Service Fabric placement constraints and cluster planning : Virtual Clusters

by Thurupathan

Introduction This article explains how to achieve a right service placement strategy and Service Fabric (SF) cluster capacity planning. I have written this post as a continuation of this previous article. Continuing the previous article allows me to extend the same contextual problem and find solutions. According to the previous article, we should place WFE … Continue reading Service Fabric placement constraints and cluster planning : Virtual Clusters

Book : Practical Azure Application Development

by Thurupathan

Cloud computing has proven its ability, to be the baseline element of  digital transformation. Out of different the cloud delivery models public, private and hybrid, public cloud plays a significant role in digital transformation across all the industries, enabling the businesses to deliver and innovate at speed. Many enterprises start their cloud journey with IaaS with … Continue reading Book : Practical Azure Application Development

Service Communication and Cluster Setup in Service Fabric

by Thurupathan

Planning the service communication and the cluster setup is one of the important items we should do when developing on Service Fabric (SF). In this article I have tried my best to stick to the minimalist options in setting up the cluster whilst sufficient details by eliminating the common doubts. The motive behind this research … Continue reading Service Communication and Cluster Setup in Service Fabric

Dependency Validation Diagrams do not work in ASP.NET Core / .NET Core

by Thurupathan

Introduction Dependency validation helps to keep the code architecture clean and rules enforced. The video below gives a quick introduction to the dependency validation in Visual Studio. Recently a friend, asked about enforcing constraints in a project architecture, I explained this to him. But I haven’t used it any of my previous projects (we’re good … Continue reading Dependency Validation Diagrams do not work in ASP.NET Core / .NET Core

Deep dive into Azure Cosmos Db Change Feed

by Thurupathan

Azure Cosmos Db has an impressive feature called ‘Change feed’. It enables capturing the changes in the data (inserts and updates) and provides an unified API to access those captured change events. The change event data feed can be used as an event source in the applications.  You can read about the overview of this feature … Continue reading Deep dive into Azure Cosmos Db Change Feed

Buzz Engineering

by Thurupathan

Disclaimer: This is not a post to discourage your next new thing, in fact as developers and technology decisions makers, we all have our own perils and survival dependency in Buzz engineering. But it is good to understand things, since there is an increasing noise around high technology churn and failures. So, what is Buzz … Continue reading Buzz Engineering

Thick API Gateways

by Thurupathan

I came across the term ‘Overambitious API Gateways’ from Thought Works tech radar. The point is, whether is it good or bad to have business logic in the API Gateways? Since the term Gateway is not a functional requirement and serves the purpose of a reverse proxy; it is quite obvious that including business logic … Continue reading Thick API Gateways