You need to store data, but you don’t have a vast schema. You need to fetch your data in a split second, and you don’t need referential integrity or transactions. You require a super stable and scalable datastore, but you don’t have the personnel to manage a DBMS. You need to persist data, but youContinue reading “Developing .NET apps with Amazon DynamoDB”
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Securing .NET App Secrets with AWS Secrets Manager
Similar to AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, AWS Secrets Manager allows for storing, managing, and reclaiming OAuth tokens, database credentials, API keys, and other secrets. However, there are big differences between the two AWS services. AWS Secrets Manager was created for storing confidential data like passwords and secrets so encryption of the stored data isContinue reading “Securing .NET App Secrets with AWS Secrets Manager”
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”
Running ASP.NET Minimal APIs with Docker
ASP.NET combined with the .NET CLI is a powerful combination. In a matter of seconds the CLI can generate a templated API application. Add on top of that a new controller class and you’ve started to develop your new API. This seems simple enough, right? If you’ve been in the ASP.NET biz for a while,Continue reading “Running ASP.NET Minimal APIs with Docker”
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”
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