Author: Shawn Jackson

I’ve spent the last 18 years in the world of Information Technology on both the IT and Development sides of the aisle. I’m currently a Software Engineer for Paylocity. In addition to working at Paylocity, I’m also the Founder of Resgrid, a cloud services company dedicated to providing logistics and management solutions to first responder organizations, volunteer and career fire departments, EMS, ambulance services, search and rescue, public safety, HAZMAT and others.

SignalR, Azure and Scaleout

Recently Resgrid started utilizing SignalR to allow real-time updates to clients. If your unfamiliar with SignalR is a server/client Web Socket framework giving an easy API for Microsoft backend server solutions (like MVC, ASP.Net, etc) to utilize Web Sockets. Resgrid has a fairly simple infrastructure: Dual Azure Web App instances for web and api, backend
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You will never be bug free

Recently I was on a call with a miffed client dealing with issues in a software product. Understandably they were upset that what they were paying for had an issue that impacted them. All of that is pretty SOP but then an IT guy pipes up: “Do you guys have any testing? How did this
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