I know nothing (or very little) about Kubernetes. It is high time I do something to learn more about it. Kubernetes is a powerful tool for managing containerized applications, and it’s becoming a must-have skill for developers and DevOps engineers. In this blog, I’ll share my journey as a beginner exploring Kubernetes,...

What is OpenTelemetry? OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework that provides a unified way to collect, process, and export telemetry data such as traces, metrics, and logs. It is designed to help developers monitor and debug distributed systems by providing insights into application performance and...

.NET Aspire 9.2 is here, bringing exciting new features to simplify infrastructure visualization. Whether you’re managing microservices or exploring Docker-based architectures, this release makes it easier than ever to create detailed infrastructure diagrams with minimal effort. Let’s dive into the highlights and see...

Logs are a critical part of monitoring and debugging modern applications. By integrating OpenTelemetry logs with Grafana using Loki and Alloy, you can centralize your log data, making it easier to analyze and monitor your .NET applications. In this blog, I’ll walk you through the setup process and share how these tools...

Fun with AI AI tools like ChatGPT are evolving rapidly, and their creative capabilities are nothing short of amazing. Recently, I decided to test its image generation features with a fun and quirky prompt. The results? A personalized action figure concept that blew my mind! Let me walk you through the process and share...

Automating repetitive tasks is one of the best ways to save time and focus on what matters most. In this blog, I’ll show you how I used AI with .NET to automate the creation of social media posts for my blog. By leveraging my blog’s RSS feed, OpenAI, and Semantic Kernel, I was able to generate engaging posts...

Recently, I worked on merging two separate projects into one. Each project had its own Git repository, and I wanted to combine them into a single repository while preserving the commit history. Initially, I copied the code from one project, pasted it into the other, and committed the changes. If anyone needed...

I have been reading The Pragmatic Programmer and I have to say it is a fantastic book. It is full of great advice and tips for programmers. I highly recommend it to anyone who is a programmer at any level. Lots of the advice is common sense and things I already do, but there are also lots of things I know in the back...

While at NDC London I heard a great talk by Matt Burke about exceptions. I will share some of the points here. The talk was based in part on the blog post Vexing Exceptions by Eric Lippert. It defined four types of exceptions: Fatal Exceptions Boneheaded Exceptions Vexing Exceptions Exogenous Exceptions Fatal...

I was lucky enough to hear Mads Torgersen (The Lead Designer of the C# language) speak at NDC London about some of the plans the team has for the next version of C#. Many of these new features are in the preview stage, and can be enabled by using the c# preview flag in your csproj file. The C# team welcomes feedback on...