Cesar de la Torre

Best-in-class Microservices and Domain-Driven Design conference and workshops in the U.S.!! Explore DDD 2017 (Denver, September 19-22, 2017)

Cesar De la TorreJuly 27, 2017Jul 27, 201707/27/17

Explore DDD 2017 is a brand-new Domain-Driven Design (DDD)-centric conference, September 19-22 2017 at the Grand Hyatt hotel, in downtown Denver, Colorado, USA. I'm not directly related to this conference, but I wanted to provide some support/awareness because this type of quality events is fundamental for the development and software

Free eBook/Guide on ‘.NET Microservices – Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications’

Cesar De la TorreMay 10, 2017May 10, 201705/10/17

The microservices architecture is emerging as an important approach for distributed mission-critical applications. In a microservice-based architecture, the application is built on a collection of services that can be developed, tested, deployed, and versioned independently. In addition, enterprises are increasingly realizing cost savings, sol

Using Resilient Entity Framework Core Sql Connections and Transactions: Retries with Exponential Backoff

Cesar De la TorreMarch 26, 2017Mar 26, 201703/26/17

There are many possible approaches to implement retries logic with exponential backoff also depending on the context/protocol, etc. (Database connections, HTTP requests, etc.) Retries with exponential backoff is a technique that assumes failure by nature and attempts to retry the operation, with an exponentially increasing wait time, un

Using Domain Events within a .NET Core Microservice

Cesar De la TorreMarch 23, 2017Mar 23, 201703/23/17

This blog post is related to the previous blog post named “Domain Events vs. Integration Events in Domain-Driven Design and microservices architectures” : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cesardelatorre/2017/02/07/domain-events-vs-integration-events-in-domain-driven-design-and-microservices-architectures/ Since I’m writing content rel

Domain Events vs. Integration Events in Domain-Driven Design and microservices architectures

Cesar De la TorreFebruary 7, 2017Feb 7, 201702/7/17

This blog post is about comparing several approaches of Domain Events vs. Integration Events patterns already published by the community. I might evolve this post depending on feedback and some implementations we’ll be doing in the short/medium term. So, feel free to discuss about it with comments at the end of this post. I’m open to var

Comparing ASP.NET Core IoC container service lifetimes with Autofac IoC container instance scopes

Cesar De la TorreJanuary 26, 2017Jan 26, 201701/26/17

In ASP.NET Core you can use the simple built-in IoC container or you can also plug any other more advanced IoC container like Autofac. When plugin an external container like Autofac, you can still use ASP.NET Core methods like services.AddTransient<> or services.AddSingleton<> or you can also use the more granular methods in Autof

Booting Windows 10 natively from a .VHDX drive file

Cesar De la TorreJanuary 21, 2017Jan 21, 201701/21/17

This post is an update (using Windows 10 and a newer version of Convert-WindowsImage.ps1) of a similar post I had in my blog about booting natively from a .VHDX file: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cesardelatorre/2014/10/18/booting-windows-8-1-update-natively-from-a-vhdx-image/ I’m also publishing this for my own records and folks asking

Generating Swagger description metadata from your ASP.NET Core Web APIs with Swashbuckle

Cesar De la TorreDecember 5, 2016Dec 5, 201612/5/16

What is Swagger Swagger is a very much used open source framework backed by a large ecosystem of tools that helps you design, build, document, and consume your RESTful APIs. It is probably becoming as the main standard for this domain (APIs description metadata). The heart of Swagger is the Swagger Specification (API description metadata whi

Summary of Microsoft Docker Images for .NET Core and .NET Framework

Cesar De la TorreNovember 18, 2016Nov 18, 201611/18/16

Even when these official images are still evolving, I think that a summary about the multiple Microsoft Docker images for .NET available at Docker Hub would be a “nice to have” thing. This blog post is related to my previous blog post on “Docker containers – Should I use .NET Core or .NET Framework?”, however I’m drilling down her

Docker containers – Should I use .NET Core or .NET Framework?

Cesar De la TorreNovember 16, 2016Nov 16, 201611/16/16

The short answer is: “For Docker containers, use .NET Core whenever is possible”. But, below is a summary decision table depending on your architecture or application type and the server operating system you are targeting for your Docker containers. Take into account that if you are targeting Linux containers you will need Linux based D