Distributed Tracing in ASP.NET Core with Jaeger and Tye Part 1 - Distributed Tracing
Apr 26, 2021 · 7 min read
In this series Distributed Tracing with Jaeger (this article) Simplifying the setup with Tye (coming soon) Modern microservices applications consist of many services deployed on various hosts such as Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and Azure App Services or serverless compute services such as AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. One of the key challenges of microservices is the reduced visibility of requests that span multiple services. In distributed systems that perform various operations such as database queries, publish and consume messages, and trigger jobs, how would you quickly find issues and monitor the behavior of services?
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Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka for .NET Developers Part 3 - Azure Event Hubs
Apr 11, 2021 · 10 min read
In this series: Development environment and Event producer Event consumer Azure Event Hubs integration (this article) Azure Event Hubs is a horizontally scalable event ingestion service capable of receiving and processing millions of events per second. It supports Apache Kafka Producer and Consumer API that you can use as an alternative to running a self-managed Apache Kafka cluster. Now you can integrate the Kafka ecosystem applications such as Kafdrop and many others with Event Hubs.
Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka for .NET Developers Part 2 - Event Consumer
Apr 04, 2021 · 8 min read
In this series: Development environment and Event producer Event consumer (this article) Azure Event Hubs integration Let’s carry our discussion forward and implement a consumer of the events published by the Employee service to the leave-applications Kafka topic. We will extend the application that we developed earlier to add two new services to demonstrate how Kafka consumers work: Manager service and Result reader service. Source Code The complete source code of the application and other artifacts is available in my GitHub repository.
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Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka for .NET Developers Part 1 - Event Producer
Mar 29, 2021 · 12 min read
In this series: Development environment and Event producer (this article) Event consumer Azure Event Hubs integration An event-driven architecture utilizes events to trigger and communicate between microservices. An event is a change in the service’s state, such as an item being added to the shopping cart. When an event occurs, the service produces an event notification which is a packet of information about the event. The architecture consists of an event producer, an event router, and an event consumer.
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Build a Basic GraphQL Server with ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework in 10 Minutes
Mar 15, 2021 · 11 min read
Since I wrote my first GraphQL post in 2019, much has changed with GraphQL in the .NET space. The ongoing changes have also affected most of the documentation available online. This article will walk you through the steps to create a basic GraphQL API on ASP.NET Core using GraphQL for .NET, Entity Framework Core, Autofac, and the Repository design pattern. I chose the tech stack for the sample application based on the popularity of the frameworks and patterns.
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Managing GitHub Organizations with GitHub GraphQL API
Feb 18, 2021 · 6 min read
I prefer using GraphQL over REST APIs wherever available, primarily because I can avoid overfetching and underfetching data while still enjoying the benefits of contract-based development. For this exercise, assume that you are the DevOps lead of an organization/open-source community that uses GitHub to manage its projects under a GitHub Organization. GitHub Organizations are shared accounts consisting of members and projects with sophisticated security and administrative features. You have been asked to ensure that your organization’s repositories are healthy such that there are no PRs in an unmerged state for more than one week, and every issue is either resolved or updated in 12 hours.
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Scheduling Jobs on Heroku with Azure Logic Apps
Feb 05, 2021 · 12 min read
Many times, your application needs to run tasks or jobs on regular intervals. Scheduling might be necessary when polling an API every night, or dispatching emails with reports each week. And sometimes you may find that you need to trigger a host of tasks across multi- or hybrid-cloud and need a way to run these tasks in a reliable, cross-cloud manner. In this article, let’s look at one way to do that using a Heroku dyno for our task, and Microsoft Azure Logic Apps as our scheduler service.
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Tracing and Profiling a .NET Core Application on Azure Kubernetes Service with a Sidecar Container
Feb 03, 2021 · 11 min read
Imagine running a .NET Core application in Kubernetes, which suddenly starts being sluggish, and the telemetry fails to give you a complete picture of the issue. To remediate performance issues of applications, starting with .NET Core 3, Microsoft introduced several .NET Core runtime diagnostics tools to diagnose application issues. dotnet-counters to view Performance Counters. dotnet-dump to capture and analyze Dumps. dotnet-trace to capture runtime events and sample CPU stacks. dotnet-gcdump to collect Garbage Collector dumps of application.
Background Jobs in Heroku with Azure Service Bus
Jan 14, 2021 · 11 min read
Web applications are optimized for throughput and latency to service a high number of HTTP requests as quickly as possible. For improved performance, web applications defer the CPU intensive, IO intensive, time-intensive, and scheduled processing workloads to background jobs that run independently of the user interface. These background jobs must function without intervention from the user interface and should not block a synchronous user and system interaction. Offloading slow and compute or memory-intensive activity to background jobs improves web applications' performance and throughput.
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Implementing Multi Session Sequential Convoy Pattern with Azure Service Bus and Go
Jan 02, 2021 · 10 min read
In many event-driven applications, preserving the sequence of events is essential. For example, an event-driven eCommerce application might have the following states, transitions, and events. A user adds N items to the basket. This action generates the item added event. The user checks out the basket. This action generates the basket checked out event. The user pays for the items. This action generates the payment made event. Inventory decrements the count of available items by N.
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