A blog about my coding adventures
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
Introduction Softwares, once you strip away all the layers of abstraction, is really just a big pile of numbers. In fact, even those numbers are abstractions for bunch of electrons moving around. We partly human beings are just incapable of thinking about software in those terms however. Reality is just too complicated. We have to … Read more
What is Agile? It is the ability to create and respond to change. Agile Manifesto Agile is applied by working in accordance with the agile manifesto and the 12 principles behind it What is Scrum Scrum is a simple framework for effective team collaboration on complex software projects (agility). Scrum is defined completely in the … Read more
Introduction Over the years I’ve been in various discussions regarding benefits of clean architecture, best practices, techniques such as code reviews, unit tests etc. and I think on some degree most of us are aligned on the reasons behind it. Having a clean architecture or code-base not only makes your development team happier, but it … Read more
Introduction I’ve previously written about various AWS services and how using serverless offerings results in great development experience, reduce management overhead and applications can benefit from various out-of-the-box features such as high-availability, performance and cost optimization. Today, we will see a simple workflow to port an existing .NET core application which was designed to run … Read more
Introduction The composite design pattern generalize a hierarchical structure. It helps deal with tree structure of information. This make things easier for clients due to uniform way to work with individual items and for collections. Lets start by stating that composite is not composition (composition is another useful software design approach. Decorator pattern utilizes composition). … Read more
Introduction The decorator pattern is a structural design pattern which allows you to dynamically add functionality to classes without modifying the target class. It does this by creating a wrapper around the original class, which gives you an extension point to inject in new behavior. It allows you to maintain a strong separation of concerns … Read more
Introduction Git-flow is a very popular workflow to utilize git branching in an efficient manner. The original post can be found on this link and today I’ll try to summarize and provide a very high level overview for easy reference. In a nutshell GitFlow is based on centralized distribution model. Every developer can push to … Read more
Introduction In previous posts on Kubernetes basics, We learned that Kubernetes is all about running containerized apps. A Kubernetes cluster consists of masters and nodes which we can manage through an API using kubectl command line tool. We also learned that Pods are the smallest deployable unit in Kubernetes API and Pod hosts the container(s). … Read more
Introduction Most people (including myself) start out writing JavaScript code by adding function after function into a .js or HTML file. This can get job done but same time can quickly get out of control when working with a lot of code. Without having proper structure, maintaining such code bases, can be a nightmare and … Read more