Building Distributed Systems on the Shoulders of Giants - API Days Live, Australia 2020
I recently spoke about building distributed systems at API Days Australia conference. My talk is titled Building distributed systems on the shoulders of gian...
Converting a Visual Studio database project to use DbUp migrations
Database projects in Visual Studio have been a very popular way to develop and manage the database schema and logic in the past. With more and more applicati...
Preventing fat/bloated/god controllers by following a simple endpoint pattern
I’ve been working with ASP.NET/CORE MVC and WebApi for a while now and there is a problem I often run in to. It’s the case of the fat/bloated/god controller....
Integration Testing an AspNet Core API That is Protected With CSRF/XSRF Tokens
I was working on writing integrations tests for an AspNet Core Web API project recently (I blogged about how to write integration tests here). The front end ...
Upcoming talk @ API Days, Melbourne 2019
I’ll be speaking about some of my Microservices scars at the upcoming API Days conference to be held at Melbourne convention & exhibition centre. My talk...
Speaking @ DDD Melbourne 2019
Last weekend I spoke at @DDDMelbourne and it was my first time doing so. The event attracted close to 900 people and had 5 concurrent tracks. I spoke at the ...
Protecting Assets Without Using Authorization Headers (i.e. Bearer Tokens)
tl;dr; If you want to access an api endpoint but don’t have a way to append the authorization info to your request, you need to create a magic url that is sh...
Setting Up AzureAD Multi-tenant Authentication With ASP NET Core And Angular
Using Azure AD to implement a multi-tenant application is fairly straight forward. It requires turning on a few knobs and switches from the portal and you’re...
A Reply To Waleed Aly’s Article On Sri Lankan Easter Sunday Terrorist Attack
I doubt Waleed Aly will ever get to read this but at least it’s now in the ether. I wanted to apologize for bringing politics into my blog but then it dawned...
Requesting Additional Claims From AzureAD
I am currently working on a project that uses EasyAuth to protect a web app hosted on Azure App Services. Think of it as a layer that operates above your web...