Today I’ve got a little bit of time to learn about some of the basics of Azure Architecture. Here’s how I got on! What is Azure Architecture? Azure architecture is the process of creating, deploying, operating and managing cloud based applications. It’s important to have good architecture so that your application is scalable, resilient…

I’m looking into virtual networks in preparation for an Azure course I’m attending soon. See my previous article here where I learnt the basics on networking. Here’s what I learnt today about traffic routing. The goal of today is to understand how Azure routes traffic between Azure, on premises and…

I will shortly be doing an Azure administrator course that I think might need some prior knowledge on networking. I’m not too familiar with networking so have a bit of time today to try and get up to speed. What is a network? A network is two or more computers that are linked together…

Key strategic and tactical considerations to take when building a new product with the domain-driven design concepts in mind — I have just finished reading Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov. It’s quite a short book (c. 300 pages) aiming to teach beginners all about domain-driven design. I wanted to check I understood the concepts in the book by trying to put them into practise. I hope you will learn…

Visual Studio 2019 introduced a new feature called Solution Filters — the idea behind it is to speed up the loading of the solution if you’re not going to be using the whole thing. If you are only going to be using files in a few of the projects of…

Putting my learnings into practice — I have been reading the Clean Architecture book by Uncle Bob. I thought I would check I understood everything correctly by creating a mini project using clean architecture principles. This is how I got on. What is clean architecture? Here is a diagram showing how clean architecture works:

I am trying to understand all the YAML code we have in our solution for deploying to Kubernetes. I’ve got three hours today, here’s what I learnt. What is a Kubernetes object? A Kubernetes object represents how you would like your cluster to behave in Kubernetes — it describes which applications are running, the resources…

I started to watch the Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners — Hands-on course in Udemy. Here are the main take-aways from the “overview” part of the course in simple terms. What is a container? Containers provide a way to package and deliver applications so that they can be run very quickly with no set…

This post explores at a simple level the theory behind the mediator design pattern and examples of when it is used in practice. What is a design pattern? Design patterns are general and reusable solutions used to solve software problems. They are templates for solving problems which can be used in lots of different cases. What is the mediator design pattern? …