[Redirect Magazine] #27 - ASP.NET Core and Serilog, techie to tech lead, microservices and messaging

Another week, another bunch of links! I think I’ll reduce the cadence from now on though, to do a little more of my own posts/videos and not have the blog almost exclusively filled with links 🙂. Articles “Writing logs to Elasticsearch with Fluentd using Serilog in ASP.NET Core” The title says it all 🙂 Nice and simple article on the subject. “Techie to tech lead: My five biggest mistakes” Interesting article on some mistakes one might make when transitioning from a technical role to a leadership one....

September 9, 2018 · 1 min · 154 words · João Antunes

[Redirect Magazine] #24 - Service boundaries, orchestrating containers, event sourcing and CQRS, plus some ASP.NET Core less known features

This week, no reading, just watching 🙂 (Now that I’m looking at it closely, all the videos are from NDC Oslo 2018) Videos “Finding your service boundaries - a practical guide - Adam Ralph” Great talk on defining the service boundaries, one of the topics I find most challenging when creating a new system, but also very interesting. “Containers in Production: It’s Like Orchestrating Cats - David Ostrovsky” Cool practical talk on things to keep in mind to correctly orchestrate containers in Docker....

August 19, 2018 · 1 min · 150 words · João Antunes

[Redirect Magazine] #12 - More JS inner workings, serverless, ASP.NET Core 2.1 and microservice websites

Aaaaand it’s another round incoming! Articles “How JavaScript works: an overview of the engine, the runtime, and the call stack” A two part series of posts on how JS works, somewhat in line with some videos I shared in the past. “Serverless Architectures” By now most of us have some idea of what serverless is, but this is a more comprehensive article that covers a lot of topics on this subject....

May 27, 2018 · 1 min · 100 words · João Antunes

[Redirect Magazine] #10 - Events past week, .NET Core future, project versioning, Visual Studio Live Share, Angular 6 and the new SignalR

This past week had Microsoft Build and Google I/O, lots of stuff to check out (and so little time). Articles ".NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications" Some insights on whats coming in .NET Core. Many things are Windows only, but at least those that still need to target specifically Windows will be able to take advantage of .NET Core goodies when building desktop applications (WPF and Windows Forms)....

May 13, 2018 · 1 min · 205 words · João Antunes

Using .NET's HttpClient without following redirects

It’s likely not a common scenario, but here’s how one can use .NET’s HttpClient without following redirects.

April 28, 2018 · 5 min · 932 words · João Antunes

Using cancellation tokens on ASP.NET Core MVC actions

Cancellation tokens are really useful when working with async stuff, and this is the simplest way of getting some nice free benefits in ASP.NET applications using them.

April 21, 2018 · 3 min · 599 words · João Antunes

[Video] REST vs GRPC in C# just for fun

I haven’t posted in a while and today I felt like doing something different: a video! I have no clue if this will turn out any good so, check it out and make sure to provide some feedback! You can check out the source code here on GitHub. Thanks for stopping by, cyaz

July 17, 2017 · 1 min · 53 words · João Antunes