), might be hard to get around. It's even harder to verify
Android Publishing an Android library to MavenCentral in 2019 Introduction Creating a library is challenging enough on its own. Coming up with the idea, implementing it, making sure you have a nice, stable public API that you maintain... That's
mqtt Living with VerneMQ - using an MQTT broker for your IoT project Some time ago I have written a post here about the process of choosing an MQTT broker that fit our requirements for an IoT project. Now I continue that article
Backend Our take on Microservices Microservices have been a hot topic in the industry in the last few years. By this point, you've definitely heard of them. If not, there's no better way to describe
Java Defining custom metrics in a Spring Boot application using Micrometer A few months ago my friend and colleague, Attila wrote a great post on the monitoring of Spring microservices using Micrometer, Prometheus, Grafana and Kubernetes. Now, it is time to
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Angular Introduction to cross-platform development with Ionic The following post is a 2-part article about cross-platform development. The first part is a brief introduction to the whole development format with its advantages and disadvantages, and a few
dotnet .NET Core alapok A bejegyzés egy rövid betekintést kíván nyújtani a .NET Core alapjaiba, bemutatva néhány újdonságát, illetve összehasonlítva a .NET Frameworkkel. A .NET Core a .NET egy implementációja a .NET Foundationtől. Míg
amazon Serverless, AWS Lambda, ASP.NET Core Razor Pages What is serverless? Before the deep(er) dive into the details it's worth to give a try to clarify the main subject. Serverless is still a hot topic today and
Android Delightful Delegate Design When developing a library, designing an easy to use API while hiding unnecessary implementation details from clients is fundamental. Today I'd like to show you some API design choices we've
Backend Monitoring microservices Overview Having relevant information about the state of the infrastructure and other systems in a microservices architecture is crucial for ensuring stability, thus keeping the end-user satisfied. Metrics concerning health
Android A Confusing Dependency Earlier this year I've received the task to put together a demo application which involved recording and playing back audio. As usual in this situation, I scoured the internet, browsing
WikidataOnAzure Wikidata on Azure - Part 3: Preprocessing data for simple analytic queries At the end of the previous part, we had the data dump in Azure Data Lake Store (ADLS), and we were already set up to start running queries with Azure
Kotlin Top 10 Kotlin Stack Overflow questions This content was originally published as a series of articles on zsmb.co (with some runnable code snippets!). I am currently defending the third place on the top users list
Azure Wikidata on Azure - Part 2: Loading Wikidata dump into Data Lake Store Towards analytics In the first part of this series we copied Wikidata dump to Azure storage (specifically Blob Storage). Now, we are ready to feed this data to various data
Azure Wikidata on Azure - Part 1: Seeding from Wikidata data dump Preface This series serves as a guide to hosting a knowledge base called Wikidata in Microsoft Azure Cloud. Wikidata is a Wikimedia project aiming to be a collaboratively edited, structured
iot Choosing an MQTT broker for your IoT project Message Queue Telemetry Transport or MQTT is the de facto standard communications protocol in the IoT world right now. It is simple, lightweight, ideal for sensors and other devices with
iOS Maintaining a (private) Cocoa Pod Intro As a follow-up post to my previous article about creating a private Cocoa Pod, this time I will write about the challenges and gotchas that I discovered while creating and maintaining several private pods for the projects I was working on. Since I
