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Developing Custom Processors using OpenTelemetry in .NET 8

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 […]

Modernize an existing Windows service to a .NET 8 gRPC service with Amazon ECS

Introduction gRPC is a high-performance, cross-platform Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework that allows for efficient communication between microservices. It was developed by Google and is now open-source. gRPC efficiently connects services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. For more information on gRPC, read the gRPC […]

.NET 8 Support on AWS

James Eastham, Norm Johanson, and Ulili Nhaga contributed to this post. Introduction .NET 8 is the latest Long Term Support (LTS) version of cross-platform .NET, released in November 2023. .NET 8 includes performance improvements, container enhancements, C# language simplified syntax, Blazor support for full-stack web applications, and ASP.NET Core partial support for Native Ahead of […]