Distributed systems have long been one of the more complex frontiers in software engineering, often requiring developers to grapple with thorny issues like state management, concurrency, and ...

Raising an exception has performance implications because everything stops for tea when .NET processes an exception. Really, you should only raise an exception if you intend to stop processing … and ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on using the LightGBM tree-based system to perform binary classification (predicting a discrete variable that ...

A good way to see where this article is headed is to take a look at the screen shot of a demo program shown in Figure 1. The demo sets up a dummy dataset of six items: [ 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2] [ 5.4 3.9 1.7 ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research says the technique is easy to tune, works well with small datasets and produces highly interpretable predictions, but there are also trade-off cons. The goal ...

Developers working with SQL Server often treat indexing as a DBA's domain--something happening "under the hood" that doesn't require much attention unless performance takes a hit. But ignoring the ...

With .NET 6 and the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview, developers can create a hybrid Blazor/.NET MAUI app that can work with local machines in ways that ordinary Blazor (web) apps can't. Blazor code ...

"The gap between C# and Java never has been so small," says the latest edition of the TIOBE Index of programming language popularity. "Currently, the difference is only 1.2 percent, and if the trends ...

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...

Chances are if you've had many coding interviews you've been presented with a poker problem. Here's a great take from Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research. This article presents C# code for a ...

Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research tackles the process of examining a set of source data to find data items that are different in some way from the majority of the source items. Data anomaly ...

When using the PyTorch neural network library to create a machine learning prediction model, you must prepare the training data and write code to serve up the data in batches. In situations where the ...