Many organizations set up VPC in the cloud for security. When you set up the VPC, there are only limited number of IP addresses based on the CIDR range defined…
Author: derek.pfister
AWS Step functions are a very powerful tool that can help any team leverage AWS. When the AWS team developed step functions, they were really trying to replicate a way…
A common scenario in cloud computing is an AWS serverless lambda function reading or writing from a serverless storage, namely S3. If you are using a lambda to connect to…
Terraform is a fantastic infrastructure as code tool that is cloud agnostic. Cloud-agnostic means that much of the same terraform scripts can be run on AWS cloud as well as…
In designing a service, there is often a question of how many methods and how granular you want to go. There is a risk of making the interface too complex,…
The async/await operators have been around for some time (since C# 5.0, introduced in 2012) and have been of substantial use. A question about their use arises however: Why aren’t…
Recently I have been working a lot with Microsoft Application Insights. As a tool for application logging, I have found it to be very robust. The KQL language, while slightly…
I have decided to switch hosting providers and start my blog fresh. I hope you like the WordPress theme I choose. Yes, I have gone back to WordPress from MediaWiki….
On Saturday, November 10th, 2019, my hosting provider was the victim of an atrocious ransomware attack. It took me until today, Wednesday November 13th, to get my blog back up…
There are certain tools that make the transition to a true micro service architecture more doable and beneficial. One of these tools is Azure service fabric. The developers of Service…