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  • Migrating Azure SQL Database to Amazon Aurora

    I recently got an opportunity to work on migrating Azure SQL Database to Amazon Aurora. Well, it was not technically a migration since our platform needed to support both Azure SQL and Amazon Aurora. The motivation behind this is perhaps a separate post in itself. For those who have not worked on either of these…

  • Azure SQL to Cosmos DB – Lesson Learnt

    We are currently working on a greenfield project which involves building several microservices on Azure. One of our primary services had Azure SQL as its data source originally. But, midway during the development, we decided to switch Cosmos DB instead. One of the main motivations for this switch was that it was too hard to…

  • Migrating Dotnet Foundation website to ASP.NET Core 3.0

    I recently migrated the Dotnet Foundation website, https://dotnetfoundation.org/ to ASP.NET Core 3.0. The site was initially built on ASP.NET Core 2.1 and I found this as a good learning opportunity. Migrating from ASP.NET Core 2.1 to  2.2 I had initially raised PR to migrate from ASP.NET Core 2.1 to 2.2 instead of directly going to…

  • Sending message from Azure Functions to NServiceBus receiver

    NServiceBus is one of the most widely used service bus in .NET World. It offers features like high performance, scalability, automatic retries, auditing and so-on. NService has an out-of-box support for MSMQ, RabbitMQ, Sql Server, Azure Service Bus, etc. Our organization uses NServiceBus for messaging and workflow. We use Azure Service Bus in test/production and…

  • Productivity Tip – Improve your Visual Studio performance with ReSharper

    Visual Studio is my bread and butter. It has played an important role in shaping my career. In the same breath, ReSharper has helped a lot to improve my productivity and make me a better programmer. And I’m sure there are many others like me who use Visual Studio and ReSharper on a daily basis.

  • C# dynamic – A friend you may want to keep a distance

    Recently, after one of my PRs which was merged to master, my teammates started complaining about a weird scenario. On some occasions, the ASP.NET Core app hosted inside the IIS worker process (w3wp.exe), would simply die without any exception/ warning. There were no clear retro-steps and it was difficult to pinpoint what was causing the…

  • SAST Tooling – Part 3: The Winner

    Disclaimer: This post is not an endorsement or opposition of any product or tool. Opinions present here is based on our experiences. Please exercise your own independent skill and judgement before you rely on the information in this post. 🙂 This is Part-3 and final part of my blog series on Static Analysis Software Testing…

  • SAST Tooling – Part 2: The selection criteria

    Disclaimer: This post is not an endorsement or opposition of any product or tool. Opinions present here is based on our experiences. Please exercise your own independent skill and judgement before you rely on the information in this post. 🙂 This is Part-2 of my blog series on Static Analysis Software Testing (SAST) tooling. In…

  • SAST Tooling – Part 1: Why we ditched Veracode

    This post is Part-1 of multi-part series describing our journey to ditch popular Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tool Veracode and our quest for a better security tool. Background Until recently, our organization used Veracode for security analysis for few our applications. Veracode came with a lot of reputation. It is considered a leader in…

  • My first major Open Source contribution

    Without a doubt Open Source is great. It has touched the lives of millions of developers and through them almost everyone living on this planet someway or the other. The magic of Open Source For all the power Open Source has given to developers, the sad reality is that only very few people are actually…

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