Ensuring you have logging enabled for your application has always been a high priority but even more so now, in the age of DevOps, that a comprehensive solution is in place to support any pro-active approach to managing issues in Production. Splunk is a popular logging option, historically perhaps, for Read more…
In my previous post, I sert up a very simple Docker supported web api project using a Dockerfile to determine the set up and launch. To consider the maintainability of production-deployable scenario, we can look towards Docker Compose to organise our setup. This can be initiated in VS2019 by right-clicking Read more…
A google search for ‘Docker’ will inevitably throw up a lot of results and the fact that it’s cross platform, whilst a positive, can mean that a lot of ‘Getting started’ guides make an assumption that the reader is coming from a Linux background. For .net developers such as myself, Read more…
Using the Swashbuckle nuget package in your dotnet core web api project can enable automatic generation of swagger document and a UI in a just a few minutes
Writing unit tests to fail first is a highly recommended practice and it makes a lot of sense. However, I find more discipline is needed when you are investigating a bug report and you uncover the source of the problem
Wherever your opinion lies on Microservices, be it a nonchalant roll of your eyes as you dismiss it as another marketing buzz word or one of a super excited kid on Christmas day, the fact is that they are not going away any time soon. And I, for one, don’t Read more…
Following on from Part 1 of this mini project to automatically transfer a client’s database across to their domain, the next part I intend to look at is the automation of exporting the Sql Azure database.
I wanted to setup an automatic transfer of a created/updated blob from one account to a different archive account using Azure Functions
During the testing of an Azure Function against a real Azure Storage account, I came across the above storage exception message when executing the following call: “Blob access tier is supported only for Blob Storage accounts”
There are a multitude of source control repositories out there but few can compete with Git and within this area, GitHub is a great choice if you want to publish your code to the cloud. Even if it’s just POC work, having it in GitHub gives you an easy-to-reach library Read more…