Docker

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.

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

It’s not a problem to use Postgres C# and .NET. You can also use Entity Framework.

A simple example of running Postgres in Docker with a password set, and a port exposed.

This post shows how to use a Dockerfile to start CockroachDB in single user mode.

Simple post on how to start CockroachDB in single user mode on Docker.

I love using Docker when developing software, but installing it on Linux is not as simple as I had hoped. If you have hit the error “docker-desktop : Depends: docker-ce-cli but it is not installable” then this post is for you.

Getting Memcached running with a .NET Console application took a little longer than expected. If you are trying to do the same this might save you half an hour of messing about with constructor parameters.