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AWS ECS Fargate – Deploy and Run Multi-Container Web Application (.NET Core, Angular, Postgres)

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Introduction With AWS Fargate, we can run applications without managing servers. Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers. In previous post, we covered basics of AWS Fargate and took a step by step approach to deploy and run a .NET Core Web API application on AWS Fargate Service. We used AWS Fargate web console … Read more

AWS Fargate – Deploy and Run Web Application (.NET Core)

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Introduction With AWS Fargate, we can run applications without managing servers. Fargate is a serverless compute engine for containers that works with both Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS. The official information page can be visited on this link. In this post, we will take a step by step approach to deploy and run a .NET … Read more

A simple Web Socket Based Application – .NET Core and Angular

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Introduction WebSocket is bi-directional, full duplex client/server communication protocol, available within browsers. You can check more details and the browsers support on this link. In this post, we’ll build a very simple WebSocket based client/server application. This shall help you to get started with this technology. Basic Setup Following is the basic setup diagram In … Read more

OpenAPI in .NET Core

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Introduction Correct API documentation is essential. Documentation can be generated from an OpenAPI specification. An OpenAPI specification describes the capabilities of our API, and how to interact with it. It’s standardized, and in JSON or YAML format. What is Swagger OpenAPI specifications and Swagger specifications are the same thing. Swagger is a set of Open … Read more

.NET on AWS – Queuing with SQS (Part-3)

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Introduction In previous posts, we learned the basics of AWS Queue and how to publish messages to it from a .NET web-api application. Today our focus will be the Consumer part of the application. Following is solution design we are working towards throughout this series. To consume the messages produced from our web-api application, the … Read more

.NET on AWS – Queuing with SQS (Part-2)

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Introduction In previous post, we started with basics of Amazon SQS, typical use cases and need for queuing mechanism in a solution. We then discussed how our .NET applications can benefit from this managed service for offloading tasks to some background processes. We also setup an SQS Queue and installed related NuGet package in our … Read more

.NET on AWS – Queuing with SQS (Part-1)

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Introduction Queuing mechanism is very common for software applications. Its very handy in offloading the tasks from main application to background processes and typically used in building decoupled distributed systems. Amazon SQS works on a process of clients sending messages to the queue and the consumers polling messages from the queue and processing those. Typical … Read more

.NET on AWS – Persisting Application Data to S3 (Part-2)

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Introduction In previous post, we discussed AWS S3 service and its various use cases. We then setup an AWS S3 bucket with configurations and access for our web application data storage requirements. We created a .NET6 WebAPI project and some basic wiring/configuration to allow our application to access S3. However, we still have to write … Read more

Building and Deploying a SignalR Chat Application – Part 3

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Introduction In previous few posts, We’ve been building a simple chat application and today we’ll see how to deploy it so people can start using it. Previous posts can be accessed from the following links All the source code is available from GitHub repository (signalrchat branch). Now there are many different hosting solutions available for us. Based … Read more

Building and Deploying a SignalR Chat Application – Part 2

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Introduction In previous post we discussed the frontend component of SignalR chat application. Today our focus will be on the backend side of the application. Previous posts can be accessed from the following links All the source code is available from GitHub repository (signalrchat branch). you can also check the deployed application on https://signalrchat.awsclouddemos.com/ Recap Following picture from … Read more