The latest articles on DEV Community by Alex Yakunin (@alexyakunin). https://dev.to/alexyakunin https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F276107%2F49553a41-082e-4e38-8e71-406d9e080b12.jpeg https://dev.to/alexyakunin en Alex Yakunin Thu, 15 Oct 2020 10:11:33 +0000 https://dev.to/alexyakunin/the-ungreen-web-why-our-web-apps-are-terribly-inefficient-116j https://dev.to/alexyakunin/the-ungreen-web-why-our-web-apps-are-terribly-inefficient-116j <p><a href="https://alexyakunin.medium.com/the-ungreen-web-why-our-web-apps-are-terribly-inefficient-28791ed48035">Check out my new post on Medium</a> to learn how modern web services spend 90% of their resources on computations that should never happen.</p> dotnet webdev webperf webassembly Alex Yakunin Sat, 03 Oct 2020 20:04:14 +0000 https://dev.to/alexyakunin/fusion-real-time-uis-in-blazor-consistent-caching-in-net-core-3n9b https://dev.to/alexyakunin/fusion-real-time-uis-in-blazor-consistent-caching-in-net-core-3n9b <div class="ltag-github-readme-tag"> <div class="readme-overview"> <h2> <img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev.to%2Fassets%2Fgithub-logo-5a155e1f9a670af7944dd5e12375bc76ed542ea80224905ecaf878b9157cdefc.svg" alt="GitHub logo"> <a href="https://github.com/servicetitan" rel="noopener noreferrer"> servicetitan </a> / <a href="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Stl.Fusion </a> </h2> <h3> Build real-time apps (Blazor included) with less than 1% of extra code responsible for real-time updates. Host 10-1000x faster APIs relying on transparent and nearly 100% consistent caching. We call it DREAM, or Distributed REActive Memoization, and it's here to turn real-time on! </h3> </div> <div class="ltag-github-body"> <div id="readme" class="md"> <div class="markdown-heading"> <h1 class="heading-element">👾 Fusion: the "real-time on!" switch that actually exists</h1> </div> <p><a href="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Build%22" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion/workflows/Build/badge.svg" alt="Build"></a> <a href="https://codecov.io/gh/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0adb52a3b9dd7d55346509fac078cd55c854023d58fa4302d2a601990bd46435/68747470733a2f2f636f6465636f762e696f2f67682f73657276696365746974616e2f53746c2e467573696f6e2f6272616e63682f6d61737465722f67726170682f62616467652e737667" alt="Coverage"></a> <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Owner%3Aservicetitan+Tags%3Astl_fusion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/80742ff229093ca4efa89d87e91863a0072f89e732d7cf1f93619fbd192123ad/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6e756765742f762f53746c2e467573696f6e" alt="NuGet Version"></a> <a href="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion/blob/master/LICENSE" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/ca8e8cb1c06304a15d0383aff02f4e28f9672ab73b123b32063b5bbd1d393fe3/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f6c6963656e73652f73657276696365746974616e2f53746c2e467573696f6e3f" alt="MIT License"></a> <br> <a href="https://discord.gg/EKEwv6d" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/451031f12d47f5bd7356daded260f8c74ca4d71f7511cb07c77332388abb00bc/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f646973636f72642f3732393937303836333431393432343738382e737667" alt="Discord Server"></a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a765759fb329395271c3bf81feb0307c4af7210497236a3edfc4dfbc8b2f4e3e/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f636f6d6d69742d61637469766974792f6d2f73657276696365746974616e2f53746c2e467573696f6e"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/a765759fb329395271c3bf81feb0307c4af7210497236a3edfc4dfbc8b2f4e3e/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f636f6d6d69742d61637469766974792f6d2f73657276696365746974616e2f53746c2e467573696f6e" alt="Commit Activity"></a> <a href="https://www.nuget.org/packages?q=Owner%3Aservicetitan+Tags%3Astl_fusion" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://camo.githubusercontent.com/cb9b37e48aceb84ca004e96d3a54cc74dcd1798cf90d6862352c33044decd59e/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6e756765742f64742f53746c" alt="Downloads"></a></p> <p>Fusion is a .NET library that implements 🦄 <strong>D</strong>istributed <strong>REA</strong>ctive <strong>M</strong>emoization (<strong>DREAM</strong>) – a novel abstraction somewhat similar to MobX or Flux, but <strong>designed to deal with an arbitrary large state</strong> spanning across your backend microservices, API servers, and reaching even every client of your app.</p> <p>Fusion solves a set of infamously hard problems with a single hammer:</p> <div class="table-wrapper-paragraph"><table> <thead> <tr> <th>Problem</th> <th>So you don't need...</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>📇 Caching</td> <td>Redis, memcached, ...</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🤹 Real-time cache invalidation</td> <td>No good solutions - <br>it's an <a href="https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">infamously hard problem</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td>🚀 Real-time updates</td> <td>SignalR, WebSockets, gRPC, ...</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🤬 Network chattiness</td> <td>A fair amount of code</td> </tr> <tr> <td>🔌 Offline mode support</td> <td>A fair amount of code</td> </tr> <tr> <td>📱 Client-side state management</td> <td>MobX, Flux/Redux, Recoil, ...</td> </tr> <tr> <td>💰 Single codebase for Blazor WebAssembly, Server, and Hybrid/MAUI</td> <td>No good alternatives</td> </tr> </tbody> </table></div> <p>And the best part is: <strong>Fusion does all of that transparently</strong>…</p> </div> </div> <div class="gh-btn-container"><a class="gh-btn" href="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion" rel="noopener noreferrer">View on GitHub</a></div> </div> <p>Repository's README.md describes what Fusion is and how it works. There is <a href="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion.Samples" rel="noopener noreferrer">a fair number of samples</a> and <a href="https://github.com/servicetitan/Stl.Fusion.Samples/blob/master/docs/tutorial/README.md" rel="noopener noreferrer">interactive tutorial</a>:</p> <p><a href="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fservicetitan%2FStl.Fusion.Samples%2Fmaster%2Fdocs%2Fimg%2FSamples-Blazor.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Fservicetitan%2FStl.Fusion.Samples%2Fmaster%2Fdocs%2Fimg%2FSamples-Blazor.gif"></a></p> <p>Please feel free to ask any questions in comments - I'm the author of this library.</p> dotnet csharp microservices functional