From GitHub to AWS ECS Serverless - Part 1 - Build
November 12, 2024These are technical notes for going from code committed into a repository to Blue/Green deployments on AWS as of 12th November 202…
Find out what SQL queries are slow on PostgreSQL locally
November 23, 2022Your cloud provider is showing you that some of your PostgreSQL queries are slow. Your cloud provider is showing you SQL, and you might have…
Troubleshooting Connecting .NET to MSK
November 02, 2022In my previous blog post, I looked at connecting a .NET client to a Kafka cluster on MSK. To get to that point, I hit a lot of errors that…
Connecting .NET to AWS Kafka (MSK)
October 31, 2022This guide looks at connecting a .NET Core client to an AWS Kafka (MSK) cluster using Mutual TLS. We’re going to focus on the mutual TLS…
Setting IAM Policy that forces MFA use on the command line
April 06, 2022Securing your AWS IAM account with MFA is a really good idea. However, if you’re not careful, the AWS IAM policy might stop you from using…
AWS Elastic Container Registry with docker compose on Powershell
July 11, 2018Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is a store for your docker images. Once you create your images locally, you can…
Brighter Servicehost as a .NET Core 2.x linux daemon with RabbitMQ
July 11, 2018We’re going to implement a simple linux daemon service in .NET Core 2.x that hosts a Brighter Service for responding to events posted to a…
.NET Core Linux Daemon
July 11, 2018We’re going to implement a simple Linux daemon service in .NET Core 2.x. The daemon will respond to input arguments and write to the console…
ASP.NET Core 2 API on Docker with OAuth (Part 1)
October 30, 2017I previously explained how to get a ASP.NET Core 1 site running on docker in this post we’re going to do a similar process but use .NET Core…
ASP.NET Core 2 API on Docker with OAuth (Part 2)
October 30, 2017In Part 1 we built an ASP.NET Core 2 API and got an Identity Server all running on docker containers. In this part we’re going to add a…
Using Dependency Injection on the .NET Core Command Line
October 10, 2017Developers should build tools to help them develop code. If you are building an ASP.NET web app then I can recommend building a companion…
Using Brighter on ASP.NET Core 2.0 API
October 04, 2017In this post you will learn how to get a simple ASP.NET Core 2 API running that uses the Brighter command pattern for sending updates to an…
Adding an nginx container for static files in my VS2017 solution
July 28, 2017I am using Visual Studio with a docker-compose project to handle the building and running of my docker instances. I want the developer to…
.NET Uri class cheatsheet
June 21, 2017The Uri class in .NET contains methods for getting at parts of the Uri. In your ASP.NET MVC project you can get the current URL from within…
DataGrip - File not found when connecting to LocalDB
June 19, 2017Local DB is a lightweight replacement to SQL Express that is installed as part of Visual Studio. It’s free, 100% compatible with SQL Server…
.NET running on a Linux docker container
May 23, 2017In this post I’m going to take you through getting a .NET Core running on Linux docker container. I’m not an expert and will refer back to…
A .NET codger getting into Linux on Windows
May 17, 2017Running .NET through Visual Studio with Microsoft SQL Server and onto a Windows Server instance has been that comfortable jumper for many…
Pulling Jekyll teeth on the Windows Subsystem for Linux
May 16, 2017As I use more open source frameworks and tools, I’ve found that I’ve been writing down documentation that isn’t just useful to business. So…