Marco Muscat Reading time ~8 minutes

Introduction

In the last few weeks I’ve been working on a couple of WebApi projects and one thing I have been missing, was a good profiling tool to keep an eye on the performance of the controller actions. A quick search concluded that there was no suitable solution; there are a number of stand alone profilers, like Stackify that do a satisfactory job, but since it is running on your local machine its not straightforward to profile your code once deployed on a different environment. Developers that used MVC in the past have tools like MiniProfiler and Glimpse that run as part of the web project and shows on the fly results which makes them more convenient to use.

Marco Muscat Reading time ~5 minutes

Introduction

Keras is a great framework and it lets you build and prototype deep networks fast, but sometimes when you try to customize some aspects of a model that is not supported out of the box you may experience pain.

Marco Muscat Reading time ~13 minutes

Introduction

In the last few months if been on the look out for JS frameworks that I can integrate easily in my MVC projects. One complaint with a lot of frameworks out there is that good integration with the Microsoft stack requires a total buy in to that framework. Once something like React, Angular or Ember is working with .net you have to jump through some hoops, install adapter modules, rewrite routing logic for all controllers. This ends up affecting the whole web app when in the beginning you’d want it to work side by side with your already working stack. If you are starting a fresh project, it is viable to use WebAPI for the backend, which provides a tight REST api for the JS framework of your choice, but for existing projects running on MVC this is not an option.

Marco Muscat Reading time ~9 minutes

S3 Hosting: What and Why

S3 started as a file hosting service on AWS that let customers host files for cheap on the cloud and provide easy access to them. Along the way amazon introduced more features to the service, and one that I am particularly excisted about is web hosting. This means that now we have the ability to host websites on an S3 bucket and serve them over http as a website.