menalb.hashnode.devAtlas Search Local and TestcontainersThanks to Andrea Basile for the initial ideas for this research. Testcontainers is a very popular open-source library, ideal to quickly spin up a database, a message broker, or any other external dependency in a local machine, through code. Under the...Dec 4, 2024·5 min read
menalb.hashnode.devSemantic Search With Vector EmbeddingTraditionally, searching for a concept in a text involves identifying keywords and matching them with some user input.Semantic search provides a different approach. It tries to establish relationships between the meanings of words. With the rise in p...Apr 26, 2024·6 min read
menalb.hashnode.devAWS AppConfig Feature Flags, DotNet and Blazor WASMThis article is also available in Italian here. The pace of today’s modern software development and release is getting faster and faster. Just a couple of years ago, before implementing a feature, there was a lot of upfront analysis. That was often b...Jan 10, 2023·16 min read
menalb.hashnode.devWeb Accessibility, an example with BlazorIn this article I am providing to you a very simple and practical introduction to Web Accessibility.I will touch on the basics of this topic and also, provide links to additional material to elaborate on specific concepts.My goal is to show that Acce...May 26, 2022·13 min read
menalb.hashnode.devDeploy .NET webapp on AWS App Runner with VPC ConnectorThis article starts with introduction on AWS App Runner. Then moves to VPC Connector, the feature that enables the connectivity between an App Runner service and a service in a VPC. It shows two different options to deploy an ASPNET web application t...Apr 20, 2022·13 min read