I saw today in a post that Carl Sagan’s Cosmos has been made available on archive.org.This show is about 45 years old and left a huge impression on me as a child. The narrator is Carl Sagan, to me one…

I am not ready yet to form coherent thoughts on AI, or rather, the subject has an almost unfortunate depth as companies with a near-infinite war chest are pouring billions upon billions of cash into…

Time to look at what may be by far the most exotic technology choice in ahead: The use of a graph database in the form of the gremlin endpoint provided by Cosmos.Graph view of Aspire-registered…

Let’s take a short break from looking at service replacements and marvel at the fun that is having good OpenTelemetry data.When we started ahead many years, OpenTelemetry didn’t exist yet. Aspire…

Time to look at the second messaging pattern. A message can have the notion of an event, where you want several systems to be notified.RabbitMQ’s approach here is to declare an Exchange. Every…

Sending messages between processes is an ubiquitous pattern that has been in use for many decades - as such, the available alternatives are plenty.In the past I have only heard good things about…

Let us start with a relatively simple, ubiquitous but necessary service: Storage of files. In ahead these are needed for attachments, images, videos and the like.graph LR User((User)) -->|views|…

Let’s quickly revisit where we’re coming from—and where we’re headed:Keep using as much code as possible from the azure-based product aheadThe existing code is split into multiple C# projects and the…

We know many things about evolution – because we have learned them. We have learned that its history spans billions of years, an incredible amount of time. We see every day what evolution as a driving…

Before exploring how a SaaS product like ahead could reduce its reliance on Azure services, it is crucial to consider its historical ties to Microsoft’s ecosystem.MS365 services around SharePoint, MS…