Posts

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.

It is strangely difficult to find an easy way to run Apache Kafka on Windows. This post explains how to do just that.

I found it challenging to find simple steps to get Kafka running and then use it with .NET. This post explains how to do both.

It used to be easier to pass arguments to an application being debugged in VS Code, but in some one of the updates this changed. Here’s how to get it working again.

CockroachDB and Postgres let you lock a row with a select if you intend to update it, but what if the transaction gets stuck and the row remains locked? The idle_in_transaction_session_timeout setting can help with this.

I recently wanted to find the command I had run to start a Docker container, it is not as easy as it should be!

With CockroachDB and Postgres, combining the SELECT FOR UPDATE and SKIP LOCKED statements can help you handle concurrent access to the same table.