When working in a Microservices architecture where you have many services all doing small tasks and features, it can be difficult to troubleshoot and debug in upper environments. This is why logging and especially centralized logging becomes critical. ELK There are several frameworks and systems to make this work, but the ELK stack is a …
Intro I was reading the other day while enjoying some quiet time post Christmas (AWS, Spring Boot, Java) and came across something that I didn’t know existed and wanted to share. I’m sure veteran Java programmers know this but coming from C#, I was totally unaware. What is a Covariant Return Type? Simply put, it …
I made a switch recently in my professional life. I’ve been doing some for of C# and Microsoft development since about 2005 with sprinklings in of Objective-C, Swift and JavaScript/Node.js but C# has always been my primary backend, get things done language. However, I recently took a new role back fully dedicated to Healthcare and …
So you’ve got some data you think fits on a time series? Think about data that has significance when aggregated or viewed in relation to the time in which the measure was recorded. Like your health metrics. Or like the location of an asset. Or the temperature of your refrigerator. All of those bits are …
So you’ve finished your API, it’s awesome. Does everything you expect it to do, you’ve got great unit and integration tests to cover a percentage that makes you happy and handles exceptions and resource management flawlessly. Let’s go a step further and say that your API solves a really useful problem that would necessitate someone …
I’m always curious when looking at running software what all it took to put that experience together. Never from a place to second guess one’s decisions but more just curiosity and this little game in my head where I try to deconstruct the solution all they way down to tools, frameworks and environments that were …
Continuing my way through some of the AWS services I’ve been consuming lately, so let’s pick up with SES (Simple Email Service). Thousands of providers to do this just like any other quality service but again, cost, ease and already being in embedded with other PaaS components made this a strong contender when I was …
SNS is AWS’ Pub/Sub engine that does a great job for handling large volumes of messages and then being able hook them into the various subscribers that you might have whether that be an HTTP endpoint, SQS, SMS or a Lambda Function. In the case for this post, I’ll show you an approach for wrapping …
Something might be out there like this already but I recently found myself needing to not only validate a model that has been posted or put into an API but also be able to easily roll up those validation errors and ship them back. I know there are lots of ways to accomplish this but …
Seems straightforward right? And it is. The only missing piece is that your API doesn’t know what to do when a form body comes across as “Content-Type”: “text/plain” Have no fear, dotnet core has a class named InputTextFormatter that is a base class for TextInputFormatter which has derived classes for working with JSON and XML. …