Dmitry Baraishuk
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I am a partner and Chief Innovation Officer (CINO) at a custom software development company Belitsoft (a Noventiq company) with hundreds of successful projects for US-based startups and enterprises. More info here.
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Belitsoft Reveals: Power Enterprise LLMs with RAG & LlamaIndex
According to Gartner, in the upcoming years, enterprises will need more Gen AI models that are closely related to their industries. That means they will look for solutions to train their large language models (LLMs) and make them focus on proprietary knowledge. Data orchestration frameworks like LlamaIndex help build retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems and expand the possibilities of LLMs on top of specific organization’s data. LlamaIndex collects data from files (PDFs, PowerPoints), apps (Slack, Notion), and databases (MongoDB, Postgres) and structures it to make it easily digestible to LLMs.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Azure Functions 2025: Secure Serverless for Regulated Industries
Executives charged with modernization, innovation, or cost control implement the leading FaaS platforms to stay competitive. The global serverless computing market is forecast to grow, driven by digital transformation pressures in large US enterprises. The serverless adoption on Azure also grows.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Guide to Avoiding Katalon Regression Testing Nightmares
Regression automated testing means running the same tests over and over to make sure old features still work after recent changes. On the surface, Katalon seems built for this: it lets you record user actions (clicks, form fills, navigation) and replay them automatically. Once a test scenario is recorded, you can re-run it any time to check for breakage. As one SoftwareAdvice review puts it: “test cases can be created easily using the visual interface.” Sounds perfect for teams without QA automation engineers, or at least, that’s the promise. But then reality hits.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s 2025 Guide to Hiring Azure Functions Developers
When a hospital’s patient-monitoring system flags a life-threatening anomaly, every millisecond counts. When your e-commerce platform takes a Black Friday traffic surge head-on, there’s no room for hesitation. Azure Functions is making those experiences possible but only if you have the right developers to take it from proof-of-concept to a system that can run 24/7 without flinching.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Take on .NET Unit Testing: What Top Teams Do Differently
Technical executives and decision-makers (CTOs, VPs of Engineering, Engineering Directors) who control budget and strategy for software testing at some stage realize they have a critical problem - inadequate testing is a business risk, not just a technical issue. When testing is poor, brand value and customer satisfaction suffer.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft’s Guide to Hiring SignalR Developers in 2025
When hundreds or even thousands of users are editing a document together, tracking deliveries in real time, or watching market data update by the second, there’s no room for lag. The solution SignalR offers is the immediate delivery of data updates to all connected users, getting rid of refreshes and delays.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft Unveils Hugging Face’s Hidden Production Risks
Hugging Face (HF) is a leading open-source platform and community in the machine learning ecosystem. As the “GitHub of Machine Learning”, HF is a central place to find, share, and collaborate on AI models and datasets. HF is a one-stop resource in the AI development pipeline, from model search and experimentation to initial deployment, helping startups go from an idea to a working AI faster and with lower upfront R&D costs.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft's .NET Performance Testing Blueprint
Performance issues in .NET applications rarely happen by accident — they’re often the result of untested assumptions about how the system will behave when traffic spikes. Without structured performance testing, those bottlenecks and failures usually show up in production, where fixes are costly and time-sensitive. This guide details established techniques for planning, automating, and integrating performance tests into your delivery pipeline. This will allow you to release .NET applications with the assurance that they can reliably scale before customers encounter problems.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
.NET Migration Strategy: Skip .NET Core — Go Straight to .NET 8/10
Don’t move your .NET Framework apps to .NET Core (the latest version, 3.1, has not been supported since 2022). Go straight to .NET 8 / ASP.NET Core 8 now, and plan to shift to .NET 10 (long-term support) when it’s released in November 2025. It is the direct successor to .NET Core and includes all its capabilities plus much more. Even though the new runtime is now just ".NET", the web framework is still officially named ASP.NET Core for all its versions. So, if you have ASP.NET Framework web apps, you must port them to ASP.NET Core on .NET 8/10 too. All modern .NET versions will support only ASP.NET Core, not the old ASP.NET Framework. You don’t have to treat "migrate to .NET" and "migrate to ASP.NET Core" as two completely independent projects. However, it’s often safer (and easier) to break the work into two phases: first, move your shared code onto the new ".NET" runtime and, second, migrate your ASP.NET Framework web app to ASP.NET Core.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft on Hiring Azure Developers in 2025
Healthcare, financial services, insurance, logistics, and manufacturing all operate under complex, overlapping compliance and security regimes. Engineers who understand both Azure and the relevant regulations can design, implement, and manage architectures that embed compliance from day one and map directly onto the industry’s workflows.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
Belitsoft on Reducing Software Testing Costs — Two Rules for Faster, Safer Releases
Software testing costs spike when teams spread effort too thin across low-impact checks. In reality, most defects come from a small set of cases — and uncaught regressions appear exactly where you least expect them.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
The 2025 Guide to Offshore .NET Development: Costs, Vendors & Pitfalls
Offshore .NET developers are software engineers who specialize in Microsoft’s .NET stack (C#, ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, Azure, Blazor, etc.). They are employed by or contracted through a company based in another country with lower labor costs, so the team is located outside the client’s national borders and time zone.
By Dmitry Baraishuk5 months ago in 01
