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The Consume method of the Kafka Confluent library for C# is synchronous, this post shows you how to use it in a non-blocking way.

Here is a simple way to use local NuGet packages to build applications when you are offline.

This post shows you how to use a synchronous call in a background service without blocking the application or other background services.

It’s not immediately obvious how you can share data between background services. In this post, I show ways of achieving this.

Simple instructions for updating Docker Desktop on Ubuntu.

In my previous post I showed how to run a single instance of a Web API application in Kubernetes using Minikube. In this post, I will show you how to deploy the same application, but this time there will be 3 instances of the application, with a load balancer routing traffic to each of the instances.

Getting started with .NET and Kubernetes is far from easy. This post and subsequent will hopefully get you going with the basics by building and deploying a simple Web API application first as a single instance. In a later post, I will look at deploying multiple instances.

It’s not obvious how to get the operating system your C# application is running, but it can be done with a single line of code.

I didn’t realize until recently that I wouldn’t be able to build a container image of my application while offline. Because only my code was changing, I didn’t think Docker would need to make internet requests, but it does. With some digging I figured out how to work offline.

Using Kafka to broadcast a message to all instances of an application seems to be a less common use case than using Kafka to send a message to one of many instances of an application. But broadcasting is easy to do with a single change to the consumer.