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Image Manipulation, Streams and Denial of Service
So, you have some type of application that does simple image manipulation – in most web applications case, resizing. You use some library, you construct an object with the image binary as a stream, and it does some wizardry magic and poof, you’ve just resized the image and stored it in a file in an image format of your choosing.
But wait – some image formats aren’t that trivial. Maybe we don’t care too much about the detail of how it does this, but we do care about what happens to our streams, how it’s used, and how much memory is consumed – after all, we wouldn’t want our application to crash or become unresponsive, right?
Read more... 24th March 2017
Concurrency with HttpClient
- .NET
- C#
- REST
I’ve recently been heavily involved in moving towards a Service Oriented Architecture – and the most common form of Transport / Network Protocol used is of course, HTTP due to tooling and statelessness.
HttpClient is well known for being thread safe. Infact, it is very much encouraged to instantiate a HttpClient object and keep it in memory for as long as you need, this avoids the extra cost needed for reconstructing the object.
But, is it really that thread safe? Well, after some experiments with high volume of requests, it turns out – not completely / it depends.
Read more... 12th February 2017
Bad Abstractions
- General Programming
The process of taking away or removing characteristics from something in order to reduce it to a set of essential characteristics
The idea behind abstraction is to hide complexity – we try to hide away all the complex details. For example, you may want to persist some type of data – that’s the high level view of what we want to be able to do. Whether we’re storing that in a text file, a database or what not, we shouldn’t really care, that’s someone else’s problem, that is an implementation detail – one less thing to worry about, all we know is that our data will be persisted somewhere. We don’t really care where or how.
Read more... 22nd January 2017
Youtube Channels for Developers
- General Programming
Throughout the years, I have learned a lot from free online video’s, so, I thought I’d share some of the channels that I’m subscribed to on Youtube in the hope’s that someone finds them useful as much as I have.
Read more... 12th December 2016

Image Manipulation, Streams and Denial of Service

Concurrency with HttpClient

Bad Abstractions

Youtube Channels for Developers