Going down the rabbit hole of EF Core and converting strings to dates
I am working on a greenfield project that uses EF Core 6 with AspNetCore 6 at the moment. The project involves exposing a set of legacy data through an API. ...
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.net
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 ...
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...
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...
Mediator Pattern Implemented In .NET/C#
The mediator pattern or the “domain whisperer” as I like to call it has been around for a long time and the main selling point of it is the reduction of coup...
What Does Durable Azure Functions Solve?
Azure Functions are the way serverless compute is implemented in Azure. Amazon Web Services equivalent is called AWS Lambda. I won’t go into detail about wha...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 3 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
REST + AngularJS Basics With .Net Core WebAPI CRUD Example
In this blog post I look at some basic examples of using AngularJs with Asp.Net WebApi.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 2 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
public speaking
Lessons learned from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air and underwater - API Days Australia 2022
I recently spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges my team faced deploying and running them on the ...
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
The Shell Game Called Eventual Consistency - API Days Jakarta 2021
A few weeks ago I spoke at API Days Jakarta about some of experiences building distributed systems. As more and more companies take their businesses to the ...
Not All “Microservices Frameworks” Are Made The Same - NDC Sydney 2020
Last October I spoke at NDC Sydney about the pitfalls associated with microservices frameworks and how you can still leverage libraries and runtimes to help ...
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...
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 ...
Speaking @LevelsConf 2018
I recently got a chance to speak at Levels Conference and it was my first time speaking in front of such a large audience. There were around 400 very keen ju...
apidays
Lessons learned from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air and underwater - API Days Australia 2022
I recently spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges my team faced deploying and running them on the ...
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
The Shell Game Called Eventual Consistency - API Days Jakarta 2021
A few weeks ago I spoke at API Days Jakarta about some of experiences building distributed systems. As more and more companies take their businesses to the ...
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...
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...
microservices
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
The Shell Game Called Eventual Consistency - API Days Jakarta 2021
A few weeks ago I spoke at API Days Jakarta about some of experiences building distributed systems. As more and more companies take their businesses to the ...
Not All “Microservices Frameworks” Are Made The Same - NDC Sydney 2020
Last October I spoke at NDC Sydney about the pitfalls associated with microservices frameworks and how you can still leverage libraries and runtimes to help ...
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...
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...
distributed systems
Lessons learned from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air and underwater - API Days Australia 2022
I recently spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges my team faced deploying and running them on the ...
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
The Shell Game Called Eventual Consistency - API Days Jakarta 2021
A few weeks ago I spoke at API Days Jakarta about some of experiences building distributed systems. As more and more companies take their businesses to the ...
Not All “Microservices Frameworks” Are Made The Same - NDC Sydney 2020
Last October I spoke at NDC Sydney about the pitfalls associated with microservices frameworks and how you can still leverage libraries and runtimes to help ...
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...
cqrs
Speaking @LevelsConf 2018
I recently got a chance to speak at Levels Conference and it was my first time speaking in front of such a large audience. There were around 400 very keen ju...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 3 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 2 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
Domain Driven Design
Speaking @LevelsConf 2018
I recently got a chance to speak at Levels Conference and it was my first time speaking in front of such a large audience. There were around 400 very keen ju...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 3 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 2 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
neventlite
Speaking @LevelsConf 2018
I recently got a chance to speak at Levels Conference and it was my first time speaking in front of such a large audience. There were around 400 very keen ju...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 3 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 2 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
webapi
OAuth Client Credentials Flow With AzureAD
Navigating through the various authentication and authorization flows in AzureAD can sometimes be confusing. The Microsoft documentation on app types is a go...
Integration Testing ASP.NET Core WebApi
If you’re a decent .NET developer and lucky enough to work in a good team then most of your work would be unit testable. But there is always a case to write ...
Using Azure Functions HttpTrigger As Web API
If you haven’t lived under a rock for the last 18 months you would know ‘Serverless’ is the new cool kid in town. Microsoft’s offer is called Azure Functions...
REST + AngularJS Basics With .Net Core WebAPI CRUD Example
In this blog post I look at some basic examples of using AngularJs with Asp.Net WebApi.
aspnet core
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 ...
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...
aggregates
Event Sourcing Examined Part 3 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 2 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
bounded context
Event Sourcing Examined Part 3 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
Event Sourcing Examined Part 2 Of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern.
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
azure ad
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...
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...
OAuth Client Credentials Flow With AzureAD
Navigating through the various authentication and authorization flows in AzureAD can sometimes be confusing. The Microsoft documentation on app types is a go...
oauth
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 ...
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...
OAuth Client Credentials Flow With AzureAD
Navigating through the various authentication and authorization flows in AzureAD can sometimes be confusing. The Microsoft documentation on app types is a go...
azure functions
What Does Durable Azure Functions Solve?
Azure Functions are the way serverless compute is implemented in Azure. Amazon Web Services equivalent is called AWS Lambda. I won’t go into detail about wha...
Using Azure Functions HttpTrigger As Web API
If you haven’t lived under a rock for the last 18 months you would know ‘Serverless’ is the new cool kid in town. Microsoft’s offer is called Azure Functions...
serverless
What Does Durable Azure Functions Solve?
Azure Functions are the way serverless compute is implemented in Azure. Amazon Web Services equivalent is called AWS Lambda. I won’t go into detail about wha...
