Here is a little script to help compare version numbers in the format X.X.X using bash/shell. This can be good if you are trying to find out which version is higher for something like an upgrade. versionlte() { [ “$1” = “`echo -e “$1\n$2″ | sort -V | head -n1`” ] } versionlt() { [ContinueContinue reading “Bash compare version numbers”
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DotNet User Secrets Feature
A little unknown feature of dotnet is User Secrets. This is used to create local App Setting overrides to set values for local usage. This can be a handy and powerful tool for keeping your local setup separate from checking in code. You can find more details on the Microsoft Documentation here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/app-secrets The goalContinueContinue reading “DotNet User Secrets Feature”
Microsoft Upgrade Assistant
Dotnet Core has been released for a very long time now and everyone is getting on the cutting edge of the SDK technology when it is realeased. However, there has been some assistance missing in helping, especially .Net Framework projects, upgrade to the next version. Now 2021 they have brought the tooling out! and byContinueContinue reading “Microsoft Upgrade Assistant”
Create Identity in Google Cloud Platform and GSuite
Compare to some other cloud providers, creating an identity via code in GCP is a little fragmented if your using GSuite for your identity storage. The Google Cloud Platform holds your users identity reference and permission, while the other system GSuite hold the security of the users authentication. This can also make the documentation feelContinueContinue reading “Create Identity in Google Cloud Platform and GSuite”
Setting Bearer tokens in PowerShell
This is a quick post to put out how to set a Bearer Token using PowerShell for Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest as it was something I could not find a clear explaining post.
AppDynamics grouping Database Custom Metric Queries
When you create Custom Database Metrics in AppDynamics, you first thought is to create a new row for each metric, but if you have a lot to report on this can become messy. Not only that but in the metric view you will have a very long list of reports to go through. Therefore when we had the consultant down at work, we was shown how to group collections of metrics in one query, which then shows in the metric view in a sub folder. This tactic, we could not find anywhere on the internet, so I thought I would share this very handle insight for AppDynamics.
What do you consider when building a new application?
When you’re starting a new project and thinking about what you’re going to use in your application, what factors do you consider? Sometimes this depends on what your role is, so a develop will jump straight in with just use X coding language and continue on their way. Whereas other might want to play with whatever the new and latest technology is. Then there is people like myself that likes to think about the whole picture, and so here are some of the key factors I consider when building a new application.
How to setup AppDynamics for multiple .Net Core 2.0 applications
We have decided to go with App Dynamics to do monitoring on our infrastructure and code, which is great and even better they have released support for .Net Core 2.0. However when working with their product and consultant we found an issue with monitoring multiple .Net Core instances on one server, plus with console apps, but we found a way.
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