First post of the year! This one will be brief. I’ve always liked the idea of Feature Gates. Not only because it reminds me of the best videogame ever made, but also for the confidence they provide when rolling out new functionalities. I tend to code defensivelydefensively most of the...
2025, Feb 21 — 2 minute read
A while ago I wrote a small comparison between Dictionary, HashSet, SortedList and SortedDictionary when performing a lookup operation. I have noticed however that many developers don’t use the most efficient method for checking if an item exists and retrieving it. Most of the times, you’ll see something like this:...
2024, Nov 18 — 1 minute read
Disclaimer This article contains a snippet from my booklet: Building Resilient Systems Made Easy Let’s start by taking a look at the formal definition of the word “Resiliency”. The Merriam-Webster dictionary formalizes it like this: 1: the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after deformation...
2024, Nov 08 — 2 minute read
Welcome back to the second part of the series on Semantic Kernel! Last time we talked a bit about Semantic Kernel, what Plugins are and how Function Calling can help enhancing the results from the LLM we’re using. Today we’re continuing on that path and see how we can make...
2024, Sep 10 — 5 minute read