Category: Amazon Elastic Container Service

When modernizing legacy ASP.NET Web Forms applications with tools such as AWS Transform, Blazor Server is often recommended as the target framework. With Blazor, you gain a familiar component-based programming model – but you also inherit a deployment challenge. Blazor Server maintains a persistent WebSocket connection and an in-memory circuit for each browser session, which […]

Multi-tenant SaaS providers often need to control which application version each tenant runs, a practice called per-tenant version pinning, so they can roll out new releases incrementally and move tenants between versions without downtime and manual changes. A common approach is to configure the Application Load Balancer with hostname-based routing rules, but this doesn’t scale. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]