In this post, we’re going to explore the cause of a TimeZoneNotFoundException in a .NET Core application, running on .NET Core 3.0 in an Alpine Linux Docker container. TL;DR; The default Alpine Docker image does not include time zone data by default. This causes code which depends on this data to throw exceptions. If you […]
Health Checks with gRPC and ASP.NET Core 3.0
In this post, we will explore a couple of options to apply health checks to your gRPC server running on ASP.NET Core 3.0. Health checks are a common requirement. In particular, in containerised environments, they are required so that the container orchestrator and load balancers know which services are actually functioning. This post is part […]
gRPC Response Compression with ASP.NET Core 3.0
In this post, part of my gRPC with ASP.NET Core series, we’ll explore enabling response compression for gRPC services. NOTE: I’ll cover a few details about compression in this post which are from my early investigation into the options and techniques to configure calls. There may be more precise or more proficient approaches to accomplish […]
Server Streaming with gRPC and .NET Core
In this post, I want to focus on the implementation of server streaming and client consumption of the stream when using gRPC with .NET Core. The samples in this post are based on versions you can find in my complete demo application up on my gRPC Demos GitHub repository. As a bonus, we’ll make use […]
Using Configuration and Options in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Apps
This week, my second Pluralsight course, “Using Configuration and Options in .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Apps” was released. This new course dives deeply into the configuration and options extension libraries provided by Microsoft. These are a foundation of modern ASP.NET Core applications and support loading of configuration from many providers and sources. They can […]