I’m currently architecting and building a new microservices based system at work. A priority of mine has been to learn from the experience of building our first microservices project by putting a greater focus on logging and monitoring. We freely acknowledge that we didn’t get this as good as we would have liked in our […]
Author: Steve Gordon
Steve Gordon is a Pluralsight author, 7x Microsoft MVP, and a .NET engineer at Elastic where he maintains the .NET APM agent and related libraries. Steve is passionate about community and all things .NET related, having worked with ASP.NET for over 21 years.
Steve enjoys sharing his knowledge through his blog, in videos and by presenting talks at user groups and conferences. Steve is excited to participate in the active .NET community and founded .NET South East, a .NET Meetup group based in Brighton. He enjoys contributing to and maintaining OSS projects. You can find Steve on most social media platforms as @stevejgordon
HttpClientFactory in ASP.NET Core 2.1 (Part 4) Integrating with Polly for transient fault handling
In the previous post in this series, I introduced the concept of outgoing middleware using DelegatingHandlers registered with named and typed clients. While that approach is available, the ASP.NET team hope that for most scenarios, we won’t need to resort to manually building our own handlers. In some cases, the built-in features of the library […]
.NET South East – May Event New speakers night.
It’s been a while since I last got around to blogging about a .NET South East meetup event. I wanted to make sure I did this month as the plan for this week’s event was close to my heart. I had the idea back in December / January to try and organise a night for […]
ASP.NET Core Dependency Injection – Registering Implementations Using Delegates Using the delegate implementation factory extension methods with Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection
If you find the information in this post useful and want to learn more about dependency injection, may I suggest viewing my new course on Pluralsight – “Dependency Injection in ASP.NET Core“? I dive deeply the Microsoft D.I. container and how to use all of its features in your applications. Today I want to continue […]
Contributing to the Microsoft ASP.NET Documentation My experience of writing for docs.microsoft.com
Back in February I spotted an issue on the ASP.NET Core Docs repository. The issue was a requirement for new documentation about the IHttpClientFactory feature being added in ASP.NET Core 2.1. I’d been following the work on IHttpClientFactory for a while and had written a couple of posts about the functionality based on the nightly builds. […]