Category: Management Tools

Introduction Log analysis helps you maintain reliable applications by identifying issues, troubleshooting problems, and gaining operational insights. Traditional log analysis struggles with unstructured data and requires hours of manual work to extract meaningful patterns. Generative AI transforms this process by automatically identifying anomalies, understanding context, and surfacing specific recommendations without complex configuration. In this post, […]

Loading configurations and secrets in .NET applications is a common practice. However, it comes with challenges in storing and accessing them securely and dynamically, without the need for application restart. AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provides a centralized solution for storing and managing configurations and secrets data. This blog post explores an advanced approach to […]

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 […]

Microservice architectures, while modular and scalable, introduce complexity in observability due to the distributed nature of services. This often leads to a proliferation of inter-service communication paths and dependencies. It is not uncommon for solutions to have microservices interacting with each other, native cloud services, and partner solutions. In distributed microservice architectures, developers face the […]

Introduction Welcome to the second post in the Bob’s Used Books blog post series. In the first post I discussed how to get started with Bob’s Used Books and described the different debug and deployment modes you can use to test and run the application. In this post I will dive into the architecture of […]

Introduction The best sample applications are simple to understand, but have enough complexity to demonstrate real-world usage. Our new open-source .NET sample application, Bob’s Used Books, provides the .NET community with a simple but real-world .NET application that leverages multiple AWS frameworks and services. Bob’s Used Books is a simple eCommerce application that sells fictional […]

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that lets you pass events between AWS services, your applications, and third party services, helping you to build event-driven applications. It implements the publisher/subscriber (pub/sub) pattern, where publishers emit events, and subscribers receive them. As of this writing, over 150 AWS services generate EventBridge events. For example, you […]