Category: .NET
What OpenTracing Is and Why It’s Important
We have previously discussed why system observability is important in distributed systems and the challenges that it can help to overcome – if you missed it, you can see Matt Ingenthron’s introduction to the problem here. Next, we will discuss why...
Geospatial Search With ASP.NET Core, Aurelia, Google Maps
Geospatial search is now fully supported in Couchbase Server 5.5. Check out the Couchbase Server 5.5 announcement, and download the developer build for free right now. In this post, I’m going to demonstrate the geospatial capabilities of Couchbase Full Text...
Alexa Skills with Azure Functions and Couchbase
Alexa Skills are the “apps” that you can build to run on Amazon devices like the Echo, Echo Dot, etc. In this blog post, you’ll learn how to build an Alexa skill using serverless Azure Functions and a Couchbase backend...
Announcing Couchbase Mobile 2.0 Beta
I am happy to announce that Couchbase Mobile 2.0 beta is now available for download here. Couchbase Mobile 2.0 Couchbase Mobile 2.0 is a ground breaking release with really exciting new features Improved Couchbase Lite Simplified API with built in...
Chatbot on Azure and Couchbase for Viber
A chatbot can be a novel way to interact with users. After writing a post introducing the basics of serverless, and also writing a post on writing Azure Functions, I decided I would try to build something a little more...
ASP.NET Core with Couchbase: Getting Started
ASP.NET Core is the newest development platform for Microsoft developers. If you are looking for information about plain old ASP.NET, check out ASP.NET with Couchbase: Getting Started. ASP.NET Core Tools to Get Started The following video will take you from...
ASP.NET with Couchbase: Getting Started
ASP.NET is the development platform that most Microsoft developers use. At the Couchbase Connect Silicon Valley 2017 conference, I spoke to some .NET developers in a workshop. I asked them what type of content they’d like to see me create...
Fast Failover with Couchbase Server 5.0
Fast failover is one of the many improvements that come with the release of Couchbase Server 5.0 (now available for download). Failover is one of the important concepts to understand when it comes to distributed databases. The CAP theorem states...
Distributed session management in ASP.NET Core with Couchbase
Distributed session is a way for you to store your session state outside of your ASP.NET Core application. Using Couchbase to store session state can help you when you need to scale your web site, especially if you don’t want...
Azure Functions and Lazy Initialization with Couchbase Server
Azure Functions are still new to me, and I’m learning as I’m going. I blogged about my foray into Azure Functions with Couchbase over a month ago. Right after I posted that, I got some helpful feedback about the way...
Dependency Injection with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase
Dependency Injection is a design pattern that makes coding easier. It saves you the hassle of instantiating objects with complex dependencies, and it makes it easier for you to write tests. With the Couchbase.Extensions.DependencyInjection library (GitHub), you can use Couchbase...
Distributed caching with ASP.NET Core and Couchbase
Distributed caching can help to improve performance of an ASP.NET Core application. This is especially true for an ASP.NET application that’s deployed to a server farm or scalable cloud environment. Using Couchbase Server for caching is one of the many...