Working with the IHostBuilder introduced to .netcore has been an overall pleasant experience… until I needed configuration from appsettings for app bootstrapping. Luckily, there’s still a way to do it!
Getting Started with MongoDb with .NET Core
Microsoft Orleans-My first podcast interview!
I was recently interviewed by GaProgMan for his show “The .NET Core Podcast”!
Microsoft Orleans-Dashboard Update-CPU/Memory Stats
Quick update to a post I did a while back regarding Orleans Dashboard — additional reporting metrics for your cluster!
Docker-writing a smaller image with multi stage builds for .NET core
I’ve been using docker for playing around with my dinky website, but the DockerFile/image has always been a bit brute forcey. It’s time to explore a somewhat more effective DockerFile!
Microsoft Orleans - Observables
As we continue exploring Microsoft Orleans — the virtual actor model framework — we happen upon Observers. Observers can be used to “observe” events, in the form of notifications, as an example.
db in c#-how does I do again?
With the government shut down (again!) I’m not working at the moment, so onto learning on stuff! I wanted to do something with a database, and I’ve gone done and forgotten how to work with them it’s been so long!
Microsoft Orleans-Easily switching between "development" and "production" configurations.
There are some differences in how one would host an Orleans server locally vs deployed in a production scenario. In this post, we’ll use some of the skills we’ve built on previously, to help us in our journey to hosting a production ready Orleans cluster.
Microsoft Orleans-Reminders and Grains Calling Grains
Orleans is an actor model framework — a framework used for easily creating distributed systems across a cluster of machines. In this post we’ll explore the “Reminders” feature of Orleans.
Microsoft Orleans-Dependency Injection
Dependency Injection is an important part of writing loosely coupled, easily tested code. I’ve written a bit about it before, but not in the context of Microsoft Orleans.
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