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Martyn Coupland
08 September 2020

Cloud Native for IT Pros: Architecture Patterns

When it comes to the cloud, building scalable, secure, and reliable applications is key. I wrote this post with the cloud in mind, the same principles can apply to any system. So first, let’s look at the key challenges when developing in the cloud.

Martyn Coupland
08 September 2020

Creating a CDN Helper in Dot Net Core

Creating a custom helper is easier than you would think. So to keep things easy for us, we are going to use the configuration file appsettings.json to store the base path to our CDN. This will make it easier to change our root without having to update the whole of our application.

Martyn Coupland
03 September 2020

Cloud Native for IT Pros: Introduction

There is a medieval French phrase, the modern form of this is “Rome ne s’est pas faite en un jour”. Translated that means “Rome wasn’t built in a day”. It’s an adage attesting to the need for time to create great things. One of the things I commonly hear from IT Pros is the sheer amount of technology in play. How distributed it all is and how hard it is to learn if you don’t have a software engineering background.