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Gökhan Gökalp
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ASP.NET Core Series 06: Monitor the Health of Your Applications by Implementing Health Checks and Azure Application Insights
I think the “health of our applications” topic has always been an important and common concern for all of us regardless of the architectural approach. As we know, to make our applications health status visible or to learn it in easy way minimizes the risk of application in many situations. Especially if our applications are […]
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Getting Started with Clean Architecture using ASP.NET Core – 02
If you haven’t read the first part of this article, you can reach it from here for better understanding of the subject. In this second part of this article, I will mention about the minimal implementation of the clean architecture concept with .NET Core. As an example, we will develop a simple API which we […]
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Playing with Service Mesh – Linkerd and Azure Kubernetes Service
As we know, Microsoft launched many innovations this year at Barcelona KubeCon. I think one of the great was SMI(Service Mesh Interface). As far as I understand, I can say that for the definition of SMI, it provides “interoperability” topic between service meshes just as AMQP. In essence, it offers a standard interface for service […]
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Behavior Driven Development with .NET Core and Visual Studio for Mac
Let’s assume an agile development team, from Developer to Product Owner, from Scrum Master to Stake Holder, all of them working collaboratively on product development. Sounds great, doesn’t it? But unfortunately, this is not always 100% possible. So, today we will talk about Behavior Driven Development. Within the scope of this article, we will refresh […]
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Distributed Tracing with OpenTracing API of .NET Core Applications on Kubernetes
Distributed tracing is a great method in order to be able to address and monitor where we have a performance problem in our applications that we designed as microservice architecture. In other words, it is a necessary method in order to get some answers such as which request go where, how much time do a […]
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Logging API Requests and Responses to GrayLog over Azure API Management using Azure Functions
As you know, one of the most basic features that nearly every backend application must have is logging of requests and responses. Especially in environments where multi API usage is concerned, it is a basic feature that switches from “nice-to-have” state to “must-have” state. Because, there may be a time, that we need to be […]
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Sentiment Analysis on Product Comments Using .NET Core and Azure Text Analytics API
For a while I have been researching and trying on “Machine Learning” and “Natural Language Processing” topics. During my researches and tries, I also think about how and where I can implement these topics in the domain I am in. (At the end of the day, to see the nice impacts of an idea, which […]
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ASP.NET Core Series 04: Building Serverless API Backend on Kubernetes
Nowadays with the increasing use of cloud-based systems, serverless architecture is a great concept that has been talking a lot about itself over the last a year. In today’s age while technology evolving and changing rapidly, sometimes all we need is just a function, especially when the “time to market” term is important. So, in […]
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Globalization in ASP.NET Core MVC and Elasticsearch
In today’s technological age, companies can sell their products to people in different cities through e-commerce websites. The topic of “globalization” is important for companies who want to sell their products in a wider area and sell them in different countries. In this arcticle, I will try to describe how we can provide globalization in […]
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ASP.NET Core Series 03: Containerizing a RESTful API and Deploying to Kubernetes Using Azure Container Service
Hi, all! We have developed a RESTful API in the previous ASP.NET Core blog post series, and then we deployed that to the Azure App Services. In this blog post series, I’ll try to mention how we can containerize a RESTful API, and then how we can deploy it to Kubernetes using Azure Container Service, based my experience in […]
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ASP.NET Core Series 01: Building RESTful API with Dapper and Deploy to Azure App Services
Hi, guys. Actually, I was thinking about writing some articles about ASP.NET Core, but I couldn’t find enough time. These days, I’m working on ASP.NET Core for certain uses, for example how to easily do dockerizing. Therefore, I will write some articles on ASP.NET Core. In this article, we will build a lightweight RESTful API with ASP.NET Core. […]
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