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It seems none of the Docker images of Kafka have sufficient instructions to run the container, and access it from the host computer. Here I show how to get bitnami/kafka working.

There are times when it is necessary to use handwritten SQL with Entity Framework Core. In this post I should how to do that, and to mix it with the usual fluent statements.

Here’s an example of seeding a database with a lot of data using Entity Framework. It avoids slowdowns, timeouts, and using excess memory.

I’m glad that FoxIt PDF reader is available for Linux, but I was disappointed that the Typewriter tool doesn’t have a black color option, here is a way to change it manually.

Getting Confluent Kafka working in Linux is not as easy as in Windows, but it can be done.

Simple example showing how to download a file using HttpClient and GetStreamAsync.

If you are running Microsoft SQL Server locally in Docker, when you connect to it you might get an error - The remote certificate was rejected by the provided RemoteCertificateValidationCallback. Here is how to fix it.

I always forget how to do this, so I’m writing it down.

Simple example of using MassTransit with a single producer and single consumer.

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.