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Optimistic Concurrency in Azure Cosmos DB

I’ve started working on new side project using ASP.NET Core.  I wanted to try a new datastore and decided to give Azure Cosmos DB a try. This project isn’t doing anything complicated but does contain enough real world use cases that can give me an idea of how the API works. Concurrency The first thing I needed to implement was how to handle concurrency.  Specifically optimistic concurrency. In an optimistic concurrency model, a violation is considered to have occurred if, after a user receives a value from the database, another user modifies the value before the first user has attempted to modify it.… Read More »Optimistic Concurrency in Azure Cosmos DB

Collaborating with other User Groups

A few months ago I decided that collaborating with other user groups might be a really good way to add new ideas and an outside perspective on the local .NET Developers Group that I organize. Back in November 2016 I was attending Detroit Dev Day.  I was planning on meeting with with Reid Evans who was doing a talk “A Developer’s Journey From OO to FP”. Like most conferences, the best part was the hallway discussions.  I was sitting around and talking about user groups with Reid, Ken Cenerelli and Tom Walker. Tom mentioned that he had recently done meetup… Read More »Collaborating with other User Groups

Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#

At last night’s Windsor-Essex .NET Developers Group, we had Reid Evans presenting a talk on Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#. I absolutely loved this talk and wanted to share it along with some of my thoughts and takeaways. I’ve been over the last year or two going back and forth with learning F# and understanding more functional programming concepts.  So I was really looking forward to this talk. If you have any questions, please follow me on Twitter. Video This is the live stream we had to our user group.  If you are interested in functional programming and F#, I… Read More »Getting Started with Functional Programming in F#