Health Checks are a means of seeing how a system is running at the time of performing the check. Let’s see how we can apply them to Orleans!
How to rely on configuration during application bootstrapping?
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.
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