You can easily build a chat application using SignalR in a couple of hours, however if you want to scale it to serve millions of your customers, more thoughts need to go into your solution to handle workload, security, and extensibility. In this post, I will cover how to build…

How we uplifted our .NET APIs & React application performance by 60% and reduced the cost of our application by around 50%. This is a full guide on our journey for performance improvement and cost reduction. Background When we released the first version of our platform, we had terrible performance in…

A list of frequently used commands to manage OpenSSL, Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, Git, Helm, and .NET OpenSSL CSR: Generate a CSR used to issue a certificate openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout private-key-file.key -out csr-file.csr Self-Signed Cert: Generate a cert along with a new private key openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout key-file.pem -x509 -days 365 -out certificate-file.pem Cert: Review existing certificate information

As our software evolves, it becomes more important to have an architecture capable of handling a growing customer base and increasing complexity ideally designed in a way that won’t repeat mistakes of the past such as tightly coupled codebases and a monolithic database. To that end, it matters how we…

Setting up Kubernetes in production while implementing cloud-native best practices could be a journey for some enterprise products as it involves DNS, Ingress, Secret and Config Management, Automated Pipelines and a few other elements. In this post, I cover all the main building blocks along with detailed implementation steps to…

Standing up one isolated container on Minikube is easy, but when it comes to setting up a multi-container enterprise application with all the secret and config management, it could take some of your time. …

Managing multi-container applications could become tedious when each container has a range of parameters and environment variables to start up. Docker-compose helps us with that process as it orchestrates management of these containers with just one command. In this guide I will use docker-compose to manage four .NET …

When it comes to ready to use software foundations, there are a few solutions in the market with different feature-set and capabilities. Although some provide out of the box functionalities, they are however just another framework which you have to build and customise your solutions on top. Pellerex however is…

Containerising React Apps can be a bit tricky, specially if you want to stick to the principle of building your Docker images once for all environments instead of building them multiple times for each environment due to the varying environment configurations. This is a complete walk-through of the process along…