Category Archives: Technical

Announcing Event Driven .NET – An Event Driven Microservices Platform for .NET

Posted on March 21, 2022 by Tony Sneed

I am pleased to announce the general availability of Event Driven .NET, a platform which .NET developers can use to build microservices based on event-driven architecture, creating distributed systems that can be developed by multiple teams in parallel with services … Continue reading →

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Using SpecFlow for BDD with .NET 6 Web API

Posted on January 28, 2022 by Tony Sneed

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is a practice in which developers and QA testers write automated user acceptance tests (UAT) which satisfy acceptance criteria in user stories. This helps developers write code that is focused on satisfying business criteria which define … Continue reading →

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Copy NuGet Content Files to Output Directory on Build

Posted on December 4, 2021 by Tony Sneed

Recently someone posted an issue to my EF Core Handlebars project about an error they were receiving. After reproducing the issue, I narrowed it down to a problem copying template files to the project output directory on build. Because the … Continue reading →

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Run WPF in .NET Core on Nano Server in Docker

Posted on July 4, 2020 by Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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 Tony Sneed

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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