This post outlines the event-driven and message-driven architectures that are foundational for micro-service communication in an enterprise level business application. There are different kind of messages that you can send to others are fall under these architectures. It also describes the standards on CNCF Cloud events. Message-Driven Architecture flow Command – you expect someone else ..read more

There are many options for developers to build and deploy cloud native and containerized applications on Microsoft AZURE. This post outlines why cloud native is important for organizations and describe the options like AZURE Container Apps and AZURE Kubernetes Service. What is Cloud-Native for Application Development? CNCF cloud native computing foundation envisions cloud-native applications to ..read more

This post outlines using Clean Architecture with ASP.NET Core 6 Micro Service. One of the main reason to use Clean Architecture template is that you can focus on writing business logic but not to get struck on thinking about infrastructure concerns. It is formerly known by other names like Onion Architecture , Hexagonal Architecture and ..read more

Logging and tracing in microservice applications can be challenging and complicated if each microservice generates its own logging. Determining the application execution process flow and event co-relation can be a laborious task when microservice handling concurrent requests. Unified and Centralized logging ensures the deployed service remain reliable and resilient. This post outlines the logging strategy for ..read more

gRPC allows you to develop high-performance service in .NET FW 6. This post outlines the performance improvements made in gRPC in .NET 6, support to handling transient faults, client side load balancing and developing gRPC over HTTP/3. It also outlines the sample gRPC project creation using Visual Studio 2022. What is gRPC? gRPC is an ..read more

This post outlines basic overview on Docker containers , what benefits does it brings in using in your environment and what options we have for deploying them to Azure. What is Docker? Docker is self-service entity that can run on cloud or on-premise that can be used to host and run your applications. Docker basically ..read more

As the son of a farmer, I was always thinking about using technology to help farmers to do affordable, profitable and sustainable farming. Lot of farming is based on guesswork. The decisions like when to water, when to apply pesticides, nutrients and fertilizers are based on guesswork. What if farmer uses his knowledge with data ..read more

There are lot of different ways to use Async\await in C#. It is bit difficult to understand what different methods, fields and keywords are under tasks and how they are different? This post outlines some bad examples that developer shouldn’t use and explains the alternate solution. Bad example1: This locks up the UI. Never use ..read more

Quickly determining the root-cause of live site issue(s) that hosted in AZURE is important. The standard alerts that you setup in monitoring system might help you in alerting the problem and wouldn’t always help you in finding immediately the root-cause of the failure. Azure Portal introduced a new feature called “Application Change Analysis” under AppService ..read more

This post outlines the options that exist for connecting your on-premise network to AZURE. Following are the three options, This post explains configuration steps that required for setting up Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network. Site-to-Site Virtual Private Network Point-to-Site Virtual Private Network Express Route Why do we need to extend On-Premise network? Reason 1, If Your ..read more