Serilog with AWS Cloudwatch on Ubuntu Few weeks ago we saw How to configure Serilog to work with different environment. At the end of the post, we saw briefly how to get the structured logs synced to Cloudwatch. Today we will explore the configuration in [...]

HttpClientFactory in ASP NET Core 2.1 ASP.NET Core 2.1 ships with a factory for HttpClient called HttpclientFactory. This factory allows us to no longer care about the lifecycle of the HttpClient by leaving it to the framework. Today we will see few ways [...]

So I’ve been trying to keep my development skills somewhat sharp by working on coding up certain data structures in C#.  Course I’d rather do this with F# or even some more interesting FP language (Elm anyone?) but I do have a need to be able to show this[...]

I started writing a blog post about versioning in July 2017. I’ve mostly abandoned it, because I think the topic is too vast for a single post. It potentially needs a whole site/wiki/repository devoted to it. I hope to come back to it at some point, becau[...]

Hashicorp Vault behind IIS Last week I talked about Hashicorp Vault and how it could be used to store secrets. Today I will continue on the same line and show how we can host Vault behind IIS and use what we learnt in the previous post to retrieve secrets[...]

WebSharper 4.1.6 has F# query on the client and net4x builds not depending on netstandard

Background There are three things you need to know to start with: Operations on read-only variables which are value types copy the variable value first. I’ve written about this before on this blog. C# 7.2 addresses this by introducing the readonly modifie[...]

Tutorial for instantiating a WebSharper site and configuring it to run on AWS Lambda

WebSharper 4.2-beta adds support for .NET Core and compiler configuration via json

WebSharper 4.1.6 has enhancements for bundle projects and bug fixes