Two words you will very likely be used to hearing quite often within our community at the moment are “microservices” and “Docker”. Both are topics of great interest and are generating excitement for developers and architects. In this new series of blog posts I want to cover Docker, what it is, why it might be […]
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
ASP.NET Core Correlation IDs Writing a basic middleware library to enable correlation IDs on ASP.NET Core
On a recent project we needed to implement the concept of correlation IDs across some ASP.NET Core API services. In our scenario we have an API service called from a front end JavaScript application which will then call one or more secondary back end API services to gather data. This is becoming a pretty common […]
Getting started with ASP.NET Core 2.0 Preview 1 A quick tour of the main structural changes
At Microsoft Build 2017 yesterday, the formal announcement of ASP.NET Core 2.0 and .NET Core 2.0 was made. ASP.NET Core 2.0 preview announcement .NET Core 2.0 preview announcement For me it was no surprise that we were close with these announcements as I keep an eye on the ASP.NET Core repositories on GitHub where there have […]
ASP.NET Core Anatomy (Part 4) – Invoking the MVC Middleware Dissecting and understanding the internals of ASP.NET Core
In the first three parts of this series I looked at what happens when we call AddMvcCore, AddMvc and UseMvc as part of the application startup. Once the MVC services and middleware have been registered in our ASP.NET Core application, MVC is now available to handle HTTP requests. In this post I want to cover the […]
Things I’ve Learnt This Week (9th April)
Things I’ve Polled I started a short poll on Twitter, as I was curious to see how many people had already migrated from project.json to csproj. I had 84 votes and the breakdown was as follows. 68% All done – csproj for me 21% Not yet – In planning 11% Don’t plan to move yet […]