Automating dependency updates across projects and repositories to boost productivity and ensure consistent builds

Dear Reader, Identified a recurring pain point where team members spent hours every sprint manually updating third-party dependencies across 5+ Git repositories with 5–15 projects each. Recognized the task as repetitive, low-value, and a drain on developer time and morale. Developed a one-click Azure DevOps Pipeline solution integrating dotnet-outdated-tool and npm-check-updates to automate patch version updates. Significantly reduced manual effort, freeing...

Exporting Cloud CosmosDB data to Local JSON

Dear Reader, I wanted to export cosmosDB from cloud to local JSON file. So i started googling, chatgpt etc. but where ever i look at; every blog, articles etc. were talking about Exporting JSON to cosmosDB. So i had to do a reverse engineering with a guess work to make it work. Although its very...

Easy shift left; API & Performance tests with Karate and Perfiz on Windows

This post discusses the technological considerations and challenges faced while implementing testing strategies for a project with a tech stack of Angular, ASP.NET Core Web API, and CosmosDB. The author explores various tools for API, UI, and performance testing, ultimately highlighting the effectiveness of Karate for API testing and Perfiz for performance testing, especially in left-shifting techniques. While the Perfiz tool presents good features and ease of use, it is important to note its limitations on Windows hosts. The author also showcases scenarios and comparisons to other testing tools, ultimately encouraging input and feedback from readers.

Dapr Service Communication and Secret Store Integration: Overcoming Hurdles on Local

The article discusses the author's experience implementing Dapr in a project, highlighting challenges faced with Dapr YAML configuration and integrating the secret store. It also mentions the limitations of .NET SDK for non-dapr endpoints.

Dockerfile for Windows image

Dear Reader, For one my requirement; i had to experiment if i could run, build a pure windows based (.NET 4.7.X) based console application in a windows image based container (Windows server core); which runs along with a asp net core application. First part was to find an image which is readily available out of...

PowerBi connecting Azure Postgres with Private Link/Endpoint

Its been a while; since i blogged! Was wondering lately what new i could publish.. voila! Was facing some problem and managed to find a fix! 🙂 This is with Azure Database. In our infra; we have setup an Azure database (postgres flexible server) with private endpoint and an Express Route for On-Prem connectivity. For...

#Azure #Appinsights, privatelink, subnet delegation issues #cloud #cloudcomputing #security

Dear Reader, Context: We have various resources in a resource group viz. AppServices, AppInsights, Database, NSG, Vnet, keyvault, etc. For each of the appservice, we have associated an Appinsights to it. This is done to get complete insights about our application behavior. Everything was working normally for a while (around an year and a half)....

One step closer to Sprint delivery confidence

Dear Reader, Disclaimer: I am no subject matter expert Sharing my thoughts Yet to discuss with experts on the subject and course correct Off late; i started to have thoughts on how to gain more confidence on the sprint delivery based on the planned user stories; given the underlying fact on capability of the team...

Nuget package install error “Could not find a part of path” in Visual Studio

Dear Reader, Off late i was observing this issue occurring to me and few of my colleagues in team whenever we tried to install nuget package from Visual studio 2022 Enterprise "Manage Nuget packages" view. If the nuget package name is bit lengthy or its a pre-release; then comes the problem. The error we mostly...

Azure Webapp with Custom Email provider

Dear Reader, Recently as part of my project task, i had to do a POC for which i had to send emails via our own company provided SMTP service. When i started searching on google, many of them pointed out to using Mailkit library for .NET Core projects due to its cross-platform nature. There are...