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Transforming a monolithic application to a micro-services oriented architecture – Part 4 – Stack for the monolith

We have created the base stack, now let’s consider our monolithic application that it is actually a micro-service, so let’s deploy it to our previously created infrastructure. After all the base ...

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Transforming a monolithic application to a micro-services oriented architecture – Part 3 – AWS CloudFormation Stack

In this article, I am going to explain how to setup a base stack for Amazon Cloud Formation service. This stack will create several shared resources needed for deploying docker containers on Windows Server 2016...

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Transforming a monolithic application to a micro-services oriented architecture – Part 2 – Move to Docker

Now that I have presented how we used to do deploys, the next step is to move our current application to be hosted into Docker. First thing first, we have updated QA and STAGE servers to Windows Server 2016 ...

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Transforming a monolithic application to a micro-services oriented architecture – Part 1 – The Monolith

In this article I am going to present to you how our current infrastructure was looking like. Beside presenting it, I will also share with you scripts and code that we used to use. At this moment we have a b...

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Transforming a monolithic application to a micro-services oriented architecture – Introduction

You may change your big and cool application to micro-services for a lot of reasons. This article is not about why switching our applications to a micro-services oriented architecture, but on how we chose to do...

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Transform a monolithic SOA application to a micro-services based one

We started to move a monolithic service oriented architecture(SOA) application towards micro-services and our first goal is to use container-based solutions for delivering our cloud services.As it is the most c...

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Implement plugins in .NET using the Managed Extensibility Framework(MEF)

Overview MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) was used for the plugin implementation. A description of how the plugin system works is given below with information on both the MEF and our own implementa...

event
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Event Publishing and Subscribing with ActiveMQ and M2MQTT

Event Publishing/Subscribing The event publishing and subscribing mechanism was introduced for several reasons: To allow the communication between our current applications hosted in separate servers (web ...

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Building dynamic filters for queries using LINQ to SQL

The main technical issue that we have to solve: how to request filtered data from a Business Service Layer(BSL) that uses WCF. Building dynamic filters for queries was raised as an issue to allow a better filte...

quartz
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Using Quartz.NET to implement a background worker in a cloud system

Quartz.NET is a full-featured, open source job scheduling system that can be used from smallest apps to large scale enterprise systems (http://quartznet.sourceforge.net). It is a part of the open source Java jo...