In Azure pipelines you get one free Microsoft hosted CI/CD with 1,800 minutes of build time. It is quite common that development teams run out of free build minutes prior to the next billing cycle. You could always check your consumed minutes by navigating to Settings → Parallel Jobs from…

In C#, keywords can be reserved or contextual. As the name suggests a reserved keyword can’t be used as an identifier. A list of reserved keywords are listed below. Did you know using the prefix @ one could use a reserved keyword as an identifier. See code block below: int if = 123; // Illegal int @if = 123; // Legal IMHO, using reserved keywords in the codebase is a very bad idea. Reserved words are reserved for a reason, and doing this does decrease readability.

In this post, let’s discuss about .Net Core feature management libraries. It is also called feature toggles or feature switches. These libraries support the implementation of feature flags in a .Net/ASP.NET Core project. Let’s discuss the benefits of using feature management libraries and different approaches to enable/disable features. Benefits of…

Initiating a Linux VM on Azure is pretty straight forward. There are just a handful of steps that requires to be executed. First thing first, make sure you have an Azure account, logged in all ready for some action. Locate resource group in the dashboard (which appears when logged in)…

In order to understand and work with ECS it’s important to get to know other services it associates with. AWS Auto Scaling Group, AWS Elastic Load Balancer and AWS Virtual Private cloud are such services. …

You could leverage on the security, durability, availability and scalability by hosting it on S3. In 7 steps you could easily configure the bucket for website hosting and upload the content of your static website. Create a Bucket with the desired website host-name ex: TheHungryFatCoder Upload the static flies to the bucket. Make all files public. Ex: images, .html files etc. Enable static website hosting for Bucket. Includes specifying an index and error file.

S3 or Simple Storage Service, is one of the first services introduced by AWS. S3 and Glacier, is the core object storage in AWS. It provides a secure, durable and highly scalable cloud storage and consist of a simple web-service interface where it can be used to store or retrieve…

EC2 or Elastic Compute Cloud, is Amazons primary webservice that provides reliable compute capacity on the cloud. Compute means the amount of computation power required by your workload. You could acquire compute by launching virtual servers, and these are called Instance. When you launch an instance, you could use the…

There’s no right or wrong answer in selecting either technologies. Each has its own pros and cons. Following are a summary of when and where you should be using either technologies. .Net Core Its modularity and lightweight properties makes .Net Core ideal for containers. Further, it is smaller when compared…