Using Azure Functions HttpTrigger As Web API
If you haven’t lived under a rock for the last 18 months you would know ‘Serverless’ is the new cool kid in town. Microsoft’s offer is called Azure Functions...
asp.net core
OAuth Client Credentials Flow With AzureAD
Navigating through the various authentication and authorization flows in AzureAD can sometimes be confusing. The Microsoft documentation on app types is a go...
Integration Testing ASP.NET Core WebApi
If you’re a decent .NET developer and lucky enough to work in a good team then most of your work would be unit testable. But there is always a case to write ...
testing
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 ...
Integration Testing ASP.NET Core WebApi
If you’re a decent .NET developer and lucky enough to work in a good team then most of your work would be unit testable. But there is always a case to write ...
openidconnect
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 ...
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...
security
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...
tokens
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 ...
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...
greg young
Event Sourcing Examined Part 1 of 3
In this 3 part series we will look at what event sourcing is and why enterprise software for many established industries use this pattern. Index Part On...
angularjs
REST + AngularJS Basics With .Net Core WebAPI CRUD Example
In this blog post I look at some basic examples of using AngularJs with Asp.Net WebApi.
netcore
REST + AngularJS Basics With .Net Core WebAPI CRUD Example
In this blog post I look at some basic examples of using AngularJs with Asp.Net WebApi.
rest
REST + AngularJS Basics With .Net Core WebAPI CRUD Example
In this blog post I look at some basic examples of using AngularJs with Asp.Net WebApi.
NimbleConfig
NimbleConfig - A Simple Config Injector For .Net
I recently started an open sourced project called NimbleConfig (hosted in GitHub). It is a simple, unambitious, convention-based configuration injector for ....
Open Source
NimbleConfig - A Simple Config Injector For .Net
I recently started an open sourced project called NimbleConfig (hosted in GitHub). It is a simple, unambitious, convention-based configuration injector for ....
ConfigInjector
NimbleConfig - A Simple Config Injector For .Net
I recently started an open sourced project called NimbleConfig (hosted in GitHub). It is a simple, unambitious, convention-based configuration injector for ....
mocking
Integration Testing ASP.NET Core WebApi
If you’re a decent .NET developer and lucky enough to work in a good team then most of your work would be unit testable. But there is always a case to write ...
open source
Mediator Pattern Implemented In .NET/C#
The mediator pattern or the “domain whisperer” as I like to call it has been around for a long time and the main selling point of it is the reduction of coup...
mediator
Mediator Pattern Implemented In .NET/C#
The mediator pattern or the “domain whisperer” as I like to call it has been around for a long time and the main selling point of it is the reduction of coup...
domain driven design
Mediator Pattern Implemented In .NET/C#
The mediator pattern or the “domain whisperer” as I like to call it has been around for a long time and the main selling point of it is the reduction of coup...
multi-tenant
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...
angular
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...
dddmelbourne
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 ...
authentication
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 ...
csrf
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 ...
controller
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....
endpoint
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....
pattern
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....
database
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...
migrations
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...
visual studio
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...
sql
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...
ndc
Not All “Microservices Frameworks” Are Made The Same - NDC Sydney 2020
Last October I spoke at NDC Sydney about the pitfalls associated with microservices frameworks and how you can still leverage libraries and runtimes to help ...
design-patterns
Object Capability Model And Mapping
Almost any type of software development work requires some sort mapping in the logic. Either from the persistence models to domain model or from the domain m...
software
Object Capability Model And Mapping
Almost any type of software development work requires some sort mapping in the logic. Either from the persistence models to domain model or from the domain m...
object-oriented-programming
Object Capability Model And Mapping
Almost any type of software development work requires some sort mapping in the logic. Either from the persistence models to domain model or from the domain m...
efcore
Going down the rabbit hole of EF Core and converting strings to dates
I am working on a greenfield project that uses EF Core 6 with AspNetCore 6 at the moment. The project involves exposing a set of legacy data through an API. ...
sql server
Going down the rabbit hole of EF Core and converting strings to dates
I am working on a greenfield project that uses EF Core 6 with AspNetCore 6 at the moment. The project involves exposing a set of legacy data through an API. ...
tracing
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
open telemetry
Propagating context and tracing across your distributed process boundaries using OpenTelemetry - API Days Australia 2021
I spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges I’ve faced. We are amidst the 2nd wave of cloud migratio...
devops
Lessons learned from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air and underwater - API Days Australia 2022
I recently spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges my team faced deploying and running them on the ...
edge
Lessons learned from doing EdgeDevOps (GitOps) in the bush, air and underwater - API Days Australia 2022
I recently spoke at API Days Australia about my experiences building distributed systems and some challenges my team faced deploying and running them on the ...
opentelemetry
Instrument MQTT based python messaging app using Open Telemetry
Some time back I did a bit of an intro to OpenTelemetry and in there I covered some basics like what Signals and Context Propagation are. I also spoke about ...
distributed-tracing
Instrument MQTT based python messaging app using Open Telemetry
Some time back I did a bit of an intro to OpenTelemetry and in there I covered some basics like what Signals and Context Propagation are. I also spoke about ...
python
Instrument MQTT based python messaging app using Open Telemetry
Some time back I did a bit of an intro to OpenTelemetry and in there I covered some basics like what Signals and Context Propagation are. I also spoke about ...
mqtt
Instrument MQTT based python messaging app using Open Telemetry
Some time back I did a bit of an intro to OpenTelemetry and in there I covered some basics like what Signals and Context Propagation are. I also spoke about ...