This is the second article in a series where I plan to go over on how to avoid 24×7 support in your organization, be sure to read the first post where I talk about what you should be logging in the first place.
Let me start with stating that inheritance is not bad, in fact frankly I’m in love with it and use it a lot, but using it in the wrong places is like deciding to ride a motorbike in heavy snow with a warning of a tsunami triggered by an earthquake which is just refusing to…
Sounds simple, but not necessarily done correctly always. In this article I will talk about the following (try not to skip stuff): What should be in every log line What should you be logging at a high level Must have application feature for logging Monitoring and alert mechanisms so that you don’t have people staring…
Choosing an EC2 Instance Hey guys, in this post I am going to talk about what all to think about before choosing an EC2 instance for whatever work load that you have for it to do. The Basics Ok, if you are new to cloud, the first thought that comes to mind is something akin…
Multi-Tenancy / Global Filters in Entity Framework In this article I am going to describe a method to add global filters in Entity framework. The version I used for this example is 6.1 What does it do? Imagine that you have a multi-tenant database i.e. in a single database you have data for multiple tenants.…
What is SSL termination? SSL termination is the term pointing to proxy servers or load balancers which accepts SSL/TLS connections however do not use the same while connecting to the back end servers. E.g. A load balancer exposed to the internet might accept HTTPS at port 443 but connects to backend servers via HTTP only.…
What The “dynamic” keyword was first introduced in C# 4.0. It is used something like this: Using this you can even return anonymous .Net types (see the “When” section before you actually do this in production code): In the above code note that anonymous types are internal to an assembly, this means that if you…
Setting up scaling can be dead simple or heavily complicated, chances are that if you’ve agreed with any of those statements, you are doing something wrong! Scaling an application effectively has many facets and it usually starts with the application itself, a devops or a developer can’t do this alone. In this post I’m going…
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