Serilog with AWS Cloudwatch on Ubuntu Few weeks ago we saw How to configure Serilog to work with different environment. At the end of the post, we saw briefly how to get the structured logs synced to Cloudwatch. Today we will explore the configuration in [...]

HttpClientFactory in ASP NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core 2.1 ships with a factory for HttpClient called HttpclientFactory. This factory allows us to no longer care about the lifecycle of the HttpClient by leaving it to the framework. Today we will see few ways [...]

Hashicorp Vault behind IIS Last week I talked about Hashicorp Vault and how it could be used to store secrets. Today I will continue on the same line and show how we can host Vault behind IIS and use what we learnt in the previous post to retrieve secrets[...]

Microsoft Orleans logs warnings and errors Microsoft Orleans is a framework which helps building distributed system by implementing the actor model together with the concept of virtual actors, taking care of availability and concurrency. If you are unfami[...]

Validation in ASP NET Core and Angular Validation is an important part of any application. There are two parts where validation is required, the API level and the frontend. The API validation is meant to prevent any malformed input to corrupt our data whi[...]

Swagger for ASP NET Core API development Building a web API is not an easy task. In order to build one easy to use, we need to consider the routes, the HTTP methods, the return results from the endpoints, the parameter used for the body of the requests, [...]

Silo configuration and Cluster management in Microsoft Orleans Few weeks ago we saw how to create a Silo and how to implement grains. We also saw how we could create an ASP NET Core web app to talk to the Silo. We discovered the benefits of the single thr[...]

Microsoft Orleans Grains Concurrency Handling Few weeks ago I explained the benefits of using Microsoft Orleans. One of them was the implementation of the actor pattern. Today I will dig deeper into it by revisiting a common scenario present in today syst[...]

Create a simple Microsoft Orleans application Last week I presented an overview of Microsoft Orleans. Gave an explanation on the concepts and keywords which can be found in the framework. Today I will explain how we can implement a simple Orleans applicat[...]

Implicit flow with Identity Server and ASP NET Core Few months ago I talked about Resource owner password flow with Identity Server and ASP NET Core. But as mentioned in multi places, ROP is an anti pattern when it comes down to a correct implementation o[...]