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Authentication is inherently a complex topic to understand and implement in our applications. So, generally, we avoid writing the logic from scratch and opt for an off-the-shelf solution. Firebase, the cloud solution from Google, provides an authentication service...
Firebase is Google's backend-as-a-service platform, and .NET talks to it through the Google Cloud client libraries: Google.Cloud.Firestore for the document database, Google.Cloud.Storage.V1 for file storage, with a service-account JSON file for authentication. It is...
Microservices are a common design pattern nowadays in software applications. Moreover, we usually have some sort of API Gateway, such as Ocelot, to provide a single API for consumers of our microservices and encapsulate underlying implementation details and handle...
Most applications that are developed nowadays usually involve interacting with non-trivial amounts of data, so we need to provide functionality for sorting and filtering in our applications. Moreover, speed and load times are increasingly important, so we don't want...
When building applications, we try to avoid being tightly coupled to any given third-party service/library, making it harder to switch this implementation with another in the future should the need arise. When working with OpenTelemetry in our applications, we can use...
One of the most well-known debugging tools for developers is undoubtedly application logging, which allows us to record timestamped information about the current state of our application. In the OpenTelemetry project, logs are the third and final pillar of...
The ability to gather metrics for our .NET applications is very important, as it allows us to gain insight into the health and performance, as well as any issues our applications may be experiencing. Metrics are one of the 3 fundamental pillars of OpenTelemetry, and...
One of the fundamental concepts in the OpenTelemetry project is the ability to observe end-to-end requests through our applications, which is known as tracing. We achieve this by adding custom code to our .NET applications to emit this tracing information, which we...
Rebus is a lightweight, MIT-licensed service bus for .NET. We publish a typed message, implement IHandleMessages<T> to receive it, and Rebus takes care of the exchanges, queues, retries, and the error queue. It sits between our code and a broker such as...
Being able to debug our applications in an efficient manner is a very important aspect when it comes to designing and building applications. In a world of microservices, it becomes harder and harder to reason about our applications and where the source of a bug or...