Setup HTTPS with Nginx on Azure Ubuntu VM Today we will see how we can setup HTTPS on using Certbot Nginx configuration on an Azure Ubuntu VM. This post will be composed of three steps: Prepare the VM Install Nginx Install Certbot 1. Prepare the VM We start first by creating an Azure VM on Ubuntu 18.04 with either password or SSH and allowing HTTP, HTTPS, SSH. Once done, we can select a custom

Moving from chaining to piping in rxjs 6.x Last month I updated all my NPM packages and realised that everything was broken! The reason why was that rxjs decided to move out of extensions on observable in favor of pipable functions from 5.x to 6.x. A major breaking change where majority if not all codebase built using rxjs needs to be changed. Today we will explore the reasoning behind this

Entity Framework Core Performance Optimization Last year I talked about Entity Framework Core. It is a easy and feature rich ORM which makes working with database in a .NET environment typesafe. But even though it makes things easy, there are ambiguous cases which can take us off guard. Today we will see four of this cases and how to deal with them. Client evaluation Iteration Include and

Create a Navigation loading bar for Angular with PrimeNG In Angular, it is common practice to execute commands prior routing a page using guards and resolvers. Guards prevent the routing from occuring until the condition turns to true and resolvers prevent the routing from occuring until the data is returned. Those actions can take time to complete and during the time being, the component will

Monitor Upstream Response Time with Nginx and CloudWatch Last week we saw how we could Setup CloudWatch to push logs from our application to CloudWatch. Apart from the application logs, another type of logs that is worth looking into are the access logs from Nginx. Nginx being the entrypoint of the application, every traffic in and out goes through it and today we will see how we can leverage its