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Why do I write blog posts?

by Gérald Barré

posted on: September 02, 2024

Someone asked me why I write blog posts. So, let's write a blog post about why I write blog posts!#Reason 1: I forget thingsAs a developer, you learn lots of new things every day. But my memory has limited capacity, so I also forget a lot of things. One solution is to dump part of my knowledge into

Seeing the results of Corax in production

by Oren Eini

posted on: August 28, 2024

Corax was released just under a year ago, and we are seeing more customers deploying that to production. During a call with a customer, we noticed the following detail:Let me explain what we are seeing here. The two indexes are the same, operating on the same set of documents. The only difference between those indexes is the indexing engine.What is really amazing here is that Corax is able to index in 3:21 minutes what Lucene takes 17:15 minutes to index. In other words, Corax is more than 5 times faster than Lucene in a real world scenario.And these news make me very happy.

BinaryFormatter removed from .NET 9

by Immo Landwerth

posted on: August 28, 2024

Starting with .NET 9, we no longer include an implementation of BinaryFormatter in the runtime. This post covers what options you have to move forward.

Introducing the Pinecone .NET SDK

by Luis Quintanilla

posted on: August 27, 2024

Get started building AI applications in .NET using the Pinecone Vector DB and the Pinecone .NET SDK.

You Should Blog

by Ardalis

posted on: August 26, 2024

As a software developer, you might spend most of your time immersed in code, solving problems, and building innovative solutions. But have…Keep Reading →

Automated tests

by Gérald Barré

posted on: August 26, 2024

Automated tests are important to ensure the quality of your application. In the literature, you'll find many kinds of automated tests such as unit tests, integration tests, functional tests, smoke tests, and so on. I don't like this naming because some tests don't fit in a category and people give