codingsoul

Intuition and discipline, coding for my soul

build azure devops agents with linux & cloud init for dotnet development

The latest project that I am involved in made me do a lot of azure devops stuff. Beside the architectural and development tasks, building all pipelines including infrastructure provisioning was my part. Great stuff I anyway wanted to dig deeper. Let’s have a look what it means. The expectations The project is a web site […]

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multi-schema with EF Core 6.0 and default interface method stack overflow exception magic

Introduction Since I went to be a freelancer some months before, I am lucky enough to participate in a lot of interesting projects. The most recent one is about creating surveys. What’s the topic? A catalog of questions shall be configured. Questions can be hierarchical, rely on parent. Just one level. Questions are defined with […]

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How to work with Azure Service Bus efficiently, part 1

Introduction This is a small series of articles about how to work with Azure Service Bus. The code is written in .net core and .net standard. No fancy Python in place here! Part 1: (this one) Talk about the basics Part 2: Show the code Part 3: Has everything been recognized? Straighten out requirements I […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 5

Part 5: Final architecture & learnings This is the fourth of at six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. In recent article I described why it was not possible to create the docker container for OSISoft AKSDK lib and that is was not possible to leverage old-school Azure […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 4

Part 4: Going on with alternative deployment options This is the fourth of at six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. In recent article I described why it was not possible to create the docker container for OSISoft AKSDK lib and that is was not possible to leverage […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 3

Part 3: What about alternative deployment options? This is the third of six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. In recent article I described why it was not possible to create the docker container for OSISoft AKSDK lib. This article is about possible options to deploy old-school .net […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework, part 2

Part 2: Let’s go with containers This is the second of six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. This time it is about trying to create windows containers with a massive setup of a proprietary piece of software. Part 1: Analysis & Design Part 2: (this one) Let’s […]

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IoT architectures – automation stunts with .net framework.

Part 1: Analysis & Design This is the first of six articles about how an IoT project with certain constraints and prerequisites was implemented. I have to confess, I never spent so much time on different approaches how to implement a certain piece of software than on this. Part 1: (this one) Analysis & Design […]

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Scalable development teams : Why going the api first approach?

It is some time ago that I left my former company which work in Business Intelligence sector and has roughly 150 employees. I went to a much bigger company, which is quite international with roughly 54k employees. The business complexities and the pure count of topics are quite different than in small companies. Bigger companies, […]

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AutofacOnFunctions: New logging capabilities

After having released version 1 of AutofacOnFunctions some days ago, there are some new changes and a fitting new nuget package as well. Logging in Azure Functions When I started with Azure Functions I was concerned about many things. I did like the approach to be able to use attributes to trigger a function, a well […]

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