Last week I read about a new Docker ECS Integration experience, and it piqued my interest. I immediately put it onto my list of things to try out and experiment with. After spending an hour or so with the tooling over the weekend, my early impression is that this CLI feature might be quite useful. […]
Author: Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon is a Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight author, senior developer and community lead based in Brighton. He works for Madgex developing and supporting their data products built using .NET Core technologies. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 15 years.
Steve is currently developing cloud-native services, using .NET Core, ASP.NET Core and Docker. He enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to be a part of the .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects, most actively helping save lives with open source software and the Humanitarian Toolbox (www.htbox.org). You can find Steve online at his blog www.stevejgordon.co.uk and on Twitter as @stevejgordon
.NET on AWS: Pushing a .NET Docker Image to Amazon ECR
In this post, I’ll introduce Amazon ECR and explain how to use it as a registry of Docker images, ready to run your .NET applications in the cloud. In future posts, we’ll learn more about the options for running your .NET applications containers on AWS. This post serves as an update and continuation of an […]
Deep Dive: How is the ASP.NET Core Middleware Pipeline Built?
If you’ve ever used ASP.NET Core, then you’ll likely be familiar with the Startup class. This class, by convention, includes at least one method named Configure. Often, a ConfigureServices method is also included and used to register services with the Microsoft dependency injection container, but this isn’t an absolute requirement. The configure method is where […]
Architecting a Cloud-Native Service with .NET and AWS
At Madgex, we are currently building out v6 of our world-leading job board software. With v6, we are breaking the monolith and applying a microservices architecture. This architecture supports rapid growth of our platform, the introduction of new features, and the adoption of the latest technologies such as .NET Core 3.1, Vue.JS and GraphQL. This […]
Credential Loading and the AWS SDK for .NET (Deep Dive)
In this post, I want to dive into how the AWS SDK for .NET attempts to load credentials for any service clients which you use in your applications. I’m going to focus specifically on .NET Core applications, where the SDK client(s) are resolved from the dependency injection (DI) container. However, the steps are relatively consistent, […]