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A bunch of your Blazor questions answered
If you missed our Blazor webinar—well, you can watch it any time here: Getting Started with Blazor. But we’ve also compiled our answers to the myriad of questions we received from our viewers. Because Blazor’s such a new technology, people are super curious about it....
4 reasons Blazor is the next step in web programming
Microsoft’s Blazor WebAssembly presents a radically new approach for developing and deploying browser-based business applications. While we’re starting to see increased interest from many of our clients, we’re also observing a certain amount of skepticism in the...
BulkWriter Library 3.0 has been released. Here’s what’s new.
We’re excited to announce the 3.0 release of the BulkWriter library. The library has proven very useful for loading data fast and efficiently, but it’s been in need of some updates given the changes in the .NET ecosystem in the last few years. ETL may not...
Why should your development team embrace Blazor?
Blazor in context: The user imperative As digital technology advances at accelerating rates, both external users and business software users expect websites to deliver more productivity and smoother user experiences. Excessive page loads, and the design limitations...
AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP: From quandary to cloud migration
Cloud adoption is happening at a rapid pace these days. With a global pandemic raging, the cloud is only gaining more steam. Disasters always drive home the urgency of readiness and responsiveness. One of our clients experienced this firsthand during a recent...
Navigating the 5 most common cloud concerns
Cloud adoption isn’t just growing—that growth is still accelerating. Cloud computing on AWS now accounts for over 11% of Amazon’s total revenues. Microsoft Azure is growing at over 60% quarter-over-quarter. There’s no denying that the major providers of cloud-enabling...
5 business reasons for adopting Azure cloud
As Microsoft’s cloud market share has risen, the Azure cloud has matured, providing greater business value across its vast product line. Microsoft also has established partnerships with a number of technology brands—many of which you may already use. If you’re...
Using Power BI to accelerate app delivery AND insights
Right now, with whole companies moving to all-remote operations, decision makers and leaders are feeling more frustrated than ever by how hard it is to get real insights into what’s happening across their teams, departments, and projects. The challenge of developing a...
Playing offense: How you can move from crisis-mode into action
In a time of crisis, it’s easy to feel like the world is bearing down on you. What about the plans you had? Goals you set? Why did this have to happen, now, to you? These initial reactions are natural—but we can’t allow them to linger.The way through a crisis is to...
Is a Serverless Architecture the right solution?
Serverless Architecture is a term that has been getting a lot of attention lately. Naturally, technical leaders are looking to come up to speed on the concept and are evaluating how best to make use of it. The first order of business is to understand what Serverless...
Supporting our community during COVID-19
Things have changed quickly for us all during the current COVID-19 crisis. Businesses have had to make sacrifices to protect our communities: Things get put on hold, routines get sidelined, and priorities shift. Right now, our top priority is helping you to respond...
Making “work from home” work for you and your teams
Working from home means a lot of things to different people. It can be a no-brainer for remote workers who have been doing it for a while, but for others, the major shakeup to our daily routines can be disorienting at best—and debilitating at worst. Our teams are...