I come across a problem that I have no clue where should I start in order to solve it.
I have a service that searchs for something very usual, for instance, the current dollar cotation in Brazil. I have multiple trust Apis that can provide me this information, but response time is critical to my service, so I have to choose the faster API, always.
Do anyone knows where do I get started here? Any clue would be great. Thanks !
I would go with parallel asynchronous requests on the different API you think are the best.
Then you only treat the first response.
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I've come to you today in hopes of getting some support in regards to the Google Distance Matrix API. Currently I'm using this in a very simple way with a Web Services request through an HTTP interface and am having no problems getting results. Unfortunately my project seems to be running into Query limits due to the 2,500 query Quota limit. I have added Billing to the project to allow for going over 2,500 queries, and it reflects that increased quota in my project. What's funky though is that the console is not showing any usage and so I'm not sure if these requests are being ran against what I have set up.
I am using a single API Key for the project which is present in my requests, and as I said before the requests ARE working, but again I'm hoping to see if someone can shed some light as to why I might not be seeing my queries reflected in my usage, and to see how I can verify that my requests are being run under the project for which I have attached billing.
If there is any information I can provide to help assist in finding an answer, please feel free to let me know and I'll be happy to give what information I can.
After doing some digging I was able to find the following relevant thread to answer my question:
Google API Key hits max request limit despite billing enabled
Am currently working on an Xamarin Form application, which requires me to interact with a Web API. There are, however times, when the call may fail, due to internet connectivity or server breaks down. In such situations, I would like to put the data that needs to be send in a queue, and try later on.
I was able to put in a queue, however, my question is, how I can run some kind of timers so that I can keep trying the API at regular interval for the ones in queue. Could someone guide me in understanding what is the best practice in such scenarios ?
Thanks
If you don't want to implement this yourself there is a Library for that.
Especially take a look at the Retry keyword.
I am working on a family networking app for Android that enables family members to share their location and track location of others simultaneously. You can suppose that this app is similar with Life360 or Sygic Family Locator. At first, I determined to use a MBaaS and then I completed its coding by using Parse. However, I realized that although a user read and write geolocation data per minute (of course, in some cases geolocation data is sent less frequently), the request traffic exceeds my forward-looking expectations. For this reason, I want to develop a well-grounded system but I have some doubts about whether Parse can still do its duty if number of users increases to 100-500k.
Considering all these, I am looking for an alternative method/service to set such a system. I think using a backend service like Parse is a moderate solution but not the best one. What are the possible ways to achieve this from bad to good? To exemplify, one of my friends say that I can use Sinch which is an instant messaging service in background between users that set the price considering number of active users. Nevertheless, it sounds weird to me, I have never seen such a usage of an instant messaging service as he said.
Your comments and suggestions will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Well sinch wouldn't handle location updates or storing of location data, that would be parse you are asking about.
And since you implied that the requests would be to much for your username maybe I wrongly assumed price was the problem with parse.
But to answer your question about sending location data I would probably throttle it if I where you to aile or so. No need for family members to know down to the feet in realtime. if there is a need for that I would probably inement a request method instead and ask the user for location when someone is interested.
First off, The Problem:
We have a Web App with a Flash front-end that talks to our ASP.NET web service via SOAP which then deals with all of our server side code (C#).
Right now, we implement a simple user sign on in our application, storing the info in our MSSQL DB.
A client has requested what I understand to be Windows authentication through our application using the currently logged in user.
So, I have been tasked with investigating this. Nobody, including myself, has any experience in this area.
I have been reading up on some basic Active Directory information, and some simple tutorials. I understand how to get access to the directory using ADSI through code. What I'm really interested in seeing is how the entire thing should be architected. I don't want to throw together a hacky solution.
Does anyone know of a good tutorial for this kind of thing or have any advice on getting started? More importantly, does this even sound viable?
I know I haven't given much information, but feel free to ask and I will provide answers.
Thanks.
Edit:
Will, to give you an idea of the scope of this, the network will include every computer in a large hospital. So yes, this is huge. Clearly I need to start small. I would like to come up with something that will work at my office first. Maybe ~10 Windows computers on a single domain. One Domain Controller.
I am also open to any good books on the subject.
If you are going to tie into Active Directory you will want to take a look at the System.DirectoryServices namespace. The implementations can vary wildly depending on your system architecture, but this should give you a good starting point.
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There are a bunch of services (dyndns, nettica, etc.) that offer API's but I'm having trouble with Nettica's and I was just wondering if anyone has a nice gem suggestion for any of the DNS services... I'm not set on one or the other.
Thanks for any help in advance.
Chad
This just in, Nettica does work as intended, but you need to buy the bulk DNS service in order to enable the AddRecord API call....... wasn't documented clearly but their support was able to point this out.