Category: microsoft

  • Why Unit Testing & Quality Gates Matter in Real-World Product Development

    Why Unit Testing & Quality Gates Matter in Real-World Product Development

    ✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper 🚀 Introduction: Code That Works Is Not Always Code That Wins Developers often say — “It works on my machine.”But what about your customer’s machine? Your colleague’s branch? Or production at scale? The truth: Code without tests is like a building without a foundation.It might stand today but collapse…

  • Azure Functions vs. App Service — Decision Patterns & Reference Architectures

    Azure Functions vs. App Service — Decision Patterns & Reference Architectures

    ✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper 🌍 Why This Comparison is Critical When building solutions in Azure, one of the first and most strategic decisions is choosing the right compute model. Pick Functions when your app should respond to events, scale automatically, and minimize idle costs. Pick App Service when your app is a long-running,…

  • .Net 10 LTS Unpacked: What’s New and Why It Matters for Everyday Development

    .Net 10 LTS Unpacked: What’s New and Why It Matters for Everyday Development

    ✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper Why .NET 10 Matters .NET 10 is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, meaning it will receive support (patches, security updates) for three years. Microsoft Learn Because of that, many teams will adopt it as a baseline for stability, performance, and new features. It’s the successor to .NET 9. Microsoft…

  • Getting Started with .NET 9 in VSCode: Setup & First Project

    Getting Started with .NET 9 in VSCode: Setup & First Project

    🔹 Why This Blog? Most developers still use Visual Studio for .NET development, but VSCode is lightweight, cross-platform, and perfect for cloud-native/containerized projects. Enterprises moving toward Docker + DevOps pipelines prefer VSCode-based workflows. This guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough of setting up .NET 9 development in Visual Studio Code (VSCode), using a real-world API project…

  • Top AI Language Models in Action: Real-World Examples with Python & C#

    Top AI Language Models in Action: Real-World Examples with Python & C#

    ✍️ By Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper Artificial Intelligence has rapidly evolved over the last decade, and Large Language Models (LLMs) have become the core drivers of this revolution. From OpenAI’s GPT family to Meta’s LLaMA, Anthropic’s Claude, Google’s Gemini, and more — each ecosystem brings unique capabilities tailored for developers, researchers, and enterprises. In this…

  • API Wars: REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC – and 8 More You Should Know

    API Wars: REST vs GraphQL vs gRPC – and 8 More You Should Know

    ✍️ Abhishek Kumar | #FirstCrazyDeveloper APIs are the backbone of modern applications, enabling different systems, services, and devices to communicate seamlessly. Over the years, several API protocols and communication styles have emerged, each suited for specific use cases — from mobile apps fetching user data to IoT devices streaming sensor events. In this blog, let’s…

  • ⚡ Your .NET App Might Be Bleeding Performance — And You Won’t See It Until It’s Too Late

    ⚡ Your .NET App Might Be Bleeding Performance — And You Won’t See It Until It’s Too Late

    ✍️ New Blog by Abhishek Kumar | hashtag#FirstCrazyDeveloper Performance problems in .NET applications are often invisible. Your app may look fine in dev or QA, but under real-world load, hidden inefficiencies silently drain CPU, memory, and throughput. By the time you notice slow response times or cloud bills shooting up, it’s usually too late. In…