Russ Hammett

Holy moly it’s been a while. Time for some more Orleans goodness, hopefully? Caches! ...

The package I wrote about in this post is now a part of the OrleansContrib organization! This is a...

With the publishing of Orleans.SyncWork, I’ve had the opportunity to explore GitHub actions - which...

I’ve been talking about the idea of long running, CPU bound, synchronous work for a long time. Now,...

One of the folks over at NDepend reached out to me to provide a license for their product; let’s do...

In a previous post I talked about using variable for keeping NuGet packages across multiple projects;...

All right! It’s been a minute! Tamperproof cookies, I needed one, it’s pretty simple after thinking...

The decorator pattern is a structural design pattern that can be used to add functionality to classes...

Previously I wrote about creating Health Checks for Microsoft Orleans, but the JSON response was too...

Health Checks are a means of seeing how a system is running at the time of performing the check....

My notes about trying to get started with React. I’m mostly a backend-dev. The bit of front-end dev...

In the last post we started talking about mTLS. In the post I pointed out that the client cert’s...

Pretty sure everyone at this point knows what TLS is, but what about mTLS? How is it different from...

The builder is a creational pattern that can be used to construct “more complex” objects, without...

Working with the IHostBuilder introduced to .netcore has been an overall pleasant experience… until I...

The factory is a creational pattern that can be used to retrieve instances of objects, without having...

The strategy pattern is one of the first patterns I learned, and it leads into at least one other pat...

I’ve been having problems prioritizing my (limited) free time at home. There are ...

Setting up a blanket CORS for .net core 3 is pretty simple, figuring out how to test it took longer t...

Attempting to get involved with a nonprofit organization MAGIC. They use a lot of Python, so here’s...

It’s been many years since I’ve done anything substantial with Java. I’d like to ...

Exploring how to use merged config files for setting up a “local” vs “prod” workflow in Hexo. Dave...

Greetings from Hexo and a markdown file! Lately I’ve been thinking a bit about why I’ve been...

Getting started on MongoDb with .NET Core Photo by rawpixel on Unspl...

Microsoft Orleans — My first podcast interview! I was recently inter...

Microsoft Orleans — Dashboard Update — CPU/Memory Stats Quick update...

Docker — writing a smaller image with multi stage builds for. NET core...

Microsoft Orleans — Observers Photo by Freddy Marschall on Unsplash ...

Database in c#— how does I do again? Photo by Kevin Ku on Unsplash ...

Microsoft Orleans — Easily switching between “development” and “produc...