Docker

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.

There are times when firing off the same query in parallel to two or more data stores is a good choice, but normally hitting one, waiting for the response, and only hitting the second if necessary is a better approach. Here I’ll show how to query Redis, and if the key is missing, query MS SQL.