Observing .NET microservices with OpenTelemetry - logs, traces and metrics

Observability has been one of the hot topics, with the increasing complexity of knowing what is going on in our applications. Fortunately, .NET has been investing in making things easier with OpenTelemetry.

September 5, 2023 · 27 min · 5619 words · João Antunes

[Video] Outbox meets change data capture - hooking into the Write-Ahead Log (feat. .NET, PostgreSQL & Kafka)

Another video on using change data capture (often referred to as CDC), to hook up into the database transaction log, forwarding incoming entries to the outbox table.

July 27, 2022 · 1 min · 136 words · João Antunes

[Video] Outbox meets change data capture (feat. .NET, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Debezium)

Quick video with an interesting approach to implement the publisher part of the outbox pattern. Using change data capture (often referred to as CDC), we hook up something to the database transaction log, forwarding incoming entries to the outbox table. In this example, we’ll make use of Debezium, hooked up into a PostgreSQL database, forwarding messages to Kafka.

January 17, 2022 · 1 min · 89 words · João Antunes