Category Archives: Technical

Run WPF in .NET Core on Nano Server in Docker

Posted on July 4, 2020 by

Every now and then you’re presented with a scenario that should in theory work as advertised, but you’re not convinced until you actually see it with your own eyes. I recently found myself in this situation when migrating some code … Continue reading →

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An Event Stream Processing Micro-Framework for Apache Kafka

Posted on June 25, 2020 by

Apache Kafka, originally developed by LinkedIn and open sourced in 2011, is the de-facto industry standard for real-time data feeds that can reliably handle large volumes of data with extremely high throughput and low latency. Companies like Uber, Netflix and … Continue reading →

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Enable SSL with ASP.NET Core using Nginx and Docker

Posted on October 13, 2019 by

When developing web apps and api’s with ASP.NET Core, it is useful to replicate the kind of setup used to deploy your application to production. While the built-in Kestrel web server is adequate for local development, you need a full-fledged … Continue reading →

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What It Means to Be a Software Architect — and Why It Matters

Posted on July 16, 2019 by

For the past year I have worked as a Senior Solutions Architect for a large multinational company in the construction sector. While in the past I functioned as a hybrid developer-architect, designing and building enterprise-scale systems and mission-critical line-of-business applications, … Continue reading →

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Use EF Core with AWS Lambda Functions

Posted on December 21, 2018 by

This is Part 3 in a 3 part series: Add .NET Core DI and Config Goodness to AWS Lambda Functions IDesignTimeDbContextFactory and Dependency Injection: A Love Story Use EF Core with AWS Lambda Functions (this post) In a previous post … Continue reading →

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IDesignTimeDbContextFactory and Dependency Injection: A Love Story

Posted on December 20, 2018 by

This is Part 2 in a 3 part series: Add .NET Core DI and Config Goodness to AWS Lambda Functions IDesignTimeDbContextFactory and Dependency Injection: A Love Story (this post) Use EF Core with AWS Lambda Functions Whenever I set out … Continue reading →

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Add .NET Core DI and Config Goodness to AWS Lambda Functions

Posted on December 16, 2018 by

This is Part 1 in a 3 part series: Add .NET Core DI and Config Goodness to AWS Lambda Functions (this post) IDesignTimeDbContextFactory and Dependency Injection: A Love Story Use EF Core with AWS Lambda Functions When Amazon introduced AWS … Continue reading →

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Customize EF Core Scaffolding with Handlebars Templates

Posted on May 27, 2018 by

With the release of Entity Framework Core 2.1 we finally have a version of EF Core that is ready for prime time.  EF Core is a complete re-write of its predecessor Entity Framework 6, which has been married to the … Continue reading →

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It’s here! Trackable Entities for EF Core!

Posted on October 1, 2017 by

The idea behind my open source Trackable Entities project is quite simple: track changes to an object graph as you update, add and remove items, then send those changes to a back end service where they can be saved in … Continue reading →

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React to JavaScript object updates with observable-entities-js

Posted on September 21, 2017 by

I just published my first TypeScript library — observable-entities.  It contains base classes that notify observers when properties are updated and when objects are added or removed from collections. The code for observable-entitites-js can be found here: https://github.com/TrackableEntities/observable-entities-js. Node sample app that uses observable-entities … Continue reading →

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