I’ve been talking about the idea of long running, CPU bound, synchronous work for a long time. Now, I’ve finally taken the time to build it out into a NuGet package! Been talking about it for years at this point. Between my other posts on Orleans, or that one time…

Updated hexo to the latest version, trying out a new post! I went through updating hexo to the latest version, under the hopes some of the weird code highlighting issues would be fixed. Example:

Blogging through medium hasn’t exactly been a cash cow, but so far it’s been much more lucrative than blog.kritner.com, in that I’ve never been paid for the latter! Most of my posts come from my daily job, either prep from stuff I’m doing, planning on doing, or have done; In…

In a previous post I talked about using variable for keeping NuGet packages across multiple projects; now there is a (potentially) better way. In the previous post, it was demonstrated how to utilize “repository wide” variables located in a Directory.Build.props folder. …

All right! It’s been a minute! Tamperproof cookies, I needed one, it’s pretty simple after thinking it through. I feel like I always say it’s been a while since my last post… but this time it has in fact been a while. So… working on a multi factor authentication setup…

One of the folks over at NDepend reached out to me to provide a license for their product; let’s do some exploring! I’ve never actually used NDepend, and have only otherwise scratched the surface using other code analysis tools. …

The decorator pattern is a structural design pattern that can be used to add functionality to classes without modifying the original class or its interface. From Wikipedia: In object-oriented programming, the decorator pattern is a design pattern that allows behavior to be added to an individual object, dynamically, without affecting…

Previously I wrote about creating Health Checks for Microsoft Orleans, but the JSON response was too minimal. In this post we’ll see about prettifying that output! In the previous post we learned a bit about health checks, how to create them, and view their “health” from the perspective of Microsoft…

Health Checks are a means of seeing how a system is running at the time of performing the check. Let’s see how we can apply them to Orleans! Health Checks are generally exposed via HTTP endpoints, and when hit (often at a “/hc” or “/health” endpoint) they are able to…