đź‘‹ Welcome to my blog! I’m a software engineer with decade+ experience, specializing in backend and algorithms, preferably using .NET. I love creating effective, robust, and maintainable software systems.
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GenAI on your Data: What is RAG and Semantic Search and Why It's Hard for Code
Recently, I came across a one-year-old Youtube tutorial, that showed how to run ChatGPT on my own data in ~15 minutes. That sparked my interest, I thought - what if I fed ChatGPT with my codebase, so it could respond to queries like: Where in the code is the order total compared to what’s returned by the vendor? And it would show me code fragments with class names (I’m in C#)....
Obscure error during switching of Azure SWA Functions from in-process to isolated mode
A couple of years ago I crafted an internal-use utility for one of my clients that uses Azure Static Web Apps with Blazor and some Functions. That worked well, but the client asked to extend functionality, so I decided to refresh the code along the way. Back in the day, I wrote the utility using .NET 6 and in-process functions, since the out-of-process mode was not yet available. The current ....
Migration from .NET ApplicationInsights SDK to Azure OpenTelemetry Exporter
The AppInsights SDK is quite simple to integrate with and provides rather rich functionality and extensibility, but it is now considered a “legacy” - Azure team switched its focus to support OpenTelemetry: So, we should switch to using Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter. That’s not a bad thing by itself, but there are not many guides on the migration process, especially for console applications like mine, and the Azure Exporter doesn’t support a lot of useful things I got used to....
The Brief Story of Me and My Blog
Welcome to my blog! I’m glad you’re here. In this post, I want to briefly share my story and the reasons for this blog. Who am I? My name is Lev Yastrebov, Lev is pronounced like [lʲef]. I live in Türkiye (Turkey). The warm sea and mountains are a hard-to-beat combo! I’ve been technically inclined all my life, starting with modeling clubs (ships, aero) in elementary school, then moving on to electronics, where I learned to solder and the basics of electronic components....