Entity Framework Core Performance Optimization Last year I talked about Entity Framework Core. It is a easy and feature rich ORM which makes working with database in a .NET environment typesafe. But even though it makes things easy, there are ambiguous cases which can take us off guard. Today we will see four of this cases and how to deal with them. Client evaluation Iteration Include and

Create a Navigation loading bar for Angular with PrimeNG In Angular, it is common practice to execute commands prior routing a page using guards and resolvers. Guards prevent the routing from occuring until the condition turns to true and resolvers prevent the routing from occuring until the data is returned. Those actions can take time to complete and during the time being, the component will

Monitor Upstream Response Time with Nginx and CloudWatch Last week we saw how we could Setup CloudWatch to push logs from our application to CloudWatch. Apart from the application logs, another type of logs that is worth looking into are the access logs from Nginx. Nginx being the entrypoint of the application, every traffic in and out goes through it and today we will see how we can leverage its

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 more details. Unified Cloudwatch agent Literate and json logs with Serilog Debug the Cloudwatch agent 1. Unified Cloudwatch agent The Unified

Basic Authentication with Nginx Basic authentication provides an easy way to password protect an endpoint on our server. Today we will see how we can create a password file and use it to enable basic authentication on Nginx. Create a password Enable basic authentication Reuse configuration If you haven’t seen Nginx before, you can have a look at my previous blog post on Getting started with