I’m excited to announce the release of my fourth course at Pluralsight – “Integration Testing ASP.NET Core Applications: Best Practices“. This latest course focuses on using the ASP.NET Core integration testing framework. Many developers will be familiar with the concepts of unit testing their applications. ASP.NET Core supports more in-depth end-to-end integration testing, with the […]
.NET on AWS: Introducing Docker ECS Integration
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. […]
.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 […]