Book Summary – Measure What Matters

This book introduces two key concepts Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as a way of setting goals in which progress can be easily measured.Conversations, Feedback and Recognition (CFR) as tools for performance management of people striving towards OKR's OKR's : Objectives should define the direction in which one is headed and Key results are the …

Guide to setup AWS Account and CLI

AWS Account Setup Create a new AWS account : https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup#/startEnabled MFA on the root account [if you wish save/print the QR code locally to be able to recover from loss of MFA Device]Create a new Admin account while logged in as root, provision a set of accesskey-Id and secret for the Admin account[download a copy …

Nuget Package Restore Issues – Gitlab

Today while getting started on a new project, encountered the following error in Visual Studio: Unable to find package PackageName. No packages exist with this id in source(s): Microsoft Visual Studio Offline Packages, nuget.org, gitlab The package in question was hosted in a private gitlab repo, assuming it to be a caching issue, tried clearing …

Why Async Await is needed ?

With C# 5.0 we have got the magic of Async/Await which makes writing asynchronous code easier than ever before. In this series of articles I will share my learnings on how to use it and its inner workings but before we get started I wanted to take some time and explain why it's needed in …

.Net Framework 1.0 to .Net Core

Introduction Launched in 2002 .Net framework has been one of the popular development platform for building enterprise apps and with Microsoft's backing it had the stability and maturity which made it an instant hit. Over the years it has been forked into many subsets to target specific platforms like Mono for Linux, .Net Compact, Windows …