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I had a bit of spare time yesterday between customer meetings and wanted to do some coding. I’ve been hearing about Microsoft Orleans a lot on twitter and even found this Microsoft Learn module that shows you how to build your first Orleans app with ASP.NET Core 6.0. I’m a fan of distributed systems and frameworks, so I’ve wanted to get my head around Orleans for a while. For those of you who may not know, Orleans is a cross-platform framework that you can use to build distributed applications in .NET. These apps span more that just a single process using peer-to-peer communication. Orleans can scale from a single lonely on-prem server to globally distributed applications running in the cloud. It can run anywhere .NET can, including Linux, Windows and macOS. ...

Azure Container Apps is a serverless container platform that we can use to run microservices and containerized applications without having to worry about managing complex infrastructure and container orchestrations. In this video, I introduce the key concepts and features of Azure Container Apps and go through a demo on how you can create a simple Container App using Bicep. If you have any question about this video or Azure Container Apps in general, feel free to comment below or reach out to me on Twitter. ...

Back in 2020, I wrote an article on how you can build a simple streaming app using Azure Functions, Event Hubs and Azure Cosmos DB. I’ve been meaning to update some old samples that I created while I was an MVP, so the long weekend seemed like a good time to update this one. Again, this is a relatively simple sample that I’ve created here. Previously, I developed all of this locally and created all my Azure resources via the portal. In this post, we’ll be doing things a little differently. In this article we will: ...

Azure Service Bus is a message broker that we can use to send messages to queues or publish messages to topics so that consumers can subscribe to those topics to receive those messages. In the article, I’ll explain what the differences are between queues and topics in Azure Service Bus, how we can provision Service Bus namespaces with either queues or topics using Bicep and then I’ll show you how we can send and receives messages from our queue or topic. ...

In Azure, Managed Identities provide our Azure resources with an identity within Azure Active Directory. We can use this identity to authenticate with any service in Azure that supports Azure AD authentication without having to manage credentials. In Azure Cosmos DB, we can use managed identities to provide resources with the roles and permissions required to perform actions on our data (depending on what role we provide the identity) without having to use any connection strings or access keys to do so. ...