Brian Ritchie

CTO, Architect, Coder, and Author

Building software, designing products, and leading teams. Constantly learning. Sharing knowledge.

Open Source Projects

Efflux
A stream storage and processing framework
FluentDbAccess
A fluent data access library
FreeformTextParser
A text parser for semi-structured text documents
MacOsSystemProfiler
Read system information on MacOS
NoteX
The Clinical Note Enhancer
SharpDbSchema
Abstraction layer for retrieving database schema metadata
SimpleEvaluator
String expression evaluator with function plugin support
SplunkMailProcessor
Processes mail messages from a Exchange/Office365 mailbox and ingests them as alerts into Splunk
Substratum
Reusable foundation classes for C#
Mono System.Data.Odbc
Created initial ODBC provider for Mono

BOOKS

RavenDB High Performance

RavenDB is an exciting technology that challenges developers to reconsider their old ways of thinking about databases. In this day and age, Internet-scale applications require this fresh perspective. RavenDB High Performance moves beyond the basics and guides you through building scalable applications using the rich features and extensibility of RavenDB.

BLOG ARCHIVE

AppFabric

C#

Development

Networking

NO SQL

SQL Server

Subversion

PRESENTATIONS

Transforming your application with Elastic Search

Have an existing application that needs search super powers? Or are ad hoc searches melting your SQL Server? Either way, this is the presentation for you. We will explore search enabling an existing application - from data modeling to retrieval. In this talk, we will cover data modeling for search, connecting ElasticSearch to your data pipeline, building a search API and connecting to an Angular web site.

Build Event-Driven Systems with Apache Kafka

Event-driven systems provide simplified integration, easy notifications, inherent scalability and improved fault tolerance. In this session we'll cover the basics of building event driven systems and then dive into utilizing Apache Kafka for the infrastructure.

From Dev to Ops:Delivering an API to Production with Splunk

As your API moves into operations, we will explore how you can use the Splunk platform to give your devops or ops teams the operational insight they need. We will demonstrate how Splunk can be used to provide historical and realtime visibility into your API applications and much more.

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