Managing Technical Debt in Software

There are many posts and articles that expound the virtues of paying back the tech debt and philosophise at great lengths about the various design patterns that can improve the design of the code. In this post I’d like to tackle the more pragmatic and real life aspects around tech debt from my perspective.

Recovering from Aurora Database Failovers and MySql Connection Pooling

Recently a planned AWS Aurora database failover/master reboot caused database connection failures in one of our services which caused me to delve deeper into how MySql driver manages connections under the hood.

Monitoring Health of Azure App Service Applications using Azure Functions

Monitoring the health of your application in production is a crucial aspect of software development because at any given point in time, you want to be reasonably certain about how your business critical application is performing and you want to be alerted to any problems that might be brewing up in the application before your customers do.

Implementing Pipes & Filters Architectural Style With Azure WebJobs

…the whole business process can be divided into smaller asynchronous sub-processes with each one feeding i.e. “piping” its output into the input of the subsequent process(es). At each stage some processing is done for e.g. data enriching, filtering etc and this processing generically is termed as a “filter”.

Using DispatchProxy for Centralised Structured Logging in ASP.NET Core

The way logging and instrumentation in code has traditionally been done is something like the below, say, I want to profile my application service method called “PeriodCloseReportAsync()” that gets called … Continue reading Using DispatchProxy for Centralised Structured Logging in ASP.NET Core

Using Serverless Functions to Build a Microservices Architecture

Seeing as micro-service architectures are all the rage these days, I decided to dip into it by building…

JWT Token Authentication with Cookies in ASP.NET Core

In this post I will show one way to mix JWT Token authentication with cookie authentication using ASP.NET Core and send out the JWT in a response cookie.

Dynamically Mapping Tenant Requests to Tenant Databases in Multi-Tenant Web Applications

In a multi-tenant environment the application database is usually partitioned by tenants. This is done to achieve isolation and scalability. The problem of course is how do you route tenant requests to the correct databases?

Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 3 (Repository Design)

In part 2, I talked about my domain modeling thought process so this post is about trying to persist those objects for long term storage. Although the avenue for different … Continue reading Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 3 (Repository Design)

Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 5 (ASP.NET Core App)

In part 4, I detailed the way I went about creating application services for my expense tracking application. In this final post, I will talk about the ASP.NET Core MVC … Continue reading Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 5 (ASP.NET Core App)

Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 4 (Application Services)

Application services can be loosely compared with the business logic layer of the yesteryear with one key difference, application services don’t actually contain any business logic neither they enforce any business logic.

Building Domain Driven Architecture in .NET – Part 2 (Domain Modeling)

In this post, I will be going over the domain modeling in a bit more detail in terms of its design and show my thought process and the decisions I made and why I made them.