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Combining Azure Service Fabric and Service Bus

To integrate Service Fabric into an existing application landscape, it often makes sense to introduce a queuing mechanism.

For example, it could make sense to have a back-office shipping system notify services running in Service Fabric about completed shipments.

Using a reliable queue effectively decouples the two systems. It allows for downtime in either system, without negatively affecting the other. Obviously, the queue system itself needs to be rock solid, fortunately such systems are readily available. One option is to use Azure Service Bus.

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Unit testing in Azure Service Fabric

Unit testing in Service Fabric can be difficult. For example, how can you test remoting communication between services? And how do you even create an instance of your service type, without relying on a Service Fabric cluster being present on the machine? Fortunately, there’s help available.

In this article you’ll find a description of some of the solutions provided by the open source library named ‘ServiceFabric.Mocks’.

Please note that all examples below are also available as unit tests on Github.

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Slides from my talk at ESPC2019 Prague

Slide-deck Here is my slide-deck from my talk at ESPC 2019 in Prague. If you attended, thanks for doing so! I had a great time there. Running a DevOps style production Docker cluster using the Microsoft platform Abstract Getting your .NET Core application to run in a Docker cluster is only the beginning of a […]

Container Lake

Running containers at scale is hard, it requires an orchestrator which you need to manage, and often it requires (virtual) machines that also need to be maintained. I believe that this is an intermediate step that will soon become obsolete. In the future you’ll run your software in a “Container Lake”, by simply pushing your […]

Combining Azure Service Fabric and Service Bus

Combining Azure Service Fabric and Service Bus To integrate Service Fabric into an existing application landscape, it often makes sense to introduce a queuing mechanism. For example, it could make sense to have a back-office shipping system notify services running in Service Fabric about completed shipments. Using a reliable queue effectively decouples the two systems. […]