Viability, maintainability, performance, and lessons learned — The short answer is: yes, but is it a good idea? Let’s find out. Background Our team uses Protocol Buffers (protobuf) in many layers of our tech stack: from network transport and microservice API contracts with gRPC, to native C-callable libraries as foreign function interface (FFI). Naturally, the question came up…

I know, I know, another subjective opinion from an excited developer about their favorite language. Hear me out, maybe I can convince you that this couple has a very bright future. It supercharged our startup and gave us a big advantage to deliver fast, high quality code. Rust and C#…

We’re excited to announce that AgentFramework for .NET — a library for building interoperable SSI agents for the .NET Core runtime, joined the Hyperledger Aries family of frameworks. Aries provides a shared, reusable, interoperable tool kit designed for initiatives and solutions focused on creating, transmitting, and storing verifiable digital credentials. …

Seamlessly connect your bot with a Twitter channel — Surprisingly, as of the date of this article, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to integrate your chatbot service built using the Bot Framework v4 with a Twitter channel. While there are some commercial products out there, they’re generally very expensive and more enterprise oriented. This became my…

Three years ago I was moving from my Jersey City apartment to a new apartment in midtown Manhattan. …