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Building gRPC Services with .NET Core 3.1
Where I actually use gRPC: backend service-to-service in a Kubernetes cluster, where I control both ends and want strong typing across language boundaries.…
.NET Core
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Secure Secret Management with Azure Key Vault in .NET
A confession to start: I've shipped connection strings in appsettings.json more times than I'm proud of. The reasons are always the same — "it's only dev"…
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Building a Microsoft Teams Bot with Bot Framework
My honest advice for anyone starting a Teams bot project: get the simplest possible echo bot deployed end-to-end first — local code → channel registration →…
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Working with Azure Cosmos DB SDK v3 for .NET
SDK v3 has been out for about a year now and I've finally migrated all the Cosmos work I had on v2. The migration was less painful than I expected — the API…
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Getting Started with Azure Functions v3 and .NET Core 3.1
A lot of the work landing on my desk this year has been "we suddenly need this in the cloud, and we needed it last week." Azure Functions on .NET Core 3.1…