Happy new year! Another year seems to have flown by incredibly quickly. I wanted to sit down and think back to some of the highlights from the past twelve months. 2019 was a hectic year for me and quite exhausting at times, but also extremely rewarding. In fact, now that I’ve thought back to everything […]
HttpClient Connection Pooling in .NET Core
It’s been some time since I produced a HttpClient related blog post. This one has been on my list to complete for quite a while. I want to cover something pretty important which happened in .NET Core 2.1 with regard to lifetime management of HTTP connections. TL;DR;HttpClient in .NET Core (since 2.1) performs connection pooling […]
High-Performance Logging in .NET Core
In this post I will explore and highlight an approach to logging which you can apply in high-performance, high load applications to reduce the overhead of logging. A Refresher of Logging in .NET Core Logging is a built in feature of ASP.NET Core and .NET Core Work Services. The feature is provided as part of […]
TimeZoneNotFoundException in Alpine Based Docker Images
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 […]