Let’s continuously deliver an ASP.NET Core app to Kubernetes using Concourse. In part one of this blog series, I showed you how to set up your environment to follow along with me. It’s easy; just set up Azure Container Registry,… Read More ›
Isn’t it frustrating to build great software and helplessly watch as it waits to get deployed? We don’t just want to build software in small batches, we want to ship it in small batches. This helps us learn faster, and… Read More ›
Serverless things don’t always complete their work in milliseconds. With the introduction of AWS Step Functions and Azure Durable Functions, we have compute instances that exist for hours, days, or even months. With serverless workflow tools like Azure Logic Apps,… Read More ›
Microsoft Azure isn’t a platform. Like every other public cloud, it’s an environment and set of components you’ll use to construct your platform. It’s more like an operating system that you build on, versus some integrated product you just start… Read More ›
Serverless computing. Let’s talk about it. I don’t think it’s crazy to say that it represents the first cloud-native software model. Done right, it is inherently elastic and pay-per-use, and strongly encourages the use of cloud managed services. And to… Read More ›
You’ve got microservices. Great. They’re being continuous delivered. Neato. Ok … now what? The next hurdle you may face is data processing amongst this distributed mesh o’ things. Brokered messaging engines like Azure Service Bus or RabbitMQ are nice choices… Read More ›
Creating new .NET apps, or modernizing existing ones? If you’re following the 12-factor criteria, you’re probably keeping your configuration out of the code. That means not stashing feature flags in your web.config file, or hard-coding connection strings inside your classes…. Read More ›
