Kong API Management
Kong is an open-source platform that has tools for API Gateways, API Management, Governance, and Kubernetes. API Gateways provide a way to proxy traffic to different services. This is very beneficial for many reasons. By acting as a single entry point the API gateway is responsible for routing traffic. This means that if a company wanted to...
Kafka Tool
If you're looking for a quick and easy tool to access a Kafka cluster on Windows, Mac OS, or Linux then Kafka Tool may be right for you.
Browse all of your Kafka clustersView messages on the logView offsetsshow JSON, XML, String, or Binary data.Create and remove topicsSave individual messagesCustom plugin developmentRuns on Windows, Mac OS, and LinuxFREE for...
Docker: Jenkins Build Server on Windows Server Core
Big fan of Jenkins! I've really enjoyed the flexibility that this CI server provides. While it's easy to run a Linux container with Jenkins and do .NET Core builds it's not possible to build traditional ASP.NET projects... unless you install Mono.. but I could never get that to work. After contemplating my...
.NET Core Interview Questions
Q: What is .NET Core?
.NET Core is a modern Microsoft framework for creating applications that can run platform agnostic. .NET core has performance gains over its predecessor technology ASP.NET where it's been shown as 2400% times faster. .NET core can handle up to 7,000,000 HTTP requests per second. .NET core is developed in C++ and C#.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Core
https://www.ageofascent.com/2019/02/04/asp-net-core-saturating-10gbe-at-7-million-requests-per-second/
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Mounting Volumes in Docker with Visual Studio
This technique is ideal for local development within Visual Studio. You can easily mount local files into a docker container by modifying the MSBuild commands of the project.
Project File's MSBuild Commands
This code came from a .NET Core 3.1 project.
Using MSBuild Variables
Another way to do this is to use the MSBuild Variable $(MSBuildStartupDirectory). Since...
How to Become a Web Developer
I've been making websites since 1997 and working professionally since 2010 full time as a software developer. If you don't have any experience doing programming or web design as a hobby this will be extremely challenging. Getting started will seem like the hardest thing ever. With commitment and reflecting on your accomplishments regularly, you...
.NET Software Architecture for Remote Workers
With more people going remote due to the current pandemic it's brought up a lot of thoughts about how to make .NET work environments more friendly to remote workers. Traditionally, .NET has been tightly coupled with corporate infrastructure. There will be a lot of challenges with taking a team that is in-house to...
C# Reflection: Application Name & Version
My friend Christian Caspers showed me this trick and I thought it was a great idea. I've always saved these values in a configuration file but this little snippet is great for pulling that information from the assembly file.
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How to Learn Really Fast!
One of the hallmarks of my personality and best traits is that I'm a life-long-self-learner who has mastered and perfected the art of learning technology really fast. I have a very effective way of learning technologies rather quickly. This article is aimed at people who want to continuously grow within the IT-sphere.
Awareness and Finding "The...
Introduction to ASP.NET/.NET Core
.NET is an incredibly powerful software development framework created by Microsoft and used by some of the largest enterprise environments in the world. Originally created in 2002, it was decided to supersede Active Server Pages (ASP Classic 3.0). While .NET is very versatile it is also very "corporatey" because of its tight integration within the Windows...
