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.NET MVC App: Adding New Relic APM, Synthetics, OpenTelemetry, GCP CloudTrace and more

.NET MVC App: Adding New Relic APM, Synthetics, OpenTelemetry, GCP CloudTrace and more

Published Aug 15, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Having created a new .NET 8 MVC app in the post earlier this week, it is time for us to instrument it.

.NET 8 MVC with GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL

.NET 8 MVC with GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL

Published Aug 13, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Sometimes I write a blog post to look into a new offering or tool and sometimes it’s to show an idea or process. But today is one of those, “This should not be this hard” type of learning posts.

Cachet in GCP

Cachet in GCP

Published Aug 8, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Last time we looked at Cachet running in a local Kubernetes and on Docker. Today we’ll build out a proper cloud-native solution in GCP using CloudRun, CloudSQL, and ALBs with CloudDNS.

OS Apps: Docmost and Cachet

OS Apps: Docmost and Cachet

Published Aug 6, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

Today we’ll take some time to look at two Open-Source applications that have been on my list; Cachet and Docmost. Docmost is an internal documentation suite - this is a bit like Docusaurus but jus...

OS Apps: Motivate, LOLCAT, Sniffnet, Xearth, TTE

OS Apps: Motivate, LOLCAT, Sniffnet, Xearth, TTE

Published Aug 1, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I had a few interesting apps and tools on the list to check out. A few of them, like lolcat, I heard mentioned on the Late Night Linux podcast which is one of my new favourite regular listens.

Backstage - I still don't like it

Backstage - I still don't like it

Published Jul 30, 2024 by Isaac Johnson

I really planned to try and find the love for Backstage - I did. Others clearly like it. I just cannot find a redeeming quality. Sure, when setup in IIS or Nginx manually by engineers, it does wo...

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