NOTE: This content is now quite out of date. The implementation described below is now available in .NET Core by deriving from the BackgroundService class. I cover this topic in detail in my new course on Pluralsight – “Building ASP.NET Core Hosted Services and .NET Core Worker Services“. Update 30-08-2017: ASP.NET Core 2.0.0 is now […]
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 7) Setting up Amazon EC2 Container Registry
In the previous part of this series I have discussed the reasons behind our decision to use Docker to run our product in production, using it to build and deploy images onto Amazon ECS. The next parts of this series will focus in on how we have achieved that and demonstrate how you can set […]
Announcing .NET South East A new Brighton based .NET User Group
It’s been an exciting few weeks for me recently. First I was accepted to talk at two conferences in September, then our latest product at work went live, then I got a promotion at work and now I’ve decided to start a new .NET user group in Brighton which is call .NET South East. The […]
Speaking at Progressive .NET Tutorials 2017
Back in early May I was listening to a .NET Rocks episode when Carl and Richard mention a conference called Progressive .NET Tutorials that they would be attending in London. I’m a big believer in attending conferences as I find that it’s to be a great way to learn new skills and network with similarly […]
Docker for .NET Developers (Part 6) Using Docker for Build and Continuous Deployment
In part 3 I discussed one of the first motivations which led our team to begin using Docker. That motivation was focused on making the workflow for our front end developers quicker and simpler. In this post I want to explore a second motivation which led to us fully embrace Docker on our project. Just […]