Learning F#: How to make a snake game in the console
My favorite way to learn new things is by diving headfirst into a concept and start hacking away! The classic mobile game Snake should be a good challenge for a beginner F# developer.…
My favorite way to learn new things is by diving headfirst into a concept and start hacking away! The classic mobile game Snake should be a good challenge for a beginner F# developer.…
There's no built-in way to log SSL data with Azure Application Insights. APIs for SSL analytics exist and that data could be sent in with the "Azure Monitor HTTP Data Collector API".…
A pivotal moment in the history of an application is when a service changes drastically and deployment becomes a subject of stress and uncertainty. The service might be deemed as unhealthy in a production environment whereas it worked just fine in the test environment.…
Changes in software are inevitable. Every part - even the most permanent - of a system might change at some point. The issuers of JWT tokens in your identity server is an example of such a part. When we look at an openid configuration one can find various information about…
While on a company outing with NOVACARE to a nearby arcade pub, I came across a table with a built-in arcade system. I thought to myself that this would make a great piece of furniture in my house. I already own a Raspberry pi 3 and I have a spare…
Regression testing for mobile apps can be tough. The wide array of phones and OS versions makes testing for mobile applications a time consuming and tedious task. Luckily, tools like BrowserStack and Appium exist to make our lives a bit easier. App Automate is a product made by BrowserStack and…
HTTP/2 is upon us. Lazy-loading resources doesn't have the same performance disadvantages as in HTTP/1. This allows us to prefer loading many files on demand rather than loading a big blob of JavaScript on the initial load. Let's look at a pattern that simplifies…
Following the exciting release of .NET Core 3.0, I was expecting that our services would handle the upgrade from 2.2 to 3.0 with ease. After the upgrade, however, the services sometimes responded with "Unhealthy" and a 503 status code! The connection was not closed. The…
It's not always easy to tell what is happening inside a kubernetes cluster. There are many alternatives like prometheus that can do alerting and monitoring for you. However by using AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) you get a lot of Azure tools included. Most prominently the centralized logging with…
In Novacare, we utilize Application Insights [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview] to monitor our applications. Application Insights uses a query language called Kusto Query Language [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/kusto/query/] (KQL for short). Sometimes it's hard to know what data to…