FaaS are NOT cheaper

This is a little bit of a frustration of mine.  I'm hearing this more and more often, as an argument to rewrite into one of those platforms.  However, it's simply not true.  It's a different pricing model, that has definite benefits in a lot of usecases, but NOT all. To be clear, with the right... Continue Reading →

Introducing Grok.NET

What is grok? it's a well established way of parsing, using Regular Expressions, files with single lines (e.g. Log files). Why Create a .NET version? Speed, the ability to use it in AWS Lambda, and because dotnetcore is my preferred language. Syntax Performance? So far, I'm seeing ~0.0002ms for complex patterns sure AWS ELB logs.... Continue Reading →

EntityFramework and Postgres (.NET 4.0)

So I've been attempted to get EntityFramework to play nice with Postgres for a site I'm creating. A little history, I created the site initially for myself and a small group to use so I used MVC3, postgres, Mono and other tools that were... "funky".  As there was no real deadline, uptime SLAs etc. it... Continue Reading →

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