Category: Compute

Among others, the insurance industry is embracing the benefits of cloud-focused serverless computing services to run code without the overhead of provisioning or managing servers. Moving on-premises .NET Web APIs to such destinations come with a broad range of considerations. This blog post provides a return of experience from AXA Belgium’s engineering team and their […]

GraphQL APIs enables clients to request specific data sets, reducing over-fetching compared to traditional REST APIs, which return fixed data structures with unnecessary fields. Unlike REST APIs that require multiple endpoints and round trips to gather related data, GraphQL provides a single endpoint. This enables clients to fetch exactly what they need in one request, improving […]

Introduction This post covers the architecture and components of a modern .NET serverless application, demonstrating implementation patterns for authentication, data storage, image processing, and API management that showcase the optimization benefits of this architecture. AWS serverless architecture provides improved scalability, cost-efficiency, and reduced operational overhead. Part 1 of this series focused on initial setup and […]

Introduction Bob’s Used Books is an eCommerce application developed to provide the .NET community with a real world .NET application sample that uses multiple AWS frameworks and services. The original monolithic version of Bob’s Used Books was discussed in a previous blog series, Bob’s Used Books: A .NET Sample Application (Part1, Part2 and Part3), with […]

AWS recently added AWS Lambda SnapStart support for .NET Lambda functions to deliver faster function startup performance, from several seconds to as low as sub-second, typically with minimal or no code changes. This post explores techniques to maximize the performance gains of SnapStart for several different types of .NET workloads. For a high-level overview and […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk provides deployment and management capabilities for web applications and services. The Elastic Beanstalk service handles operational tasks including load balancing, scaling, and monitoring while users focus on their application code. Elastic Beanstalk allows applications to access configuration data through key-value pairs in environment properties. However, this approach has certain limitations – environment […]

Introduction In the ever developing landscape of modern software development, observability has emerged as a crucial aspect of building and maintaining robust applications. OpenTelemetry, a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, provides a vendor-neutral set of APIs, libraries, and tools for generating and managing telemetry data, including metrics, logs, and traces. One of the powerful […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services incredibly easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll walk through setting up a continuous integration and deployment pipeline for an ASP.NET Core application, using Azure DevOps, Amazon Simple […]

AWS Elastic Beanstalk makes deploying, managing, and scaling .NET web applications on Amazon Web Services easy. This powerful service is available to anyone developing or hosting .NET apps on IIS. In this post, I’ll demonstrate how to set up a continuous deployment pipeline to Elastic Beanstalk directly from GitHub using GitHub Actions. With just a […]

Introduction Production deployments can be complicated. You want to avoid disruption to your users and minimize downtime, but you also need to consider cost, time, risk, and how to recover from a failed deployment. You can balance the trade-offs between these considerations by choosing a deployment strategy. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a managed AWS compute […]