Work Notes

This section of the site is for quick notes, usually to quickly capture the details of something I have found useful at work.

The original motivation was to experiment with what the Government Digital Service call Make things Open: it makes things better.

The main benefit to me of splitting this from the main blog area is that it helps kill writer’s block :-)

TIL - using Channels in dotnet

Using System.Threading.Channels to build async console tools.

Applying ChatGPT-like tools across your own data

Summarising some key principles from Mick Vleeshouwer.

Adding label column for optionset in fact table

More nuances in making a useful facts table from Dynamics sales data

Adding columns to parquet-based fact table

Still learning the basics of working with Parquet files and PySpark

Dataverse resilience pause and reflect

A short reflection on the Dataverse resilience tests so far

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Dataverse resilience experiment 4

A fourth approach to parallel record creation in Dataverse using HttpClient with retry logic from Polly

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Dataverse resilience experiment 3

A third approach to parallel creation in Dataverse using HttpClient without any retry logic (naive starting point)

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Dataverse resilience experiment 2

A second approach to parallel record creation using ServiceClient but using Parallel.ForEachAsync

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Dataverse resilience experiment 1

I try a naive approach to parallel record creation using ServiceClient and example code from the documentation.

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A Rusty Advent

I’ve been using Advent of Code to start playing with the programming language Rust. This is what the journey looks like so far (early days).

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