Create a .NET AWS Lambda Function with an HTTPS Endpoint

Get all the code on GitHub. AWS Lambda, the popular AWS service, has been the solution behind many microservices. Some even argue that AWS Lambda enabled the microservice trend over the last five to seven years. And, the serverless/AWS Lambda trend does not show any signs of slowing down. Even with its popularity, there wasContinue reading “Create a .NET AWS Lambda Function with an HTTPS Endpoint”

Encrypting Data in .NET apps Using AWS Key Management Service

Get all the code on GitHub. Let’s be honest, cryptography can be a dense and intimidating topic for most. When contemplating your cryptography strategy, there are so many questions that need to be answered: symmetric or asymmetric encryption? Which algorithm should you use? What will the key management story be? etc. — etc…. Utilizing aContinue reading “Encrypting Data in .NET apps Using AWS Key Management Service”

How to use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as a .NET Configuration Provider

Many changes were made to configuration in .NET Core. Long gone are the days where you have few configuration options. In .NET, there are now out of the box options for INI,  JSON, XML, command-line arguments, in-memory stores, environment variables and key-per-file, et al. And, if those options weren’t enough, you can still develop your ownContinue reading “How to use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store as a .NET Configuration Provider”

Getting Started with Elasticsearch, Amazon OpenSearch, NEST and .NET

You click the button and you can’t believe what your eyes see — data. But, not just data, lots of data and that data was returned in a blink of an eye. It seems to good to be true, and it would be if the data was fetched from an average SQL based database. But,Continue reading “Getting Started with Elasticsearch, Amazon OpenSearch, NEST and .NET”

How to Implement the Pub/Sub Pattern with .NET, Amazon SNS and CloudEvents

There is no shortage of technologies that allow for building pub-sub messaging systems. Off the cuff, I can think of NServiceBus, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, MassTransit, etc. However, Amazon Simple Notification Service or SNS, may be the easiest to implement as well as the most flexible solution.   What Exactly is the Pub-Sub Pattern? In essence, the pub-subContinue reading “How to Implement the Pub/Sub Pattern with .NET, Amazon SNS and CloudEvents”

Create an SQS Queue and an SNS Topic and Subscription using the AWS CLI

AWS gives engineers many ways to accomplish many tasks. Here we will look at creating both a Simple Notification Service topic as well as a Simple Queue Service queue and then creating an SNS subscription “linking” the two. All the while, we will exclusively use the AWS CLI to accomplish the task. This exercise couldContinue reading “Create an SQS Queue and an SNS Topic and Subscription using the AWS CLI”

How to Create a .NET Docker Container in Six Easy Steps

Over the last few years, containers and Docker have gone from buzzwords to industry standards in software development. Even though Docker and containers are now mainstays in software development, many developers are still confused and even intimidated by the tech. This tutorial aims to simplify these concepts and demonstrate how easy it can be toContinue reading “How to Create a .NET Docker Container in Six Easy Steps”

Create a Simple .NET Application to Consume an Amazon SQS Queue

This is a multipart series on Interapplication Messaging with .NET and AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS). Checkout all the tutorials in the series. Simple Interapplication Messaging with .NET and AWS Simple Queue ServiceCreate an AWS SQS Queue from the ConsoleCreating a Simple .NET AWS SQS Message Producer ApplicationCreate a Simple .NET Application to Consume anContinue reading “Create a Simple .NET Application to Consume an Amazon SQS Queue”

Creating a Simple .NET Amazon SQS Message Producer Application

This is a multipart series on Interapplication Messaging with .NET and AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS). Checkout all articles in the series. Simple Interapplication Messaging with .NET and AWS Simple Queue ServiceCreate an AWS SQS Queue from the ConsoleCreating a Simple .NET AWS SQS Message Producer ApplicationCreate a Simple .NET Application to Consume an AWSContinue reading “Creating a Simple .NET Amazon SQS Message Producer Application”

Simple Interapplication Messaging with .NET and Amazon Simple Queue Service

Amazon Simple Queue Service, a.k.a. SQS, is a message queuing service that allows for building loosely coupled applications and services and features high availability and nearly unlimited throughput. In this series of tutorial, we will create and configure an SQS queue and then develop .NET Core producer and consumer applications that send messages and receiveContinue reading “Simple Interapplication Messaging with .NET and Amazon Simple Queue Service”