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Pavel Osadchuk

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Lead .NET Developer 👨‍💻, Ex-CEO of HR Startup (shot behind the barn) 👨‍💼, winner of dozen hackathons 🎉

Sharing stories from my startups development past, current work and side projects I do.

Why C# Might be the Best as a First Programming Language

Dec 23, 20214 min read

Roaming the internet I see a lot of attention to why you should start to learn JavaScript, or why you should learn Python as your first programming language. And I have a feeling that there lack of attention for C# out there. But I'm ready to challe...

Why C# Might be the Best as a First Programming Language

Monitoring Azure API Management metrics in a chatbot with Azure Functions

Mar 22, 202113 min read

I use Azure API Management (AAM thereof) to provide my bot-builder APIs to chatbot developers. One of the important parts of it is to monitor usage, DAU (daily active users), most used endpoints, errors, and other metrics. To do so AAM provides an An...

Monitoring Azure API Management metrics in a chatbot with Azure Functions

Connecting Azure API Management, Azure AD B2C, and Paddle with .net 5 Razor App, Part 2

Mar 2, 202113 min read

This is part 2 of the two-parts article on how I wrapped my pre-existing internal chatbot builder API with Azure API Management and monetize it with Paddle. Check Part 1 here Introduction Understand how to provide and monetize our API Delegate Sig...

Connecting Azure API Management, Azure AD B2C, and Paddle with .net 5 Razor App, Part 2

Write and Read Google Spreadsheet from Telegram bot with Google Cloud Functions

Feb 18, 20217 min read

Recently I faced a request I'm tracking the number of days off each person in my company in google sheets, where I manually add/subtract their remaining days off. Can a telegram bot show them how many days off they have left once they search for the...

Write and Read Google Spreadsheet from Telegram bot with Google Cloud Functions

Connecting Azure API Management, Azure AD B2C, and Paddle with .net 5 Razor App, Part 1

Feb 1, 202124 min read

If you ever wish to wrap your API into a usable SaaS product with subscriptions, payments, plans, limitations, using no-code (or minimal code) feel free to check how I did this for my own product. Full disclosure I am a founder of API.chat and this a...

Connecting Azure API Management, Azure AD B2C, and Paddle with .net 5 Razor App, Part 1

Bootstrap+Blazor essentials

Jan 19, 202111 min read

When you start a new Blazor project it will quickstart you with a default Bootstrap template. But when you spent several weeks or months on the project you starting to notice that there is a lot of duplicate HTML code that can be refactored and moved...

Bootstrap+Blazor essentials