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4,525 | 23,293 | |
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Protobuf.NET
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ProtoBuf message serialization in Akka.NET using protobuf-net
This article requires that reader is familar with core concept of Akka.NET serialization (see https://getakka.net/articles/serialization/serialization.html) and ProtoBuf-Net library (see https://github.com/protobuf-net/protobuf-net).
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Auto-Incrementing Sequences
The model used, a simple invoice which uses protobuf-net 1 NuGet package to store information in a binary file.
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A .NET source generator for generating object mappings. Trimming save and fast. Inspired by MapStruct.
Not sure if it works with gRPC but I really like how Protobuf.NET uses attributes like other serializers instead of needing to write a .proto and generate (not-very-C#-friendly) classes from it. Well, until you need to interop with other languages.
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Practice resources for handling and optimizing large game data sets?
I mentioned JSON, but there are many formats that are much more efficient. I can mention FlatBuffers, MessagePack and ProtoBuf. These are the ones I've used myself, and personally I'm most comfortable with MessagePack and ProtoBuf. I don't think the performance would be an issue if you had to choose between these three, it's mostly the API that is different.
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Automatically generate proxy services for blazor wasm+asp.net core?
The closest way would be using Grpc.Web + Protobuf.net. The overall experience is pretty close to WCF server + Client where you share a common interface and let the client and server just call through those.
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gRPC Development experience in modern .NET
Grpc Web with Blazor WASM is a really pleasant experience so far imo for my personal projects at home. You have strongly typed models and methods and you have choice on sharing the contract between client and server if you're using code first instead of proto IDL files (e.g. protobuf-net).
- What is your preferred way of creating application specific files for a local application?
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Integrating Apollo Studio with GraphQL for .NET - Part 2
It's pretty straight-forward to follow the protobuf-net docs to serialize the report, but we should really GZIP the stream for sending to reduce bandwidth consumption and improve performance:
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Integrating Apollo Studio with GraphQL for .NET - Part 1
There are a number of Protobuf implementations for .NET Core, but I like protobuf-net as it's a nice, clean, Apache 2.0 Licensed implementation. It is also supported by protogen, a great online generator that will output protobuf-net classes ready for use (for its CSharp profile). If you open the latest schema from the link here, you can simply paste into the generator. NOTE: At the time of writing, [(js_preEncoded)=true] isn't supported by the generator, and can be removed from the proto schema.
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Don't Use Protobuf for Telemetry
> Protobuf-java is a little heavy [...] Just depending on the library adds 1.6MB and nearly 700 classes before you even generate your own message classes.
By comparison, protobuf-net [1] is about 260KB and 68 classes. Python's [2] is a 1MB package download (with source).
Why's the Java one so big?
[1] https://github.com/protobuf-net/protobuf-net
[2] https://pypi.org/project/protobuf
dapr
- Dapr: Microservices API
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Interesting projects using WebAssembly
The following two examples are open-source projects maintained by Fermyon with contributions from companies like Microsoft and SUSE. The first is Spin, which allows us to use WebAssembly to create Serverless applications. The second, SpinKube, combines some of the topics I'm most excited about these days: WebAssembly and Kubernetes Operators :) The official website says, "By running applications in the Wasm abstraction layer, SpinKube offers developers a more powerful, efficient, and scalable way to optimize application delivery on Kubernetes." By the way, this post shows how to integrate SpinKube with Dapr, another technology I'm very interested in, and I should write some posts soon.
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The Ambassador Pattern
Speaking of this has anyone had much experience with Dapr (https://dapr.io/) before?
I always thought this was a particularly interesting approach from Microsoft where they use this pattern to essentially take the complexity of micro services and instead try and keep it as simple as a normal .NET application but (and I think this is the clever part) in both a vendor and language neutral way.
But all of a sudden it means you can start removing all kinds of cruft and random SDKs from your codebase and push almost all of your interactions with the outside world into something like this .
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Comparing Azure Functions vs Dapr on Azure Container Apps
Azure Container Apps hosting of Azure Functions is a way to host Azure Functions directly in Container Apps - additionally to App Service with and without containers. This offering also adds some Container Apps built-in capabilities like the Dapr microservices framework which would allow for mixing microservices workloads on the same environment with Functions.
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Episode 150: myNewsWrap – SAP and Microsoft
Having containers is nice but everything (well ... nearly everything 😉) gets better with Dapr as an outstanding tool for app development in the container-based area. Here we go what might be worth a look:
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Using DARP in production?
Anyone using or planing to use darp Distributed application platform runtime as a microservices platform? https://dapr.io/
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Ensuring Seamless Operations: Troubleshooting and Resolving Dapr Certificate Expiry
A CNCF project, the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr) provides APIs that simplify microservice connectivity. Whether your communication pattern is service to service invocation or pub/sub messaging, Dapr helps you write resilient and secured microservices. Essentially, it provides a new way to build microservices by using the reusable blocks implemented as sidecars.
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Understanding the Dapr workflow engine and workflow patterns in .NET (1hr webinar)
Dapr is a runtime that implements common patterns such as pub/sub, state storage, etc. It runs as a sidecar to your app. Your app then interfaces with it using an sdk or http calls to use said patterns instead of implementing those patterns directly yourself. Seems pretty cool to me, but you can find out more at https://dapr.io/.
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Is Dapr actually used by anyone?
- Over 21k stars on GitHub, see the core repo and devstats.
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Modular Architecture Design question | Re-using modules in multiple applications
I would like to build modules, either in a modular monolith style, or in a microservice style using DAPR and/or Tye.
What are some alternatives?
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
MassTransit - Distributed Application Framework for .NET
MessagePack for C# (.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin) - Extremely Fast MessagePack Serializer for C#(.NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin). / msgpack.org[C#]
camel-k - Apache Camel K is a lightweight integration platform, born on Kubernetes, with serverless superpowers
Json.NET - Json.NET is a popular high-performance JSON framework for .NET
tye - Tye is a tool that makes developing, testing, and deploying microservices and distributed applications easier. Project Tye includes a local orchestrator to make developing microservices easier and the ability to deploy microservices to Kubernetes with minimal configuration.
ZeroFormatter - Infinitely Fast Deserializer for .NET, .NET Core and Unity.
OpenFaaS - OpenFaaS - Serverless Functions Made Simple
Msgpack-Cli - MessagePack implementation for Common Language Infrastructure / msgpack.org[C#]
Nomad - Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
Utf8Json - Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#(NET, .NET Core, Unity, Xamarin).
NServiceBus - Build, version, and monitor better microservices with the most powerful service platform for .NET